Thursday, July 17, 2014

Kazimir Malevich screensaver animation :)

CODING DONE WITH PROCESSING TO ANIMATE A SUPREMATIST ARTWORK


Self-Portrait in Two Dimensions,
 1915, Kazimir Malevich

This work was created as a project to make a simple wallpaper animation on the open source software called http://processing.org/

 I tried to create a basic Class called Shape, which contained the functions display(), move() and Bounce().

Unless the functions move and/or bounce are called in the 'draw' the animation doesn't begin.
My idea of a continuous wallpaper-animation was to recreate the suprematist painting and then make each separate shape continuously move at different speeds and bounce off the walls,as soon as they touch any of the 4 walls.
Below are a few stills and a youtube link from the computer showing the codes and the final 'animation'.





Hope You enjoy! :)

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zVBELV_5w8&feature=youtu.be

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love,
Gunjan :)


Thursday, July 10, 2014

Reusing Old Tshirt to create a Minion Tshirt


Old to new: Simple steps to create My MINION + RAIN T-Shirt  
 image source: http://freefacebookcover.com/Facebook-Covers/Minion/EEEBEC



 Take/download an image of minions that you wish to replicate. This one along with 2 more images suited my ideas of minions getting wet in rain...their reactions to each other and to the rain and clouds above complete the look of my T shirt.




Next Take an old/used (in my case ruined because of slight paint stains) T shirt and start transferring the minions on to the plain T shirt.




 



  












Then add some RAIN. :)




Cut the shoulders for an extra cool look. :D 


I used acrylics which can be used as Fabric paints as well.Finish painting then iron the back of the T Shirt.






Voila! MINION + RAIN T Shirt is READY! 
I Love it sooo much! :)


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love,
Gunjan :)


Thursday, July 3, 2014

DanceArt Experimentation [ Rang Katha ]


Rang Katha: An Experimental Dance-Art Presentation


Poster of the event (Rang Katha) designed by Gunjan :)

Concept and Dance by – Gunjan Joshi and Neha Tickoo

Poetry – Neha Tickoo

Music Credits – MATTI MATTI, Johannes Moller ( Artists found on YouTube)



Sound/Music edits – Gunjan Joshi

Video Credits – Abhishek kukreja, Nahusha K, Gunjan Joshi

Video Edit – Gunjan Joshi


 
Rang katha in essence is a dance piece imagined on a cloth or canvas using the bodies to paint the surface. This piece was presented as part of our projects for our respective M.A specializations at AUD. The movements over the canvas become the strokes and the dancers themselves become the brushes. The tools used to paint or create art are thus the dancer’s body and the paint. Through this student presentation called rang katha we want to talk about the stereotypes of the body and beauty. “Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder”, truly said, this axiom becomes the central thematic.



  The notion of perfection and pure beauty, stereotypes present in the society about the fair skin, perfect height, and the pressure on people to look like the ideal man or woman and to feel beautiful are being discussed through the performance using the visuals on the canvas, as well as the poetry supporting the performance. Also the ideal mode of painting on canvas is being challenged by making the use of the body to create the artwork by its rhythmic movements. To imagine the beauty in terms of the 'pre-worked' canvas with stereotypes created on it or the end product of us, the brushes removing them or trying to brush it off is another question we pose to the audience. Apart from trying to create a rupture within these moulds of typical art making process or the typical body and beauty, the dancers try to bring out the pure and codified classical Indian dance forms of odissi and kathak out in the open to be viewed in public on the streets and somewhere even breaking their codes during the performance. The idea here is not to disrespect the classical dance styles, but to imagine and re-imagine the spaces and their relation to these dance forms. 


The imagination is to think out of the proscenium and to merge the dance with other movements to create something very different yet beautiful, using different spaces and different modes of the viewing. Here, we had the audience surround us from all four corners of the limited area of the canvas, which makes the viewing even more interesting as what a person from on angle would see, the other would see the same body but from a different perspective and a different angle. So the dance movements we present to the audience also do not remain the same for everyone as different angles are being constantly created for viewing by each member of the audience. This presentation essentially questions the “perfection” and tries to understand if anything remains or is perfect, whether we speak of the perfect body, perfect style of dance, perfect mode of painting, perfect space for a specific dance style and the aspect of perfect beauty.




The process to work began with us deciding on one concern and concept that relates well to both of us, further we began meeting and discussing about it, to think of visuals and the way it can be presented. Once the concept was in place, thinking about the dance styles and bringing in our respective years of training in Kathak or Odissi onto a new and unimagined space was planned. The idea to have minimal or no expressions was decided too as expressions play a very important role in Indian classical dances. The materials to work with except the body and its movements were practically discussed too. Personally, I prefer to not use canvas and always look for cost cutting and assessable materials to work with, but for the performance and the practicality of dancing, a thick cloth which wouldn’t make the dancers slip , a canvas was finalized. The music was edited on a software called audacity to infuse the ‘bol’ of the two classical dance forms, the poetry and a pleasing music track of an artist called Matti Matti was created. The reason behind choosing the artist was also thought of, as their music is a mix of sitar and an instrument called hang drum, again an unconventional combination, not a ‘perfect’ mix. Also this style would not only suit the classical dance styles but can support the movements of western dance forms like salsa, contemporary too, which were used by the performers to create an unusual mix of dance forms for the presentation.



Before the performance presentation began, the audience was asked to use markers, sketch pens, pens, etc to write their thoughts, draw, doodle, about what they felt were the common stereotypes of beauty and body onto the canvas and this process was recorded for an archive. The idea to make the audience write or interact with the canvas was to try bringing them closer and more connected to the performance, trying to create a curiosity and anxiety among them to see what would happen with their drawings or how it would effect the performance.

 Later, once the performance began, in spite of a few choreographed bits which were pre imagined and roughly rehearsed, the performing bodies too were left open to the field of improvisation, contact improvisation to see how one body itself reacts to the other and also around an audience and in a restricted space, to see what dance style or movements erupts from within the performer by merely reacting to the music and poetry as well as reacting to the canvas and paints. It becomes an exploration for the performer to feel the music, the vibes of the audience, the paints, the canvas and moreover connect with the thematic or the concern that was being brought out and discussed through the act. Through the action painting the action itself becomes of importance  rather than just the painting. What is also interesting to note, is how after the “painting” and at the end of the performance, the canvas still does not get fully covered with paint, leaving portions of the text or doodles etc to peep through, which could also suggest that however broad minded and open the society becomes, certain notions which stick to the mindset of people are very difficult to erase  and change or destroy, which forms the reality of how the society functions. 
Rang Katha Displayed in the Final semester Exhibition, AUD

 This piece was the first time we (Neha and I) collaborated and conceptualized a common concern into an action painting or a Dance-Art sequence. Inspite of being inspired by various artists who have used the medium of dance/movements and paints on a canvas, this project conceptually had a lot of experimentation and tweaking and adaptations of codified beliefs and systems.



Below is a YouTube Link to the experimentation. Hope we tried to bring out the concept in the performance.

Enjoy, 
 

 
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love,
Gunjan :)