My second life second creation

My second life second creature is a mixture of a pale faced ghost and a raccoon. What I did was I used the clone stamp and cloned the body and fur of a raccoon and used it on the skin. I then made a pale white face as the ghost and that was my second life creation.

Second life face

This is my second life face that I did in photoshop.

These are my original works

google sketchup project

These are the photos of the sketchup images of the tutu. It was hard to make but i feel like i did a good job on the tutu as far as tutu's go.

The Haldon Art Gallery

The Haldon Art Gallery was the second art gallery that I saw. I really enjoyed the Cadre Show. It had the a lot of interactive pieces that were fun and it had video games that were fun as well. You are able to participate and play with the art pieces and that is what made this one unique. Not all of the art pieces here were interactive but the interactive pieces were the most interesting if I do say so myself. They had one piece where you could use your cell phone to change the color of a pixel and it reminded me of the art project one of the students had in class where he would change the color of a pixel once a day. While I was looking at this I was trying to figure out where I had heard this idea from and it came to me that while we were in a critique one of the other students had come up with this idea so I smiled when I was looking at the piece. They had pieces were anyone could just make a video game which was pretty cool. They are able to interchange different ideas when it comes to these games and able to creatively come up with something different because at this gallery artist are allowed to exchange video games. All in all the second gallery was the most fun because you got to play video games and play with the art.

Pricilla B Varner at McNamara Gallery

Pricilla B. Varner has a sequence of photographs are very interesting in that she uses words in her depictions to grasp the audiences attention. Her exhibit Persuasion was in the McNamara Gallery and her art spoke to the audience literally, not figuritvely! She had all of her titles in French which threw me off at first but when she explained that she did it because she most people look at the title before the work I understood what she was trying to do. It confused me at first because she had English words in her work and French titles which sent me mixed signals. She uses words to display the persuasion that she is trying to get across the her audience. She wants you to look at the words and see the picture behind the meaning of what she is trying to portray. One thing that I can especially remember from her work is the image imprinted in my head of an Eiffel tower. The french touches made the names of the pieces make more sense. I believe that the words are truly what make a person stop and think about the image itself. Last year while we were in art 100 I remember people making art works with words and would put random text in there work about skiing or anything, but they did not think anyone would stop to read the piece. I believe that reading in an artwork is something unique and it pulls people into the work and when you have words that relate to the work and reflect the artist or are there for a purpose you draw people in to your work.

A'Riane Holliday Two by Lands at Sheppard Contemporary Gallery

A'Riane Holliday Two by Lands at Sheppard Contemporary Gallery The two by land at Sheppard Contemporary Gallery was very interesting. This gallery consisting of art from Nicole Donnelly and Katherine Sandoz has work that re-creates art work and makes it into something amazing. Donnelly has a type of style that shows the variety of landscapes and places in Philadelphia and her art is very intriguing. They both use amazing colors they both have a unique outlook on landscapes that create a very different but effective conversation piece to the viewer. One thing that continues to stand out in my mind is the use of the vibrant colors in there art work. They had amazing abstract art caught my attention, and the fact that they did some of there art on wood instead of the traditional canvas. They both use different techniques in this collaborative work.

