Performance Art Piece Stuff

Modern Sleep

My performance art piece is about how college students don't get enough sleep and the factors that lead to sleep deprivation that distract us at night and how it affects us during the day. I chose this because I personally suffer from really bad insomnia and find it really hard to fall asleep at night. I've noticed that I get really distracted before bed with electronics, social media, food, and other things that keep me awake so I decided that for this piece I will be recording that and showing the audience why I stay awake and the effects of it. I will be showing a type of flipagram/ slideshow of every time I go to bed for a week or two which ranged between 1-4am to show my progression of drowsiness and then when I wake in the morning to show how I am throughout the day. I think the audience will profit because a lot of people can relate to having trouble going to bed with all the distractions that occur around us before bed especially with classes and work. I am going to try my best to add humour in the video to keep the audience entertained but also showing the negative side effects in a serious way. The props in using are things that keep me awake at night like my phone, computer, Playstation, school work, food, and other things and these are important because they are all big distractions that ruin my sleep habits.

Old Technologies vs New Technologies

Some wild technology that was introduced in the late 1980s was the clapper, in which to turn on your lights all you had to do was clap. Back then this was mind-blowing that you didn't need to flip a switch anymore to turn your lights on or even get up from where you were sitting. This has developed over time with more wireless technologies that you can speak to turn your lights on or off or do it from your phone. An example is Alexa by Amazon where you can say "Alexa turn on living room lights" or "Alex dim the lights" and she will do it for you without you having to move. There are different varies of this like Google Home or Echo dot or even Siri on the iPhone. Everything today is become more wireless and is encouraging less movement by humans. Which as we have seen in the movie WALL-E can be a bad thing where everyone just sits all day and doesn't move. In the future, more technology will be developed where people don't have to move to cook their food or do their laundry or anything. Everything in your house will completely be digitalized and do everything for you. There are already commercials that mock this idea and show how lazy our future generation will become.

Difference Between Artist & Inventor

An Artist is someone who creates something with meaning that is meant to either please or shock people. An artist could be someone who paints a picture or writes a song and that artist has meaning behind it but the people who view it may not see it the same way. While an inventor creates something new that is used for a common purpose. Like the invention of the light bulb was used to create light in the dark or the invention of the car was to get from point A to point B quicker and more efficient. While both Artists and Inventors create something new the reasoning behind them are different. Artists create art to inspire and represent a feeling through mixed media while inventors invent to try to get something new that is to be useful for everyone. An artist can be considered an inventor and an inventor can be considered an artist each go hand in hand but the results they produce can differ in major varieties.