VISA 0120 Foundations Media: Computation + Art

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Artists: Marlee Bruning & Lissa Mazanec

Public spaces are crucial for the fomation of community and the interaction of different social groups. Green area is a place of refuge in urban environments. This installation made people think about their daily interaction with public space. People placed balloons as symbols of their appreciation of public green space. As the day continued, more and more people came to celebrate what is often taken for granted.

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Artists: Marlee Bruning & Lissa Mazanec

Public spaces are crucial for the fomation of community and the interaction of different social groups.  Green area is a place of refuge in urban environments.  This installation made people think about their daily interaction with public space.  People placed balloons as symbols of their appreciation of public green space.  As the day continued, more and more people came to celebrate what is often taken for granted.

Link to PDF: Celebration Public Space

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giggle

Working with & attempting to reinterpret the imagery found in my billow video, I developed the processing form of “giggle & go on”, a saying used in dispiriting circumstances.

I chose to rework or rethink my clouds/pipe video. It was one project that I felt fit well with some of my knowledge from processing. Using a simple “if” command, my plans are for the viewer to be able to go back and forth between scenes. By reading my notes on the picture one can get the details of what I would like to accomplish in terms of color, movement, interaction, ect.

Kansas

Taking a fairly straightforward approach to my self portrait, I created an image reinterpreting the seal of my home state Kansas. 

Relevant Artist: Erkki Kurenniemi

Photo from following article: Zhuang, Justin. “A Look Back at the Future.” Just Ramble <http://justrambling.wordpress.com>. 

Born in 1941, Erkki Kurenniemi is known as one of the great pioneers of the electronic age. A man of many talents, Kurenniemi has been able to blend his expertise as a musician, designer and film-maker in combination with computers and robotics to build a career. In current times, Kurenniemi is continually recording an audio diary, video and shooting photos in attempts to preserve his own life. The collection Kurenniemi is amassing is to be premiered in 2048 as a “virtual persona” merging man and machine in an attempt at immortality.

Relevant Artist: Maya Deren

Photo from following article: ”Maya Deren.” MographWiki <http://www.mographwiki.net/>.

I feel that it is also important to give Maya Derens acknowledgement for particular audio inspiration derived from her film “Meshes of the Afternoon”.

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For Assignment #5 I once again wanted to use the wind, because of the movement it visually either does or does not create, as a starting inspiration point. I played on ideas from Kurenniemi’s obsession with technology and Deren’s “humming” audio. I then combined these ideas with a visual intention similar to that of my “slow” film, where there were almost still frame photographs with only subtle movements that draw the eye. 

“billow”, both in film and audio, creates an interesting juxtaposition between very natural, “human” elements and unnatural technologies with pace adding an extra detail.

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Yellow is a color with many personalities. Some of the yellow I captured was calming, easy going with a rhythmic flow, but other fragments of yellow were jolting with hard lines crisply defining the pigment. And so this short film is dedicated to the color yellow.