{"id":2260,"date":"2015-02-10T23:49:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T04:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2015-11-20T17:10:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T22:10:33","slug":"research_01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/research_01\/","title":{"rendered":"Research_01"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Artists &#8211; John Baldessari,\u00a0Bruce Nauman,\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>long and vague titles<\/li>\n<li>mixed media<\/li>\n<li>viewing things with different angles, dimensions<\/li>\n<li>displays a collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things<\/li>\n<li>open-ended,\u00a0making you wonder and be bit a more imaginative for a while<\/li>\n<li>playing with reality and illusion, constant shifting back and forth<\/li>\n<li>contradiction, allusion<\/li>\n<li>provocative, surreal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/aic\/collections\/citi\/images\/standard\/WebMedium\/WebImg_000220\/136932_2481246.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/aic\/collections\/citi\/images\/standard\/WebMedium\/WebImg_000220\/136932_2481246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/images\/work\/T\/T11\/T11845_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/images\/work\/T\/T11\/T11845_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/06\/d8\/21\/06d82146a7c81f5c43e76b930147de95.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/06\/d8\/21\/06d82146a7c81f5c43e76b930147de95.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/6a\/88\/9a\/6a889a70b2982a1dc30b6778d19aa26f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/6a\/88\/9a\/6a889a70b2982a1dc30b6778d19aa26f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/07\/3a\/33\/073a33a7bc130347ae2a355b63a22a03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/07\/3a\/33\/073a33a7bc130347ae2a355b63a22a03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/d7\/e8\/28\/d7e828464bb824c67d9a7dac6ee55021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/d7\/e8\/28\/d7e828464bb824c67d9a7dac6ee55021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/e7\/78\/03\/e77803fa5b4c995d7d19b731e128c7e8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"176\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/47\/65\/a2\/4765a22f22fc674a9a499742b4c1541b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/47\/65\/a2\/4765a22f22fc674a9a499742b4c1541b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/ad\/28\/5f\/ad285f0ed73415d09a61eeab1f37d599.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/ad\/28\/5f\/ad285f0ed73415d09a61eeab1f37d599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To me, I&#8217;m most impressed about how they reminded me of everyday objects\/events, also to view\u00a0them in different way. Simply\u00a0altering of angles, locations, combinations, scale, or colors seems to be enough to create big conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Literature\u00a0&#8211; I LOST MY NOTEBOOK! So to be finished&#8230; T_T<\/h2>\n<p>Book to read: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Philosophy of Nonsense, The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>And this is a part I&#8217;m fond of\u00a0in\u00a0<em>Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWho are you?\u201d said the Caterpillar.<\/p>\n<p>This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, \u201cI\u2014I hardly know, Sir, just at present\u2014at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have changed several times since then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean by that?\u201d said the Caterpillar, sternly. \u201cExplain yourself!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>I can\u2019t explain myself<\/strong>, I\u2019m afraid, Sir,\u201d said Alice, \u201c<strong>because I\u2019m not myself<\/strong>, you see.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Subject Matter Projects<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Sensory Masks &#8211;\u00a0Lygia Clark<\/strong> (super related<strong><span style=\"color: #fc3873;\">&lt;3<\/span><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/20\/17\/12\/201712ce62f4508ec733cb143fbb6791.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/20\/17\/12\/201712ce62f4508ec733cb143fbb6791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/17\/e3\/75\/17e3759d182a2bb47da1f069975de5b6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/17\/e3\/75\/17e3759d182a2bb47da1f069975de5b6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Sensory masks were gas mask-like hoods, that had herbs and aromatic seeds at the end of the \u201cnose\u201d or small mirrors at the location of the eyeholes. Thus <span style=\"color: #fc3873;\">the senses of the people that wear them are cut off the external world and a different vision is provided<\/span>. However, there\u2019s a darker side to the work as well; the masks could be seen <span style=\"color: #fc3873;\">as an entrapment, an imprisonment and prohibition<\/span> of contact with the outer world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">These artifacts force us to <span style=\"color: #fc3873;\">rediscover<\/span> the meaning of our routine gestures, to turn <span style=\"color: #fc3873;\">inwards<\/span>. These objects <span style=\"color: #fc3873;\">help to experience rather than to been looked at<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maxence Parache, Hyper(reality) &#8211;\u00a0Maxence Parache<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/d0\/7b\/f6\/d07bf6fd6bed87655d1d66261223a617.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/d0\/7b\/f6\/d07bf6fd6bed87655d1d66261223a617.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It uses a Microsoft Kinect to scan your physical environment and display it inside a virtual-reality helmet, so you can rotate the visual angle any way you like, with\u00a0an Arduino-powered glove equipped with force sensors.\u00a0In other words, you&#8217;re still <span style=\"color: #fc3873;\">able to physically interact with all the &#8220;real stuff&#8221; around you<\/span>, but you can also pan your &#8220;mind&#8217;s eye&#8221; around the scene separate from your own body, just like you would in a video game.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/a-way-to-go.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Way To Go<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Studio AATOAA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/5d\/7f\/01\/5d7f013638c18836548db81342e94a43.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/5d\/7f\/01\/5d7f013638c18836548db81342e94a43.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It is like a grey squirrel balanced on a branch, fearless. It is a game and a solace and an alarm, a <span style=\"color: #fc3873;\">wake-up call to the hazards of today<\/span>. At a moment when we have <span style=\"color: #fc3873;\">access to so much, and see so little<\/span>, Way to Go will remind you of all that lies before you, within you, in the luscious,<span style=\"color: #fc3873;\"> sudden pleasure of discovery<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Bonus: <a href=\"http:\/\/blabla.nfb.ca\/#\/blabla\" target=\"_blank\">Bla Bla<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flong.com\/projects\/augmented-hand-series\/\" target=\"_blank\">Augmented\u00a0Hand Series<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Golan Levin, Chris Sugrue, and Kyle McDonald<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/43\/93\/7c\/43937c0074d9f4aca598263fed9c126d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/736x\/43\/93\/7c\/43937c0074d9f4aca598263fed9c126d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It\u00a0is a real-time interactive software system that presents playful, dreamlike, and uncanny transformations of its visitors&#8217; hands. Our investigation takes a position of exploration and wonder. Can real-time alterations of the hand&#8217;s appearance bring about a <span style=\"color: #fc3873;\">new perception of the body<\/span> as a plastic, variable, unstable medium? Can such an interaction instill feelings of <span style=\"color: #fc3873;\">defamiliarization<\/span>, prompt a heightened awareness of our own bodies, or incite a <span style=\"color: #fc3873;\">reexamination<\/span> of our physical identities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists &#8211; John Baldessari,\u00a0Bruce Nauman,\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Magritte long and vague titles mixed media viewing things with different angles, dimensions displays a collection of ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/research_01\/\">Read The Rest &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127,244],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jhclaura.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}