your body will remember

Your Body Will Remember
2010

attackoftheflapjack

attack of the flapjack from liz greeen on Vimeo.

attackoftheflapjack
2009?

Doyouwantit v6
liz greeen
2010

everything

Everything, 2010

big book update

The book is getting big.

dinoaur

THANK YOU
THANK YOU
THANK YOU


He has saved you from the redundancy and tedium of conventional recycling and skipped all the erroneous steps - plastic, returned to its original jurrasic form.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

human/flavors

"Kanon Gallery presents a group show of humans choosing the best combination of flavors. The three artists featured use painting, sculpture, and photography to investigate the body, art, and that between art and bodies."

Artist Notebook

Today, I moved all of my "artist notebook" entries to their own blog.

Artist Notebook.


I think this works much better!

When you start to type in a google search, how often does it complete your phrase when you've only typed a few words?

Does it freak you out?

Should it freak you out?

BIG BOOK PROJECT
9.10.2010
29 signatures=145 11x17 sheets=290 pages

1.5" of 5'9" folded. :] Now just... more folding, more folding. Binding and more binding.

Like all artists, I want to create something bigger than myself.

it's okay for art to be pretty

It is, I really believe it.

Today I :

Medical Simulation Models

This is my favorite kind of creepy. :]

Thanks to Ally for the link.

Brain Pixel

brain pixel from liz greeen on Vimeo.

My final video work of the last two semesters - soon, more! Making these is really slow.

Some credits - the whale and chicken rotoscopy is done from stock footage from Getty and the cat is from footage by Dmitrius K Obergfel. This was silent up until Stephan Herrera awesomely worked together a soundtrack for it - I think the entire mood of the piece is changed and improved by this, and honestly I would never have considered it finished without his hard work.

Don't you know?

Haha. Heh.


I feel like it's redundant to explain text-based art, but maybe the sarcasm here isn't exactly obvious.
Working at Whole Foods, especially, I am growingly aware of how organics and recycling are new forms of conspicuous consumption. I feel that in a way, the eco-consciesness movement has lost a lot of heart, or more specifically, lost a lot of direction. The green movement can do a lot to better the world, indeed, but it realistically has become an extension of the market instead of a pragmatic solution to the very real problem of global pollution (plastics most especially).

Point being - the world will not be saved by artists ironing together plastic bags to make art, or recycling plastic cups, nor by buying new "green" reusable objects, or buying anything, really. Sustainability is not achievable through MORE consumption - a paradigm shift needs to take place in which individuals are aware of how to make what they need in order to live, so as to avoid the unnecessary production of useless disposable junk.

Wanted:

Human sketchbook.

also,

I have been making some little things..




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artist assisting

Been working with John Mcenroe to fill ten thousand glass tubes with polyeurathane resin for an installation by Donald Lipski.


It has been pretty fucking awesome.

Masahiro Mori

After seeing this graph a few years ago [thanks James!] I began to pay more attention to the level of comfort people feel around different kinds of figure-based art. Seeing Kiki Smith's Lilith at the sf moma last summer made it clear to me that seeing a life sized figure in person has an entirely different visceral impact than seeing it in photographs.

The uncanny valley graph, described by Masahiro Mori, illustrates the phenomenon of being creeped out by robots and other humanlike objects. This something that I have since been really interesting in exploiting. His book, the Buddha in the Robot, has subsequently blown my mind.










This particular page made me think pretty hard about what I'm planning on doing with an art degree. In the last year, I have focused mostly on building experimental cameras and figuring out the slow process of digital rotoscoping. This has been fun and rewarding. I have learned a lot about photography and animation, but it has been slow and hasn't ended with an incredible quantity of work. In short, building my own art implements has involved a lot of failures and a lot of wondering what the point is. I guess realistically, the processes I enjoy for making images aren't totally congruent with 'gallery art' - for a while this was a bit distressing [because that is what I'm going to school for, pretty much] but after reading Mori's ideas, I feel like this kind of art is really necessary in today's art world. The idea that our work will outlive us! In a way this is a goal and a fear of many artists. We all know the story of the artist who lived his whole life completely unrecognized, gaining appreciation only after death. The idea that the engineer or inventor could have the explicit goal of creating things purely to benefit future generations is so admirable - I wonder if Leonardo da Vinci would have ever thought that his unfinished inventions would be built centuries later on television.







Here - an example. This is me using my scanner camera, comprised of a shopping cart, pre-y2k computer, scanner, and brownie camera body. This image is a bit of a reference to Joel Peter Witkin, who I'd just met, and Sally Mann, who is a badass for using such cool big old cameras and doing wet plate photography.











Here are a few images from the scannercamera. There are quite a few, but these show some of the more interesting effects of the process..















Very few colors make it through the scan. These were all taken in color more, but appear mostly monochrome/grayscale.















Motion is distorted as the exposure takes place from one side of the picture to the other - as opposed to all at once, as with a traditional camera. Also the white blur in the center is an area of intense overexposure. This is the opposite of photo paper, interestingly enough, in that too much light on paper creates black in stead of white. This may well mean that the scannercamera image is black by default.

I made some things today, this is one of them.
Part of a body of mail art for a January show at Abecedarian Gallery. :]

Howdy blogger, I'm Liz.

I like art.


More to come.