Look with your eyes, not with your hands.


Such a minute fraction of this life do we live: so much is sleep, tooth-brushing, waiting for mail, for metamorphosis, for those sudden moments of incandescence: unexpected, but once one knows them, one can live life in the light of their past and the hope of their future.



A grad student muses on her life, film, friends, politics, reality televizzle, and music.

 
eeew... pda in the computer lab again. this should be an asexual and sterile place, that's the only environment that lends itself to work.

I am writing what I think is a fairly interesting paper about "Ambient Art," focusing on technologically advanced art that uses digital code and video to blur the distinction between art and life. I am looking at some contemporary artists, including Diana Thater (I saw her installation of projectors and bees at Dia last summer) and another artist named Janet Cardiff who does some amazing work using digital camcorders and layered audio. I am also writing about Brian Eno as his ambient music really set the stage for this approach to the arts. To get in the right mindset, I downloaded "A Music for Airports" and I have been listening to it for a while. I am going burn a copy and turn it in with my paper, maybe Kalb will get a kick out of it... it's decent, muzak-y, and is quite suitable for doing work in a computer lab, or waiting for a plane... intended as background music to frame what is going on in everyday life.

posted by lmjasinski at 7:00 PM