Performance Score

Full Circle
(For five performers)

Walk around the hallway backwards.
Do not turn around to look where you are going.
Only look straight ahead.
If you fall down or trip over something,
Start over going the opposite direction
Until you make a full circle.

Airplane
Make a paper airplane.
Throw it.
After you throw it, kneel down
Beside it where it lands, and cut it in half with scissors.
Leave the other half, but take the other half and make
Another paper airplane with it.
Throw it
Keep repeating this until it is not possible to cut the paper in
Half anymore.

73
Write a 72 on the left hand of ten
Audience members.
On the eleventh person write a 73.

Ace
(Two performers required)

Take a deck of cards and look through each one.
Throw it on the ground, but as you’re throwing them,
Bend the right corner of every third card.
When you come across the ace of spades,
Stop and stare at it for one minute.
Continue on with the deck until you’ve
Gone through every card.
The second performer will take each card that is
thrown to the ground and arrange them in a counter clockwise stack.

Susion Performance Scorces

Three Performance Scores

1.) Group of people walk around class frowning for a whole minute while being rude to the other students.

2.) Group of people say a different random word repeatedly a loud as many times as they can in a minute.

3.) Group of people reenact how badly the Chicago Bears played last night in the game against the Washington Redskins.

Performance Score

Peel an orange while lying on your back. Place the orange peels on a piece of paper.


Insert an entire orange peel into a glass bottle while sitting.


While standing, blow over the top of a glass bottle filled with orange peels; try to get a nice tone.

Erika Galvez Scores

1.       Hand audience flash cards with random words written on them. Make the audience read them out loud in order of distribution. After they’re done bow and leave “stage”.

2.       Read word of the day’s meaning (from Dictionary.com) out loud to the audience. If you don’t know or have a word of the day, pick a random word from the dictionary and read it’s meaning out loud. 

3.       Draw anything that’s on your mind at the time. The audience will have to try and guess what it is.

scores

1. A piece of paper and a pen are passed around. Each person in the sequence writes one letter of their choice and the last person reads the whole sheet aloud.

2. At least four people play something from their cell phone simultaneously.

3. A person(s) sits backwards in a chair, as in their feet on the cushion and their back on the floor.

4. Two people with mp3 players plug in their headphones/earphones into each other’s players. Each person controls what the other hears from their player for a couple minutes.

performance scores - kris

1. 4 people jump up and down for a 20 seconds.
2. stack as many red cups as you want as high as you want it.
3. 8 people read a paragraph from a handed out magazine at the same time.

Performance score

Performance Score I

Someone takes another persons cellphone and plays the guess-which-hand it's in game. Another person then calls the cellphone that is in the pocket of the aggressor causing them to put their free hand in their pocket costing the game.

Performance Score II

Two people bet on a coin flip they will keep going until the person flipping the coin loses. The person flipping the coin will then accuse the other person of cheating and run away furiously.

Performance Score III

Three people will be given m&m's the firs person to make a face can choose whichever expression they wish. The second must do the opposite expression. The third must then create a facial that is in between those two.

Performance Score - Katrell

1. Death bomb

Performers may be anywhere they're standing
and how ever many who want to be involved.
Collapse wherever you are after the five
second countdown for 40 seconds.

2. Internet Language World

Two or more performers will begin a
conversation of their choosing.
Put at least one internet slang of
their choosing in every sentence made,
for example:

"lol"
"omg"
"rofl"
"roflcopter"
"pwned"
"noob"
"lmao"
"stfu"
"twss"

Can add your own internet
slang to be more creative.
Pronounce these abbreviations
as they are words of their own.
Conversation should at least like
30 seconds back and forth.

3. A Penny for your Thoughts

Have up to 10 performers or less as long as there's an even amount.
Take a penny. Have two people in the front.
One person calls heads or tails
and the other will stick to the
opposite side of the coin.
Whoever decides to go
first is among their decision.
Penny is flipped to the air
and lands on the floor, if it lands on a side a
person calls....that person
will stay in the front, the other person will leave
and the next performer on the
side will take their place.
Repeat penny toss process through each performer.
Last performer left will hold up the
Penny and say, "A penny for your thoughts?"

Performance Score Scott Funk

1. Say a prayer (including the sign of the cross) and if somebody asks if I'm religious say no.

2. Lay on the floor for 45 seconds.

3. Roll around on the floor acting like a ninja and trying to be unseen.

Performance Scores

-3 people whistle their conversations for 2 minutes.

-2 or more people speak to an audience in binary

-Hold the door open for an extended period of time and see how many people go in and say thank you.

