Interactive Media with Max - Student Work 2017

Sometimes you just need a lo-fi cartoon to tell you how it is.

You Crack Me Up Originally uploaded by nickwheeleroz 12 Eggs cracking simultaneously in slow motion http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=27504

Seattle Seafair Pirates Originally uploaded by Daffodilious http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=71571

Zombies! Originally uploaded by -Mainman- http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=40170

Ballerina Music Box Originally uploaded by Viola Nocte http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=19899

The red one has a little hat - the blue one is a little fat. Originally uploaded by *Corrie* http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=25879 A little sound for a fast image.

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A Random Sound Image: Mont St. Michel, Normandy, France Photographer: Anonymous A Geotagged Sound "Woman With A Parasol" by Aristide Maillol An Ambient Sound "Carnation, Lilly, Lilly, Rose" by John Singer Sargeant A Musical Sound Detail of Park Guell by Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi A Noise Sounds provided by www.freesound.org

In response to the difficulties with copyrighted material and its use in Digital Media, Stanford professor Dr. Lawrence Lessig founded the Creative Commons licensing system. He explains how it came about and why it addresses important issues in this video:

This is my first time to see this kind of animation, it’s so cool. The author displays lots of photographs to create a new story and motions. There are just simple idea and music, but it does interest me. Enjoy it…. you will find how simple idea and usual material make things look differently. by Wei-Hsuan Yang

Photoshop makes it possible that everyone can be a superstar (in pictures only). I really enjoy the Photoshop, but i only know very basic tools so far. Really want to know more about it.

I watched a Korean TV series in this summer, and surprisingly found that the leading actor used a cell phone with a build-in projector. It's a cool gadget and very useful if we wanna show videos and images in our phone to a group of friends. What's even cooler is a mid-air projector which I knew from Mr. Brain, a Japanese drama. Images can be shown on a layer of mist. Unbelievable!

I think it is interesting and pretty real. Is your daily life like that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnANjdReAlY The video is a glimpse of ancient Indian architecture. There are a series of videos in YouTube for those that are interested. Some of the narration in the videos about the temples built by Raja Raja are inaccurate because in the introduction the video shows temples built by other kings but narrated as built by Raja Raja! Other than that this video and its series is a masterpiece to know about Temples of India. -Suresh

Virgil Wong > Installations and Net Art > PhineasMap

2 motion designers, Wolfgang Jaiser and Claus Winter, created this piece as part of an online animation competition. (and won)

natalie portman's shaved head - sophisticated side ponytail from thatgo on Vimeo .

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VishwanathTempleNandiMandap Originally uploaded by yemsuresh09 One of the Temples from Khajurao

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Flammarion Woodcut Originally uploaded by Esme Design Discovering new possibilities.

DSCF0947 Originally uploaded by Nick Corrao The roof and light in the courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery made it feel like a larger than life diorama.

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Petra, early morning Originally uploaded by gatorwade3 this is from my trip to the ancient Nabataean city of Petra, in the country Jordan.

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lollipop Originally uploaded by Wendy Allen Brunner This photo of my daughter Bella looks like it could be from a horror movie, doesn't it?

9 Originally uploaded by PengQiu Here is the pic that I took in Shanghai.

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Hey guys this is Ernesto, I wanted to post something interesting, didnt think that just cuz the class is over i shouldnt share it. Its a pretty interesting way of giving the closing thoughts of mine on a class based on a rapidly changing culture. This video, in a sense, can be a testament to that...even without a specific reference to the digital revolution. see you guys around!

Ash Wednesday maps Eliot's escape from the spiritual void. In this work the poem is recited over the consistent rhythm of life punctuated by an aural competition between representations of the sacred and the profane. http://www.box.net/shared/grp2eqe9k5

Getting closer to the idea....

