Lisalyn Dresser

                              For my project, I decided to combine three proposal I presented to you guys. My title would be called "Battling with anxiety". My biggest goal in this project is to show how Covid changed our environment which leads to how it affects me as a person who battles with anxiety to then showing how I continuously have discussion with myself on how to win the battle against the anxiety. The film as whole would look like as a "self-reflection". A lot of the things in this project I would have to do a representation. For instance, I hope to show my audience what anxiety looks like through movement, what anxiety sounds and feel like, and how in my mind, I encourage myself to win the battle. I thought the way I want to represent those things relates   to Baudrillard's statement that "representation tries to absorb simulation by interpreting it as a false representation" (p. ...

  Draw by me:) Hi all! Before choosing what I should do for my final project, I wanted to see which one you are most interested in from my  proposal . I am very passionate in all of those things in my proposal that is why I am having a hard time choosing. All the topics can be traced back to Covid and what this pandemic has done to us. Whichever one I end up doing, would spread positive message which is my goal in doing this project. I feel like most of the time, people see media spreading mostly negative messages or resulting to negative things to its consumers. However, when the pandemic happened, I found that different types of media had tried their best to spread positivity all over the world amidst the pandemic. I wanted to use this platform to do just that even though not all people see my final project. In the process, I would be taking a lot of videos, photos, and experimenting with different sounds. 

  Click here if it does not play For our final project, I decided to use clips I took from my improvisation class. I manipulated some of the clips so that some parts are slowed down and some parts faster. I chose to do it this way because I felt it suited the idea of a “global village” (McLuhan, p.63). As I said, this class is  improvisation dance . Improvisation dance is not as simple as people think. In this class, the moves we do are inspired by what we see in the media such as Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. For this project, I asked my classmates if I could take a video while we improvised as a group for the whole group. Watching all the videos, made me realize that this group is a good example of allatonceness. How? By being able to use moves we learned from different types of media, we were able to connect as a group. Because of that connection, the group looked choreographed when in fact all of us improvised. Furthermore, it also supports the idea of “We now live in...

                                                                               The process to see the final product was not easy. Personally, the inkjet part was the most difficult thing about it. It’s amazing how printing used to be such a big thing back then but now people barely know what to do with it. The fact that a lot of struggle to use the inkjet machine shows how we easily adjust our minds to new technologies around us and possibly forget and not even learn about the old ones. Nowadays, we don’t have to print anything since everything can be shown and saved through any type of media such as Facebook, iCloud storage, and so on. So, though it was the most difficult part of the process it was worth it. Through this process, I had the opportunity to ...

  Credit: Library.artstor.org In this project, I learned about someone who managed to give me a hard time even though he is dead. Michel De Montaigne, who out of nowhere decided to invent an essay. I would say f*** you to him as essays are my least favorite thing in the world but he amazed me. Based on my research, people say that they admire his essays as when they read them, they feel like an old friend is writing to them. His philosophical ideas could be relatable to anyone’s life. His work influenced a lot of artists such as William Shakespeare and his face is still being used for many advertisements. McLuhan used Montaigne’s quote “the thing of it is, we must live the living” to support his idea that “the attempt to do a job demanded by the new environment with the tools of the old” is a huge problem. However, after further  research  on Montaigne, I do not think that’s what he meant. Montaigne’s essays are focused on what already happened and the things he observed....

To support John Cage’s idea that “everything we do is music”, I created a combination of sounds and noises that I hear in my daily life. I wanted to explore how the things I do daily create sounds or even music without even me realizing it. As McLuhan noted, “we hear sounds from everywhere, without ever having to focus” (p.111). This statement stood out to me because recently, I learned that I hear sounds even though I don't intentionally try to hear them. For instance, when I am cutting vegetables, I try my best to put my full attention on how I am cutting or what the vegetables look like. However, I find that the sounds that I am producing gradually take my attention. So, for this project, I wanted to combine all the sounds that I hear from the things I do daily. From walking, boiling water, opening a soda, to clicking a pen. I wanted to show that the sounds we hear from the simplest things we do in our daily forms a  Music .   

 Gina Adams is indeed a phenomenal artist. You can hear the compassion she has for these events. I was excited when I heard  quilts  are part of her art. What stood up to me most is that her quilts are not just fabric. Rather, they were filled with lessons, history, and awareness. I like that the letters she used are from broken treaties. I also like the fact that some of the messages in her quilts are very hard to read. It makes me dig deeper and think harder of what she wants us to learn from her art piece. I admire artists who don’t let their status in life and their experiences in life stop them from creating something they believe in. Gina Adams, has inherited trauma but that did not stop her to use her art and educate people around her. “When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised, put in a position in new and unique ways, startling discoveries result” (McLuhan, p.10). I thought this quote described Adams’ quilts so well. Two different element-qui...