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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

The Museum of Industrial Technologies and Resources (M.I.T.R)

The Museum of Industrial Technologies and Resources (M.I.T.R)


New York City is the best location for my Museum of Industrial Technologies and resources. The site has to be located near the Brooklyn navy shipyard. Within the area of industrial Brooklyn, MIT makes an outstanding hot spot for all types of people. Attracting business and community progresses the history of society. The MITR's curiosity questions who, what, when, where, how, and why about modern technology and resources. With public programs available, the community is aware where they can learn as well intern (under qualifications) for free.  
 The museum's goal is to display manufactured products from the time industrial revolution began, all the way to our modern times of technology to conceptualize the change in human technology. Manufactured goods such as a car, fridge, stove, sowing machine, camera guns, and computers. All of these goods are vehicle, utilities, tools, weapons, and appliances that advances its own new predecessor. In example from a simple stove to gas stove and to an electric gas stove. All of its parts are different but still functions the same when using it for cooking. One method in Motor vehicle advancements are annually refined by upgrading its efficient computer technology. Citreon was the first motor vehicle to introduce a computer technology with a simple interface that operates the vehicle's manual system. 2014 Mercedes S-Class now has modern computers with innovated technology such as gps navigation, xm radio, video and audio system, Bluetooth, and many more future features. Another exhibit for preview is the Advancements of computer development, the inter web and the reinventions of social media. Friendster, Myspace, Aim, Yahoo messenger, Facebook, Instagram, and many more are connecting archetypes of major to local business. The impact of today's social structure is the improvement of social media as a digital frontier for communications and data transfer in our daily lives. Connecting with people and sharing ideas to open opportunities are flawless solutions by changing the improvement in our lifestyle.

Artist needs materials to illustrate their vision as to inventors need resources for their innovating ideas. From a personal aspect, true and original inventors continue to innovate modern technology for efficiency, quality, convenience, and durability. Sometimes technology looks simple and is complex at the same time, with so many conjunction parts that functions one main purpose. However the fact there are a vast amount of different resources that created a machine or robot for the convenience to society, is the reason why this museum must be built.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Museum Essay .. "The Bruised Muse"

The bruised muse would be my gift to the world and redefine the perception of how one goes about creating art. The mission is for the museum to act as a gallery as well as be the place of creativity by having artists come create and immortalize in any way they see fit. Installations, paintings, choreography, drugs, alcohol, fits of rage and the clarity of epiphany all in one focused environment for the benefit of artist and viewer.


 As opposed to having it above ground to be admired and fawned over, I’d put it underground in a space similar to Port Authority or any large subway line. In today’s psyche built of “out of sight out of mind”, to get to the bruised muse you’d have to truly be inspired by the art you create or be inspired by the art someone has created. So, in effect it should only attract the rawest and most passionate members of society. 


The only commonality my audience would have would be that of an extreme, almost palpable passion, be it for art or anything else. Usually passionate people gravitate to one another and latch on, my audience would be those that understand what it is to truly be engrossed by something and allowing it to have the whole of your being. I hope to bring together a group of people that had never had anyone understand them and create a community that embraces their intensity to the extent that it allows them to experience what it feels like to be light hearted. We will be one another’s bruised muses; bruised by the misconceptions of everyone, and the muses to those that do. 

Basquiat as well as the graffiti I see everyday on the walls and pavement interest me, but William Powhida's work has been somewhat of an inspiration in the way he puts his thumbs to the nose of the high and mighty art society, an exhibition of his work as well as having him create on the spot would be accessible at all times if I had the power to bring that to life. The rebellion in his art embodies the spirit that I'd hope to bring with my museum, I imagine it'd emanate across the galleries and inspire others the way it inspires me.


