Stelarc, Artist talk - Transmediale 2007

pay attention to 00:48 of the clip, which domonstrates how the transmediale work!!
 oh my god~ only the professor pressed the buttons of the remote control on his hand, the man who wore the machine would do action which he didn't intented to do!!! amazing work~ huh?!

by when we look into what Stelarc have done.. i think.. he is an artist who sacrifies for art sake!!

according to website named Stelarc's talk at Transmediale- We Make Money Not Art, (http://arts.kosmix.com/topic/Stelarc)   Stelar is a performance artist whose home town is in Australia. what he is try to do is that through implanation (==") with medical equipment, prosthetics (for example: faked arms) and internet to explore human capacity.

wow! if i were him, i juz can't imergine how painful it is !!!

=.= awful!! it is the wounds left by the performance.

In 2007, Stelarc had a surgery cultivating a ear on his left arm.

in the clip, Stelarc fully explains and domonstrates his idea of making "the body is performaning as a slipped body" (03:16) by implanting cells into people's stomach or other body parts, like arms which demonstrated in the first clip. in his thinking, body is "obsolete". this idea could be proved by the first clip, he implant a cells into the student's both arms and connect the cells with the remote control by using electricity strings, so that students can to what he might not want to do, which that the body of the student is a "segregated body" because it is controlled by Stekarc but not the student himself!!!

why i don't it is most interesting because what way Stelarc act reminds me of a taboo in society nowadays, that is body modification, people who like implanting something into their body in order to chase for a sense of excitment and "asthetic feeling"

more interestly, Stelarc's art work, walking head (2003) make me think of Doctor Octopus in Spiderman 2!! they are just too similar~!! aren't they?! huh?

constructing identity online~

http://www.mouchette.org/index.html


have you guys ever seen this website before?~
oh god~ the author of the website is a "so-called"  13 YEARS OLD Amsterdam little girl.
 when i first come to the website, hell~ there is a background sound effect of women's choking=.=
also, the background is annoying also, lots of flies creeping around the screen and the visual impact brought by the background somehow makes people feel awful because there are many bloody objects, like the dish contains some blood-like liquid.
 somepage, like flesh ad blood, the background is a person who try to use hie/her tongue to lick somethings, which promp people thinking of sexuality .
in the blog of digital flesh and blood, she said:
"Want to know what my tongue tastes like? Try it on your screen and tell me"

<-oh my god ~it doesn't like what a girl at the age of 13 said!!!

more importantly, a 13years old girl should be innocent and pure~ how come she would ask people what is the best method to commit suicide~ which also arose people attention and publish different opinions.

some said she might regret if she really commit suicide~ and some talking their discontent towards their relative and family members, like sister, and really want to die also. the discussion lead to over 771 page of comment. wow~ it's amazing!!!

but generally, me and my classmate like yeung kin, both of us think that the "13-years old" girl  just intended to draw people attention on her, there is no way for us to proove if her information~

online identity

i have found 3 different  students in my Digital Media class, they are Ka Ki, Fung, and ku ching. as a result, all of them have they account in Msn, facebook and hotmail.

i think the main difference between online identity and "in person" identity, like the identity card is that, online identity can be fake, but "in person" identity have to be real. because those information construced online is not mainly used as official record or financial uses. like MSN and facebook, they mainly use for connecting friends, relative and  for widen horizon, or it is for expressing opinion online community unity, like forums.

uwants.com is one of the most famous forum in Hong Kong.

also, when somebody have different sexial tendency, like lesbian and gay, they may feel isolated by society, since many people oppose to homosexuality, then they can find partners and get support by getting around in a certain community unity. in Hong Kong, TT1069.com is the most famous gaypeople forum.

tt1069.com

of course, constructing online identities online may have some risk behind. just like our information maybe stolen by other people, or our online idenitity, like facebook, may sell our identity for commercial profit.

morover, people who have some special opinion towards some social issue may arouse poele attention and opposition, thus cyber bullying emerged. one famous example is Ruby accident. Ruby had constructed a youtube clip condemning the english oral standard of the examiner, the clip arouse people attention can raise a series of condemnation in the net.



 ruby Youtube clip


people make a clip writing lots of rude language to huminiate Ruby.

the Ruby Incident stimulate people in the Net revealing her privacy, including her real name, where does she study, where does she live, etc.. inhttp://hahavdo.blogspot.com/2010/04/ruby-profile.html, it record the general comments of the people-onlined towards Ruby and her privacy. thus don't look down on the risk of the net people!!

from the comments given by the net people towards Ruby, we can see people generally dislike her, saying that her english and prounciation is not that good and have no qualification to critice the examiner. wow~ @@

bus uncle proves Youtube power @@

plz dun mind that i use such rude but famous videos to prove the power of Youtube. ~.~

