Improv Everywhere should have there own show, but then that would go against what they stand for. They are considered to be a form of flash mobs, but ironically they do not like to be called flash mobs. They sometimes perform as a group or sometimes just one person will perform. They do different skits that shock their audience. It's not publisized that they will do this. So it comes to a shock to whoever finds themselves in the middle of a performance. One of the big group performance that they have done was at a best buy. Many of the performers dressed in blue shirts and slacks. They entered the best buy and just walked around. They didn't bother anyone or make a scene, they simply walked and confused everybody working there and the customers.
They have done some performances where only one person is actually performing. There is a performance where they where at a skating rink with many different people. Improve members and unexpecting people alike. So at the beginning people were just skating like any other day. Then the people in charge were going to clean The ice so they evacuated the ice and everybody got out. Except for one man. That man seemed to be stuck in the middle of the ice unable to exit because of his lack of talent. Nobody even bothered to help him out of the ice.
Andy goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist. He does land art in places that some land artists don't usually do land art. Most land artists that I've heard of do their pieces in a natural environment, but he does some prices in galleries. Although he does do pieces out in the outdoors. I just thought it was interesting how he did pieces in galleries. He lives and does much of his work in scotland. He does pieces that don't last very long and pieces that last a long time. Goldsworthy did much of his studies in the fine art at Bradford College of Art (1974–1975) and at Preston Polytechnic. He uses a lot of natural material such as twigs, rocks, leaves, ice, flowers, mud, pine cones, snow, and many more other things.
this is one of the pieces that he did it is made out of leaves. He made it out of different colored leaves and went from dark to lighter colors. At the center he left a hole and he has done many of these pieces. He uses Defferent colors it the leaves are all from the same tree. He really likes circles and I thinks it's because it's a shape that you can find naturally in nature.
Once a year, many people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Many people call this place "the playa". They gather to create Black Rock City, which is a temporary festival filled with, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. After one week the festival is over and the people leave absolutely no trace that they were ever there.
The people that are there go just about every year. The people that go are and have become a comunity seeing eachother every year after year.
Marina Abramovic born November 30, 1946 is a New York-based Yugoslavian performance artist. She began her career in the early 1970s. Since she has been performing for over three decades, she has recently started describing herself as the “grandmother of performance art.”What is interesting about Abramovic's work is that it explores the relationship between performer and audience.She does a lot of things that show the limits of the human body, and the possibilities of the mind.
One of her first pieces was done in in 1973. This piece is called "Rhythm 10" in this piece she placed out twenty knives and played the Russian game where she aims in between her split fingers and continues to do this until she cuts herself. After she cuts herself she places that knife down, and picks up another one and repeats the process util she has cut herself twenty times. All of this is being recorded in an audio recorder, and when she finished with all twenty knives she plays back the audio and tries to recreate the same scene. She tries to make the same mistakes she did before at the same time. She sees this as a way of bringing together the past and the present. She also does this as a form of pushing the body to its limit. She says that once you are in the moment of a performance your body can do things you couldn't imagine it doing.
Rhythm 10
This video was just a recreation of her performance.
Another one of her pieces that pushed her to her own limits was "Rhythm 5." In this piece she lit a giant star on the ground on fire and stood on the outside of it. While she stood on the outside of the burning star she began to cut her nails and hair.She then began throwing her hair and nails into the flames causing a flash of light every time. towards the finally of her performance she jumped into the center of the star. There she began loosing conciseness because of the lack of oxygen. People in the audience didn't realize it until the flames began to get really close and she wasn't reacting to them. A doctor and audeince members pulled her out of the star and may have saved her life. After the performance she expressed her experiance. She was actually angry that the performance took out and showed her limitation. She was angry because her body was limited to perform only in consciousness.
Rhythm 5
After her Rhythm 5 performance she wanted to further explore the ability of the mind. She was angry about her rhythm 5 performance because she was unable to continue her performance because she became unconscious. So her next performance that explored wether or not consciousness was a limitation of performing and if it could be combined into the performance. She performed Rhythm 2. This was a two part piece where in the first part she took a pill prescribed to people with catatonia. Catatonia is a condition where the person's muscles seize up and become immobilized for hour at a time. Since she was healthy and didn't have this condition she had really drastic reactions to the pill. She began to have seizures and uncontrollable body movements for the first half of her performance. Although she had no controll over her body her mind was lucid and she was just observing what was occurring. After the effects of the pill wore off she took a second pill prescribed to people who are violent and depressed. This caused her to become completely immobilized. Although bodily she was there, her mind was completely removed. In fact she has no memory of the end half of her performance. This is some of her early work which was all about exploring the bouduries and limitations of the human body and mind.
Toni Dove is a New York based artist that works primarily in electronic and interactive media. She is considered to be on of the pioneers of interactive media. What interactive media is all about is it involves computer programing and the text or whatever the program is involving moves when the artist tell it to move. that is why it is called interactive media. For example if the artist gives the text a command the text moves. one of the things that she is most famous for is spectropia. At the bottom is a still photo of a piece that uses video motion censers in order to move.
John Whitney, Sr. was born on April 8, 1917 and past on September 22, 1995. He was an Americananimator, composer and inventor, he is considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. He lived and worked on his animation in era where there weren't so many advances in animated technology. He would do everything in step by step. He would take a still photo and then move whatever he was using and then take another still and so on and so on, and then combined them to make an animation. He is considered to be one of the fathers of animation, because he worked on some really big projects. He used his mechanical animation techniques to make some of the first animated commercials, and also used in television episodes.
