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Group 9 – Francesca Woodman photographed images of women, mostly naked and faces unable to depict. Although these women were naked in no way where they sexualized. Her work is simplistic but also dark and mysterious. Unlike Stelarc who’s work is innovated and seems more experimental. He is taking the human body and modifying it. We believe Stelarc is he trying to make us think about the human body differently while Woodman is trying to show the natural beauty of the body.

Hastie,Brianna Danielle
Hernandez,Gabriela
Householder,Gina Autumn
Hyun,Joshua
Johnson,Rebekah Katherine

Francesca Woodman is a wonderful artist who we think uses an immense amount of feelings in each of her photos. We found that a majority of her images are of a person alone, and in black in white, which made us believe that the person is resembling one being lonely, vulnerable and having personal inner conflict. On the other hand, we thought Stelarc’s work was very intense and interesting. We wondered what went through his mind to want to go through all these body modifications and what his deeper meaning for all of his work is. Although, immediately we did not know what his work was saying, every project made us ponder on his thoughts and his creative ways. Overall, we found that both artists use themselves in their work and are exploiting the human body. Additionally both of their work is very intense, dark and tend to have solemn facial expressions.

Group Members:
Braverman,Madison
Brenes,Xiomara
Bursch,Daniel
Butler,Francesca
Cameron ,Regan
Carus,Devon

Though there are some similarities between the work of Woodman and Stelarc have some similarities, such as the interest in human form, the medium of photography, and use of black and white, the two artists produce works that are largely very different from one another. While Woodman’s work revolves around the female form in different women, Stelarc’s work is entirely self portraiture. Stelarc’s work explores the mechanics of the body whilst Woodman’s work explores the relation of the body to the environment which it is in. Woodman limits her work to black and white while Stelarc uses both b&w and color. Both artists explore pain, but the difference lies within the types of pain; Woodman explores emotional pain for the most part and Stelarc explores physical pain.

Tabar,Jazlyn Marie
Tan,Kordell Bernaldez
Tan,Sam
Tim,Crysta Nicole
Topete,Cassandra Victoria
Tran,Nancy
Tran,Tiffany Thuy

Group 14:
We felt that the two artists really focus on the human body. Woodman’s art was more focused on women’s bodies. We found it really depressing but very realistic. Stelarc’s art was much more futuristic and was really focused on the actual parts of the body.

Nhem,Brandon Chap
Ooi Jing Huan
Pallett,Symone Nicole
Pantoja,Katherine
Peng,Cheryl
Perez,Leah Jennifer

The most interesting thing we found out was Francesca committed suicide on one of our group members birthday which was the first day we met January 19th and that she was mainly interested in gothic fiction and she didn’t want to show her face in her first picture. Another interesting thing we found was that Stelarc basically doesn’t have many boundaries regarding the human body; for example growing an ear on his body. And his art defines his personality. By: Shayenne Prasad, Molly Poyer, Jerry Pleitez, Greg Plantenga, Enrique Plascencia

group 2 thoughts and comments:
I felt that both artists touched on body acceptance. With Woodman a lot of the pictures had the subjects faces obscured or blurred. i thought that could represent shame. with stelarc i thought. Comparing the two, they presented themselves in their works that show the pain the human body can go through in life.the difference between them is that woodman appeared to show more of a conservative side and stelarc was more out there for his art. both of the artists works seemed timid but soon got comfortable with showing certain things. I feel like both artist have the common theme of the body and the way they feel about their body’s and how others can see body’s through different perspectives.

Barreda,Maria Jose
Bay,Peter Sim
Behzadian,Jonathan Reza
Betancourt,Vanessa
Bolden,Amber Cheyane

Elizabeth Moledo,David Brown, Konomi Ishigaki, Annette Lee, reuben dyce,Alfonso Madrigal, Anthony Estalilla

Francesca Woodman used images of herself and other females to show her own emotions. We thought that because her pictures were only black and white it showed a dark, depressed side of her. Stelarc’s art is exotic and one of a kind. We found it crazy that he used his own body to convey his message even if there was pain involved. But both artists use bodies as their artwork and main focus.

We thought that Francesca Woodman’s photography was dark but portrayed a lot of emotion. We thought it was beautiful in a kind of twisted way. Stelarc summed up in one word is just interesting. The way he combined his body with the machines was really interesting to us as well as slightly disturbing. We were all taken a back especially the Suspension exhibit.

I apologize for the late post, one of the group members had said they would post our comment but must have forgotten in the shuffle to get to their next class or something! I just wanted to make sure our group’s comment was up!

Group Names:

Fernandes,Marlon Bernard
Fields,Jayson Kyle
Filosa,Jamie Janine
Galindo,Daniella
Garcia,Danielle Leslie
Garcia,Jennifer

Group 18:
Shinno,Katherine Ruiko
Shishido,Kyle K
Siongco,Colleen Mae
Stevens,Megan Louise
Stouras,John Alec
Tabar,Jazlyn Marie

Stelarc uses technology to depict how society is well connected with electronics and machinery. He also uses the technology to enhance the human body in ways that it originally was not intended to be. Stelarc is not afraid to step out of his comfort zone and take risks with his art which may be considered out of the societal norm. Francesca Woodman’s work uses bland backgrounds to get viewers to focus on the human body instead of the surroundings. Her use of the black and white photography makes it look more raw and simple, as compared to color which can distract the viewer from her true intentions. Her work involves nude women and it does not seem sexualized but empowering. Both artists focus on body image but interpret them differently, Stelarc uses prosthetics and other objects to signify being different in the real world. Francesca Woodman’s work signifies a positive body image and being comfortable in your own skin in the most simple ways.

Group 13

Stelarc was very experimental and done things no one had really done before. He shows things that you don’t want to look at but can’t look away.
Francesca Woodman was very open, she showed us what she thinks of the world and her self because her pictures are a reflection of herself.

Mia Miller
Zak Minert
Christopher Moore
Francisco Miranda
Carlos Nava
Raven Montgomery

( I am sorry I accidentally put my group’s discussion on the the wrong page.)