Everything Is Illuminated: green screen

  

For this project, I chose to put myself in a scene of Everything Is Illuminated. The scene itself is dimly lit and very florescent. Once I shot my part, I needed to do color correction. Also, working with audio in after effects seems to be practically impossible. I need to open the original scene in Final Cut and take out the character sound. If only final cut would ever work here.

Visiting Artist: Linda Ganjian

,Linda Ganjian is a sculpture artist, examining identity from a variety of different angles. Sitting around a rectangle table, housing her current work, she introduced us to her take on displaying identity. She has a variety of work that displayed her identity as well as an identity that related to others. Her most obvious personal piece was Navelstone. Navelstone is a collaborative piece in which both artist created tiles to represent the interaction of Armanian and Turkish culture.Linda's tiles were mainly about coming from an Armenian identity. I grew to appreciate tile work after studying Islamic tiles in Spain. Looking at Linda's tiles definitely brought me back to Islamic tiles. Her use of colors pays incredible homage to tile work. I found Migration Map to be most like traditional tiles.
Her Towers series related to identity through language. She studied different alphabets and reworked the letters into a tower. These piece is a bit easier to relate to because we all have our own alphabets which are a daily part of our lives. I also found it incredibly interesting to examine alphabets and rework them into a structure.
Posted below are the works referred to in this post.

Navelstone

Migration Map

Towers

Sanford Biggers and Indentity

In the series of  visiting artist, I noticed a theme that seems to exists in form of every one's art. That theme: Identity. Saya Wolfalk, Nagar Ahakami and now, Sanford Biggers. Identity exists in forms of race, culture, religion and creed. The question of what makes up your identity spirals into a whirlwind of ideas. One thing these artists have in common is interpreting those ideas and visually reproducing them as a display to others.
Sanford Biggers works in a number of mediums; photography, video, sculpture, and painting. Based on the work  viewed in his studio, they all trace back to identity. I created a few favorite pieces that I wanted to devout my attention to. One being, his short film about a man's journey back to Brazil. The piece really captures the questions of identity that every person deals with. (What makes your identity? your family, culture, birthplace  current home,profession? etc). Amongst his other work, this seems to be the most universally relative. Also, this is one the the first works we've seen that doesn't relate to the artists personal identity.
The second piece which I found to be an incredible window into Sanford's identity was Lotus. Lotus is a sculpture piece, displaying the transportation of slaves but in the form of a lotus flower. Talking to Sanford, it was clear that his heritage is a big part of his identity. He also mentioned his time in Japan which influenced his interest in Buddhism. This is very clear in Lotus. Looking at Lotus very closely, you can see the detailing. to commit to something so intricate and time consuming, one would have to feel deeply connected to it. I definitely got that sense from Lotus.
The works referred to in this post are below:

Lotus

Lotus