Assignment Part 3:Artist Statement for Web Arts Artefact
Shooting with Drama Queen APP OLDV. A retro video camera has many special effects of nostalgia. As when I was a child, I pretended to have low pixels, and BGM was also retro. In the 1980s, I thought of the dance recently performed by Japanese female high school students.
The word Nostalgia is composed of νόστος, which means " returning" and " returning" in Greek, and ἄλγος, which means " suffering". If literal translation is based on etymology, it should be translated as " pain of returning". For Italian painter George de Chirico in the early 20th century, it seems to me appropriate to use this word to describe the artistic movement of " Metaphysical art" he founded. Chirico believes that art works should be free from the shackles of human nature and go back to the childhood perspective associated with dreams. However, human beings are limited by time and space, so time and space misplacement is the way to achieve this return. In chirico's works of art, appreciators can always glance at the clue of " returning" mission through the expression of space-time misplacement.
▲ Giogio de Chirico, The Solitary Archaeologist, 1937.
▲ Macintosh Plus, 「フローラルの専門店」, 2012.Floral Shoppe, by Macintosh Plus
This presentation reminds me very easily of " Floral Shoppe" released by Macintosh Plus in 2011. Apart from the fluorescent green words and patterns, the album cover is also composed of three unrelated elements: Apollo gypsum head portrait, a false river view and a black and white grid pattern extending far away. In the pink background, these three objects are slightly weird, but they have a wonderful sense of harmony.
Vaporwave was born in the early 10' s of this century, microgenre. The word was first used to describe an electronic music genre, which mainly sampled popular music pieces from Europe, America or Japan from the 1980s to the 1990s, then slowed down, cycled, made old and stylized, presenting a retro and lost look. Some critics described it as a combination of " chopped and screwed plunderphonics" and " nihilistic easy-listening", which embodies two characteristics of steam wave music: the processing of space-time misplacement ( predatory acoustics lies in directly using other music works as the basis of new works; Fragmentation and distortion create a sense of antiquity and confusion ) and confusion in the face of reality ( the nihilism of songs is based on insight and reflection on reality ).
▲ MacPlus91, Vaporwave, 2016-2017.VAPORWAVE
Therefore, Vaporwave also bears the brand of " pain of returning", which is especially obvious in the visual art of steam wave.
Artists place the newly eliminated " antiques" in the same virtual, false color and cyberized space as those ancient aesthetic benchmarks that have undergone vicissitudes, as if they were two monuments in the retrospective process. However, people's inner pain and confusion in the face of reality have also been strengthened in the visual art of steam waves - the time and space constructed by steam waves is not a dream presented by chirico, and it does not even allow you to interpret it, thus missing the metaphysical meaning. On the contrary, it randomly piled up Chinese characters and pseudonyms, cursors and popup windows, and even deliberately handled Lo-Fi, which in my opinion is also the reason why Vaporwave is often associated with glitch art ..
Vaporwave has always given me the feeling of combining surrealism with retro, so I have used some shooting software to mix up some trivial things in my life, like a narrative diary of another style to record my life.















