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Blog Exercise 10
For my critique, I’ve chosen Jimmy’s Project 3 (https://www.jimmyshan.com/single-post/2017/11/14/Project-3-Final). This piece talks about the tragedy that occurred on campus in September 2014, when a student got hit by lightning during frosh week. The artwork takes images from the news, and tweets from the school that were sent that day. As well as photos taken this year. The images are overlapping and covered with red markings (arrows, etc.) giving the piece a cluttered appearance.
The composition of the piece is very well done. The piece is crowded, but that gives an overwhelming feeling which is perfect for the meaning of the artwork. The red markings all over give the piece movement by guiding the eyes of the viewer through the piece. The linear layout of the tweets and images is an effective way to tell the story of what happened. The repeating image that changes in saturation gives the piece an uncanny feeling. The initial thought of the piece is that it is a detective’s work looking at a murder.
The piece is very well done. Aesthetically, I would not change a thing about it. I would recommend a title to the piece as it would help the viewer understand what event it is illustrating.
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Project 4
For my final project, I experimented with live action video, effects, and 3D animations. I have edited many videos and wanted to step out of my comfort zone and try something new by adding 3D animations. There are many films that incorporate animations alongside live action footage, for example the Harry Potter series, Deadpool, Hop, etc. I was inspired by these films, as well as the artist Sara Gunnarsdóttir. Gunnarsdóttir has many clips of live action and animations mixed together. Particularly, I was intrigued by A Good Dream (http://www.saragunnarsdottir.com/#/animation-feature-film/) where there was a girl petting an animated cat – she was imagining the cat was there. Gunnarsdóttir primarily uses 2D animations in her live action video.
Hybrid video combines different types of media together to form a mixed media result. I animated children’s imagination into their reality. “Whether these media are openly juxtaposed or almost seamlessly blended together is less important than the fact of this co-presence itself” (Manovich, 2007). I chose the openly juxtaposed technique because imaginations are not seamlessly blended into reality. There is usually an unrealistic event in imagination.
I decided to have a more child-cartoon look to resemble my theme of imagination. I filmed my cousin’s children drawing pictures on a typical Saturday morning. Her daughter just came home from dance class, and her son had to leave for karate. Their house is always hectic and I wanted to capture the chaos surrounding the kids drawing. I chose to have a single shot of video to show the constant time lapse (sequence shot). There was no script or story line editing. The shot is taken from the corner of their dining room which is in the center of their house. In the clip, the parent’s faces are never shown because the focus of the video is the children in the mayhem of their house. The only instruction I gave to the kids was to draw a picture. Children’s imaginations are readily available, and having them draw allows us to observe their subconscious mind. My cousin’s son, Connor, drew a ‘Dragon forest’, which surprised me because usually his art revolves around vehicles such as trucks, tractors, planes, etc. Whereas Rachel, my cousin’s daughter, kept her picture simple and involving princesses which is exactly what I expected. Connor’s personality is very detail oriented and has must make everything perfect – but he is also very indecisive. He drew ‘the lines’ of the drawing first, then added colour after. He followed this process to ensure his drawing was the way he wanted it. Rachel started immediately with colour and knew exactly how she wanted draw her crown, which is just like her personality. I animated their drawings into the video to resemble their ongoing imagination amongst their disordered Saturday. The parent’s faces are never seen in the clip emphasize they do not see their kid’s imagination.
Manovich, Lev. “Understanding Hybrid Media.” Animated Paintings, San Diego Museum of Art, 2007.
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Blog Exercise 8 & 9
Deep remixability: To incorporate various media types and practices together. It is essentially mixing the different forms of art.
Variable form: Many parts of the art are constantly changing throughout the piece. Such as transparency, texture, etc.
Continuity turn: Art that progressively changes over time.
Metamedium: The combination of all the art mediums edited as though they are one.
I am choosing to do Option 1 - Experimental Hybrid Video.
I have not thought of a concrete idea yet, but I want to explore 3D animation and CGI. Christophe Heughe, a CGI artist, combines digital photography with CGI and 3D animations. I hope to use 3D animations along with video in project 4.
Below is a link to one of Heughe’s pieces: https://www.behance.net/gallery/37056933/TAKOON-kiteboarding-compagny
The equipment required is a video camera, and various editing software (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Blender, etc).
