lisa

link to joellyns blog

2006-05-12T04:20:30Z

the class as a whole

2006-05-12T04:00:27Z

well this class is over. and well it went more smoothly then i had imagined. i was real nervous for it. i have definitely been putting it off. i must admitt i have had fun. it wasnt as scary as i had thought it would be. i guess i just had to get past the whole "computer thing", man i get twitchy just saying it. they really are not my friend. they freeze on me. dont do what i want them to do. and worst of all you just cant get around without using them, they are pretty much taking over. even the art scene. i mean you can see example of it all over the place. from target to ipod to random ads in magazines or poster. EVERYWHERE. and that has made me a bit freaked out.
so i guess it was fine time i face this digital word.

]]> i think this semester has been pretty good over all. i have had my fair share of digital issue, but seem to have found a way to solve them.

im not sure i can say im entirely comfortable with creating digital art, but this course has definitely helped me improve and realize other options.

i would have to say my favorites were the mosaic and the narrative.

yeah. i think that sounds about right

i wasnt too crazy about the idea of blogs, but now i can say i actually enjoy them. it is nice to see everyones ideas and final product in one area. i am a bit confused as to why some of my comments on others blogs appear and others dont show up. maybe it is the browser or maybe it is just not switched over to accept them. ive spent a lot of time looking at jessie, taryn and chelseys blog (the three below mine) and i must say i pretty much like all of there projects. its cool to see all their work on one site, all next to one another.

we have seen some real cool stuff in this class. and i was way impressed with everyones final projects. it was neat to see all the variety.

well. i guess that is about it.

herodion light show

2006-05-07T03:15:05Z

this was the japanese light show i was talking about that i got to see on new years eve while i was in athens.

it was pretty amazing,
cliche, but it was a once in a life time chance to see something like this.

you can see the light projection in the lower right

]]> and here are some close ups...

random

2006-05-01T22:30:46Z

found this website while looking up the ceramist paul scott on google. its called the Fold Gallery.

]]> it has a lot of interesting artist with very different styles. not all in the digital world, but still very cool.....

think it is worth your time.

check it out

http://www.foldgallery.co.uk/artists.html

extra credit

2006-05-01T18:43:54Z

I created a quicktime movie of my Princess and the pea narrative. and also
I went to the Greece Secrets of the Past at the Omnimax Theatre

]]> i was a bit disapointed with the movie. i thought it would have been longer and more informative. seemed very jumpy. i felt like the moment i sat down i was getting up to leave.

as far as the animation of the parthenon, that was cool. imagine what it looked like in actual time. . .

final project, or should i say feet are gross

2006-04-25T19:56:19Z

for my final project i am going to do an extension of a project i did in digital photography.

]]> in photo i took images of my women in the kitchen and put the images on plates. this project was based on the joke: "why are women's feet smaller than men'?" "so they can stand closer to the stove."

i think this joke is ridic and to be honest makes me quite upset. i once had someone say it to me. they werent joking. im not such a fan of their type of thinking.

i have big feet. silly them

i think what i am gonna do is take pictures of womens feet and put these also on plates. i want them to be able to be displayed together. my first images were black and white so i think i am gonna follow through with this inorder for them to work well as a series. i want them to be clear images. nothing to distract from the the photo itself. geting them on the platess is a pretty involved complicated task, so, i think i am gonna try and do 6.

the final project images themselves are gonna be circular about 4 inches in diameter i think i will have about 4 of those and then 2 larger images at 5 inches in diameter.

at first look it may appear as though i didnt use any "digital" tools to complete this project. i probably could have done this without using photoshop. but i did, i actually relied quite a bit on it.
it was a real difficult task to first get the compositions to work well with one another. i wanted them to feel right with eachother and with my fist set of these plates. i also had to work with the contrast and brightness. making certain areas become darker, and others lighter.

i like that there are feet on plates. its gross. feet are gross.

rafael lozano-hemmer

2006-04-19T04:02:43Z

the artist that caught my interest is rafael lozano-hemmer. rafael was born in mexico City in 1967. in 1989 he got a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry at Concordia University in Canada.

in our text, Digital Art rafael is mentioned in the chapter, "Digital Technologies as a Medium." his work combines existing structure with a projected animated images. i think that the combination of these two different mediums is very interesting. i can only imagine there is a lot of preparation and planning that goes through his process. his working process is quite intense and goes through many steps to get to his final product.

