Artists presentation...

I hope this has to deal with our inspiration for luminaria project.

i chose miranda July because of her corkiness and happy feeling she creates

Book interview

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final project

The objective of "tell ons" is to create a fun moment, by showing the viewer my own little crazy issues and attempts at live. Honestly is something to make the viewer laugh, my self laugh and have fun and not take life so seriously.

Tell Ons.

Who: Alyosha burkey
What: tell ons } “chosen one” “I fantasize” “dyson”…etc
What: screening
When:…open house sometime in late April
How: ….
Idea/Concept: “Tell ons” is a series of videos, which can be considered somewhat self-portrait or video diary. The content of these videos is light hearted and comical. They deal with short stories were I am telling on my self about some uncensored comments I make my ideas, infatuations and fantasies. I want the viewer to feel at home, like we are having a personal conversation or look into the life of Alyosha. “Tell ons” are meant to be fun and have fun with our own little dorkiness!

ann arbor film fest

The festival was an AMAZING experience. Clark and I watch a lot of videos that we really enjoyed and some that are questionable, but overall the experience was great. One of my favorite days was when we had the student showing. It was a good experience seeing what other students are making and what they used and their techniques. I think its good to see other film or video students and view what they are making with different backgrounds of study.

Clark and I missed the gala opening of the film fest but we made it in time to watch the first set of films being shown. I really enjoyed western spaghetti by Pes. What I enjoyed about the animation was the immense attention to detail and also the comical feel of it. Something so simple like making spaghetti and viewing it in a fun form makes it really exciting.

Dahlia by Michael Langan was another one of my favorites… pretty much the whole fest was great I have lots of faves. meeting new people and being able to experience it with classmates made it really fun.

When can we do it again?!?!?!

taking the train was cool, but after a few hours i start feeling claustrophobic, yet its pretty relaxing.

luminaria 2

"Get schooled" is video that is lighthearted but packs a punch on serious topics relating to art and it's importance or to some it's inimportance

luminaria

I think Luminaria was really good this year I believe it was a larger turn out than last.
People really enjoyed what us video kids had to offer. And making work that can be easily understood and viewer friendly . seeing people take Utah’s giveaway art and interacting with johns pieces made me feel really happy because people are letting their guard down and opening them selves to “new media” and checking out the goods. My parents really enjoyed it specially my mom and my dad took one of Utah’s videos, not sure if he has watched it yet…

On another note Sarah did an amazing job with the article before and after Luminaria. She makes us seem really hardcore. I like that!

I’m glad that we pulled a kick ass show that was a great with the “normal crowd”

Luminaria proposal

I have been really thinking about this project and I have had ideas come in and out of my head and trying to really do something that hints art and education and how it is truly needed in our public school. Weather it being art or music, being a band geek myself in my youthful years in grade school. So I would like to do some kind of mockery about what would happen if there were never arts involved in schools or something like that. Maybe a video relating to the importance the arts had on me as a child or what not. The work would probably be a single channel either projection or flat screen depending on what kind of space we have to work with.

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1st critique images

How ive been wanting to show case "tell ons"

i choose largely embellished frames because every household at least has one. so i want something relatable not only in the video but also in a physical way.

Self

In December of 2008 i was lucky enough to catch Pipilotti Rist's show at the MoMA.
I consider this work to be a self portrait not mainly because of the artist, but because of what she asks the viewer to do.

The work is made of seven projections, and its ten minutes long. The Panoramic projections measuring twenty-five feet in height and two hundred feet in length creating a fully integrated sensory experience filled with vivid colors and lush images of vegetation, fauna and human activity. A sculptural seating island designed by the artist and Atelier Rist Sisters accompanies the show. The seating is supposed to represent the iris of an eye. Underneath the seating is the audio,
which consists of abstract sound but also melodic tunes

Pipilotti in a way makes this installation interactive; as a viewer you are meant to interact with the couch and surroundings by taking your shoes off, walking on a plush carpet, laying on the couch, relaxing stretching out watching and listening to the video not only with your eyes, but with your legs, arms, and with your body while stretching out and rolling around, taking in the video and pouring your body out.

This instillation starts becoming about the viewer not in the sense of the imagery and such but in what Pipilotti asks us to do while viewing the work and we are experiencing it through our bodies or one self.

The First Project Proposal for 2009. YIKES

For my first project I would like to make a small series of comical self-portraits about 3-4 channels. Each video may be thirty seconds to one full minute long. The content of the video will deal with racial comments and lack of knowledge with the English language and life’s funny ways. My goal for this project is just to take a lighthearted side to my self-portraits and have fun and enjoy the funny yet controversial side of life, and maybe help others to not take themselves so seriously and shrug things of their shoulders and enjoy themselves.


feel good videos, yeah!