Up to this moment, about 1,061,196 viewers  are estimated to have watched the Youtube video, which reveals by Youtube itself (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsYRQkmVifg, Hong Kong Bus Uncle with English and Mandarin Subtitles, 2010/10/ 06) . Well, in my point of view, it is never a high quality in technical terms. it is not aesthetically interesting both in camera angle and use of light. From the camera angel and the texture roughness of the scenes, it seems that the clip is just a candid clip. In the perspective of narrative, I think.. the gaggling of the person who takes the clip is the only narrative. For me, I really don’t appreciate this kind of candid clip, because it is rude, no meaning, it not only intends to show the embarrassing of the victims, said, the man being seriously condemned by Bus Uncle in the clip, but also showing indifference of people , how sad that we should feel when we laugh at it at the same time!! ;((((((

However, this rude candid clip, indeed, have raised the socio-cultural issues!

let's see the following clips uploaded in Youtube.

                                                                                                                                                          

the second Youtube clip is one of  the clips which  respond and moderfied the original Bus Uncle clip.

the third clip is an advertisment in refer to the Bus Uncle clip.


the fourth clip is the interview about the confession of Bus Uncle which recorded by the TV broadcast.

from above we can see not only is such a short ordinary arguing clip can blow up such a "Uncle Craze"! "not yet settled! not yet settled!!" become a famous slogan of Hong Kongers, but also inspires the raise up creativity of Hong Kongers, we can prove it by seeing such lots of songs uploaded on the net are talking about Bus Uncle, like the Diu song and the advertisement about World Cup 2006 made by TVB, which implies that Hong Kongers like using social-cultural issue  (like the dialogue between the passenger and the Bus Uncle) to promote products or to share their comments and creativity.
 at the same time, different critiques are around the behave of Bus Uncle, the clips also draw the mass media's attention and interest in revealing his daily life and his thinking, like the forth clip is the interview about how the Bus Uncle thought of our Hong Kong government. actually, it is just for catering the taste of the public in order to raise the viewing ratio and boost more profit from adertisement.


in my point of view, i don't think such a rude clip deserves such a vast attention from internet community, Bus Uncle Craze, just like the Teen Model Craze, keep drawing the attention of Honk Kongers on such a meaningless topics, or even burning both of the time and money on that. it only facilitates the inapproprite value of Hong Kongers, such s revealing people 's ugly behave as a kind of entertainment and keep discussing and criticizing women's physical fetures (like breast and hips) are not uncivil behave. wht a pity if people only focus on reveling people's privacy! ;(( OMG..

(Photo of Hong Kong Teen Model)

digital cinema vs traditional filmmaking

since the technology have been improved, we can enjoy and percept many more fanastic images and sound, the emergence of digital cinema is a good example.

according to wekipedia, digital cinema means to use technology to show image and motion, colour and sound can be edited by the filmmakers in pro-shooting ( period.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema#External_links, Digital Cinema, 2010/10/6). tradition filmming means that to use tradition method to film, thus sound, lightening is not allowed be edited after shooting, usually long shoot is used in traditional filmmaking (more than 3.3 seconds), the best example for the traditional filmmaking is Ali, Fear Eat the Soul. 

(example of the digital cinema: president of evil 3D)

(traditional filmmaking ALI: fear eats the soul)

 from above, we can know that the appearance can be much more fine and well-edited than the traditional filmmaking. also because of the help of the technology many unrealistic effect can be created in the sense, like the whole appearance of the Earth, which shown in the president of evil 3d. in addition, sound, music can be much more vivid, more importantly, the 3D effect can make the viewers be more dovoted into the films.

 on the other hand, the appearance of the traditional filmmaking is qiute rough, but more realistic, likethe main character is sweating. because of the constraint of the instant filming technology, the shooting the film is not like the digital cinema (president of evil 3d. ) (which usually take a fast shooting ,usually a shoot take 1-2seconds) ,  usually take a long shoot. also , because no sound editing and lightening edition can be done, the film seems not as fine as the digital cinema.

then, let's take about the perspective of the story differences between the  digital cinema and traditional filmmaking.

because the technology is the main point of the digital cinema, story structure tends to be loose and unrealistic, like president of evil 3 d, it is talking  the main character Alice is a superwoman, who go to save the surviver, and fight against the dead walks and the company, Umbralla.( http://www.residentevil-movie.com/, residentevil : afterlife, 2010/10/6) however, unlike the digital cinema, the selling point of the traditional filmmaing is tend to reveal the blackside of society, like ali fear eats the soul is talking about the German Immigrants suffered from the bias and unfair treatment by the local people, the story tends to be meaning ful and well structure (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19970427/REVIEWS08/401010301/1023, Ali: fear eats the soul (1974), 2010/10/6)

does them remind me of any art forms? ah.....

i think..the digital cinema mak remind me of the painting of VanGoh, Screaming, because of the unrealistic feeling suggested by the painting and i think which is quite related to my feeling towards the film.

but the traditional filmmaking remind me of a software powerpoint more than a art form, because it seems quite rare and slow in the movire. =.=