Kepler's new media in art

                                                                   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 w...

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 stre...