4th Art work

This video takes into consideration a lot of the research i have been doing. The idea of tribalism in this electronic age was mentioned by Marshal McluHan. I have gathered together various clips from you tube of tribal ceremonies and rituals and using imovie edited them together. I used 'Marina' by sleepy sun. It uses a large percussion section that is almost a tribal paradigm.

No image is repeated yet it feels as though it is. I feel this has the effect of relating to the here and now. By seeing a repetition of a theme it tends to enforce an idea that what is happening is happening all the time that it is happening here and now. I also like the urgency of this piece. I do however feel that it is too long.

Gauguin Exhibition at Tate Modern

"Be an impressionist until the bitter end and be afraid of nothing"

The video below is a experiment with doing a review of the exhibition. In it the man in glasses gets the wrong end of the stick. He is getting confused between Goya and Gaugin a mistake we can all make!






click this link to get to the tate modern site which introduces the exhibition

The site contains a great video which has read transcripts that Gaugin wrote in the form of letters to various people. You can see that he was well acquainted with Vincent van Gough as well as his brother theo. Gaugin mentions how difficult it was to live and work with Vincent.

Below are quotes from the read transcripts.

"for most people I shall be an enigma for a few I shall be a poet"

"Everything here is harsh and impenetrable. Seeing this fills me with the sensation of struggle for survival a sensation of struggle of melancholy and acquiescence to implacable laws .....I'm attempting to put this sensation down on canvas"

"What is natural in art? In art truth is what a person feels in the state of mind he happens to find himself in"

"Novelty is essential to stimulate the stupid buying public"

"One should always be faithful to one's nature"

"He is a romantic while I am rather inclined to a more primitive state"

Here and Now Created work

Below is a film i made experimenting with milk and water. Above is a still i took after i had left the bowl for a while. It is amazing how it has taken the form of an iris.


This is an extension of what i did with water and in some ways reflects my research which uncovered the hungarian artist who uses sand. I feel it relates to the theme of here and now becuase the guesswork part of it, as soon as you drop some ink it develops in its own unique way given the exact circumstance the here and now. Also you see the work develop. when i tried to direct the ink with the pen i had no control although im sure that the more familiar i become with the process i might develop a degree of control...can we control the here and now?

should i name my work is a question i was asked. some artists refuse to do this because in some ways it anchors the meaning. however if i left it blank it would achieve the same thing.

Mcluhan based ideas

Look at trribal culture-the mini skirt

a wall ia a medium for me...so is a floor a ceiling...a light bulb

ACADEMIC-Marshall McLuhan

The medium is the message.

you've got a good face for radio

Nixon lost it on TV

We are all asked to play a role to wear a mask...kennedy did that well

we have gone from individual man to tribal man

electronic media=tribal man
books, a private experience a private teaching machine=individual man


the miners event of yesterday. The TV station owned by the president of Chile arranged for the first rescued miner to appear in time for the evening news.

Electronic media distorts reality

ARTIST: Alec Crichton

click here to see the artists work

WEB 2.0 and The Artist

With the movements i have looked at so far it seems to me that given the vast proliferation of digitalm technologie a whole legion of artists has emerged who have access to these tools and feel free to explore them as they do not depend on patronage .