fields and frames idea

create a vinyl and use the needle on either a polyograph or seismograph 

use mood of polygraph to play music of vinyl

artist research - Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono 

"a dream you dream alone is only a dream, a dream you dream together is reality" 

known as the women who broke up the best band ever Yoko ono is infamous to some but to others she is an inspiration and true modern women. 

born in Tokyo in 1933 yokos career was jump started when she moved to newyork, meeting lenon in 1966 at one of her art showings the worked in collaboration till his death in 1980. she then began her own lustrous career including peace efforts to honor her husbands memory. 

  Yoko's work started with her poetry which was considered to radical. this peom discribes the similiarity and shared humanity we all contain. bringing emapthy for the fellow man.

Yoko's work often relied on audience participation. for example in her piece "cut piece" she asked members of the public to cut of a part of her clothing till she was naked. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sc47KfJjcI 

this showing a paticular view of comming together and people participation which became a main theme in her work. 

with her affair and later marriage to beatles front man john lennon her art took a more peace influenced view. her art became about connecting people to the view of a better more peaceful world. 

most famous of these peace themed works was her installation piece "bed in" which was a protest piece against the vietnam war. this was meant to bring the idea that peaceful sit ins was a productive way to bring change to society. 

yoko's work can be seen as a journey to peace. writing songs about the very real idea of world peace and using lennons glasses as a symbol. 

this piece called "war is over (if you want it)" shows a very real and personal impact of humanity and the yoko's and the worlds journey towards peace.

yoko set up several foundations for the arts in memory of her late husband aimed at leading a journey towards peace by promotion of the arts in serveral diffrent countries, these included the strawberry fields in new york, the imagine peace tower in iceland and the john lennon musceum in japan. 

in parrell to her artworks yoko was a musician, often her music pushed the limits of the mainsteam using collaberations with artists such as the basement jaxxs. her music often represented her vision for peace and political messages such as her strong views of feminism. 

yoko's work has often been assicated with the Fluxus movment. this was a movement of radical artisits who created new never before seen artforms, breaking the mold and driving technology with their art. they were seen as intermedia which is a key aspect of yokos career. she was massivly influenced by john cages work.   left cage right ono]

she began collabertating with la monte young in newyork creating the piece painting to be stepped on. a work which relyed again on audience participation via footprints and also challanged the idea of works being inaccessible on walls.

as explained before cut piece was another important project of hers, using audience participation to challange views of gender roles and the gaze and feminism as well as other issues of class. 

her next art piece was a book called grapefruit

 the book reads as a set of instructions through which the work of art is completed-either literally or in the imagination of the viewer participant.-wikipiedia

this again requires the audience participation in her work and requires the audience to go through a journey of instructions to reach the artpiece.

One example is "Hide and Seek Piece: Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies."

later in her career she moved into the moving image with experimental films

she made 16 short films. 

Bottoms.^[75][76] The five-and-a-half-minute film consists of a series of close-ups of human buttocks walking on a treadmill. The screen is divided into four almost equal sections by the elements of the gluteal cleft and the horizontal gluteal crease. The soundtrack consists of interviews with those who are being filmed, as well as those considering joining the project - Wikipedia

this film is about representation and our views of people. 

small note .....yoko ono film "fly" vs breaking bad "fly" 

i think there is somthing to bed said for not relying on shock value in film making. actually relying on good film making technique and visual intelligence. 

yokos film is her screaching at a close up of a fly on her foot. very diffrent value of film making in my opinion. 

Another example of Ono's participatory art was her Wish Tree project, in which a tree native to the installation site is installed. Her 1996Wish Piece had the following instructions:

Make a wish

Write it down on a piece of paper

Fold it and tie it around a branch of a Wish Tree

Ask your friends to do the same

Keep wishing

Until the branches are covered with wishes

in conclusion i think yoko onos work is centred around the theme of audience participation to create a shared idea of peace and human betterment.  

John cage is the is also an artist related to the journey.

his art work travels across the page. its like the paint is on a journey across the canvas. 

here are some examples 

Cage is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4′33″, which is performed in the absence of deliberate sound; musicians who present the work do nothing aside from being present for the duration specified by the title. The content of the composition is not "four minutes and 33 seconds of silence," as is often assumed, but rather the sounds of the environment heard by the audience during performancei think this piece is to make people thing more about the nature and structure of music and debate what sound is. in 1951, he tossed coins to determine duration, pitch and dynamics for his Music of Changes. 
Cage discovered that chance was as important of a force governing a musical composition as the artist's will, and allowed it to play a central role in all of his compositions. Although each piece has a basic, composed structure, the overall effect varied with each performance as different variables like the location and audience directly affected the sounds that were produced.


i think chance can be seen as a network as it is something that connects the world and everyone else in it. the idea of determinism.