I believe, if anything The Bruised Muse would embody what it is to have a soul that never ceases to flame or even die down it's embers, nor does it temper the chilliness of your spirit if that is the quality it possesses. It embraces all extremes and irrationalities and completely does away with every dull quality of living. The end result, would be relief. I want my museum to save as well as inspire, and to comfort as well as break barriers. In short, the end result is freedom.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

my museum



If I started my own museum I feel that it would be about different landscapes around the world that shows how people see things differently even though we live on the same planet. I would name this museum “The Museum of Natural Living”. I would locate this museum in Queens, NY because Queens is one of the most cultural diverse places. I would like to put photos of people from all parts of the world. I would also like to put different foods and traditions that countries have. I would also like to put cameras in different parts of the world and display them to the audience so that they can have the feel of how it is in that part of the world. The reason why I would like to put different photos of people around the world is because there are so many unique and interesting people in this world and society only focus on the beauty that is on the outside but not on the inside. Another reason why I would like to have photos of people in my museum is because who better to complement their surroundings then the native people. For example if you go to the Dominican Republic and take a beautiful picture in the forest it would look more interesting if you have a actual native than a model because it helps create questions in your head like “what does that person do for a living?” or “why are they there at that moment?” when you have model all you really focus on is there beauty or what they have on, you rarely noticed there surrounding, and I’m saying this because I am one of those people . The reason why I would put different photos of traditions and food is because it’s always good seeing something fresh that you have never seen before and it’s a fun experience when you do it with someone else. Finally my favorite Idea, I would love to install camera in different parts of the world and project the film on to a whole wall as if you are able to go through the screen and be at that specific place. The reason why I believe that my museum can be successful is because living in New York City is like standing under a rainbow of different cultures and instead of closing our eyes we should open them and notice all the beautiful colors there are and the history behind each one.
 

My Museum Essay

My Museum would be titled "L'Ascensione di Natura Spirituale" (Italian for "The Ascension of Spiritual Nature") and it is located in Venice, Italy my dream vacation. It's mission is to interact with those who don't normally connect themselves with the beauty of this humbling earth on a deeper level and the privileges it gives us. A target audience? Well, anyone who appreciates nature like I do, teens, kids and adults alike.

One of the many privileges are the animals that roam the earth; which paintings and photographs of majestic creatures would definitely be an art found at this museum. Art like this is important to me, so that the viewers see these beautiful "beasts" in a whole new light. I for one, adore the wolf and all its beauty and glory. Looking at this, makes me want to create my own museum to collect art like this whether it'd be from the most well known artist to the unknown.
This, a photograph of a mystic forest, is just as important as the animal art for many reasons. Most people would find something like this, mist covered forest filled with dying trees, creepy, ominous, maybe even Gothic-esque or just unsettling. I, am not most people. This is just gorgeous. I'd kill to be in a place like this. I feel as if more art like this was on display, more and more people would become attracted to such rarity and mystery. A reason I believe people misunderstand a setting like this is because of horror movies, where the killers in white masks chase down their victims to a similar atmosphere as this, which causes many to think of a horror/thriller scenario rather than a mysterious beauty. I want this kind of art, dark, mysterious and gothic-like; to show the people that beauty can also be found in the darkness.
 A snowy mountain. Similar to my previous picture, with being a landscape and all but given a different meaning than the other. Many love and hate the snow. It's cold, it can get us sick or it can entertain us and be perfect for a photograph. Weather art is another type of art that would be seen in my museum. It fascinates me to no end. Not many countries get a chance to have snowfall, some are glad, some are not. However, the goal here, is to put aside love and hate and just appreciate the art the snow can do for us.

One thing I've noticed was the lack of sun in all three of these art pieces. Some may think the sun is what shows nature's true beauty, but I believe it's not the only thing that shows its beauty. Beauty can be found in the dark as it can be found in the light. This all relates to my museum, and its title, to give the spiritual connection to people, to wake up a part of them they've never felt or fully grasped before. Through the art in my museum, I want you to ascend your connection with mother nature on a level that not many experience.