Paper on Scofidio and Rinaldo

A’Riane Holliday Art 245 Diller Scofidio is the name of an art based New York City design studio named after the founders Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio. Elizabeth Diller is actually a professor at the Princeton University where she teaches architecture. They use architecture, visual arts and the performing arts in there art works. The thing that they are known for the best would be there architecture from their actual built art. They do use some video art and electronic art but majority of what they create is instillation art. Diller and Scofidio have received numerous awards for their art including them receiving the genius award from the MacArthur Foundation for here integrating architecture which includes contemporary culture. They were the first to receive the MacArthur Prize in the field of Architecture. Currently there studio is being ran by Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio and also Charles Renfro, changing the name to their art to Diller Scofidio+Renfro. They all work together on the design of a new piece of art or on new projects to come. They all have a say in what is going on with the art. They have some books out and a lot of their art is featured in art schools around the country or in their own art gallery in New York. Elizabeth Diller is very famous in the architectural world. Her works are very creative and innovative and people cannot get enough of the work that she does. Her famous work that she created with Scofidio is known as The Blur Building. This is a building of pure genius which is also known as the Blur Pavilion. What they did was they designed a building that suspended platform that has fog surrounding the building and appears to be a cloud. It is a metal construction that sprays lake water from 31,400 jets. These high pressured spraying jets make sure that the fog will be visible in all types of different weather. The high pressured jets release drops so small that the drops stay suspended in the air. IT creates the effect of midst but is really just droplets of water and this effect is known as the blur, which is the name behind the actual building. The next artist that I decided to research is Ken Rinaldo. Rinaldo was born in 1958 and he studied biology as a teen and ballet in New York until he was 20 years old. He has an AS in Computer Science from Canada College, a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from University California Santa Barbara and a MFA from the Conceptual and Information Arts program, San Francisco State University. He is an Associate Professor teaching robotic installation and multimedia in the Art & Technology program at The Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio. Ken Rinaldo is a man who is an artist, theorist and author who creates interactive multimedia which works between the organic and inorganic. Interactive media normally refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the user’s actions by presenting content such as text, graphics, animation, video, audio, games and more. He uses organic and electro-mechanical elements in his art and he also uses a co-evolution between living and evolving technological material. His art is influenced by theories on living systems, artificial life, interspecies and Tran species, etc. which is why most of his art is a robotic copy of a human function of the body. A lot of his works are displayed at museums and galleries such as the: Galician Museum of Contemporary art Spain, Lille International Arts Festival France, and way more. When I researched Rinaldo, it said that he comes from a family of artists and inventors which would explains his talent and his work with electronic and multimedia interactive art. Both his parents are contemporary artists. One of his great works is known as the Paparazzi Bots. The Paparazzi Bots is an art series of five robots which are as tall as an average human. They use infrared sensors to move towards humans and they capture pictures of people and release the pictures to the press and the internet. The robot moves as fast as an average human who is walking. He creates great thing such as this very often. He has a lot of works all over the world in museums and since they are interactive people really enjoy them. When I compare the two artist the together I see that they are both heavily involved in the architecture of their art. Both of them work directly with what is going on in there art work when it comes to actually building their work. They both are into designing pieces that are interactive and that catch the human eye although, Rinaldo’s art is more interactive when it comes to the two pieces that I chose to talk about. Even the pieces that Diller and Scofidio do have that are interactive are not as interactive as Rinaldo’s art. They both do qualify as artist who chose to do interactive multimedia genre type of art but people get more use out of RInaldo’s art rather than Diller and Scofidio. Diller and Scofidio have some very political artistic pieces. A lot of their other works are very cultural and have more of a political story behind what they make. A lot of Rinaldo’s art focuses on the human body and reproducing/re-enacting the human bodies movements and functions. If I had to compare Rinaldo’s art to Scofidio and Diller, I would have to say that Scofidio and Diller is more show and tell compared to Rinaldo’s art in my opinion of what I have seen. All in all both of the artist are very creative and innovative and I would love to go and see their art in person. The blur building is something that someone would only think to make in a dream and Diller made it a reality. Rinaldo’s work is very creative and his work with robots are being used in more things than I think he would have expected. Sources- http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/dillerscofidio.html http://www.paparazzibot.com/ http://www.dsrny.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Bolognini http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Rinaldo http://www.ediblegeography.com/gut-control/ http://kenrinaldo.com/frame_reviews.html http://www.facebook.com/pages/Diller-Scofidio-Renfro/83602026426

Dear Photograph

Crowd sourcing web page

a web page which promotes stepping live in front of a web cast audiance

Blog Questions

1. Why cant crowd sourcing really give credit to all of the individual people who make it to be what it really is? Why do so many people go uncredited for there efforts in making the project to be a success? 2.How can you create a true and unique work of art using crowd sourcing in situations such as the crowd sourcing video where everyone came together on video chat and sang together in harmony while following an instructor?

Iraqi Memorial Steps and Completion

Young me now me process

Video Re- Creation

MY hotel re-creation

This is my re-creation of the hotel video by Oliver Herring called Nathan (Hotel Room CT) (2007)


Oliver Herring- Nathan (Hotel Room) 2007

Innocence with SOUND!

This is a video of my apocalypse of children with a recording from the microphone which is my voice yelling as the child goes across the screen. 2 sounds from the internet which is a song and maching guns, and the drone which is in the beginning of the song and is at the end of the song as well. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGcNLxbKjb4&feature=youtu.be

Innocence with sound!

Innocence Animation

Innocence Animation

Digital Montage

The Apocalypse of Innocence is a piece of work that suggests the innocence of children is taken away by the things that they are surrounded by. Some of the images on the young girls face portray drugs, violence, and other things that people would not expect from an innocent child.
What I did was I cut out some of the pictures and put them on a different background so that they could be in squares because it looked better. Then I took each finished product and placed it on the little girls face, I then changed the opacity of each picture to about 42% and finally added the words.

Anneliese

This is my partners digital montage. She did a great job.