Artist 4 Spring 2011

Lauren Greenfield

Per our discussion, in one of my earlier meetings, we talked about Lauren Greenfields work that has a great deal in the continuation of the conversation, that I would like to participate in, with the work that I am currently creating.

In talking about current or past trends in the coming of age, specifically in girls, Greenfields work creates a bold and unsettling outlook.

I can not disregard the work that has come before the work that I am creating currently, by learning and appreciating the trends and accomplishments of other artists I can create a better understanding of my work.

I feel my work as of now has veered from where it was previously but it does not change the importance of reviewing Greenfields work.

laurengreenfield.com

Time: 'Girl Culture;

Idea 4 Spring 2011

Guided memory and guided meditation 


why I am interested in guided meditation:
With all of my shoots i have been guiding my subjects back to visions or experiances they may have had when they were young. I am sure to give them time to digest the senarios i create and that is relatable to their life. I have gone on to research guided meditation techniques particularly for writing and memory retention. this has led me to investigating recal habits and falce memory caused by outside forces. but for this post I plan to stick with memory and guided meditation research. I am having a hard time finding artist that deal with guided memory retention in their work primarily because the search is so narow it is dificult to find any information at all of other artist using such techniques on their subjects. 


I am mainly interested in playing the roll of directing and also guiding my subjects back to past experiances so that they can create their own language to play with while in the same space as the other subjects, therefore creating an intierly different experiance in the same phisical space. 






TIME Magazine 

Calming The Mind

By Alice Park Monday, Aug. 04, 2003

Source: Dr. Gregg Jacobs, Harvard Medical School, author of The Ancestral Mind.




mind body solutions  referencing the Time Magazine artical from above. 

"One recent study found evidence that the daily practice of meditation thickened the parts of the brain's cerebral cortex responsible for decision making, attention and memory."

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"Meditation directly affects the function and structure of the brain, changing it in ways that appear to increase attention span, sharpen focus, and improve memory."

Transcendental Meditation Techniques
Many religious groups, as well as adherents of Transcendental Meditation techniques, talk of using a sound, or “mantra” to help with learning how to meditate, and indeed this can be helpful. The constant repetition of a phrase, focus of attention upon the sound. The Hare Krishna movement is well-known for its repetitive chant that is repeated over and over again, and can lead to its members seeming to become “high” – showing the effects of endorphin release as one of the benefits of meditation.
With these guided meditation techniques, an effortless sound, repeated with the natural rhythm of breathing, can have the same soothing, mentally liberating effect as the constant natural sound of running water, rustling leaves or a beating heart. The single sound, or mantra as it is known, is used to blot out the “chatter” of intrusive thoughts, allowing the mind to find repose.
Speaking or chanting a mantra as a stream of endless sound is a very ancient method of heightening a person’s awareness by concentrating the senses. The simple gentle sound “om”, or “aum”, is sometimes known as the first mantra, which is literally an instrument of thought.
The curving Sanskrit (the ancient language of Hindus in India) symbol for this primordial word represents the various states of consciousness: waking, dreaming, deep dreamless sleep and the transcendental state.
However, when using these guided meditation techniques, or if you are just learning how to meditate, the sound need not be a special word, or incantation; something simple and meaningful will be as, if not more, effective. The sound of the word “calm” spoken or thought with each breath breathed out can be very, very effective, especially while imagining tension leaving your body and a calmness developing.
The word “relax” when used with these meditation techniques seems to match other people’s needs in a similar way. Any word that appeals to you will do, repeated with the flow of breath, silently in the mind, or out loud. This clears the mind, slows the breathing and allows relaxation, both mental and physical, to develop – the true benefits of meditation.

Idea 6 spring 2011

Why this is important to my research: 

The Science Daily article is extremely interesting and curious to me seeing as how my ideas started with children to adolescence to early adulthood in age progression.

Findings show; "Because children have fewer meaning-based experience records, they are less likely to form false memories," says Reyna. "But the law assumes children are more susceptible to false memories than adults." 

science daily:Children's Memory May Be More Reliable Than Adults' In Court Cases

"They say children depend more heavily on a part of the mind that records, "what actually happened," while adults depend more on another part of the mind that records, "the meaning of what happened." As a result, they say, adults are more susceptible to false memories, which can be extremely problematic in court cases."

\RECOVERED MEMORIES; Are They Reliable?

