Week 5- Science and reason- Video art by Pipilotti Rist

Week 5- Science and reason- Video art by Pipilotti Rist

Pipilotti Rist's video art- how can we link this to science and reason?

 

Still from 'Ever is Over All' (1997)

1. Define the 17th century 'Scientific Revolution', and say how it changed European thought and world view. 

Historic change in the seventeenth century was a period in Europe,, on science and natural practice.People began active efforts to explore that, so as to lay the foundation for today's European science.

2. Give examples of how we can we still see evidence of the 'Scientific Revolution' in the world today.

Science to me is essential we are today, we can almost see science everywhere, whether in live, learn, work them.The practice of science today's society makes to create experimental.

Research Pipilotti Rist's video installations to answer the following;

3. From your research, do you think that the contemporary art world values art work

that uses new media/technology over traditional media?

I think the new advertising media is no substitute for the traditional media is being gradually banned.

4. How has Pipilotti Rist used new media/technology to enhance the audience's experience of her work.

Pipilotti Rist application of some of the ways music video, which is her personal style.Application of multiple television monitors to visit the people to bring very good visual effects, and thus to the role of commercial promotion.

5. Comment on how the installation, sound and scale of 'Ever is Over All' (1997) could impact on the audience's experience of the work.

Ever Is Over (1997) All envelops viewers in two slow-motion projections on adjacent walls. In one a roving camera focuses on red flowers in a field of lush vegetation. The spellbinding lull this imagery creates harmonizes with the projection to its left, which features a woman in sparkling ruby slippers promenading down a car-lined street. The fluidity of both scenes is disrupted when the woman violently smashes a row of car windshields with the long-stemmed flower she carries. As the vandal gains momentum with each gleeful strike of her wand, an approaching police officer smiles in approval, introducing comic tension into this whimsical and anarchistic scene.

6. Comment on the notion of 'reason' within the content of the video. Is the woman's behaviour reasonable or unreasonable?

I think the rational and irrational practices of women from different angles to define. In today's rule of law, smashing the windows for a woman of such acts is completely unrecognized.  But we also need to make clear that this behavior is a woman out of what state of mind, and spirit, or a woman would like to express to us what.

7. Comment on your 'reading' (understanding) of the work by discussion the aesthetic (look), experience and the ideologies (ideas, theories) of the work.

I like this artistic expression of her, she told us that she did not fully express what they think, to read his works, I think I need to combine the background music, the visual display to the association, giving unlimited imagination.

Reference：

http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=81191 

http://www.pipilottirist.net/moss.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJgiSyCr6BY