Line Project Artist Statement
My artwork takes a stab at the significance of space, time, sound, movement, and how we experience it. Referencing Michel de Certeau's "The Practice of Everyday Life: Walking in the City," I made a series of drawings that ranged from annotating my movement and of others to listening to music and everyday sound. De Certeau discusses the idea of having this "erotics of knowledge" that one can obtain by stepping outside of the city grasp. To look at the city in a broader and general point of view, "to be a solar Eye, looking down like a god." De Certeau achieves this by looking down at the city while on top of the World Trade Center. He states that the "elevation transfigures him into a voyeur," which puts him away from the urban space in which he was "possesed." In a part of my project, I analyzed the movement of individuals, myself included, and annotated specific patterns they created—assigning color and shapes to a particular set of individuals and movements. In contrast, my other part of the project, I played random songs from my playlist and analyzed the patterns that I had noticed.
WWW Response
"The universe, with its elegant endowment of shelves, of enigmatical volumes, of inexhaustible stairways for the traveler and latrines for the seated librarian, can only represent the work of a god." An idea from Tim Berners-Lee's essay, The World Wide Web. The foundation of a system with "boundless information...which all items have a reference by which they can be retrieved". In both Tim Berners-Lee, The World Wide Web, and Jorge Luis Borges's essay, The Library of Babel share a similar idea, where there is an endless amount of information that can be retrieved. The system of "libaries" that can be found with a set of instructions created with codes and hidden meanings; this is what the internet is all about.
News Project Artist Statement
As time passes, things begin to change; in a world that is driven by technology, many essential tools are now seen as something “old school”. In my project, I chose to embody the different perspectives of newspapers. While still having the dramatic titles and political/social events that are happening or have happened already, I took the ideas of a “real” newspaper and twisted it to a more comedic approach. The idea that things only seen on the internet, such as memes or jokes, can be in a newspaper. I do not mean to separate the real events with what I created, but envisioning my ideas or imagination and bringing it to life. In the New Museum’s “The Last Newspaper,” Aleksandra Mir, Nate Lowman, and Sarah Charlesworth, are interviewed by co-curator Benjamin Godsill. They speak about News and in one part about how the media nowadays provides information that “they want us to know.” I am hoping that with my project, the viewer can feel a sense of liberty and have the notion of diving in their own imagination and thinking of News that may or may not happen.