Art Event 10

Title: Whitney Artport : The Whitney Museum Portal To Net Art
Artist: Andrea Polli
Medium: Internet Art
Place: The World Wide Web
Date: December 1, 2008
Description: Andrea Polli's artwork resides in the intersection between art and science, and is related to perception and cognition, complexity science, and human behavior. Her projects are hybrids that feed into multiple areas of research and often offer new 'readings' of data produced by natural systems. Her works include a system that uses the Lorenz attractor as a structure to guide human / computer musical improvisation (1992) and a performance technology project, started in 1996 and titled Intuitive Ocusonics, which is a system for performing sound by using eye movements.

Art Event 9

Title: Animator vs. Animation
Artist: Alan Becker
Medium: Animation
Place: The World Wide Web <>
Date: April 7, 2009
Description: I found this video to be one of the greatest animations; I have never seen anything like this animation. The idea behind this piece is to use the interface of the flash program and animated to fight with the person creating the animation. It looks simple but at the same time it is very difficult to create. I think this piece has a lot to do with the class just because it’s flash what he is using.

Art Event 8

Title: They Rule
Artist: Josh On
Medium: Website
Place: The World Wide Web <>
Date: May 3, 2009
Description: I found this site to very intriguing and interactive. The site is Flash based which is what makes it interactive. The meaning behind the work is also very minded blowing. Teaches you things you would have never imagine and if you know anything about large corporation a lot of things some of these business do for one another makes a lot of sense. What this site does it lets you see what boards of directors own what company and it allows you to expand to each director and see what other business he or she are in charge of. This site comes into relation with the class because the website is flash based and it’s what we are covering is this course.

Art Event 7

Title: Body of War
Artist: Ellen Spiro
Medium: Video
Place: Cal State University of San Marcos Arts 240
Date: March, 17 2009
Description: Body of War is a documentary following Tomas Young, and Iraq war veteran who was paralyzed from a bullet to the spine during the war. Tomas who joined the military for one purpose only, to fight against the people responsible for the disasters occurred on September 11. Thomas Young full of remorse and questioning the reason on why United States joined the war in Iraq. His story is told in this documentary Body of War.
Tomas open the door for many other soldiers who are apposed against the war in Iraq. Many of the images in this documentary are very empowering to young soldiers in the Iraqi war. I think this documentary was not made to be a depressing video and for us to feel sorry for Tomas Young. But the way it was produced it was made to be political video.
Body of War" is an excellent documentary, which is one of the first cinematic efforts to link the personal tragedies of this war to the political decisions by members of Congress to support and mimic the Administration's claims that Iraq possessed "weapons of mass destruction" which jeopardized our very existence.
"Body of War" attempts to hold politicians responsible for votes and. After seeing Thomas’ story I’m sure many people will think twice when joining the war knowing that the war in Iraq continues. One relation this documentary presentation could have to the class is that it could be seen a social issue specially since we are so close to camp Pendleton.

Art Event 6

Title: Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Artist: Kristina Wong
Medium: Performance Art
Place: Cal State University of San Marcos Art 111
Date: Tuesday, Mar. 24 @ 7 pm
Description: Kristina Wong is a performance artist she has a very unique way of showing her work. She put’s on a one man show or in her case a one women show. In her work she plays different dialogues that talk about Asian American women and the issues. She plays different stereotypes of Asian American women which I notice that it her main subject of focus. While on some of the issue she questions her self and adds sarcastic physiological responses. I do think her work has a lot with our work in her class, but one thing she did have was a interactive website that had to do with Asian wife’s which I found to be very interesting.

Art Event 5

Title: Stasisfield
Artist: John Kannenberg
Medium: Internet Art/Sound
Place: The World Wide Web (Home)
Date: March 10, 2009
Description: The Stasisfield record label tends to focus on instrumental experimental music that is minimal in nature, although we try not to impose limits based on genre. It offers an eclectic mix of artistic styles and practices which nonetheless "feel right" together. The aux-in sublabel presents mp3 releases of live performances in a nostalgic format. Taking its visual cues from classic and progressive rock live albums of the past, aux-in releases offer a somewhat tongue-in-cheek view of contemporary live experimental music. The Stasis_Space art gallery presents thought-provoking art exhibitions, which act as a forum for relevant artistic ideas in the digital realm, complementary to their audio releases.