]]> the work that i looked at was the DISPLACED EMPERORS. in this work, rafael projected onto the facade of the Habsburg Castle in Linz, Austria. using Wireless sensors audience members could control a projected hand that through movement would show the inside of the Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City. there is a quicktime video of his process and the end result that was very neat to see.
http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/video/displaced.html

the interaction of the artist and the viewer is something that i think is very important. i believe that all art relies on the viewer but some artist incorporate this aspect even more.

the initial reason why his work appealed to me was because while i was in greece there was a japanese artist that projected random imagery onto the herodion on the bottom of the acropolis. i found that the contrast of an ancient building in relation to a modern art form amazing. and rafaels work i believe is very similar to the experience i had in greece watching the light show.

he has a lot of other really cool stuff. similar style or process as displaced emperors, such as 'under scan relational architecture 11,' 're:positioning fear relational architecture 3' and he also has quite a bit of different styles of art. here are some of the images of his shows http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/eimagenes.html

im not sure his work will directly influence my work, although i do find it inspirational that the interaction between his audience and his art is so strong. it is a vital part of his art. he relies almost 100 percent on the viewers interaction with his piece of art.

you all should check his art out at http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/eprlh.html

let me know what you think about it

eleusis

2006-04-11T03:07:23Z

this project has been very fun for me to work on. it is nice to be able to go back and look over all my photos of greece. the only bad thing is it makes me miss it even more. i started out a little confused as to what to do with this project. it was very open-ended and wasnt sure where to take it. but after a while we decided to interview eve browning. she went with on our trip to greece and is very smart. she knows a lot about mythology. it was great to have her explain it to us.

]]> our project is coming along pretty well. we have had some technical issues along the way. quite a few actually. it never seem to fail. computers are not my thing. it will teach us to save and save and save. oh well. im actually pretty sick of computers. ha. anyway. the interview with eve went so good. she explained so much that we didnt know. you could tell she was very excited about telling us all she knew.

well we have finished with the project. overall i am happy with the result. it was my first time working on making a movie. the lighting was pretty crumby. but. i think it was an informative piece and she had a lot to say. i wish we could have maybe put some images within the movie, but we were having so many problems with imovie. maybe next time.

first couple projects

2006-04-06T03:58:26Z

i really enjoyed our first projects. i thought it was very interesting to see all the style differences throughout the class in the self project. i thought everybody had a very distinct individual style. it was also neat to see how we all approached the narrative project and incorporated our styles into it. there was such a wide range....

]]> there were a few that i really like. the two i thought were really neat were taryns and ginnys. i really liked the simplicity of ginnys. and thought the characters were really cute and playful. i think the color use was great for her 10 images and they all worked really well as a series of connected work- they flowed well together. i also like the color choices in taryns. she incorporated the photography and illustrations well. she had some very powerful images.

princess and the pea

2006-03-01T22:59:03Z

i really had no idea what fairytale to use at first. i tried to think of one my mom read to me when i was younger but came up with nothing.
after giving up on that idea, i remembered that i had always like the story of the princess and the pea when they read it to us in gradeschool. they image of the princess laying in a bed of like 80 different layers always stuck in my head. i think the picture are always powerful. especially as a kid. so.....

for my narrative project i decided to use the princess and the pea for my fairytale. i am a collector and really enjoy old used stuff. anything and everything. my mom is also a keeper, we dont like to throw away anything that could possibly come in handy. so for this project it was great that my mom had kept her wedding shower wraping paper. so i used the paper from the 70 and then old photographs. creating a style within photoshop

]]> i unified my images with the paper and a color scheme dominated by pinks and oranges and purples. i am very happy with the outcome of this project. i like the idea of recycling old items into something new.

this is my digital narrative......http://www.d.umn.edu/~atki0093/story/

2006-02-06T23:02:32Z

self portrait

2006-02-06T22:36:35Z

i really enjoyed being able to work with my own photography for this project. i think this was definitely a good introduction project. kinda eased me into using photoshop, so i wasnt overwhelmed. i tend to get real anxious with computers especially when it is creating art with them. i was not use to using photoshop, other then a means of enhancing photos. so i started out really nerve. i am actually really happy with my final image. it actually shows my style of art really well. and that is something i was afraid i wouldnt be able to achieve through photoshop. i think this self portrait works real well with my other work.