April 28, 2008
Categories: Artists, Presentation and Reflection_MADA3 . . Author: Sharon Ferris . Comments: Leave a Comment
Frank Popper_From Technological to Virtual Art
The first realm encountered in Osmose is a three-dimensional Cartesian grid, but with the immersant’s first breaths, this gives way to a clearing, surrounded by a forest. One can, through breath, endlessly float through this forest; or enter the clearing’s lone tree and the interior of its leaves; or sink into a pond and its [...]
Chinese “Magic” Garden
The contemporary style -growing novelty garden is made of paper and plastic and is impregnated with fungi. When the cardboard is immersed in water the
Chemical balance water and air make the fungi’s emerge from the cardboard cut-outs. They come alive and begin to grow into bright bold colours.
The scene of fast growing fungi, reflecting westerns [...]
The Science of Pranayama
The Sanskrit term yoga has a wide range of different meanings. It is derived from the Sanskrit root you, “to control”, “to yoke”, or “to unite”
Several seals discovered at Indus Valley Civilization (c. 3300–1700 BC) sites depict figures in a yoga or meditation like posture Should look at posture for ideas [...]
Five Angels for the Millennium, Bill Viola
I am referencing two artists who have pioneered there way in digital art. Bill Viola has created a piece of work called Five Angels for the Millennium, I have chosen this work as it was a reflection on a life changing moment that happened to him as a child of near death experience through drowning.
Viola [...]
Quote by Lao Tse
This quote by Lao Tse, Simplifies what I have been trying to grasp within my work…
What I’m trying to capture is the essence of breathe the point where its acts as a vehicle to clear and de mystify the mind.Through researching Prana this technique in breathing where the user find the peace when the have [...]
Breath cycle_Death:Rebirth
I choosen this example to illustrate the process of decay. My reserach has taken me on a route of wanting to explore a cycle of life and death. I have choosen the flower for this example as show through camera time lapse the death of something
S Rinpoche (2002)The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, 10th ed USA:Rider
Watching the breath
Breath is life the basic and most fundamental expression of our life…
In the teaching of Buddha, the breath, or prana in Sanskrit, it said to be “the vehicle of the mind”, because it is prana that makes our mind move.
“Imagine your breath dissolving into the all-pervading expanse of truth.”
Each [...]
China Design Now_VandA
I visited the china design exhibition as I thought I would be good research into various contemporary eastern styles. My own project will now focus on eastern ideologies that surround meditation, One artist has used this context within his work and created a poster which style was optical art, the idea [...]
G Orwell 1984
I began reading this book as it was referenced by other digital artists. My
Interpretation of after reading the first few chapters was one of
Orwell had prophecy a distopian future. Where human kind is living in a society where privacy no longer exists and identity is only a fictional idea. The Big Brother phenomenon has become [...]
Mindfullness in Plain English, Canada: Wisdom
As breath is my vehicle in which I am creating my project around. I have researched mediation, and the philosophy behind it. The book Mindfulness in Plain English, has given made a good foundation to begin my research. The description of the breath is poetic in its conception. “The Breath is [...]
