Good Luck Everyone

revised artist statement! please read and give feedback!

a house by definition is set to provide us with warmth and shelter from natures elements, though a home is a far different thing. a home can be considered a place where a family is created, memories are formed, and traditions have a chance to be set. upon those same expectations of familiarity and comfort there lies a risk of  the space becoming disjointed and fragile. in constructing these scenes i am exploring the discomfort a home might have, the fractured tasks that demand to be finished, and my own personal questioning of what i want within my future. 

im on AIM right now if anyone wants to send feedback there! my screen name is read and destroy!

-betsy

THIS IS ANNA UNDER CARLIE'S USERNAME

hi guys! i can't seem to get my username to work right now so i am posting under carlie's. here is my new contact sheet, let me know what you think. betsy and carlie like #3. thanks!

my artist statement

hey everyone! i know this is kind of going up late but im hoping that i can get some feedback on my artist statement before tomorrow, its still not feeling all there for me and anything would be really helpful.

Thanks! and i would really awesome if everyone could post theirs too so i can finish up those questions for tomorrow :-)

It’s a fact of life that people grow old, yet it is so hard to watch the ones we love slowly loose their strength and begin to lean on us for help, as we once did to them. After two hip replacements, everyday is a challenge for my father just to get out of bed. However, the pain has not stopped him from doing all the things he has always loved doing. He refuses to give in to the aging process that is taking over his entire body. He has always been a strong figure in my life and watching him suffer is very hard for me to come to grip with. He has always taught me to do what I love doing no matter what stands in my way and to see him still living the life he wants to lead every day is so inspiring to me. For this, I find him such a strong symbol for the fight against growing old and giving in.

DORMITORIUM- great exhibit

DOMINIK- there is also an exhibit of their detailed movie sets coming up- it will blow you away!

Just Announced!
In conjunction its 2009 Award Celebration, The Coolidge presentsDORMITORIUM: AN EXHIBITION OF FILM DÉCORS BY THE QUAY BROTHERS, a very special exhibit of the Quays original handmade and highly detailed sets used in their animated works.

The exhibit will be hosted in Boston from April 30 through May 21, at the gallery space ofThe Fourth Wall Project , 132 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. Gallery Hours are 1:00 - 7:00 pm, Monday - Saturday.

Opening date to the public for the exhibition and opening reception is Thursday, April 30 from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm.

Institute Benjamenta

DOMINIK!

Check this link- please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3_A9X1XB44

Guess who is coming to town - May 6th and 7th- the quai bros- who has been greatly influenced by the Czech animator who I recommended to you previously as well as a bunch of central European artists and writers.  I truly believe that your sensibilities match!

You can see this film on Monday April 27th at the Coolidge Corner movie theatre

The first live action feature from the Quay Brothers, INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA is inspired by the writings of Swiss novelist Robert Walser. The film focuses on the monotonous repetition of activity the inhabitants of the Benjamenta Institute for the Training of Domestic Servants face on a daily basis. The Quay's continue to explore their motifs of death, decay and nothingness, with live actors added to their collage of objects.

My Dreams

Here are my dreams

http://junior-dreams.blogspot.com/


I put them in my own blog because i did not want to swamp this blog with it all.

-dh

my artist statement

heyy, here is my artist statement. any feedback about which parts work and don't would be great. thanks

I am making pictures about a desire for authentic experience. I am reacting to an increasingly artificial and manufactured world. I desire to transcend the simulated to experience something more “real”.

Yet, in the hyper reality that we live in where illusion has replaced reality, it seems nearly impossible to escape simulation. It leads me to question if it matters if an experience is simulated? It is a real experience of a simulation. In my exploration, it leaves me to reconcile simulation and the illusion of reality.

I think a sense of heightened experience is subjective. Personally, the authentic experience involves returning to a true and original state of existence with nature. I mourn the loss of oneness with nature that humankind once valued. I yearn for the physicality and tactility of the natural.

In my photographs I want to hint at a simulation or manufacture yet suggest the potential for genuine experience

 

dream photos for dominic

click here

not exactly what you are talking about but maybe it could be interesting

TVs re

A bunch of people have offered me Tvs to use for my installation. How and when could i get them from you?

Hey guys, hope everyones week is going well so far. I mentioned this in class on Tuesday and figured I'd post it here for everyone to see. It seems pretty interesting. 

Also, just a reminder, if you guys want your notes I would be happy to type them up for you, just send me an e-mail. I'm sorry I don't have time to send notes to everyone every week (unless of course every one of you e-mails me) but yeah. Just let me know. My e-mail is dcaridi1215@yahoo.com

See everyone next week!

