A Summary Of Fireflies On The Water By Yayoi Kusama
Introduction
In the information age, the explosion of new technologies brings more changes to human life as well as provides numerous possibilities to the development of art works. However, the soul of all these developments and changes still lies on the notions of trying to find the best ways of communication and interaction. In the area of arts and design, the foremost goal of an artist or designer is how to best present and convey the messages of his work. The binary relation between creator and creation has changed and the new relationship need to be established among the artist, work of arts and it viewers or consumers. The rising and development of installation art, participatory art, interaction art incarnates this concept and pushes …show more content…
It addresses how the message in her works，especially the strong independent voice of the artist has been conveyed through the public participation under the guidance or the direction of the artist. (the importance of artists)
Chapter two focuses on the installation art works of the electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. This explains why it is important that the audience interact with the artwork. (the importance of viewers)
Chapter three analyzes the website moonmoonmoonmoon.com established by Ai weiwei and Olafur Eliasson, a website on which they shared a idea that “we are all in this world together”. The analysis focuses on the relation between form and content, and how the interactive form can connect the artists’ work with profitability. (the importance of the this form)
The significant of this thesis lies on the efforts to find out the balance between forms and contents, artists and audiences in participatory …show more content…
It is no exaggeration to argue that the works of the artist is not finished or completed before facing the audience and the messages of the artistic works cannot be received without the audience. To narrow down the concept of participatory arts, Bruno Nettle (1956, p10) emphasizes that the audience should engaged directly in the creative process... to become co-authors, editors, and observers of the work. However, to either the broad or narrow extent, the shift in the work of an artist is from the work itself to the audience. The value of the artists must be realized and appreciated through public recognition and marketing operation. Thus the interaction with viewers and the participation of the audience become increasingly necessary and important.
This chapter aims to explore the development in Yayoi Kusama’s work from her early times to present works and define participatory art in her artwork. It also gives a small brief about Yayoi Kusama and a brief explanation about the particular materials she used in her work. It focuses on how she communicates with viewers in her works, how viewers take part in her work and what is the importance of the artist in directing or guiding public participation and aesthetic
In the information age, the explosion of new technologies brings more changes to human life as well as provides numerous possibilities to the development of art works. However, the soul of all these developments and changes still lies on the notions of trying to find the best ways of communication and interaction. In the area of arts and design, the foremost goal of an artist or designer is how to best present and convey the messages of his work. The binary relation between creator and creation has changed and the new relationship need to be established among the artist, work of arts and it viewers or consumers. The rising and development of installation art, participatory art, interaction art incarnates this concept and pushes …show more content…
It addresses how the message in her works，especially the strong independent voice of the artist has been conveyed through the public participation under the guidance or the direction of the artist. (the importance of artists)
Chapter two focuses on the installation art works of the electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. This explains why it is important that the audience interact with the artwork. (the importance of viewers)
Chapter three analyzes the website moonmoonmoonmoon.com established by Ai weiwei and Olafur Eliasson, a website on which they shared a idea that “we are all in this world together”. The analysis focuses on the relation between form and content, and how the interactive form can connect the artists’ work with profitability. (the importance of the this form)
The significant of this thesis lies on the efforts to find out the balance between forms and contents, artists and audiences in participatory …show more content…
It is no exaggeration to argue that the works of the artist is not finished or completed before facing the audience and the messages of the artistic works cannot be received without the audience. To narrow down the concept of participatory arts, Bruno Nettle (1956, p10) emphasizes that the audience should engaged directly in the creative process... to become co-authors, editors, and observers of the work. However, to either the broad or narrow extent, the shift in the work of an artist is from the work itself to the audience. The value of the artists must be realized and appreciated through public recognition and marketing operation. Thus the interaction with viewers and the participation of the audience become increasingly necessary and important.
This chapter aims to explore the development in Yayoi Kusama’s work from her early times to present works and define participatory art in her artwork. It also gives a small brief about Yayoi Kusama and a brief explanation about the particular materials she used in her work. It focuses on how she communicates with viewers in her works, how viewers take part in her work and what is the importance of the artist in directing or guiding public participation and aesthetic