1. Would you consider yourself and your artwork related to photography at all?
2. Would you ever be interested in creating still images from the videos you have already created?
Simon Tarr's lecture tonight was interesting and quite different from a lot of the other film/video artists I have seen. His work is what I would expect to see from a video artist but that isn't a bad thing. My favorite piece of his was the performance work remixing Nanook of the North. When first watching it, I believed he was controlling the sound but it turned out he was controlling the images doing things like adjusting lighting, colors, length of clips, etc. I'm really attracted to the Zen aspect of this piece, which he touched on during the lecture. I enjoy the fact that the piece is never exactly the same every time he performs it. This idea relates back to my earlier blog posts when I talked about haiku, chance, randomness, ichi-a, and ichi-go. It's funny how this video work relates to the work I'm making even though both pieces are extremely different aesthetically. I also enjoyed the video he made while in Japan. Watching it I felt some sadness for the people he was capturing and I can't really explain why. I was intrigued by the voyeuristic nature of the work. I think it's interesting that he was able to capture peoples' expressions, probably from quite far away judging by the shakiness of the camera. Seeing things that close up and knowing that the actual viewer is farther away from the subject makes me feel like I'm intruding on something private. Overall, I enjoyed Tarr's lecture. His work was diverse and it was refreshing to see something different.
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