My Museum/Museum Review Essay #3

My Museum would be the most unique museum in the east coast. I would name it “Melting Pot Island Museum". The Museum would be located in the center of Roosevelt Island, Manhattan, New York. Roosevelt Island is a small island in-between Manhattan and Queens. I decided to place the museum there because it is the center of New York City, making it easy for  people from all five boroughs to attend the museum.
The museum would be a large pentagon shape with five large walls. One wall will be facing east towards Queens. Another wall would be facing southeast towards Brooklyn. The next wall would be facing southwest towards Staten Island. The next wall would be facing west towards Manhattan. The last wall would be facing north towards the Bronx. The walls would be covered with neatly spray painted graffiti by artist’s directly originating from the borough the wall faces. The wonderful graffiti art displayed at Melting Pot Island Museum would attract a hefty amount of young audience and modern artist.
The Museum would have an abundance of lights surrounding its borders that would brighten the entire Island. The museum would be nearly impossible to miss. The museum would be clearly visible from the most famous hotels in lower Manhattan and Astoria, Queens, making it a great tourist attraction. The Museum would further attract tourist because it would be clearly visible to planes landing at LaGuardia Airport. Melting Pot Island Museum would also be a tourist attraction because it will intercept the tourist’s route from JFK airport to Manhattan.
          The inside of Melting Pot Island Museum would be made of five exhibitions. Each exhibition would represent each of New York City’s boroughs. The art displayed in these exhibitions would consist of art created by artist from the borough that the exhibition represents. Melting Pot Island Museum’s mission is to provide a gallery where never before heard of artist can display their work. The museum will hold no famous artist’s work. The art would be work from very talented artist who hold no work in other Museum such as The Met, or The Guggenheim. The art would consist of painting and sculptures of ideas that directly represent New York City’s diverse population. The cost of entry for Melting Pot Island Museum would be $8 or your very own creative work of art representing the museum’s concept. Special works of art created by NYC residents will be installed into the exhibition where the artist originates, and eventually will be auctioned off to create room for more art. Sixty percent of the art auction's proceeds will go to the artist. 

My Museum

Gabriela Caceres

Art & Society

5/13/14

 Museum Essay

I entitled my museum “ The Freedom of Beliefs Museum”. The museum would be located in Midtown Manhattan close to Rockefeller center. I chose this location to lure people from all over the world considering all the famous attractions in the nearby area. Some famous attractions include Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Saks Fifth Avenue and the shopping area on Fifth Avenue. The museum particularly displays different galleries of powerful beliefs from major religious figures. Along with Atheists, Agnostics, celebrities, famous artists and selective college students. It’ll include photography, videos, paintings, statements and anything that makes them express and helps the visitors understand what they believe in. The museum is welcome to everyone and its mission is to enlighten people on different theories and to inspire them to not be afraid to disclose what they believe in.
One gallery would be exclusively for famous celebrities such as Daniel Radcliffe, Woody Allen and Seth Macfarlane etc. that declared themselves as Atheists. Their statements and quotes would be displayed in their gallery and explanations as to what made them atheists. Together with videos of them being questioned as to why they aren’t affiliated with religion.  A famous painting  “Crucifixion” by Pablo Picasso will also be included but in a separate gallery.  This abstract painting depicts what Picasso’s religious beliefs are. This painting is complex and creates some confusion thus making it difficult to fully understand what he is implying. In the top center of the painting you see a big cross in black and white. It stands out the most considering that the rest of the painting is very colorful.
Guernica is another one of Picasso’s famous paintings that holds strong religious content. This painting will be included in the museum as well. Guernica relates specifically to the Christian religion. The way Picasso illustrated the woman in the bottom right corner of this painting was essential because it depicts a Mary Magdalene figure. In my point of view, Guernica is trying to point people towards a new way of being human in the face of evil.


