Project 2

I am going to be taking an image of myself at Christmas and I will be creating a vector map portrait. I hope to include the sunglasses on my Santa hat, the Santa hat itself, and the shirt im wearing. I am unsure as to how to go about adding shadows and features to my face.

Scott Kildall

http://www.kildall.com/artwork/2009/black_hole/index.html


Scott Kildall states that he works at the intersection of media culture and human memory. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in Political Philosophy from Brown University in 1991. He received a Master of Fine Arts through the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Art and Technology Studies department in 2006. His artwork depicts collapse but into the mysterious and awe inspiring future. He has created a sense of 3 Dimensional space in between 2 pieces of 2 Dimensional paper. He wishes for his projects to be edited by the public.

I believe that Scott is commenting of how people are extremely materialistic. All of the objects that fly by in his video are all man made objects. The Black Hole Series showcases the act of drifting into the unknown, endless void, known as space. Many of the objects in the Black Hole Series are in excess in peoples lives. They drift away in order to de-clutter the rest of the world. He could also be making the point of how the media saturate the public with materialistic images and encourage everyone to have the next great thing in order to be trendy. Throwing the objects away gives the feeling of relief, like the weight of being over encumbered is discarded. 

Some critiques of Scott Kildall's artwork would be the fact that the 3 Dimensional objects tend to look unrealistic. To me, they seem too animated which detracts from recognizing that you are freeing yourself of this clutter. If the objects looked more similar to the actual objects they are representing, then the feeling of relief could be more concrete.

http://www.kildall.com/artwork/index.html

Tony Robbin

 

Tony Robbin is a pioneer in the computer visualization of four-dimensional geometry. Since 1981, his realtime rotation programs of four-dimensional figures have been useful for obtaining an intuitive feel for four-dimensional space, and quasicrystal space. He has melded influences as diverse as Cubism and contemporary physics into his artworks. In his work below, Drawing 53, Tony projects various cubes and four dimensional objects with a great sense of depth. The cubes and four dimensional objects are shown flying off of the canvas.

 

The concept that I believe Tony is playing with is the idea of new age art and new medias for art. Art had always been considered a formal subject and with the use of computer assisted drawing, art becomes more of a language that must be studied. One may have an idea in their head of what they want to draw, but then the lines and sketches must be converted into computer programming language. He also involves computer generated images of the fourth dimension which shows a sense of wonder and awe. People cannot imagine the fourth dimension very well because all of life is in the third dimension. Showing the fourth dimension in only a three dimensional space is the equivalent of trying to draw a cube on a piece of paper. The general idea can be expressed, but the actual shape and view from all sides cannot be shown. Another idea is that he could be showing how when translating from one language to another, information can be lost or misconstrued. Converting from drawing, to computer programing, and back to drawing can lead to some areas where information is lost or chaotic.

Some critiques of Tony Robbin's artwork can be voiced, but there are not many. All of the artwork is either painted or drawn on a canvas. Because it was made on a computer, perhaps the artwork should remain on the computer and be put online. Also, many of his artworks look the same. there are the colorful cubes and objects, with thousands of lines in the background. In a few of his drawings and paintings, there could only be the background lines, or only the colorful cubes and objects.

Number 2 after days of touch up. Didn't import quite as large as the first one. The feeling of depth is shown in all three layers and in the picture as a whole along with the transcend from light to darkness from top to bottom. The 3 class scans were the locket (heart), the crab, and the .O.A.R. tree used as coral.

Project 1

massive sized first project for intro digital media

Color Correction

Yay! made better!!! i love learning things in photoshop!!!

this one was too dark..

Oliver Wasow

Oliver Wasow is a Wisconsin born artist who currently lives in New York and continues to make art. He is considered one of New York's most valued living artist. In Wasow's photographs, he adjusts them through photoshop and creates an image that is breath-taking and also believable. He has been in many solo exibitions, including most recently in 2008 in White Columns, NYC. However, Wasow has also been in a great many group exhibitions, most recently in 2007 in Williamstown, Mass. Wasow offers his knowledge to other aspiring young artists by teaching at: The Bard College Milton Averery Graduate School for the Arts, The School of the Visual Arts Graduate Program in Photography and Related Media, and SVA's Undergraduate Photography Program.



I believe that Wasow's goal was to enhance the feel of the area he was photographing. I believe that he wanted to give the locations of his photos the utmost wonder and awe. The issues being raised are the beauty of lighting and the grace of nature. The Vipassana Meditation Center in Tehran, Irashows the beauty of a cave and how nature can so easily provide a place for somber reflection. The use of lighting is shown in this picture by having the mouth of the cave lit brightly and the top and back of the the cave fades to darkness. The area seems so incredibly vast. Lighting is also shown on his Odyssey Cruise Ship Theater by having the spotlights of the stage form a heart against the curtains (which are appropriately red). This is almost advertising by showing the romance that can be found when on a cruise ship. Wasow is inviting people to go on cruise ships in order to be encaptured by the romance. Conversly, Wasow shows no one attending the theater, and so is stating that the beauty is there, but no one wants to see it anymore.



For me, the only critique i can voice is that if the message of these works is to show the beauty and power of nature and lighting, some of the locations and completely man- made, such as the Koyasu Suma Shrine in Kyoto, Japan. That being said, the Koyasu Suma Shrine shows an extremely peaceful man-made-nature, which the Japanese are known for making extravagantly beautiful via simplicity. The photo feels like it could be from nature, but definately a man-made-nature, because of the tree mural on the wall and the lighting source. However the lighting source emphasizes the second idea Wasow plays with: lighting, and so it fits well in the picture even though it is not natural.

http://oliverwasow.com/