Dreams are the source of Imagination.

Pipilotti Rist was born in Grabs, Swiss Rhine Valley in 1962. She studied commercial art, illustration and photography at the Institute of Applied Arts in Vienna. She then studied audio visual communications at the School of Design in Basel. She became a visiting professor at Los Angelos in 2002. She currently lives in Zurich and in the mountains of Switzerland.

Her website confuses the frick outta me. If she wrote her own biography, she’s really random. Her videos confuse me too. It looks like a really bad drama. …A REALLY BAD drama. I don’t like them. I do like the fact the video is clean and sharp. And it appears to be in a dream-like state. Overall, not my fav.

Paul Pfeiffer was born in 1966 in Hawaii. He is an American video artist where he incorporates found footage. He got his BFA in Printmaking at San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA in Hunter College, NY. He worked and lived in New York up until 1990.

Many people call him meticulous and believe his work is time-consuming. After seeing a few videos on what he does, I can 100% agree. Going in frame by frame to edit is really some commitment. Although I’m uninterested in his subjects, I do highly appreciate his dedication to his works. It’s a fun piece but I wouldn’t buy them.

Bill Viola was born on 1951. He recieved his BFA in Experimental Studio from Syracuse University. He lived in Italy for 18 months as a technical director. He then traveled widely around the world for several years, including Solomon Island, and Japan. He is considered a pioneer in the medium of video art and is internationally recongnized as one of today’s leading artist.

The videos I could find on youtube were interviews and poorly recorded. But the good ones I could find were really, different. I’ve noticed water is incorporated into alot of his works. And I think that’s cool. There’s alot you can do with water, from a waterfall setting to an underwater setting. It’s really intriguing to watch. but at the same time, I feel like I’m missing something. *shrugs*

What loops, can fit 10 frames, and defies time? Cell Mitosis

TheirCircularLife.it is a website with a collection of photographs that show urban life. Each image has a timeline, where an image is taken in the same spot every hour. By doing that, we can see how people live in real time. They also record sound form teh same time.

It’s really cool because then you see what people do in every single hour of the day. And you also see how one place varies from the other. Some places are quiet for a certain number of hours while another is busy during the same time. It’s really awesome I love the sound, it just adds to the realness of it.

nbsp;MatthewMahon.com is a personal profile of the photographer Matthew Mahon. He uses Flash and experiments with zooming in and out. Each photo identifies somebody in his life or an event that happened to himself. It’s basically his life.

I like the Flash. But if I didn’t do outside research, I wouldn’t understand what it was. I wish he had a seperate “About” page or something else like other artist have. But I do like the unique-ness of his webpage. I also love the shape the photos make when you zoom out far enough. The images are super clean which I know is hard to do in Flash. Overall I like the page.

nbsp;theOnesWeLove.org is a website that collects photos of people that are most important to the photographer. Each photographer is allowed up to 6 images and it must be in an outdoor setting. The website wishes to portray the people they loved, cherished, and inspirational to the artist. You can also see the differences and similiarities between all the photos.

Most of the artist take pictures of ONE person that they love and while I understand that but can’t you have multiple people that you most care about? I haven’t run into one but if it’s there I’m sorry. But I’d like to see an artist take images where there person is different in each image. Other than that, the site is extremely heartwarming. A few artist portrayed their loved one’s in the nude which i found interesting. I bet the loved ones really cherished these photos.

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