Final Short Project

Here it is!

Destabalize

I think that is one of many valid functions of art.  I keep thinking about Renee Magritte. The notion that a painting is a representation of somethings else, but is also paint, canvas, and image.  We accept that painting as a pipe.  Is it?  The destabilization, like the article is (I think) talking about is clearly present here.  I do think that there are other functions of art, and that in asking a question about identity, we cannot discount the answer that art has many identities as well.  Can art make people question their essential sense of self? Absolutely.  It can also reaffirm.  Or expand.  Or confound.

The author may be too exclusive when he states that the main purpose is to destabilize subjective experience and "not to author a new theoretical position, nor to illustrate an established argument".  Those aims can also be accomplished.  The experience should not be limited.      

Response to Short Projects

The feedback that I got was that the project isn't finished yet (which it isn't).  I know that the full meaning couldn't be clear without the final scene, but people did seem to get a sense of where I was going.  The last missing scene is the word "blossoms".  In that scene the plant will grow and the letters will pop out of the flower.  I hope that more meaning can be inferred with that addition.  I have had a trickier time trying to animate the way that a plant grows- I will have to keep playing with it for Thursday when the final draft is due. 

Finished Conversation!!

Here it is! Our Masterpiece!

Conversation!

We are having some troubles merging- but here is half of our conversation project!

Final Project Plan

I want to animate a short poem four different times and have the animations playing at the same time on a split screen.  I want this to explore how visual elements change and shape the interpretation of the a poem.  The four pieces would also play individually and I would like to set them to music.  I would need to learn how to do the split screen animation.  I'm sure that there will be plenty of questions that come up as this project gets rolling. :)