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 inexplicab...

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...

https://youtu.be/BqII-lWvVIA   This video is a story come up by using original footage. When I was on the plane, I took a lot of beautiful scenery, and I wanted to use the scenery in front of me to cut out a dream about one of my daily life. This video contains the song I played while wearing headphones on the plane, and the sound of the bell on my headphone box. All these show that I am actually in a dream.  There is also one thing that I have been thinking about. A day in my dream is actually only time for a three-minute song. This is a question that I think about every time I wake up from a dream.  The inspiration for this video is because "'Time' has ceased, 'Space' has vanished." ( McLuhan  63) Seeing this sentence, I think about that can these three minutes also be expressed as the speed of change in our current era? Imagine if you were a person who lived in 1921 and imagine how far away 2021 is, but in our eyes, this century has been very fast and has c...

http://www.valariatatera.com/   In Valaria Tatera’s works, I felt something meaningful in my life. I like her concept of making her works, which is to hold personal space for the individuals who are often erased. She talked about her family’s experience. We can know that some of her works are made about her family. I like “Good to the Last Drop: Saving Ourselves” the most. In my perspective, this work shows us the last resources in our earth, also can show us the last worth in our minds. “Saving Ourselves” can be understood as both saving our “lives” in physically and in psychologically.   http://www.valariatatera.com/work#/gipfel/ http://www.valariatatera.com/work#/gipfel/   “The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past.” ( McLuhan  74) We often think back to the past. When we think back to the past, we will think about the past with out current ideas, our ...

I Hi! I'm Xiyue Zhang, and feel free to call me Sally. I'm from China, a country contains profound and lasting history. I was born in 2001, the second year of 21st century, which is an era of rapid development of information technology. Recently, I love sound very much: Sound editing, sound design, and play music. My world is quite simple, only consists of the Internet, film, and sound. But my world is also enriched because of the Internet, film, and sound. Also, my idols.  My Daily Life When I was in the primary school, my daily life: Go to the school, do my homework, and go outside to play with other children in the community. Now, my daily life: Go to the school, do my homework, stay at home to play with my phone and computer and to see films which only can be seen in the cinema in the past. The developments of medium do offer a more convenient life for us, but sometimes it leads to the lack of interpersonal communication and outdoor activities.  My "Job" I worked ...