My Museum

My museum would be called Nostalgia and it would be located on Roosevelt Island in NYC so that people from Queens can meet people from Manhattan and vice versa. It would be the center point of all other boroughs too, and instead of going to the museums in their own borough, they would take the time out to travel and enjoy the island and my museum in it. It’s mission is too recollect the past specifically from the 1950s and up, find old values in it again, and reminisce on the time that you grew up in. My museum will mainly focus on the history of people growing up in America, and will showcase different fashions of a specific era, what was trending back then; toys and games people grew up with, old photographs of different settings, and what it was like in the past to get a sense of how we progressed over time. My audience will mostly target teenagers to young adults to parents, and will question them, “do you remember this?” or to show them that “this is what it was like back then” to get a little taste of that era your parents or someone older grew up in. I want to make a museum where it can be relatable to our generation, so that the people living in New York can have a nostalgic feeling and to remember to not forget the past. One of the three things as an example I would use is a recollection of fashion in the 80s. During that time, the “greasers” of the male genre were popular with the influx of skinny jeans, cigarette smoking, leather jackets, and slicked-back hair. They were the “cool kids” of that era and people today who are into clothes and fashion can get a sense of how fashion evolved from this. Another example I would use is the evolution of movies. I would display most of the greatest and famous films in the past specifically chosen by the ratings and top grossing. Not only that, but how the evolution of popular movie watching changed, from drive in movies to theatres. Connecting to that, I would also display the evolution of gaming, showing popular titles and game companies to accompany the media section. I would show what video games were popular back then and what you played as a kid. Going off from media, I would also include other games such as activities and board games, and also toys that were popular back then. These examples relate to my idea of recollecting the past, reminiscing old times, and learning about what it was like back then to accommodate the nostalgic experience my museum has to offer.





Museum, Canvas of the World.


Armor for the Joust of Peace
Actor in Samurai Armor
Sword and Scabbard


 My museum is a place where you can come and feel safe and welcomed, where people can come experience the art without being afraid of breaking any rules. My mission is similar to a charitable foundation, raising money so that I can give back to the community. My main concern with museums today is that they don’t seem to be that friendly or treat the visitors with open arms. Most museums in NYC charge at least twelve dollars a person, for what? So they can come in and stare at art. There are many differences in the experiences you can have in a museum, you can come in and blankly stare at pieces of work, or you can leave mesmerized. If I’m paying twelve dollars, I want to have the best experience that I possibly can. I’m also not saying that the art is bad, the art at many of the museums are beautiful, there’s just the atmosphere of museums that can totally ruin the experience.
            My museum’s overall mission is to use the money from visitors to give back to the community, a hard task for most, as I’m assuming that entry fee money is used for the museum’s maintenance. In a perfect world I’ll be able to sustain the museum’s utility use as well as being able to give to organizations that dedicate to helping those in need. Helping those in poverty, those in debt with hospital bills, or birth defects and etc. Every couple of months the destination or organization would change. My ideal location would have to be in cities that are well-populated and centered around attractions or main attractions. A couple of examples are, NYC: Times Square, Paris: Eiffel Tower, Japan: Tokyo. I think the idea is to circle around a couple of locations, keep the galleries and museums moving. This way people can have a greater urge to visit my museum; because there is a possibility they wont have the opportunity to see it again for quite some time. I’m aiming to attract anyone who is willing to make a difference no matter how small; any amount of volunteering and outreach can make a difference
My art collection would be centered on the idea of interaction and being a part of the art. Any art you feel tempted to touch in my museum, you can. I’ve always loved the idea of touching the art, of course I understand why there is restrictions in current museums but I’d love to take a different approach and see how it goes. The three art pieces are some of the pieces you might see at my exhibits. Armor you may where, a sword you may hold or a photograph of Actor in Samurai Armor. Photo children can idolize and see themselves, letting their imagination go crazy. Museum, Canvas of the World. This means that my museums paves way as the example, of the way museums should be, if only in a perfect world.

Museum Essay #3

The Museum of Music! 