Donna Nice presentation. Glad your study went well. 9/10 Arin font creator Great job with the font 9/10 Tiva website Really nice website, which puts mine to shame. Good job. A little hard to see the font from the bars., but like I said, overall good job. 10/10 Nate machinima Really good Machinima video. 10/10 collins blender nice job with the blender. Great job with the texturing of the trees. Mario cart area looked goo. 8/10 kubina Not a bad video. Good special effects. Buzzing in background was getting annoying. 8/10 Matt Synnergy and DVD Looks like a good dvd (nice extras and scene selection). Synnergy looks nice. Camera shakes a little too much (but not too bad considering it is an iphone). techtipstonight.blogspot.com 10/10 Diego video not a bad movie. The beginning seemed spastic, but it was still entertaining. Also nice job explaining, the pd (hopefully you will finish it next time). 9/10 Nicola java powerpoint, and deaf and blind fcat, video not a bad websi...

Alan kay's article "User Interface". Specified the idea, that once again, the medium is the messenger. He also specified that the interface is intertwined with learning, meaning that it would be learned over steps in time, with each step bringing on a stronger idea of itself. An example he uses is: doing with images makes symbols. This roughly translates to how doing something (with the mouse) can interact with the images (icons) which interacts with each other. This breakdown helps create a better understanding with how it all works.

I started to read the article Information Nomads and Community Surfing and was about to switch to a different topic. The first part seemed very technical and I wasn't retaining much of the information. I was thinking 12 more pages like this, no thank you. As I continued on a bit more the article started to pique my interest. It was talking about countries such as China, Burma and others censoring what is viewed and said on the internet and other media outlets. I knew that there where these types of situations going on but I haven't read too much about it. I also haven't searched out to read more about it. I was shocked that lives were actually being lost over this issue. I started to feel very sorry for the citizens of those nations. I was even thinking about the 'ole “It's great to be an American.” I was thinking that here in America, thank god we are so free to say and distribute whatever we want, with little to no limitations. Then I got to the part of the articl...

So for my final blog in this class I wanted to discuss the negative aspects of Digital Culture. Recently My friend started asking all of us for money to fly to Vegas to support his poker habit via facebook and AIM(AOL Instant Messenger). I said no and was pretty pissed that this was the first conversation I had with this kid in over two years. No more that a week later my AIM account was hacked. I received notifications that I changed my password via my blackberry but since I haven't used AIM in years I figured it had something to do with the recent closing of AOL Pictures. The next morning I awoke to a ton of text messages saying my account was hacked or if I really needed money I should have just asked over the phone or in person. Needless to say I was a little upset! I began to search for ways to reset my password but the hacker change the e-mail on the account and the security question so I had no way of recovering it. When they would approach my friends online, they used my ...

As I read the article in Floss, I realized that the evolution of the internet has mostly worked to allow the free passage of knowledge around the world. As much as businesses have tried to snuff out open source software and have tried to limit the passage of movies and music, new ways of circumventing "the man" have sprung up. Napster was replaced by limewire, then limewire replaced by bearshare, then kazaa, then BitTorrent. The internet has even dealt a harsh blow to the porn industry because everyone gets it for free. The internet itself is the greatest marketplace with the largest audience in the world, and while companies are attempting to resist the free wave, evolution is pointing the beast in the path of open source software and free transmission of knowledge.

Artists and Free Software—From FLOSS +Art After reading this article, I realized I was facing a conundrum. Take my own final machinima project for example. While I used some free tools to create my movie, the fundamental material and primary medium is actually World of Warcraft, a proprietary software program. This made me to start thinking about how this ultimately affects my film as a work of art. Obviously I used music and pretty images and spliced it all together to form a cohesive whole that told a story. I conveyed emotion and visual and audible stimulation through my work. However, the fact that it would not have been possible without the use of proprietary software bugs me. Isn’t the primary message of my piece not the emotions I tried to convey—but instead an advertisement for World of Warcraft? If that’s the case, then my machinima is no more a work of art than the tray liners at Burger King…Then I began to think more philosophically. How does the issue of proprietary tools a...

Sorry... couldn't help the title... Also so sorry I can't be in G'ville to see everyone's final presentations! Some fascinating work you all are doing!! I am attending the AEJMC (Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications) conference in Boston where SO much of the discussion and research is about new media and the way digital technologies are changing not just the NEWS, but our lives. Which leads me to my final blog post for this class. Pat requested we read a piece of FLOSS+Art and offer our comments. I read the chapter "Generous Practices: A Fictional Conversation, Based on Emails, Physical Encounters,IRC and a Skype session" by Femke Snelting. I found it of particular interest because it offered a perspective of copyright, copyleft, Creative Commons, and collaboration from the artists perspective. It's such an interesting dilemma as artists deserve to be compensated for their creative contributions, and perhaps if the system th...

