Book Poem Visualization, Project 3

For this project, I picked the poem Messy Room by Shel Silverstein. For this book, I am going to use illustrator to draw the room and what is described in the poem. I am going to use photoshop to color in the illustrator documents. I want to make the book directed towards children, so the drawings are going to resemble children’s drawings. I am going to bind it together by a string in the bottom left corner to make the book lose, like a mess.

Messy Room By Shel Silverstein

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/shel_silverstein/poems/14818

Self-Visualization Project 2

For my self visualization, I wanted to portray my inspirations in life. The words are the meaning of the claddagh, which is an irish symbol that is very important to me. My family is one of my biggest inspirations, nature being another, and friends being a final one.

Collaborative Presentation Overview

The Rise of Motion Capture Art

Trisha Brown and Reuben Langdon

The theme of our presentation is motion capture art. Reuben Langdon is a stunt man that does stunts for videogames, movies, commercials, and more. Trisha Brown is a choreographer that worked with the movement of humans turned into the movement of light. We wanted to show the change of digital art over the years, and what people can do with it now.

Reuben Langdon's Site - http://www.reubenlangdon.com

Response/Comments on each of the Class' Collaborative Presentations

Masaki Fujihata and Perry Hoberman

The presenters picked two artists that went together very well. Both require interaction with their pieces. Their idea of having an interactive exhibit is a great one because that is not something that is very common. One of the pieces reminded me of something I see at the malls by my house. There is a projection on the floor and when you go near it and interact within the square that it is contained in, the pieces move. I think the interaction is great because it allows the viewers to be one on one with the piece and experience it for themselves.

Lynn Hershman and Marina Abramovic

I like these two artists a lot because instead of using the normal mediums, they use their bodies a lot. They also both portray feminism, which is something I feel that many people are scared to talk about because they are afraid of being ostracized. I was shocked by the fact that Marina Abramovic had a piece where she conflicted pain on herself and self-mutilated her body. I think she intends her piece to be shocking because it makes people realize and pay attention more. I feel the presenters did a good job in giving ample information about the artists and their works, and I feel this would be a very interesting exhibit.

Lucy's Presentation

During her presentation, I was a little lost on who she was talking about. I know that she was talking about avatars on the computer, but I was not sure what else she was talking about. I feel that she picked something that has just evolved, not two different things. There is not much more I can say about her presentation because I did not completely understand it.

Lillian Schwartz and Robert Lazzarini

I found these two artists and their work to be very interesting. Lillian Schwartz has a little bit of humor in her pieces when she combines already existing pieces, like the Mona Lisa and a portrait of Leonardo DaVinci. The video that they showed of her color and sound work, which I found to be very annoying and hard to watch. Robert Lazzarini does a lot of work with warping things which I found to be very cool. I think the artists that they picked created a very interesting exhibit.

Whitney Biennial Compare/Contrast Posting

Two pieces that I particularly liked at the Whitney were Ari Marcopoulos' Detroit and Kate Gilmore's Standing Here. They are both similar and different in many ways. They are both pieces that deal with audio and visual effects. Marcopoulos plays with the theme of youth, and the freedoms that they have. In his piece he has two young boys making noise with all different types of devises. I liked the piece because it was like a home movie and reminded me of my childhood and how my younger brother and I would play together. Kate Gilmore's piece is different because she is dealing more with the social struggles that woman face. Kate is in a column made out of sheetrock. She is wearing a polka dotted dress with heels. Through out the performance she is trying to break free of the column using pure muscle and determination. I liked this piece because she is a woman, doing some sort of construction, which is typically a man's job. She is still exposing the struggles that woman face today.

Word Visualization

For the word visualization, I choose to depict alcohol. I simply typed in the word and used the twirl tool to make the word hard to read, as if you are under the influence of alcohol.