Dearest Alyson...

My story is called "Mid-Day Reminiscence"

That's all.

Recreation of a piece

Original Photograph (by Jeff Busby):

Video Recreation:

Alex Bag

Born in New York city, Alex Bag is a female video artist. In her videos she always acts out an ironic situation. She uses irony as her trademark. Another trademark of hers is to adopt doll personaes and create paradoies in the doll world. She also uses pop culture vernacular in the dialogue in her videos.

The costumes and outfits in Alex Bag's peices are enough to make you laugh. The pieces as a whole are humorous and the dialouge makes you laugh at the piece as well as yourself. The only problem I have with her work is how hard it is to find! It was extremely difficult to find a tiny biography on Alex Bag and finding examples of her pieces were just as frustrating.

Vito Acconci

Unlike the artists we've researched, Vito works mainly in landscaping, architecture, and installations. He was an immigrant who started working as a poet. He later became a video artist and a performance artist using his body as the subjeect of his photographs and films. Most recently, Vito takes over public spaces and makes them into his works of art. He invites viewers in by activiating machinery around them. Some of his works of art involve pornographic subjects being shouted over a loud speaker to passersby. I won't talk about those pieces... Vito also spent time teaching in many colleges around the country.

I find it hard to respect the work of a man who lays under a bridge, masturbating, and shouting out who pleasures him to that very person as they pass by. His sculptures are very interesting and well-crafted and I think his work is public spaces is brilliant. I love what he does when he takes over a public space without telling anyone he's going to do so and he makes the space his work of art by covering it in a material, etc. I try hard to overlook the masturbating piece, but it's hard to ignore that fact and I think that makes me look at his other pieces with a different, frustrated angle.

Paul Pfeiffer

Paul Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu but was raised in the Philippines. Very into technology, Pfeiffer uses computers to edit his videos, photography, and even his sculptures. For a lot of his videos, he will take footage from sporting events such as boxing, basketball, and hockey, and will digitally remove the players from the game and place them in different settings to create a new piece of art. Pfeiffer plays these pieces on mini LCD screens which forces the viewer to concentrate on the piece and really use their imagination. Some of Paul's pieces use computer-generated scenes that recreate Hollywood's most famous horror films such as "the Exrocist" and "Poltergeist."

The reason Paul's work really keeps me interested is because it makes you think about man's transformation and new dependency on technology. Years ago, we weren't like this, but as man has progressed we're become more and more dependent on the technologies available. I believe this is what Paul's work is trying to point out, and that's why it interests me.