Jeff Soto

Q: How do you perceive, or not, the influences of Cinema, popular culture, advertisement and graffiti in his work?


I see a lot of influence personally from modern cartoons, which have for some reason decided that kids think ugly characters are more interesting than pretty ones.  The images have exaggerated facial expressions, and bright colors.  I see the influence of advertising and graffiti though the repetition of ideas, and characters.  It's like making a label for himself, so that everyone knows that it's him.  

Mariko Mori

Q: Mariko Mori in the series Pureland or Burning Desire explores a Relationship with Japanese popular culture, Elaborate on the use of parody by the artist.

I personally think the use of parody in this series is hilarious.  It's going on how much american culture has taken a huge liking to Japanese pop culture, and how silly a lot of characters from japanese pop culture are if they were "real".  Because anime is what, from my experience, most american kids are into, there aren't any real people.  There aren't any real actors to like on facebook.  This series I think is making a point of how silly things would look in real life.  I might be wrong.

Martina Lopez

9.- Martina Lopez

Q: Based on Martina’s work, develop the use of memory and narrative in her work.

In her work, it seems that she's taking ordinary pictures, and just incorporating more memories than one in the photographs.  Like in the couple sitting in front of a city with smoke coming out of it, she took a photo of two people, the memory of what they looked like and what they were doing at the time, and mixed it with the memory of where they lived and what their living conditions where like.  This tells a story about more than what just one photo could tell, which is why her manipulated photos relate to a more narrative theme.  Also, the images all seem to be something that could in itself be a still screen from an action movie- there's always something going on.  

Haziz and Cucher

Q: In the series Dystopia, what do you think are the main concepts, in relation to the digital effect and process?


I believe that the main concept has to do with loss of identity, derived from how the people seem to have been complete and detailed at one point,  but now are missing features like eyes and mouthes, but still have some details like noses and freckles and things.  I think the process went as such:  make an entire detailed face, or a complete person, and then take away its identity by generalizing it.  

Here's my map!

My messed up face thing!

I learned how to add pictures! :D

My animation!

I made myself a youtube account and made this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMzQpxpVBxk