Art and Technology FA 2019 - REYNOLDS

I made this video because I miss my mom!

We started the class off looking at different performance art pieces and personal videos. We then moved on to talking about music, we learned Pierre Henry & Pierre Schafer used a tape recorder to create "concrete music" that was abstract. We learned that sounds from the past can be heard in music today. We looked at bands like the Beatles, led Zepplin, and the beach boys. I thought that the death of disco video was super interesting and something that I have never heard of before. It's cool to see how music really evolves into one another.

Today we learned about stimulations and asked ourselves if we believe that our world is a simulation. We watched video installation videos about virtual reality. This relates to me because my brother is really into virtual reality and studies it at his university. Nowadays, there a lot of ways that people can interact with virtual reality including headsets, glasses, and games. We related this to fake news and the future of the fact. We discussed robots and how they are being integrated into the work force. We looked at a Google Ad for the Tilt Brush.

This box is representative of my childhood and how I sometimes wish to return to it. I included a colorful background mimicking my favorite game as a kid - candy land. On all sides, I put xerox pictuers of me reaching towards the top of the box (the sweet stuff), because that is what I miss most about being a kid. I also made 2 trees on one side because I have two trees in the front yard of my childhood home. The music I put to the background of the video is of a child laughing, because I remember laughing a lot when I was a kid playing games with my family.