Since a couple people asked me about it after class I figured I might as well make a post with some resources for anyone interested in learning CSS. Also upon sitting down after presenting I feel like I ended up not saying any of the things I meant to so I'm just gonna get it out here. First, here's a hacked-down version of the site (basically it's the same thing just none of the image links work because the gallery is 50mb and plaza only gives you 20). Although the content's missing, you can take a look at the code if you want to see how I achieved any of the effects: http://plaza.ufl.edu/shojo/ I built the site just with a plain text editor and my browser, starting yesterday in class and put the finishing touches on it this morning (on the flip side I spent about a week finding, processing and sorting all the images for the gallery). It's really a lot simpler than you might think, once you take a look at CSS markup there's a good chance you'll end up smack...

You see video and you hear audio. But have you ever seen sound, or heard video? This is the concept of synaesthesia, where constant stimulation of one sense can lead it to become intertwined with sensory responses to another sense. Some people (though an extremely few amount) say they associate a certain smell when they see a color, or a slight tone when they see a certain image. It's an extremely interesting phenomenon that can be used in digital media or any kind of media for an incredible effect. Most of us have probably never experienced it before, but in a small sense you could say synaesthetic elements have been around and experienced for a long time. Music videos all have images that correspond to a certain sound (such as a dance move to a certain beat), and if the same movement keeps being interconnected to the same sound, your brain will begin to correspond that sound to that visual moment. Though not a complete synaesthetic experience in the phenomenon sense, some music...

Matt 1st project- This was obviously a very hard task to accomplish, becuase Pat stated that they had been trying to do this for awhile. You are very knowlegable about computers and wish you could make some more tutorial videos. 9-10/10 Donna Davis- Well researched project. The surveys that you took, and the data gave your project more credibility. While listening to your hypothesis I realized that I was always on the opposite end of what you thought. The Thriller dance at the end was enjoyable and kind of funny, I enjoyed your presentation.9/10 A Way With Words- The font you created was very creative, nice video, very smooth and to the point. Wish you could have showed a little more of the font because we only got glimpses of it but from what I saw, it was a nice font. 8/10 Css website- Great website design, I have been trying to work on my navigation bar with css but I have no understanding of it. Maybe you can teach me it sometime, or tell me how you learned to use it so well, like ...

In reading the chapter from FLOSS+Artbook, "The Creative Commons Misunderstanding", I find myself discouraged at the parting of ways between the leaders of the CC movement and the Open Source movement because it would seem that they have the same aim. Like everything else with a political angle, it would seem to come down to semantics and rhetoric. The Open Source/GNU GPL faction would like to see changes in the CC licensing wording to more clearly define what is allowed usage and to promote true sharing for remixing rather than what the GNU GPL guys see as basically the same as the copyright restrictions in place now under standard copyright law. The open source faction would like to see more rights for the consumer and less control on the part of the copyright holder, or "producer". Art has always been exempt from many of the legal norms regarding copyright and the creation of digital products could be viewed as akin to the productio of art. I think it all boils ...

Copyright is for Copying was the most interesting title to me because I know what copyrights are but I didn't really know the exact laws. According to law if you take a small piece of music from someone else and used it in a song of your own you are breaking the law. This came to a shock to me because I was under the impression that you could copy an entire song but if you changed the chorus or a couple of the words then you are not copyrighting. I am very glad that I read this reading becuase it taught me a lot about copyrighting and the way my mind was set was in a copyrighting way, so I enjoyed this reading.

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For the FLOSS+Art reading I chose the chapter by Michael can Shaik on "The Shrink Wrapped Design Process." Shaik, a trained designer from the Netherlands, explores the restrictions that designers place on themselves. Adobe has such a monopoly over the design software business that they just bought their only competitor (Macromedia) and Adobe is usually the only program taught to design students. Shaik says this is detrimental because designers are not using computers to their full potential. They are working in artifical workspaces created by a software company. They stick to what they know: design. It is the programmers job to figure out how things work. By making the computer speak "human" with webpages that look like paghes of paper with previous and next buttons and icons with actual folders on them, we restrict ourselves.