Fluxus Performances - Suresh

• Look five random people in the eye and say "I love you."  If someone responds by saying "I love you too", hug them tight for 30 seconds.
• Two people hold one cell phone together in the air.  Have a third person call that phone.  While the phone is ringing, the original two people will proclaim loudly "flux capacitor!".
• Have three people sitting in Indian position or lotus position while facing each other with their eyes closed in silence.  They are instructed to NOT think of their breathing in and out for one minute.

Performance Scores

• Having a staring contest with another person.
• Have 5 people draw a smiley face that represents how they're feeling right now. Hold the piece of paper up so everyone can see.
• Two people bend over and touch their toes for 10 seconds.

Performance Score(s)

• Have a 30 second squat contest with another person
• Set a fire in a public place and wait for somebody to put it out
• Chug whatever drink available, preferably a full Nalgene bottle
• Challenge a random person in the street to a best-of-3 rock-paper-scissors
• Convince somebody to switch their jacket for yours

3 Performance Scores - Becca

1 - Take a bow every 10 seconds for 5 minutes using a stop watch.

2 - Bounce a rock. Pick it up. Repeat.

3 - Stand by the door of a public building. Great each person that comes in, but don't open the door for them.

Fluxus - my take

Personally I have never seen anything like Fluxus or Dadaist work until class this week. I've heard of Dada but I'm not one for art history or any of that. It all seemed kind of awkward, transitioning from formal artwork in a gallery to new style performance in a gallery. The video we watched seemed really out of place and purposely made the audience part of the performance. As they stood by in awe, there was no telling what their opinions of what was occurring. No - it was jarring and far from the norm even for current times. What was happening is more fitting to occur in a crowded public space and even more acceptable. Nothing black-tie about a public gathering, for instance something done in Grant Park would be a great place to have it. In addition to that maybe some viral advertising or video and post it to youtube for people to see. Of course with editing and proper transition, which was one thing that I felt weakened the Fluxus video in class.

One thing, to me, that Fluxus must be is something to attract an audience and show them something they wouldn't otherwise see. Something shocking or even humorous, to awe the crowd. Like current day gypsy performers.

Fluxus Performance Scores

Remember to post your FLUXFEST performance scores to the blog. Due to time constraints, we won't be able to perform them all, but we will pick some that are fun. A couple of things to remember:

1. Bring any props you may need.
2. Wear black.
3. Make sure your performance is doable without undue disruption, death, etc
4. Nonsense and absurdity are sometimes funny, but this is not necessarily about comedy (which is much more difficult).

There is a supplemental reading (Alan Kaprow - Happenings) on our Oasis page = great additional background reading on Fluxus. The entire Fluxus workbook is online here.

Fluxus

Fluxus is an interesting way of seeing art. The first time I encountered something that could be considered dada art was when I first visited Columbia for the Manifest show. One performance art piece that stood out to me was two people who were both wearing nothing but black underwear, a man and a woman. They took turns writing on each other with a sharpie saying things to each other, which in some places they couldn't read. It seemed very odd at the time, but it was definitely unique and left me thinking about it for a while after.

Fluxus

Fluxus art is a very different form of media from the norm. Most of the artwork is not about looking pretty or being worth a very high value. In my opinion even though the article states that it started in the 1950's it probably has been around for ages. A fixation on simple things in life and the emotion within those things there. A different sense than the a lot of the world on art. Fluxus has a deep meaning but can be done by anybody who wishes to create it for the sake of creating it and not for selfish reasons.

Fluxus

Until Fluxus, most new art mediums were still cut from the same cloth as its predecessors. While Pollock was doing something new and amazing, it was still paint on a canvas. Frank Lloyd Wright's homes and buildings were revolutionary, but still architecture. We have always had a context for theses works of art. Fluxus is a new and completely different animal. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time. While we had television, it wasn't necessarily considered art, but technology. Fluxus builds on the technology, but creates a new art form that we don't have any context for. For many, this is a new frontier and extremely exciting to truly create something of their own. For others, those that prescribe to a "formula" for art, this is a frightening concept. How do you look at it? How do you determine "good" or "bad"? What are the qualifications to consider it art? Personally I find this incredibly exciting. Artists are doing what they do best, creating art to make us think, to require us to look deeper and ask questions.

Fluxus

The idea of finding beauty and art in everyday things is a concept that appeals to me.  If one slows down and takes the time to be mindful of their surroundings, they will see there are many interesting things all around them.  Art should not only be for the elite and intellectuals.  The Fluxus community brought art to the masses but not in a commercial, lowest common denominator, sort of way.  They only wanted to bring a heightened state of awareness to the things we normally would consider banal and not give a second thought to.  In keeping with this philosophy, Fluxus artists used cheap, easily accessible material and did not allow museums and the intelligentsia to have a monopoly over it.