A place where anyone can come and enjoy the history and culture of the different type of genres of music their are. The museum would be located in the heart of New York City where a lot of tourist come to visit and where the average New Yorker can come on a Saturday afternoon. The museum would show the different types of musical instruments. They would be displayed where the viewer can see how the instrument has evolved over the years. Through out each room a different genre of music will be displayed, with famous artist who have made that genre famous, along with some background music of the same kind. Each room would feature an up coming artist from New York in hopes that more individuals who aspire to be featured in the museum will come and visit it. Also to give the artist a chance for others to see and hear their work. The museum would feature rooms with genres like Hip Hop. The visitor would walk through the history of Hip Hop, starting with the early years featuring the famous, DJ Kool Herc, who is named to be the father of Hip Hop, to the new upcoming artist. The museum would also feature latin music genre like Salsa. The room would be lit with bright colors and wooden floors (making the visitor feel like they are standing on a salsa dance floor). The room would play salsa music and have paintings of famous Salsa artist including Hector Lavo, Celia Cruz, and Marc Anthony. The museum would also have an exhibit for the younger teen crowds as they might get bored with what their parents find interesting, a special exhibition would be opened to them for them to see their favorite artist. Once a week the museum would feature local dancers who would perform in each room. Break dancers in the hip hop room, salsa dancers in the salsa room, ballet dancers in the the classical music room, and etc. This would give young local dancers the opportunity to get discovered. Saturday nights at the museum would be reserved for karaoke, open to anyone, with almost any song available for visitors to sing along to. The museum would be transformed and visitors would feel like they were in a night lounge. Sunday afternoons would be “Movie Sundays”. An outside area right behind the museum would be open for visitors to come with along with their family and friends to lay down with blankets. A large projector would show famous musical movies, movies such as West Side Story, Annie, and Grease. Everyday outside the museum their would be a featured artist who would receive some of the donation profits the museum makes throughout the day. The artist job? To engage the tourist and people passing by the museum with their talent and getting them to stop by and visit the museum! 


         

 
 
 
 Daniel F. Ambia
Art and Society
Blog Post 6      
           I would name my museum "the Randomness" because that is what would be in the museum. I would definitely choose a location in one of the outer boroughs, preferably in a neighborhood that has not been gentrified because my target audience would be people who do not generally go to museums. There would be no entry fee and it would be near a major subway station/populated area. (The borough would probably be Brooklyn). My idea would be to set up a place where people were welcome to hang out, from the twenty-something coffee crowd to the angsty teenage crowd. I would have a snack bar and tons of couches throughout the space. I would also make it interesting by providing a section for children, perhaps a few jungle gyms and mazes throughout the inside so the young ones wouldn't get bored. The mission of the museum would be to attract the average person. If they come just to hang out that's fine but if perhaps they also happen to enjoy the art that would be a bonus. Since I would have unlimited funds the artwork would have to be the things that I like. I would include paintings and photographs from across the spectrum but would steer clear of the religious themed medieval art. While I enjoy sculpture I wouldn't want any floor space to be un-walkable so would probably stick to the 2-D art. I enjoy Van Gough, Jackson Pollock, maybe a little Picasso. As far as photographers I would have to include Larry Clark, Nan Goldin and perhaps some Carrie Mae Weems??? I would want relevant works, pieces that evoke certain emotions and memory in me and would hopefully have similar effects on the audience. Would just like it for people to have a good time, no stuffy security guards and a relaxed attitude. Special groups welcome. 
Welcome to The Motion museum of Dance and Art.  The museum is located in queens New York. I decided to locate it here because I grew up in queens. Also because I want it to away from other museum. The museum has mixed the world of dance And art together. I was inspired by my experience as a dancer. I remember a class a had the objective of the day was to use a painting and find ways to make up moves for a dance. It was so interesting to use colors, lines, and forms as movements and rhythms. Our artists create their own forms of art and later use it as inspiration for choreography.we also take in artworks by other and used them in the same way. Our targeted audience is anyone who enjoys and appreciates the Arts. We not only have galleries and shows. We also give dance and art classes. We teach kids and adults about being creative and how art can always transport us to different worlds , feelings , and just capture our inner artist and create something new with it. We have performance art , paintings, sculptures and installations. We constantly change our Art, so it will always be a new experience. The best thing is that we allow many to join us and help us show a new mixture of art. We use our bodies as brushes and the stage as a canvas.