Kepler's new media in art

My First Art Show      It is so cool to hold an art show! This is my very first time of participating in an art show, and I felt very proud of myself. They all look so good!! Honestly, when I stepped into the empty room, I didn't even know what was going on and how it would be looked like. However, when we put our pictures into the frames, and hanged them onto the wall, they were suddenly different. Especially when the lights were on, and I was like "woooow". I am really an artist!! I will always remember this feeling whenever I will have art shows in the future. I really appreciated that!      Also, I enjoyed the entire process of taking pictures, editing them, making photo book, and printing my favorite pictures, although it took a very long time. I met many problems, but my friends helped me a lot. They gave me so much support. This art show gathers everyone's fantastic ideas. I read through all of my classmates' photobooks very carefully, and I deeply apprecia

Tao Te Ching                                                                   Here is the link of my  powerpoint .       The creator that I chose was Laozi. When I was doing google search, the first idea that came to my mind was "Tao Te Ching". I hadn't read this book before, so I spent two weeks reading both Chinese traditional and English versions. There are 82 chapters. Each chapter is quite short though. I took a lot of effort on understanding the traditional expressions in Chinese, and the "Tao" is abstract for me too.     In my understanding, Laozi explains how everything works in its own way naturally, and how we can just let things happen without intentionally  intervening them. It is called "wuwei" in Chinese (which means doing nothing). SO here is my thesis: things will develop in the opposite direction when they become extreme. I wrote this because people usually find that things will eventually go in an opposite way from what they expecte

                                                                   1-minute sound piece      "Music shall fill the air"(McLuhan, 111). It is so true that musics actually come from the air and fill the air. To me, m usic comes from a simple thought and fill my brain with numerals of great ideas. The audio I made was about an emotional transition from sadness to happiness.  There are four parts in my sound piece.1️⃣ The audio I recorded was on a day that I went back to Ormsby from the conservatory, and I recorded the sound on the sidewalk.   2️⃣   I remembered the day was cloudy and chilly. When I walked across the avenue, I noticed that everything was turning yellow .  The wind blew heavily and messed up my hair. I felt winter was  really  coming. 3️⃣ HOWEVER, reading period was coming too. I planned to do this project on the first day of the reading period, and I had a plenty of time. The sadness suddenly flew away, and the wind was even no longer cold.   The happy notes were

Gina Adams I really appreciated Gina Adams's Lawrence Installation. I enjoyed it very much. I really like her work of basketballs. I remember what she said that each basketball represented historical trauma. It really is. I was surprised that she connected identity with a specific thing, like basketball. This makes me think about how I could relate my creative work with my real life. I did not see the image on basketballs clearly, so I looked up her portfolios . I like the color of symbols and marking that she used on the surface of the basketball. She used many light colors instead bright ones. I was thinking about why she did that, and I think I got the answer in her words. These basketballs included the stories of "unidentified Native Americans whose identities being culture, name and homeland have all been lost". The colors are telling the sorrow, and I also felt sad about those stories that have been faded.  I took this picture outside the Wriston. I saw the shadow b

This Must be my Lens. "The young today live mythically and in depth" (McLuhan, 100).  I love this quote so much. When I take pictures, I love to capture the fragment of an object. I want to see things clearly, so I zoom in to capture it. I felt this would be probably different from the past, because people would more like to see things entirely and  properly. The young today receive too much classified information, so they intend to break the balance. I found myself braver than before when I have a lens. I dared look at the sun. I saw the sun on the water. I saw the sun on the windows. I saw the sun on the bricks. I even stared at the sun, through the lens though.  When sunlight reflects on those human-made objects, they become so attractive.  Every photo in my project has a different soul. I adjusted the ratios very differently so they do not look the same. I adjusted the contrast and hue a lot in Photoshop to make it have strong visual impact. I also stressed some colors to

1-minute video: the Eye of the Beholder  https://youtu.be/Ku7-N_mdD6I "Everything was dominated by the eye of the beholder" (McLuhan, 57).       Everything starts with this quote. I went to the involvement fair a week ago, and I saw so many organizations on that day. I really appreciated the events. It was fun, and the ice cream was good.      I was intrigued by this quote, so I kept it in mind. When I was standing in the corner, looking at the people, I started to think about if I perceive the  involvement fair in a "beholder"'s view, I might have some different thoughts about this event. I remember there was music playing outside, but the louder musics are, the less people listen. We were all trying to convince others. We spoke louder and louder. But how much did listeners get? Did they really hear what you said? Did they really get what you said?      Then  I was a little bit tired of applying any music to this video. I muted the video, and I put the sound of