-Dan

TV's

Does anyone have a smallish Tv that i might be able to show movies on for class?

for dominic

this is a completely different approach to dreams than what you are doing but could be interesting to see how someone else approaches it.

i couldn't figure out how to put the video in here so

click here

For Dom and Travis

The Semiotics of the Kitchen uses the format of a child's alphabet p5rimer to explore the kitchen. Rosler, in medium shot, stands behind a table in front pf her stove and refrigerator--the classic TV cooking-show set-up. "A is for apron," she announces, as she struggles into one of those aprons that needs to be buttoned behind your head. "B is bowl," she says, slamming one down on the table, "blender, and broiler. C is for cup"--fairly innocuous--"can opener"--still functional--"cleaver"--a little more threatening--and, finally, "chopper," which she wields with fury. As she proceeds through the alphabet, rendering eggbeaters, forks, hamburger presses, and rolling pins as weapons, it becomes clear, as she finishes in a Zorro gesture with raised knives, that the semiotics of the kitchen signify containment, fury, aggression, resentment, and potential revenge. The semiotics of the kitchen has nothing to do with cooking.
This is a classic second-wave feminist text both in its anger and in Rosler's "au naturel" self-presentation, with her unmade-up face and long hair hanging loose down her shoulders. The video is also very funny, as each piece of equipment is rendered expressive and sometimes threatening. Unusually for a second-wave text, the feminist is actually in the kitchen--however cross she might be.

http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/paris-a-show-about-nothing/

Maggie, perhaps you will find this exhibition interesting

http://www.acornbook.co.uk/books/snow.htm

For MAGGie,

Please check out here for the book.

NYT article on dreams

Interesting for everyone, but specifically for Dominik...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/science/10tier.html

my artist statement

Tradition is usually seen as something to embrace, to love, to cherish, to always honor. It is this tradition that has taught us what we think we want or need, and also what we believe we need to rebel against. It has become a map to tear up, burn, and fight against. These ideas change when one comes to the realization that the tradition that has been fought so hard against might be what is lusted after. Accepting this fate that chills me to my bones is a struggle. My future might not be so different from my mothers, or grandmothers, or great grandmothers. In these photographs I explore the ideas of rebelling, accepting, and passively nurturing those traditions I never thought I wanted. It is the process of questioning what is considered normal, what life goals are set for everyone, and how I might not really be that different from everyone else. It is that fear lives inside something so planned out, so structured, and so determined on how we figure out our future, or accept and reject what is planned out for us. 

i think it becomes a little wordy in the middle and end though the bare bones of it are promising. 

I loved this....

An article from Orion  Magazine:

"Am I still here?"

http://www.monocle.com/sections/culture/Web-Articles/Prix-Pictet-2008/

perhaps someone will find this interesting

This weeks notes

Hey guys, so I left to photograph for the weekend and forgot the class notes to send to you guys, so you'll have to wait until Monday to get them. Sorry about that, I know its not all that helpful that late, but I'll get them to you extra early next week to make up for it. Hope everything is going great for everybody. See you soon.

-Dan C

PS - TODAY WAS DARWIN'S BIRTHDAY!

For Travis

Here is the writing I promised you. Click the image to enlarge. d.h

Times Article

Hey Guys just wanted to post up this article that I mentioned in class today. Its definitely interesting. Would love to hear what you think. Have a great week!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/arts/design/15cott.html?emc=eta1

-Dan

Dear Junior Class,
Here is one of the videos I have been working on. I still want to polish up the other one before posting. I am posting this because I am sick, but still hope you could take a look at this and maybe leave a comment.
Have a good class,
-dominik v. hausenbichl

P.S.
The quality is actually much better but I had to make it low so I can post it. (Original is 3.5 GB)

Hey gabi,

I came across this doc photographer and thought it might be interesting for you to look at. There's a project on Cuba, but i think more interesting are the photos in the Transylvania project which has some striking religious imagery. 

Jena

http://www.mona-simon.de/

Rilke and Beauty

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.

youtube video

heres a rough edit of the video i said i made, its funny so laugh a little

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brPfymmq_-A

First Post!

Hi guys, so here is your blog! Hopefully everyone has the ability to post on it and will do so quite regularly. Don't feel too pressured to be really specific with your posts, if you find something you feel is interesting and want to share it with us, please don't hesitate to do so. If you find something really specific to a certain person, that is fine as well, or even if you are just excited about the way shooting went and can't wait to tell us about it, that would be great as well. I'm sure there will be more to come...so until then...heres a sweet picture OF William Eggleston. 

-Dan