Tony Oursler's 'Projeciton Works' began in 1991 when he began dabbling with LCD video projectors, which lead him to create a number of brilliant and controversial works using materials such as hand made cloth figures and animated video projection. His works have a tendency to operate with the viewers empathy/feelings. He projects alot of emotions and expressions onto his works.
Oursler's work can be applied to the enlightenment concepts of Reason, Empiricism, Science, Universalism, Progress, Freedom and Secularism in a number of ways, such as the way he uses projected faces holding alot of emotion to interact with the way people feel about that work (empiricism), i.e. the viewers see the emotions and they feel a sense of empathy for the expression of the projected face.
He also creates work which further the idea that the natural and social condition of human beings could be improved, resulting in an ever increasing level of happiness and well-being, (progress), we see this when Oursler constructed the 'influence machine' in 2000 in Madison Park, NYC and Soho Square, London. This marked his first major outdoor using communication devices such as telegraph to the personal computer as way of speaking with the dead, he used smoke, trees and buildings as projection screens.
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http://www.tonyoursler.com/text.php?navItem=text&subsection=All%20Text&page=1
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I think Kelly is spot on with the production of Tony's work,
ReplyDeleteFrom a you tube video i watched of Tony Ousler i believe the main part of enlightenment he is trying to emphasize is empiricism. He says that Normal television and cinema are conventional and creates a sort of virtual situation, whereas a video artist like himself, he ignores those conventions and try to oppose the normal way people think. He Creates his projections to really stimulate people thoughts and sense organs and to present a message. The projection technique Ousler uses stimulates our brains and really pushes our sense organs
I agree that there is a lot of emotion portrayed in the works. The use of colour and the technique of the projection creates an emotional connection with the viewer. The use of colour creates a different emotion, such a blue makes us feel somber. I think Ourslur uses this to his advantage in his different facials etc in the sculptures.
ReplyDeleteTony Oursler's work is very unique and he uses many different materials. I agree with what you have said about him portraying a lot of emotion and feelings through his work he produces. This then gives the viewers different emotions and feelings when they view the artwork. Some viewers will be able to relate to the expressions that are portrayed through the artwork like you have written, i.e. the viewers see the emotions and they feel a sense of empathy for the expression of the projected face. The colours Oursler uses show the emotion and feeling much clearer and stronger.
ReplyDeleteTony Oursler's has protrayed this piece of work through using projection. I also agree that he has used alot of emotion to draw attention to his artwork. i find the way he used the enviroment such as the buildings and so on was amazing as it really helps viewers to understand the ideas hes trying to protray such as natural and social conditions of human beings could be improved, and increasing our level of happiness and well being.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you see as some of the concepts relevant to Oursler's work. Science is a very important aspect as the faces are distorted and full of emotion, so it can work like a psychological experiment on how people react to the art. It plays with the viewers emotions, making people really think about the work and possibly the deeper meaning behind it. I just wanted to add the concept, Individualism. In a few of his works that focuses on features of the human face and/or body, the viewer is given the opportunity to acknowledge the differences within the similarities that humans may share.
ReplyDeleteFor that period of time(1991) modern visual art such a LCD projection should be quite new and fucused on various mammal emotions which possibly massively impressed audiences.Beside, absolutly,as you discribed above, it is in the discipline of enlightenment result from the concept of his work has not belong to holy concept but overlaped among science, phychology, medical and technology fields.
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