not really. but i thinking about making something out of one of them. i'm not sure which one yet. today was a good day. i got to put in some actual "work" for my assistanceship. i put together this giant document in illustrator of gps points and associated photos that were taken at the points by my professor. i suppose i didn't really sign an nda when i came to risd so i can pretty much talk about anything that i am working on.

today we had class with this curator from boston, on the sort of history of digital media. not just history but contextualizing current work in conjunction with past works. today we talked about technological innovations that have had an impact on the art world. in many cases conceived by artists. in some cases the things created went on to affect everyone. photography for example. or electric lightbulbs. we started by talking about perspective. brunelleschi was a 15th century florentine architect who is considered one of the earliest proponents of the concept and largely responsible for it's adoption in 2-dimensional art. albrecht dürer, who lived around the same period mastered the technique to a degree that is almost more mathematical than artistic, though no one can challenge the aesthetic depth and power of his works. i sound like a text book.

the most stimulating point in this discussion was when it was pointed out that before the adoption of perspective in painting, the size of each character represented in a work was directly related to how important they were in the narrative of the work. this is why there are paintings with giant saints next to normal people who actually look like hobbits. when size was wrested from the hands of narrative and subjectivity by this logical system, i'm sure people had to rethink a few things. uh..
ya. this is an early example of say science revoking some of religion or art's power to speak as an authority on the way things should be. but oddly enough it's still people that make the decision, and in so many cases kowtow to the NEW way that is most of the time just simple rationality but not necessarily better. can i spell?

after that we began discussing immersion in art and the desire to reinvent reality in our own image along with the ideas of escaping the mundane and being recreated in a more mythologically charged state. a couple different people brought up james turrell because of his simple use of light and line to recontextualize people because of the space or lack of space that they are in. good.

ok. sleep time. i'll talk more about my project in the future. in the mean time i need to find some metal buttons so i can electrify a pan to spit them in to.