Performance Art Project!!!

My performance art project is about online dating. Multiple age groups find a sight that suits them such as match.com, pof.com, eharmony.com, etc. and make a profile answering multiple questions to find the perfect match for them. But little do they know who really they are talking too... I see commercials advertising for finding love, tv shows such as catfish, and the news talking about killings. Its your choice on how to meet someone but I want to let you know your options.

Performance Art is defined as a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.

Check out my performance piece and see what artistic styles of media that I used! 

Ray Kurzweil

Kurzweil is an author, inventor, and futurist. He invented the first CCD flatbed scanner, the omni-font optical character recognition,the print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the commercial text-to-speech synthesizer, the music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.

He founded his own company -The Medical Learning Company- which sold interactive computer education program for doctors and a computer-simulated patient. In 1996 he also started Kurzweil Educational Systems where he developed new pattern-recognition-based computer technologies that helped people with disabilities.

By the wall street journal he is described as the "restless genius"!

I was amazed by what he could develop for disabled people and how interested he was to help them. It reminded me of the time when I did Kanine for Kids, which is a program for adults or children that have disabilities. My part was being a puppy raiser and training the dog to do certain tricks.

Alan Turing

 

Turing was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was mostly known for his work he did on computers such as hacking the Nazi's computer system and creating computers for WWII. After the War he designed ACE. Anything he designed or created was brilliant.

Living in the United Kingdom and Being gay was illegal. He kept that secret from the government for a while until he couldn't anymore when a burglary took place in his home. The police seemed to be more worried about him being gay and charging him with gross indecency instead of a real crime. I see no wrong in someone being gay, they're not harming anybody. Turing being found convicted, he lost his job and became super depressed. He couldnt stand the depression anymore! He was found dead with an apple by his bedside injected with cyanide poisoning; ruled a suicide!

Losing everything caused this to happen! I think it was totally wrong for the government to do this and where they find no fault at all! To this day people still know who he is by what he created in  technology and how is work developed over time!

http://www.biography.com/people/alan-turing-9512017?page=2

Blu Blu

In the beginning i think its so amazing how an object starts out so small and turns into something completely different. You don't know whats coming! I never have experimented with graffiti art before and its so interesting to see how the creations move a long the wall and the ground. By doing this type of work you create something so bizarre or even can tell a story. As watching the diamond turn into a robot and walk along the walls and than kicks the log away was genius.

Trip To The Moon

A silent film showing emotions through gestures and facial expressions, characters with huge costumes (clothes, hair, hats) changing colors. There were multiple props reappearing and disappearing drawing the audiences eyes. Using different types of technologies.

Me watching this myself made me wonder what people were on when this was written or filmed; not normal. The way they saw or predicted what would be on the moon especially about mushrooms would not be what i would think. But than i again i live in reality.

In my seventh clip i watched a clip of Bonnie and Clyde on Broadway. I noticed technology used when the head lights of the car would light up of an old car probably from the 1920s used in a couple of the scenes.

 In this sixth clip of Wonderland on Broadway I noticed plenty of different technologies used. For instance, flames firing in the background with smoke, decorative walls moving all around the stage drawing your eye and making more room to perform. Their is also Projections on a screen in the background surrounding the sun: it changes colors, lights up, and rotates in a circle 360 degrees throughout different scenes. In the scene with cards there are flickering lights going around the walls. After you see reflection in a mirror and circles moving all around the stage with dancers dancing.