History of Fluxus

It seems like Fluxus was way ahead of its time and if it had started a couple years ago, everyone would accept it. I think the reason why some people looked down upon it because it didn't have the classy artsy feel, like most exhibits had back then. It was simple and cheap, and also made very little money because of it. No one really knew what it was or why it was created, and the people who did it absolutely loved it. In this category of art, there weren't any celebrities or high end names that were mentioned on every magazine. The artists involved in Fluxus knew of other Fluxus artists and their work.

I watched a couple videos that showed up after searching fluxus on youtube, just to get a basic idea of what the reading was referring to. The reading itself is straight forward, it's just that the writers seem to assume the reader already has a basic knowledge of the art form. It's never mentioned that it's video art, although I suppose we should assume that from a reading in this particular course. Anyway, some of the older pieces I found (one by Wolf) were quite boring odd arrangements of shots, where the author did things just to make the movie unusual and thus art. I honestly don't give credit to art that doesn't engage one's senses, just because it's unusual or different doesn't make it special. The more recent fluxus videos were interesting however, partly because there was some music to set the mood, but the shots were also much more clearly defined, yet still random.

Transmediation

Transmediation Art Exhibit

Featuring: Janell Baxter, Claudia Laska, Patrick Lichty, Andrew Oleksiuk, Janet Rooney and others. A transformative communication method; information in multiple formats converge, and data is translated into new medium.

Join us inworld for the opening at I AM Columbia sim (Columbia College Chicago) at 2pm SLT (4pm Chicago time). Thursday October 14, 2010.

Both inworld and real world exhibits are free and open to the public

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/I%20AM%20Columbia/186/145/22

The real world opening happens simultaneously at 916 S. Wabash

Land Yacht

Video Project

Storm vs Storm montage

Montage - Film explosions and video dispersions

Mac and Cheese

By Kris

montage

Dead In 60 Seconds

-Brian Maciejewski

Dance mania

Montage - 'Round'em Up'

RD Montage - SDSU football

Montage Project

Circus of Schadenfreude

Out of Context - Project One Montage

Reading Response 2 (Video Art)

I've always felt video art is not real "art", and the reading on the subject did not help nor hinder seeing it any differently. It was a complicated reading and I did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would. However, with our second reading assignment, I was able to find some kind of connection and meaning. It reminded me of last year’s visiting artist Marissa Olson who does a lot of video art and video related works. As part of a student workshop I was able to work with her and a couple of program students on the exact assignment I don’t consider art, but rather extreme boredom. A mashup! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd_btlnABTs

The experience was good, but I still feel as though video art and contemporary/modern art could be summed up by this. http://www.designformankind.com/images/2009/03/new-math-400x274.jpg

Nevertheless, if you have a good theory behind your work you can definitely make it work.

Catching Fish-Jonathan Zmek

Reading Response-10/4

It is refreshing to look at image resolution in a different light. In present society, bad images are akin to a nasty disease that has infiltrated our everyday life. Many don't understand the importance of high quality and it's necessity in certain situations. But reading these articles gave me a different perspective of "poor quality".

Art has changed dramatically with the advent of video. It's no longer simply about what we perceive as real, it is truly about our own interpretation of what is real. As a result, amazing art has surfaced combing the traditional art avenues, while incorporating video, and what some consider "poor quality" video. I think this video has been reborn, taking from it's meager beginnings, to something extraordinary.

E-Flux and Video

The resurrection of older and obscure works of art, although in a degradated manner, has been an overall positive phenomenon.  The author is correct in stating in this current neoliberal age, the commercialization of cinema has pushed independent film and video to the edges of obscurity.  These works would have been forever forgotten if it were not for the internet and its ability to easily share low quality images.  It is mostly true that it is not the ideal form in which the artist had envisioned his work to be displayed, but my feeling is they would rather be seen in a poor quality than not at all.  Also, as long as access to archived originals come at a price (whether it is monetary or convenience) those interested will continue to distribute them in many forms, as long as it is free.
The illusion that television is packaged as reality is relevant to the current neoliberal era.  Mainstream media and news television have been propaganda pieces for the powers that be, under the guise of providing unbiased news. Thus, selling neoliberal ideas while at the same time being a product of it.  Work your way up to the top of any of the networks, and you will find only a small number of corporations in control and an even smaller number of individual decision makers.  Furthermore, the advent of the "reality" show, which is not really reality at all but carefully scripted programs under tight parameters, is not just a matter of what the public wants.  This has been a huge monetary savings for the broadcast industry.  Production is cheap, no need for high paid actors in unions, and there is the chance to create cash-cow "stars" and spin-offs from these shows.  Television seems to be one illusion after another.