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Project 3
This piece explores the relationship between stillness and movement. I was most intrigued by video pieces that occasionally had small movements to distract the viewer. This technique of digital art is called Tableau Vivant, meaning living picture. Pageant of the Masters located in Laguna Beach, California, is a yearly event that displays living art (“Pageant”, n.d). At this event people are dressed up and placed ‘into’ images. The actors remain still for a period of time to appear like a painting. I incorporated this idea by having a still image as a video clip, then included a small movement to emphasize the video form. I wanted this piece to have a personal message for the audience. The message I tried to portray was that sometimes we are hard on ourselves and don’t realize our success. This is illustrated by someone looking at their reflection and seeing small weights on the bar, yet the viewer sees all the weights. The weights symbolize his accomplishments or success, and the reflection represents how he sees himself. The reflection is shaking and appears to be struggling. Although, outside of the reflection the image is still with no struggle. The large weights in the center of the image are distracting in the shot to draw attention to the amount of weights outside of the reflection. After looking at the weights the viewers’ eyes travel down his arm, then into the reflection where the image starts to move. “We are presented with a world that seemingly mirrors common reality, and it is only after further investigation that we are struck by a sudden, uncertain feeling about what we are viewing” (Hamblin, n.d). The position he is holding the weights and bar are quite unrealistic. The strength needed to lift that is insane. I touched a little bit of the uncanny feeling by creating an unrealistic situation, but a further analysis of the image is needed. Jeff Wall is an artist that experiments with a lot of uncanny photography. An example of Jeff Wall’s art that requires a deeper interpretation to see the uncanniness is The Flooded Grave. At first glance the image looks like a typical cemetery, but the dug grave is flooded with coral, starfish, etc. I was inspired to have an uncanny feeling from his work.
Work Cited
Hamblin, Luke A. R. The Tableau, The Real and the Uncanny. “Pageant of the Masters.” Festival of Arts, www.foapom.com/.
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Blog Exercise 7
Sorted by camera shots. Close range to far range.
“Big Buck Bunny.” Blender, 29 May 2008, www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE7VzlLtp-4&t=284s.
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Project 2
Balance
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• Had a photoshoot with roommates using iPhone 7 • Imported images (jpeg files) • Opened the main image in Photoshop and saved as a bmg file (made multiple copies) • Import the image as raw data in Audacity
• Highlight majority (avoiding header information) of data
• Effect->Normalize
• File->Export Audio • File type: Other uncompressed files Header: RAW (header-less) Encoding: U-Law Name file with .bmg • Re-import original image • Highlight majority (avoiding header information) of data • Effect->Reverse • File->Export Audio • File type: Other uncompressed files Header: RAW (header-less) Encoding: U-Law Name file with .bmg • Re-import original image • Highlight majority (avoiding header information) of data • Effect->Distortion • File->Export Audio • File type: Other uncompressed files Header: RAW (header-less) Encoding: U-Law Name file with .bmg • Open all new images in Photoshop • Normalize effect image: Erase everything except myself and Quinn • Reverse effect image: Erase everything except Oliver and Maegan • Duplicate both Normalize and Reverse images and place onto Distortion (line up with Distortion image) • Duplicate the Distortion image layer • Add a hue and saturation layer on the duplicated Distortion image to give purple tinge • On that layer erase vertical stripes to unveil the original Distortion behind it • Open other photos taken (jpegs) in Photoshop and export as bmp files • Import as Raw Data in Audacity • Highlight majority of data avoiding the header information • Effect->Phaser • File->Export Audio • File type: Other uncompressed files Header: RAW (header-less) Encoding: U-Law Name file with .bmg • Open files in Photoshop • Erase all the background leaving the people in the layer • Import these layers to the main file • Line up these layers in the proper location on main image (Distortion background) • Change opacity levels on these layers to 64% • Merge all layers from Normalized and Reversed effect • Duplicate this layer 3 times • Change opacity to 32% and place randomly in image • Import original main image into Photoshop • Erase everything except for streaks around eyes • Import this layer into main image • Put layer on top of all layers • Export final image as jpeg
Artist Statement:
In this project, I explored the relationships between people – specifically my roommates. During the photoshoot, the photos were not planned because I wanted them to be real and represent us. The positioning of the group speaks to the relationships within the house. I am close with all members of the household and ended up in contact with all three roommates. Whereas Maegan is only in contact with me because there has not been enough time spent building the other relationships. Quinn and I have been good friends for two years and we both are the reason our group is together. Quinn and Oliver are cousins, and Oliver and I became good friends over the past two months. I added other images to the background of the main image and you can see the personalities of all of us in them. There is an image where Oliver and Maegan both stood behind a tree, and I jumped on Quinn’s back. This describes how Oliver and Maegan are reserved, and Quinn and I can be insane.
I was highly interested in the effects in the Audacity software and primarily used these to glitch the image. I wanted to link the name of the effects to why I was glitching in that way. “..as it is about tweaking visual characteristics or using it to convey meaning through choice of subject matter” (Moradi, 2004). I tried to have a contextual meaning behind the effects I used in Audacity. In the image, Quinn and I have Audacity’s Normalize effect because in this group we the craziest. Maegan and Oliver have the Reverse effect because they are ‘normal’ reserved people. The idea is if you tone the crazy people down, and tone the normal people up it makes a balanced ‘family’. I used the Distortion effect on the background to represent the distorted views people have on each other. Each of us have reputations amongst other people that may not be a true representation of ourselves Yet we have a realistic view of one another because living with people gives you that perspective many people don’t see. Along the right of the image are our eyes peaking in to represent this.
