Today started out with a lecture from Victoria Vesna. She talked about art and how it had influenced her life, taking her places all over the world to pursue different ideas. Some of her works seemed pretty revolutionary to me because I had never seen anything like them before in any museum that I had gone to. What I particularly like about her work was the fact that it was using these new concepts to reinforce a certain theme that had already existed in art previously- especially in spiritual works coming from the far east, including the mandalas made by Tibetan monks. This theme, is about being able to introspect and become conscious of yourself as a part of the world around you. This was really an inspiring topic to me- this is truly the kind of art I enjoy the most.
Perpetuating the creative feel of the day we got to go and see the projects that the DESMA students had created. Their art was pretty impressive to me and made me want to take a course in design as well. I have always been interested in computer science and the creation of video games so this type of thing always appealed to me in the past. For awhile I was even pursuing this topic as a potential career choice, but somehow high school had taken me in a different direction.
It was pretty impressive to get to hear about the projects though, and listening to the students speak gave me a lot of ideas and spurred my imagination.
http://www.animationarena.com/video-game-design-articles.html
http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/biography/complete.php
http://www.bodiesinc.ucla.edu/
http://www..location1.org/victoria-vesna-nano-mandala/
http://www.adigitaldreamer.com/articles/becomeavideogamedesigner.htm