Assignment #42

List five events from 1994

As I was not born yet in 1984, I had to slightly modify the assignment. Instead of listing five events from 1984, I chose five things that happened during the year of 1994. I was about 5 years old back then.

1.I saw the movie Jurassic Park for the first time.
2.I started kindergarten at Ecole Les Moussaillons de Saint-Honore de Temiscouata.
3.I got my first video game console for Christmas (SNES or Super Nintendo).
4.I got my first video game for my birthday (Donkey Kong Country).
5.I read my first newspaper.

In order to make sure that all these events really happened during the year of 1994 I had to consult several sources. First of all, the movie Jurassic Park came out in 1993. The VHS version of the movie came out the next year. I got this information off the internet. For the second element, it was a bit harder, since I was having a hard time finding my kindergarten grades report. When I finally found it (the pages were yellow from a long shelf-life and smelt) I looked at the date at the top left corner and concluded that it was in 1994. The third element was the easiest to conclude, because the SNES came out around the same year as Jurassic Park (a bit earlier I think). According to Wikipedia, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System came out in America in 1992. I did not get it that year, because it was a bit expensive upon the initial release and I was too young (3 years old). Not only did I get my first video game in 1994, but the game itself was made the same year. The video game was for my Super Nintendo which I had gotten two days earlier. To validate the date of the release of the game, I simply googled for “Donkey Kong Country” and quickly found the year it came out. I used a different source to prove the accuracy of my my last element. I was not sure at first whether I had read my first newspaper at 5 or 6, so I decided to ask my mother, who still has the original newspaper.

As cited on Wikipedia: “Art refers to a diverse range of human activities and artifacts”. Humans use their imagination to create things. In my opinion, Art is a means of expressing oneself. As we have learnt in class, there are many forms of arts. Art has many genres, forms, and styles. On artist Miranda July's assignment website, most of the assignments are art since we are asked to either draw or write something. Some others ask you to actually build things. We can relate some of the assignments to postmodernism for several reasons. For instance, assignment #51 asks you to make a paper replica of your bed. Another good example is the assignment which is about giving yourself an advice in the past. This is a postmodern idea, for it is not part of modern art nor any other form of art. To conclude, most of the assignments are about art since we have to use our imagination. The website is also a kind of museum or a display of works of other people.