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Blog Exercise 6
Constructed Narrative:
A photo that tells a story. In this example, there is a man in a hospital bed with an injury. His body is a bit transparent indicating that he is dying.
diCorcia, Philip-Lorca. Vittorio Scarpatti. 1989. MoMA. Chromogenic color print. Date accessed October 22, 2017.
Tableau:
A still image that is cinematically lit and posed. In this example the viewer is looking in through a window which isn’t a typical perspective of a photograph. This viewpoint creates the impression that we are watching this woman – such as a film would.
Crewdson, Gregory. Untitled (Girl on Window). 1999. Chromogenic print. Date accessed October 22, 2017.
Re-enactment:
An image that portrays a previous occurrence. This piece is the death of St. Francis, which occurred October 3, 1226, in Assisi, Italy. But the photo was taken in 2011.
Shonibare, Yinka. The Death of St Francis - Bartolom Carducho. 2011. Digital chromogenic print. Date accessed October 22, 2017.
Uncanny:
A photo that gives an ominous feeling. In this example by Jeff Wall, there is a man siphoning gas. It is assumed that he is stealing the gas because he is crouched on the ground hiding from other people. This gives an unsettling feeling because he is committing a crime next to a child. It is unclear who the child is in relation to him but nonetheless he is showing a child unacceptable behaviour.
Wall, Jeff. Siphoning Fuel. 2008. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk. Inkjet print. Date accessed October 22, 2017.
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Blog Exercise 4
A pure glitch is a random error that causes a flaw in the image, whereas a glitch-a-like is an artificial error produced from human manipulation.
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Download iHex app Open image as jpeg Scroll to approx. half way through code Find and replace all 07 to 04 Scroll further Find and replace all 07 to 04
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Download Pixel Sorting plugin for Photoshop (https://dribbble.com/shots/2644549-Pixel-Sorting-Effect-Photoshop-Action) Open Photoshop Open image as jpeg Run pixel sorting script with default settings
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Open image in Audacity as bmp Seconds 1-2: Effect->Echo Seconds 2-3: Effect->Repeat Seconds 3-4: Effect->Echo Export as uncompressed bmp
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Open image in Audacity as bmp Seconds 3-5: Effect->Reverse Seconds 5-end: Effect->Distorition Seconds 4-6: Effect->Repeat Export as uncompressed bmp
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Open image in Audacity as bmp Highlight large section -> Effect->Normalize Highlight half of previous section -> Effect->Invert Highlight half of previous section -> Effect->Phaser Highlight half of previous section -> Effect->Wahwah Export as uncompressed bmp
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Open image in TextEdit as jpeg Replace all with ó
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Open image in TextEdit as jpeg Replace all ó with
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Download Pixel Sorting plugin for Photoshop (https://dribbble.com/shots/2644549-Pixel-Sorting-Effect-Photoshop-Action) Open Photoshop Open image as jpeg Run pixel sorting script on midtones and shadows Black and white
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Open Audacity Open image as raw data Highlight a chunk in the middle Effect->Invert Export as uncompressed bmp
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Open TextEdit Open image as jpeg Highlight large chunks of ascii code, cut, and paste somewhere else Save Rotate image Save Highlight large chunks of ascii code, cut, and paste somewhere else Etc.
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Project 1
Artist Statement:
Snapchat is a popular social media messaging app where users send photos or videos to their friends with the expectation of the clip only lasting a maximum of ten seconds. Users can select the duration of each message. After the message is watched, the app erases the data and cannot be viewed again. Every user knows their recipient has the power to screenshot images to save photos, and they are notified when their friend saves still images.
But there are ways to save videos or photos without the sender knowing. Hackers can make encrypted drives to store all the messages sent to them. These clips in the GIF are previous snapchats that I have sent, and saved. The graphic GIF represents the recovering of the deleted snapchat files on an encrypted drive.
I used extreme, unrealistic colours to represent the absurdity of the snapchats I have sent. These colours contrast with the ugly, old Windows user interface which expresses the relentless way of a computer. Colour plays a valuable role in GIF art because it can attract viewers (McKay, n.d.). I chose colours that are not likely seen every day to depict the amusing scenarios of the snaps.
These saved snapchats are from various activities with my friends. They range from quiet canoe rides, silly obstacle courses, to getting rowdy on a Saturday night in Newfoundland. Bringing these snapchats back to life defeats the purpose of the messaging app. These clips were intended to be shared once with friends, then deleted. But now they are appearing in an art piece that will last forever. “Internet art — inherently ephemeral and infinitely reproducible — eludes commodification and largely operates independently of the art market” (McKay, n.d.). These snapchats can be reproduced and sent countless times in the form of internet art.
McKay, Sally. The Affect of Animated GIFs (Tom Moody, Petra Cortright, Lorna Mills). Art and Education. Accessed 28 Sept. 2017.
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