Utopias and dystopias. Both have been covered extensively by several forms of media; from Sir Thomas More’s iconic novel Utopia to Nine Inch Nails’ grim vision of a future world in their album Year Zero. The wide variety of media dedicated to a vision of our world in the near future hints at our obsession of learning where our technologies and our tendencies will lead us. And though there are various similarities between all the futuristic forms of media, particularly movies, there are vast differences in the way most authors believe technology will affect humanity. This is why it was so fascinating to watch Blade Runner, it captures that permanent unease that so many people feel when technology seems to advance beyond our control. It does not condemn digital advancements, but it certainly does not praise them either; rather, it lets the viewer see a tale of a unique vision of our world and make their own decision about the dangers and possibilities of an exponentially growing digital ...

I think the film touches upon several different things that are important in cinema. Namely, the cultural impact and the exploration of a new theme. Now, in 1982 the futuristic theme in movies was not completely new, but Blade runner creates almost a 'film-Noir" backdrop for the whole story, something used in many other science fiction movies for years to come. As far as the Cultural impact is concerned, this movie (although not wide accepted at its release) became a "cult-classic in american cinematography, and with good reason. The film indirectly presents an innate human fear that is wrapped around the bleakness of the future. The dark and somber skyline in the intro for example, sets a tone almost: this is a decrepit future, one that in the 1980's would horrify the average person. I really appreciate this though, because it is a cultural jewel, holding a historical imprint almost of the kind of thoughts artists and cinematographers of that time period were project...

Blade Runner holds a legacy in the realm of futuristic sci-fi movies with a philosophical twist. Taking place in the city of Los Angeles, the plot involves the hunting down of artificial beings known as replicants. These replicants are very much like a human, almost physically indistinguishable without special detectors apart from their blunted emotional capacity in certain situations. Regardless of the ability to feel, these replicants have ventured to Earth in hopes of finding their maker to figure out a way to live longer. The setting of the movie is somewhat gloomy and difficult to navigate as the city is cluttered with various forms of media and advertising. Appearing full of technology and digitized substance, it would seem likewise that replicants would be part of this environment quite easily. However, that is not the case as they were banned from earth awhile back. As a matter of fact, the small team of replicants that have arrived on Earth are at risk for being tracked down a...

> I had heard of “Blade Runner” before, but really had no preconceived ideas of how it was or even who was in it. I was unaware of the 1982 movie’s Oscar nominations or cult-like following that seems to still be around today. From doing a bit of research online, I ran into many discussions on the original film with Harrison Ford’s narration versus the new 2007 version. Students in cinematography class dissecting each scene: the characters and dialogue. A multitude of newspaper reviews, all respectful of the vision but quick to point out the lags in plot and inconsistent explanations and motives behind the story. As a first-time viewer, I had to really dig to figure everything out and piece together some meaning. As many online, student-reviewers have suggested, it may get better watching it a second time. > I did try to condition myself to look out for certain themes or motifs that we have discussed in class and came up with a few. In this futuristic landscape that is crowed,...

I remember watching "Blade Runner" when it came out and not really "getting it". I saw it again seven years later in college and it quickly became one of those films that I not only got, but couldn't get enough of and I found myself a goddess among my cyberpunk friends and BBS-mates when I got my hands on a bootleg copy of the director's cut in 1992 which we watched at a party in a fervor of geekiness and the knowledge that we were somehow cooler than everyone else who thought it was just a film about a guy who hunted robots and then fell in love with one. I'm pretty sure my ex-husband figured he had "scored" in some small way when he managed to put that old bootlegged tape in one of his boxes as we parted ways. What strikes me now, having recently watched it again, is the L.A. noir element that shines through in Ridley Scott's dark cinematic style. On the surface, it is a Chandleresque tale of a burnt out cop "just doing his job"...

