MMA 1113 Media Art Presentation Platform (MAPP)

Monday, 17 December 2012

Finalised Screen Design

Artist Statement Assignment II

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Saw Quan Nen

"UNDENTED SPIRIT"

Mary Oestereicher Hamill

In this assignment, I imbued the style and way of a video and photography multimedia artist, Mary Oestereicher Hamill to create a screen design. The content conveyed by Madam Hamill has always in concern of the poor and forgotten.

I use the way she present her shots and recordings by different but similar-in-a-way theme. I chose stray or wild dogs as the center of the design as they share resemblance of regard by the society. In this design, I wish to show as what Madam Hamill shown. Forgotten and shunned by many, they still found their place in this ever congressed world by forming packs or neighborhoods to join hands and live together.

As the design is based on photography, it is been edit by Adobe Photoshop CS4 and the font used is Rockwell Extra Bold.

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Artist Research Assignment II

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Saw Quan Nen

Subject: Mary Oestereicher Hamill

Mary Oestereicher Hamill. A senior research scientist in the New York Mental Health System, tenured Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Brooklyn College, and Associate Professor of Psychology and Dean Undergraduate Studies at Babson College. She did not stop there and went a step beyond her career of education reform and take a Diploma from Museum School. Her works of photographing and recording of homeless people across New York and her installation art of featuring Chinese vendor and street market in China and New York Chinatown named ‘regardregard’ Project received good reception and won awards.

Although as medical scholar, she did produced some artwork of bones and body structures but most of her works lies on the spiritual and mentality by showing various faces of old folks still in vendor even in armchair and smiles of homeless despite their circumstance. She also intended to raise awareness in Cambodia and Vietnam about their dilapidated medical service and system by her video “Tangible Measures”.

Her works strive on the forgotten or the people that were left behind by the sweeping thrive of conglomerates and professionalism. She intend to show us, the elites of management and skills from cities the faces we forgot or cast away to remind them these people work as hard as we are just to win a bread or irk a living. Awareness does not mean charity. It only shows you what you did not know of and rekindles the spark that what holds you when you were young. You only need to know and remember as there is nothing more you can help them except a donation of generosity and compassion and a fair treatment as one of the members of society.

Of the most, Madam Oestereicher wish us to show the determination and happiness of these people able to salvage and cherish even though what they own is little but it is content and hold a dear value to them.