IDEA POST #7

Why I found this helpful in my research:
This radio podcast was very benifitial for furthur explaining and sparking more interest in memory retention, and memory in general. Although some of the comentary is far from what I am interested in the main thinking of memory and all that that may intail is what attracted  me to this information.

Also it is in a non visual form or information.  What I am looking for in my models/ individuals is non verbal all auditory retention, so that is another aditional tool this podcast has helped with.

Radio LAB

Memory and Forgetting

What is a memory? Science writer Jonah LehrerJoe LeDoux, who studies fear memories in rats, tells us how with a one shock, one tone, and one drug injection, you can bust up this piece of matter, and prevent a rat from every making a memory. LeDoux’s research goes sci-fi, when he and his colleague Karim Nader tells us is it’s a physical thing in the brain… not some ephemeral flash. It’s a concrete thing made of matter. And NYU neuroscientist start trying to erase memories. And Nader applies this research to humans suffering from PTSD.

Jonah Lehrer book: Proust Was a Neuroscientist

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Proust Was a Neuroscientist is a non-fiction book written by Jonah Lehrer, first published in 2007. In it, Lehrer argues that many 20th and 21st-century discoveries of neuroscience are actually re-discoveries of insights made earlier by various artists, including Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, Paul Cézanne, Igor Stravinsky, and, as mentioned in the title, Marcel Proust.

A Neurologist’s Notebook

The Abyss

Music and amnesia. 

by Oliver Sacks 

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_sacks#ixzz1FBw6Krym

Artist Lecture #2

The Department of Photography and Film and the Department of Kinetic Imaging present artist, Kathy Rose, whose work has evolved from her early drawn animated films of the 1970s, through her unique, pioneering performance work combining dance with film in the 1980-90s, to her current surreal performance video spectacles and installations, with influence from symbolist art and the Japanese Noh theater. Rose has received a Guggenheim in Performance Art in 2003, and in 2005 an awarded a New York State Council on the Arts grant in Video (Media & New Technology). In 2010 she was awarded a Faculty Enrichment Grant from The University of the Arts for creation of a new performance, Interiosity. 

ttp://www.krose.com/


Your work seems like it is addressing different topics that are hidden or mentioned in the gestures I would like to know more about the gestures chosen in the performance videos?


Someone asked specificly about the hand gestures she uses, that is somehting I was very interested in. She mentioned breifly that she has always been very gestural expressing what she is saying with her hands, and it just translates into her work.

 
Could you talk a little bit about the awards you have received in the past and how you have made some of the amazing accomplishments you have gotten?


Another person asked about how she specificly got so many grants and it came to a simple answer, Apply to a lot of different grants and sometimes ou get some and sometimes you don't.

Artist Lecture #1

http://www.christopherho.com/projects.php

"Part endurance art, part polemic, part experiment, 'License Plate Shed' is a yearlong sojourn in a remote mountain town, during which the artist, Hirsch E.P. Rothko, an anagram of Christopher K. Ho, disengaged from critical discourse, and lived and worked in a 700-square foot shed covered in license plates. The piece is one of three components of the 2010 solo exhibition 'Regional Painting' at Winkleman Gallery. The other two are a set of paintings made during the year and a ghostwritten account of the experience."


Interesting but I am curious to know more. it seems he is more a painter what was the point of the hut? was it isolation?
He talked breifly about living in Colorado in the hut, but it seemed more like it was an opportunity that was too good to pass up. A friend had it available and he decided to go for it. 


I wonder about the contact with the outside world? was it limited?
It seemed like their was no limited interaction when he was spending time in the license plate hut. With a little more explanation it seemse like that was just circumstantial and not as much apart of his work


Although he is a painter I am excited for his lectre and think there are things we can take from all artist I am curious particularly about his process with the living away and creating for that is somehting I am interested in exploring. 

idea 5 spring 2011

I stumbled upon this article while looking up meditation, recollection, and things that pertained to things like that

and found this to be interesting and different. I cant figure out if it is really out there or if it is reliable. Either way it is interesting even if it is a glorified opinion. 

no•et•ic sci•ences: A multidisciplinary field that brings objective scientific tools and techniques together with subjective inner knowing to study the full range of human experiences.

THE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF MEDITATION: A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH By Michael Murphy, Steven Donovan, and Eugene Taylor

http://media.wisdompractices.org/uploads/files/Meditation_Intro.pdf