Damn it, you don't get it. Rick Deckard WAS an android...insofar that Philip K. Dick's view of humanity was essentially sympathetic and hopeful. In other words, Deckard WAS the quintessentially obedient electric sheep, programmed for a task no essentially empathetic human could, or should be asked to perform. Dick thus symbolically elevates the idea of humanity as he transfers the propensity for inhumanity onto the (inhuman) androids. Don't think for a minute that "the blood of the lamb" wasn't a concept in play here. Further, Mercerism (read: Messiah) and the empathy box are prescient metaphors for an online society in need of some form of mutual fulfillment, for what it's worth. Was the place pretty? No. Was the place peaceful? A war had just ended. Was the place happy? Ultimately, in the book, yes.

I found a nifty concept web tool that is online and free. It's called bubbl.us and it is really easy to use. I'm currently working on an online course on the RTS game Star Craft. It is a course that I want to eventually get implemented and will be a huge project. I've used this concept web to attempt to connect 21st Century Skills/Objectives, with my specific course/module goals. I found it extremely interesting that I can embed my web in a blog post. (Note, in the processing, it seems to have messed up a few of the bubbles. I'll have to look into that)

Soler completely grasps the concept of the Art, encompassing every aspect and category of the mastery. As a graphic artist, pursuit, perseverance, and investigation of the arts is key to producing a masterpiece. In making flyers, investigation of the competitions' techniques (sort of like a teacher-student relationship) can be beneficial to your own productions. pursuit of certain, and various styles (and toying with them) also add to the value of your labor, and the perseverance of the craft will greatly reward you in the long run, while at the same time, sending the customer to another dimension like a fantasy. As Woolf describes, art [and multimedia] is a constant development of technology; an adaptation of the culmination of thoughts previously expressed in the visual sense.

I'm going to be completely honest and say that I am the kind of person who enjoys no-brainer, fluffy, lighthearted movies. So when I started to watch Blade Runner, I really expected no more than that. The deepest I believe the plot could have gotten would be one similar to a Minority Report-type film. But no... it was much , much deeper than that. And I was certainly impressed. I am glad we were given the assignment to watch this movie, because this is a very unique one indeed. In my opinion, this movie had nothing to do with the special effects, with the graphic depictions, with the villain chasing after the hero, or with the whole Deckard as a human/Replicant trivia. To me, this film was one that really triggers your mind and makes you think about life. Here's the link to my paper: http://plaza.ufl.edu/k.lee15/kevina_bldrnr.doc

My review is too long for a blog post so I'm linking the document. http://plaza.ufl.edu/imatt711/What%20makes%20us%20human%20-%20Matt%20Gerstman.doc

I'll begin this review with one of my favorite quotes of all time. Roy speaks this soliloquy to Deckard in the rain at the end of the movie. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die" Whereas many dystopian and futuristic films tend to portray the future as homogenous and sterile, Blade Runner portrays a much different world. In a way that embodies digital culture, the film draws from a wide range of materials as a palate to create a dark and brooding environment. Akin to today’s ability to use the Internet to quickly assemble many different elements to form a cohesive whole and to William Burrough’s cut-up method, Blade Runner is a mish-mash of many different elements that work together to produce a film worthy of its cult status. Drawing from the omniscient and often threatenin...

Crispin Glover at his usual, eccentric best. For those that don't know who Crispin Glover is, he played Michael J. Fox's dad in the Back to the Future movies, as well as countless other more significant roles in a bunch of movies that didn't quite get the fame they deserved. I love how dramatic he makes this short reading. It's only a couple lines but he can make them so memorable just by the nervous pitch in his voice and how strangely he treats the whole thing. Notice how much he hangs on each word he pronounces, as if every word had several meanings. This "Little Miss Muffet" story is hardly significant on its own, and yet the delivery seems to alter it tremendously. This is the same reason why Morgan Freeman is chosen to narrate almost every documentary; he just simply makes the story more compelling. Storytelling can definitely be more impacting when each word and sentence in a literary story is given the most meaning and importance possible.

In the chapter I read last night, Live coding allows the user to view items (pictures/sound)in real time. As shown in class, programs like pd and supercollider allow the user to create video animations and editing that would create 5 times as long to do in programs like photoshop. As shown also in class, items such as pd allow for greater flexibility (if you know how to program in it) over paying programs such as supercollider. Another important factor of the program is how the user wants the program to run: either hot-swapping, temporal recursion, or even state injection. Overall, the ability to create a changing program that doesn't disrupt the output when you are doing so, will have major impacts in not only the music industry, but I believe the entire world in whole.