SKETCH SKETCHY

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(trying to figure out how to use builtin camera as a video cam. )

all ladies

Ian (be still) is very mesmerizing and calming and those are a few of the qualities that I really enjoyed about the piece. I also really enjoyed the colors in but mainly the work process that was put into this piece fascinates me. The way Joey takes a found image and makes it come alive is brilliant.

I also enjoyed Guillermina zabalas’ state of disunion. The quotes on the wall seemed to explain some of the frustration and angst in the video. But the mainly I see the work as if it were capturing a performance yet works very well as a video.

artist bio.

Sterling Alyosha Sade Burkey was born May 19 1987 in La Jolla California. She was born to a Mexican mother and an African American father. Burkey attended University of Texas san Antonio where she perused two Bachelors degrees in Fine Arts concentrating in video and Art history with a minor in Film Studies. Burkeys video work involves self portraits some relating with race identity and live experiences. She also works with experimental films and some live performances. Burkey has been in several video and photography group shows and one solo photography show in 2007.

Kristen's assignment

If I remember correctly Kristen’s assignment is where do we see our selves as artist in 10 15 years? I remember being asked a question similar to that my junior year in high school I believe the question asked where do I see my self in 5 years or so. I remember responding, “probably at a hardcore concert with my lip pierced!” I did the hardcore concert and the lip piercing but I only did it for a while and in high school days I remember thinking hardcore kid was going to be my way of life. Boy was I wrong.
Its been 5 years since that question and I am married, didn’t see that then and 1 semester away from graduating, in my high school days I actually thought I would end up just eazzing my way, and maybe prolong my college carrier and just live a care free life! So back to Kristen’s question, in a perfect world were everything we hope for and plan on happens I would say, I see my self as a well known movie editor it being indi films or major, and while doing that as a major source of income I would be also practicing my video skills it being self diaries VJ or instillations and be well known trough out the world. Better than Mathew barney and his pompous ass. But this is life and life likes to give us a few crazy curves so, my hopes in 15 years as and artist is to still have the skill, practice and talent to still call my self and artist.

Josh Assignment: uncomfortable

Before josh even proposed the assignment I had already encountered my uncomfortable moment. My then future to be sister in law planned my batchlorette party or extravaganza evening. She had a really nice evening planed out dinner and some kind of a bar hoping expiriance. I personally am not much of a bar/club goer not really my cup of tea, something about girls or single middle aged women wishing they were 20 again by wearing a 20 year old wardrobe doesn’t really rub my fancy. Anywho our fist stop was dinner, we had chachos… we hit up other spots till we got Swig north, never herd of it till I saw the sign that night. Well the club/bar is one of those kind that attracts all types of single women waiting to be taken and looking very desperately. By this time I have only had say two drinks not enough to get me sick, but a large amount of chahos king kong nachos and was not feeling very fresh, actually very sick to my stomach, on top of that I am feeling very uncomfortable in this bar because I feel that the ladies there think very mean things when you don’t look up to par to their style and “sluttiness” per say. Any who I get really sick, throwing up sick, at the bar and have to use the facilities several times to handle my issues on top of that having to deal with the stares of these women in the bathroom. I don’t think I’ve ever had a more uncomfortable moment than that. Women scare me specially the ones who try to hard and desperate.

i wouldn't mind having this.

Clark and I continuously oooozz about the Red One camera. Red one camera was founded in 2005 by Jim Jannard, founder of the Oakley company. The company's main product is the Red One, capable of recording at resolutions up to 4096 horizontal by 2304 vertical pixels, directly to flash or hard disk based digital storage. It’s a great camera that gives you really good HD “Industry” quality camera for a not so hefty price. At first consumers thought that red one camera would go for about $250k, but the RED site is saying $17,500 MSRP. Not to bed I think a good investment for UTSA. ^_^

hard candy

Hard candy.


A while back I, bout 3-4 weeks ago I watched a movie called hard candy with Ellen page. The movie was made back in ’05, and it’s about a 14-year old girl who meets up with a 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him. The movie is really intense but, it sortta kinda relates to what we’ve been talking about in class about the trolls and online predators. Besides the subject matter of the film the movie is very well made with its use of color, I like how it creates a mood by the color tonality and suspension I guess.

I enjoy the use of color in the film to make the viewer feel a certain type of emotion, or to make them feel uncomfortable. And I think that sort of technique can be used wisely in our video art.

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sorry i dint know or retain that we had to have the question in by sunday....

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