It is a website about different designs of words. Words can be beatuiful if you put them in the right design. It seems like a common thing, but most people never thought simple letters can be so beatuiful.
I put the three pages into a RAR page, and here is the link:
Word website
Willy Le Maitre
http://www.w—-e.net
Willy Le Maitre is an artist who does media works like Edia, which is a real-time narrated media presentation displayed in stereographic format. The works he did are most based on pictures and videos from real life. Some images may even look similar to some viewers. The topics behind his work are never clear, but it may just be what he wants. When people view his work, they will try to understand the deep meaning behind it. It makes their brain think.
Willy Le Maitre is not an old man, but he has been doing media art works since 1988. Now, he is doing what he loved for living. He has been oriented to video as a live form that has served as a pivot point in collaborations between himself, musicians, writers, and visual artists. Currently based in Toronto. His work has received numerous grants and awards, and LIFE 3.0 competition for artificial life artworks in Madrid is one of them, and also The Telefilm Canada prize at the Images Festival of Independent Film, 2000, Toronto.His work has been presented in many places, like The New Museum, the Kitchen, FIMA in Victoriaville Quebec, ICMC in Banff, Canada, and ISEA.
Edia is a real-time narrated media presentation that takes the viewer through seven sections of three-dimensional scenes displayed in stereographic format. The viewer is immersed in Edia; a seeing, hearing, thinking, remembering entity comprised of a network of friends. The network in Edia has a molecular quality; its bonds of audiovisual sequences are both memory and links to the possible in sequences of event. It is an entity that distributes the self in a constellation of points around the globe. The points are personified by ‘friends’ in dialog. From it’s perspective on the surface, Edia imagines and discusses what is inside and outside of it. The entity’s interconnected points can fluidly scale to encompass vast dimensions in time and space. Edia’s molecular constitution is bonded by audiovisual channels that are both it’s memory and links to the possible in sequences of event. It’s amalgamations of inter subjective perspective visualize reality as an artifact of communication.
When I viewed his work, I didn’t have a strong 3D feel as I thought I was going to have when I put on the 3D glasses, but I really like the idea behind his work. One of the works he showed was a football field rounded up into an earth. The idea is to make the view feel like being surround by what is around them. Although I did have the feel he wanted the viewer to feel, I can still understand his meaning very well. It is a feeling which people usually feel when they are standing in an open space. I guess the 3D effect wasn’t strong enough to create the open space feeling, but it showed the idea well.
I grouped up with Yula and Huan for this project. We took about 6 videos, and chose 4 that mach the topics the most. I felt fun in this project, because we got to walk around instead of sitting in a chair. Now a day, people need as much work out as passable.
It is very cold outside, so we try to stay in most of the time. I really had fun in the last video. My group was outside of the North building’s front door, deciding where to go next. We noticed that another group was also talking on the other side of the ride, and that is where we decided what we will put on our last video.
Here are the 4 videos for my project:
1. A performed gesture using the color orange
2. A very public space rarely seen
3. A very public space
4. An edge zone: the zone where a secure area abuts an area that is not secure.
Daniel Canogar was born in Madrid in 1964. He then stayed in Madrid and works there. He went to Complutense University to study visual communications, and received Master’s in photography from NYU/ICP in 1990.
Daniel Canogar is an artist who uses a mutl-projecttion system to do his work. The system uses fiber optic cables as the base to create light effect. Most of his work is about body parts like hand and eyeball. The work he did in 2000 “Dermal Thresholds” (see below) used medical tool to photograph the inside of the body.
Here is a picture of my Google earth project. I topic is a park I went with my mother and my aunt. It was a sunny day; a good day to have a walk.
The view there was great. Many family took their kids to just play in playland. The sky is blue and the air is clear. This a nice place for kids and parents. If you walk along the beach, you can smell the ocean in the wind.
I wish there would be more park like this in Canada. It is not only good for people, but also good for the earth itself. I know Canada is already a “park country” as it is, but more green grass wouldn’t hunt.
Google earth in Google map
Here is the 3D version of my Google earth project. I hope it works.
This is my final copy of the Urban Intervention project. The whole thing is in black, but because of the strong light, it turns into gray. I put it on the outer surface of the washroom door, so it is easy to tell where it is.
In order to make sure that my sign did tell the right meaning, I asked a random student who appeared to be in the washroom what did the sign meant to her, and her told me the right meaning, which is woman should stand up.
I saw an advertisement on TV about how one woman can change the world. It says that woman is powerful, and a great resource which human could not afford to loose.
I used symbol for female as the base, and added legs to it. I first put the legs wide open, then I realized it looks kind funny, so I chenged it into a more formalr way of standing.
What I want to show is that woman should “stand up” for themseles, and take control. In order to make the point more clearly, I added word at the bottom. I plan to put it in the woman’s washroom, so woman can read it while washing hands.
Another idea I have for this project is to put it on the inside of woman’s washroom door. When people are sitting on the toilet, they will see this sign telling them to “stand up”, but clearly they can’t just “stand up”, so it adds a little humor to the sign.
This is a Photoshoped photo of what it will be look like after I put it on.
PS: We all know that when man goes to washroom, unlike woman, they are standing. I often heard this sentence on TV, which is ” stand up, and be a man”, so if you think it in an other way, it really make sense.
The red cross is the symbol for hospital. No one want to went out for fishing and ended up in a hospital bed, or a “black car” which will not take them home.
Long time ago, a road in USA has “killed” more than 300 people every year. The police tried to put out signs like “this road is the number one car killer in US”, but nothing worked. In the end, they found a text driver who has been driving for more than 20 years and has not got one ticket. They asked him how did he do it. The old man said: “Well, I always think about my family while I am driving. I always telling myself that my wife is waiting for me to join her for dinner. “
The police then start put out signs about family, like “your child is waiting for you” or “think about your family while driving”. Those sighs worked well than they expect. The number of the car accident was decreasing every year.
I put red cross on the boat so that it can remind people to drive safe, or otherwise they may feel sorry for their family for lost them.
I took it in a park near the ocean. It is not a big park but I like the view of it.
There are many boats in the water beside the beach, and it is my first time seeing a boat being pull out of the ocean. It is not as hard as I thought it will going to be. One man can finish it within a few mins.
Here is my proof for the view project. I took it in my friend’s apartment. It is on the 7th floor, so I can have a view of the must buildings around.
This one isn’t the picture I used for my final copy. I like this piece, but the more I looked at it, the more I feel it is too “normal”, so I changed my final copy into a different view.