I found Copyright is for Copying to be an excellent read. I really liked the point about how copyright was intended to be used to prevent copying of entire works and then selling them. This is not what copyright is being used for today. It is being used to stop those who freely distribute copyrighted works. Also it is being used to make appropriation more difficult. If i take a 4 second sample of a song and use it in a 3 minute song of my own, am I stealing? According to current copyright law I better be prepared to pay or yes I am. One student ended up paying $675k for sharing a few songs online. This is utter garbage. At most the infringer should pay $20 a song well above the value of them but well below bankruptcy.

That worked out so well I'm emboldened enough to post the remaining compositions just for the sake of doing it. Box.net is the holding site enabling URL links to uploaded files. . .again, Box is a trial relationship....please vote via responses for your favorite audio file...such as they are.... http://www.box.net/shared/j3az01lja0 http://www.box.net/shared/n3ozxx1yzn http://www.box.net/shared/f13f7xneh8 http://www.box.net/shared/a6076abu5x Thanks

Finally, by establishing a folder in a holding site I may be able to share my weak efforts to compose sound intended to accompany a gestating video. Quick time won't do crap without the upgrade to "Pro"....there's no icon specific to "audio" on this posting template....the "layout" tab is hidden here... and the headphones are giving me a midi head ache. Although, I must say, despite their ultimate purchase requirement, "directmidi2mp3" has been great. http://www.box.net/shared/54zoqmrgc0

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After we talked about the shoes video and the effects of a small and underproduced video that effects video culture, I remembered watching this. Pork and Beans How many meme's can you name? Note: sorry the embedded function was disabled, so had to post link.

In 1982 Bill Viola posed the question "Will there be condominiums in data space?" Of course he also concluded his discourse with "Today, development of self must precede development of the technology or we will go nowhere -- there will be condominiums in data space (it has already begun with cable TV). Applications of tools are only reflections of the users -- chopsticks may be a simple eating utensil or a weapon, depending on who uses them" (p. 298). Just imagine if he'd experienced Second Life!? The condominiums in data space he discussed aren't just the literal condos we "rent" in the virtual world -- ok, so I'm a land baron -- but, it's all the data we store on our hard drives, jump drives, data inventories, and online through our websites, blogs, forums, social networking sites, Twitter, Flickr, etc., that create the stories and the memories of our experience and of our cultures. As he said, we are no longer the observers, we are no...

It's amazing how prolific Dane Rudhyar was throughout his career. He seemed to gather momentum with his writings in the later years of his life. He was obviously brilliant, graduating from the University of Paris at the age of 16. Reading about Rudhyar, I just pictured his days being filled with thoughts always consuming his head, where he couldn't put them down on paper fast enough. He seemed to have great knowledge of many different areas of study and interest with key ones being: astrology, writing, painting/drawing and music. When researching Rudhyar I became most interested in his drawings and paintings. http://www.khaldea.com/rudhyar/cradledone.shtml I enjoy his soft use of vibrant colors and the relationship his geometric shapes have with one another. I am not normally a big fan of ambiguous art like his, but I rather enjoyed his paintings. I think of them as a mix between the hard lines and geometric shapes of cubism, but having the color and shadows of a Salvador Dali ...

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In looking to find out more about Robert Rauschenberg, I came across this interviewing explaining one of his more famous, and controversial works, "Erased de Kooning". Willem de Kooning was perhaps the most famous and influential abstract expressionists in the early 1950s. Rauschenberg was interested in trying to represent drawing in an all-white space so he started erasing his own drawings. He determined that it wouldn't matter or make a statement because his drawings were nothing at the time. He concluded that "It had to start as art" before he could erase it to make new art so he bought a bottle of Jack Daniels, gathered his courage, and went to de Kooning's home. de Kooning surprised Rauschenber, and the art world, by supporting the project and giving him drawings to erase. It took him roughly a month and several erasers to create his "new" work which was viewed by many as simple vandalism and as a protest against abstract expressionism by othe...

I figured we'd want to start a discussion for when to do our presentations. I figured we could start Friday during normal class hours and then finish up around 2. I think everyone should all respond in the comments with our thoughts. Remember if you don't use your voice you have no right to complain about the schedule after it's made.