Sally's New Media in Art

  “Listeners could memorize with greater ease what was sung than what was said.” (McLuhan 114) For me, sound is the main source of my memory. If I hear a piece of music at a certain point in time, then when I hear it again, I can remember what happened at that time.  This is an amazing ability for me. I believe many people can feel this way. 1-min sound here This piece of music was wrote during a very quiet and beautiful afternoon during my reading period. It reminds me of the light music I listened to when I was in junior high school. Our teacher played light music for us everyday when we were in the break time after lunch. Its emotional changes are quite obvious, at first it was like just getting up, everything was quiet. Slowly the music became beautiful, warm and a little bit sad, like walking to a forest hut with a stove on a snowy winter night. This is actually my own problem. When I feel warm, it always accompanied by the feeling of sad. Although it is a bit inexplicable, this

Treaty with The New York Indians - Front (Photos from Gina Adams's Website ) "For me this discovery signified the need to educate people about the existence of the treaties, making it personal so that more will take up the cause of honoring the treaties." ---Gina Adams (Quote from Gina Adams's  Website ) Just like Gina said, if I hadn't watched her artist talk, I might not know these regulations and the stories behind them. People need to know these things. As an artist, turning these historical regulations into works of art will attract our attention. When I was attending the artist talk, I was attracted when I first saw the words on these quilts. Every quilts' color and hand-made words attracted my attention and made me want to read it carefully. Therefore, we need such artists to speak for the trauma of history.  I really like her "requirement" of vision for wearing Medallions. Hope that everyone who wears Medallions can abide by these rules and m

This photo is composed of three pictures of the same squirrel. Because of the synthesis, it looks like a squirrel running away and slowly becoming transparent. Give me a feeling of disappearing while running. I named this picture: "The Earth" because of the sentence "The stars are so big, The earth is so small." ( McLuhan 79 ) I thought, if I look at the earth from the perspective of a certain star, The earth is such a small one. "Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental." ( McLuhan 93 ) As an artist, the perspective of seeing the world is always different from that of others. This sentence gave me such an inspiration. So, I photographed the upside-down corridor, Try to find some novel pictures in life. “Because something is happening, but you don’t know what it is.” ( McLuhan 105 ) All these pictures and shooting experience made me understand that if I look at the world from a different perspective, I will gain a lot of different