Reading Response 10/4 - Rob D

Between the two articles this week, I had a more enjoyable time with e-flux. Maybe because I had an easier time relating to it and poor images.

"More affordable derivates of the same images circulate as DVDs, on broadcast television or online, as poor images."

Nearly anything is pirate-able on the internet in current times. Literally hours after a TV show airs, a person could go and search for it. There would be copies of it via torrent and streaming sites in every file size and type. The high resolution HD files will have great image quality, but never true to the original. The amount of true downloads only tells part of the story, because I'm sure the ripped and hacked videos or DVDs are sent around more than just once to the friends with a common interest and even not the case sometimes.

"Poor images are poor because they are not assigned any value within the class society of images--their status as illicit or degraded grants them exemption from its criteria. Their lack of resolution attests to their appropriation and displacement."

Having downloaded my share of movies and TV shows, I know first-hand that there is truth in this and that a show airing on TV will look better than me re-watching it on my computer. I may have found the highest resolution available, but it's not the same quality.

I suppose everything I own is a poor image by the standards set forth by the author of this article.

E-flux and video art

The E-flux and video art readings discuss moving art in the digital and analog ages respectively. Much of the latter reading is a television fact overview, which felt way too detailed and complicated for the simple point that it was trying to get across. Despite the fact, the writer highlighted some important influences of video art in the early days of television that we partly discussed in class, such as the difference in price of transmitting and receiving equipment, and the precise arrangement of TV programming. For a lack of a good argument, I’ll switch to the E-flux reading, which discussed the more recent video art – digital. One of the more clever points made by the author, was that as images and videos lost visual quality they gained speed, which did not mean they lost meaning. Traditional painting came to mind with which the same phenomenon occurred: painters were first obsessed with capturing reality in high resolution, yet later turned to simplified and abstracted visual styles to express something beyond imagery. Similarly, those pixilated videos and pictures carry meaning because more people see them and more authors participate in their making.

e-flux and Video articles

e-flux: In the article In Defense of the Poor Image, Steyerl brought facts to our attention about our part in this video art generation. Even in this technological society, the internet contains many videos made my ordinary people using very standard software, and we still find it all the more amusing or entertaining. Many famous internet celebrities started on youtube doing blogs or something that many people would find hilarious. "Poor images are thus popular images - images that can be made and seen by the many." If you've surfed the net you can easily agree with this statement. With any famous youtube video there are bound to be a dozen, or even more, videos connected to this one, whether its a video comment, video reaction, or even a remixed video. Youtube is a breeding ground for potential internet celebrities for one reason, because it's easy access. There's no required account or fee, it's open to anyone who visits the site.

"Users become the editors, critics, translators, and (co-)authors of poor images." Because it's so easy to get ahold of editing software, and with almost every computer having a webcam equipped with it, it's almost difficult not to get into the video art frenzy. Although not everyone the time, experience and money to create a full length feature film, they do however, have the time and software to create a three minute video about a dog riding a skateboard. Some may argue and say that it's a waste of time, but with over two million hits and hundreds of comments from random viewers, you must have done something right? There are so many reasons why this video art frenzy has become popular. Thanks to youtube, its almost impossible for you not to stumble upon video art. The time it takes to make the video is up to the user(s), and the cost is very little, unless you downloaded software like so many of us have that it's practically free. Whatever the reason, video art has been entertaining the people of the internet for only a few years but there is still a lot of evolving for it to do.

Video: "In principle, television seemed to combine the photographic reproduction capacities of the camera, the motion capabilities of film, and the instantaneous transmission properties of the telephone." Compared to video art, television bring out the beauty of the camera, film and telephone. Television, when it first came out, was a work of art because there was nothing like it before. After the war was a television phenomenon, which gave people the idea of creating commercial television. In high school I took a class about television and media and what stuck out in this article that reminded me of that class was the topic of advertisements in between television shows from the 30's and 40's. "And these sponsors would reappear regularly at the beginning, middle and end of each program with pretty much the same commercial pitch." Sponsors nowadays pay millions of dollars just so a company can put in a two minute slot for their commercial to play during their show. Even what the commercial is about can tell you who the show is directed towards. On spikeTV, a lot of their commercials contain the topics of body wash, beer, trucks (or some manly car), and advertisements about a sporting event. On the other hand, most commercials on Nickelodeon or the Disney channel usually play commercials pertaining to childrens toys, a pop singers latest album, or DVDs to buy a season to their favorite show. Commercials control a lot of the shows audience, even more than some would like to think.