Art Event 4

Title: Architect Studio 3D
Artist: Various
Medium: Website
Place: The World Wide Web
Date: March 08, 2009
Description: This is a very interactive website it can be considered a game website that show you fundamentals of architecture. Designed after leading architecture Frank Floyd Wright it allows you to build architectures from scratch. It also shows you famous past architecture and the artist who designed it. The interactive experience enhances your understanding of spatial relations and the process of design. And state-of-the-art 3D modeling technology allows you to enter your creation to personally experience the space.

Art Event 3

Title: PressTube
Artist: James Paterson
Medium: Internet Art
Place: The World Wide Web
Date: March 2, 2009
Description: Presstube is the personal space of Canadian artist, James Paterson. A drawing based diary. It is an exploration of proclivities, problems, desires & dreams.
It is confessions of shame and embarrassment; proclamations of love and admiration. As well as humanizing programming by bringing the sensibilities of old world art-making processes to contemporary high-tech. Most of his work is computer-based art and all of it deals with the emotions of the artist James Peterson.

Art Event 2

Title: A is for Apple
Artist: David Clark
Medium: Website
Place: The World Wide Web (Home)
Date: February 27, 2009
Description: This website I used for my research of pro Internet art. It is a flash based interactive website created by David Clark along with a few other artist to show the idea and evolution of apple and every big event some how is traced back to the apple. Such as Adam and Eve, Snow White, Apple Computers, ect. This website is very interactive and very informative and it’s a form of Internet art and well created.

Art Event 1

Title: SONIC ANTARCTICA
Artist: Andrea Polli
Medium: Website, Audio, Video
Place: Cal State University of San Marcos
Date: February 08, 200
Description: Andrea Polli is an artist/ computer programmer; she uses her skills to create her artwork. We had the pleasure to hear her speak and her process in creating her work. Andrea Polli team up with scientist and researcher’s in order to create her work. Polli's work was very unique the way she uses sounds and video to demonstrate climate change. I think ever since all natural disasters started affecting us such as hurricanes, tornados etc. More people have put a lot more emphasize to the climate and weather in general. The process Polli uses for this piece and in most of her works was called sonfication. This process translated raw data into hissing, buzzing, high-pitched sounds.

Social Issue "Gangs In Our Communities"

Many people would argue that street gangs in our community are no longer a problem. The reason many would argue to believe that is because over the years gangs have decrease in some of the bigger cities within the US but in some of the smaller cities like Escondido, San Marcos, Vista, Oceanside and Carlsbad with in their ethnic communities gangs still exist and are still an issue. I grew up in the City of Carlsbad, many would argue that part were I grew up in is considered the barrio of Carlsbad others may also consider it to be the “ghetto” part of Carlsbad! Growing up in an ethnic community and in that part of Carlsbad I can honestly say that I grew up around street gangs some of the my best friends who I grew up with were and are still involved with gangs. Out of all of my friends I was one of the few that never went through that road. I was one the few that managed to get out and get an education and that is something that I can definitely be proud of. Which is why I’m deciding to write on this topic, as much as I was strongly influenced by my peers I managed to stay away and grow out of gangs regardless of the area where I was living.

I am currently working for North County Lifeline who is a non-profit organization that assists the youth. Through the after school programs in many of these local cites, we assist the youth in giving them a safer environment and atmosphere that keep them off the streets. But even with the help of these programs gangs continue to be a problem, which is why I choose to do my social issue on the increase of gangs in our communities.

Obama's inauguration

It wasn’t until this year that I really cared what was happening in politics and it wasn’t until this year that I finally got up and voted! I guess this year my vote counted! This week we witness history when America inaugurates our first black president Barack Obama. I always look forward to hearing Obama speak he has inspiring speeches that really give a sense of hope. One of the he said that really got to me during his speech was “starting today we must pick our self’s up, dust our self’s off and begin again the work of rebuilding America.” I think this was very powerful statement in his speech it gave me inspiration that our economy will prosper.