"TONY OURSLER!!!!!!"(2)

Tony Oursler

"DUM-DUM, METAL BREATH, WADCUTTER"

video/sculpture installation

"TONY OURSLER!!!!!!"(1)

My latest IDOL!!!!!!!!

 Tony Oursler, a New York video artist, explores his subject matters through video/sculpture installations. This exhibition was called " EYE IN THE SKY". The eye sculptures are metaphors for the human condition in a media-saturated age. The sculptures were suspended in the air and looping video clips were projected onto it. This animations gave life and movements to the still sculptures. As the eye was the only part the viewer can see, Oursler illuminates any identity of the sculpture. From the sound and reflected image on the retina, the work conveys a common activities of this generation; consuming media(tv, etc..) Without any clues from facial expression or body language, we focus on the single eyes twitching blinking as it takes in various type of info; weather forecast, commercial. 

 

"MORE INFORMATION PLS"

I chose the title called "MORE INFORMATION PLEASE!"

I started looking the newspaper articles because newspaper represent information. I cut a square chunk of newspaper out from the article making the message incomplete. It is a kind of censoring and hiding information from the viewer.......I want to create a work so that poses the viewer with questions of what they are looking at, and ask for more information! This article originally discuss about bombs and security issues. However, I blackout all the names, country names and some words to do with bombs.

Then I placed a picture of dead deer next to it. This creates a contrast between the left-over info and the imagery. I also place yellow flower onto the composition to suggest something happy and lively, which again juxtaposing the message.

I cut out stripes of newspaper without words or with unreadable words and laid them in a writing format to suggest that the composition is trying to communicate message. But, again, the viewers will need "more information" to be able to understand this

Printing ink on acetate then scraped off by pencil tip and some other found objects. 

The acetate is "censoring" the image under it, leaving too little an information for the viewers to actually know what the image is.

More printing ink on acetate about the same idea of "censoring"

I made a collage of a human figure on a car, then I rolled printing ink directly onto the collage. I, then, took out the human figure leaving a white out area....for the viewer to think about it!

This is what I came up as the conclusion ( could do more with more time...)

I took out some article, texts and photos from a book called " The films of Mel Brooks" and I obscured and covered some text by sewing over them. As for the photo, I use the same idea but with a different treatments; I chose the focal point of the photo ( in another word the most important thing that the photos are expressing) then I covered then up with visually meaningless and unrelated images or patch colours.

By taking the focal point out, the photo is "empty", therefore pushes the audience to want more information!

I was really enjoying my project this week....I think i learnt to work faster and be more productive. So i formed my idea and concept earlier on.....But i also learnt to be flexible with that concept

and except that it could change in time!!!

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