Seminar II: New Media

(You knew everyone would pick her work as it's the most extensive and coherent) What I liked/Disliked: I enjoyed the fact that the 50 minute film had a backbone to it. What I mean when I say this is that most conceptual artists fall flat for me. It's all about the random idea they came up with and they tend not to execute it to the best of their ability. This film had a concreteness to it. It had a clear message, with small little vignettes spurring off of it. It was constructed more like a diary-esque novel than it was a from the mouth telling. At first, I didn't like it much, but then when I saw some of her photos, and began to pick up on Moyra's own quirkiness, I enjoyed it. I saw the repetition, I saw her obsessive nature (yet she detested that scheduled behavior in her psychoanalyst), I saw the multiples, and I realized that it's all connected and works as a cohesive body. I loved the way she showed how time passed within her Long Life Cool White exhibit. The ...

I enjoyed this chapter overall, as I agree that people need to empathize with others more. I may swear like a sailor, but I still try to include other people and be 'emotionally intelligent'. It's important, really. Not because it will help me get ahead, but because common courtesy and respect make the world a better place. Doing something nice, even just smiling at someone, will brighten up their day. And they might smile at someone else, so that makes the world a better place. Wow I feel like a giant hippie. :) I feel almost as though this book wants to stroke my ego too much. I'm a woman, and because of this, I generally empathize more than the males that I know, simply because of my gender. I'm an artist (or at least I'm trying to be), so I am generally more right-brained than I am left brained (but I like to think I have a happy balance).... so...Pink just keeps trying to stroke my ego. Stroke the ego of all the people who empathize and use their right brai...