Project 4: Artist Statement & Documentation

For this project, I wanted the interaction to be the viewer discovering and changing the “sculpture” and image of the art piece in general. I took inspiration from children’s pop up books, from turning the pages and being surprised from what’s  inside. 
I did have difficulties and challenges during this project. Because the boards are heavier and denser then the one used for project 2, the hot glue could not hold the structure and it feel apart. So I would recommend duct tape to also help with the foundation. 
Overall I’m glad I was able to complete my vision for this project and keep the theme throughout the semester of child-like discovery and curiosity.

Project 4: Process Post 3

I imported my 5 illustrations into MapMapper and positioned them relatively to the shape of the windows of the house.

Project 4: Process Post 2

I bought 2, 2x3ft marker / black boards. I then went to the wood shop on campus. I cut four walls and 4 windows and a door into the wall planks. I then drills holes into the side of the windows an window frames in order to tie strings between the window and window from so that the windows can swing open and close.

Project 4: Process Post 1

I started to illustrate the five different rooms for the house; office, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and living room. I used sketch book to illustrate.

Artist Research: Nobuhiro Nakanishi

Nobuhiro Nakanishi is a Japanese sculpture and instillation artist, born in 1976. A lot of his works conceive of what he calls "layered drawings", where there are stacks upon stacks of clear acrylic panels. Nakanishi most commonly photographs forest scenery, sunsets, and landscapes over a set of time. Then he prints the photos onto the panels. He then stacks the dozens of printed panels onto a wall and arranges them chronologically. I really enjoy the 3d effect this gives, as if I'm looking through a window into 3 dimensional space.

Artist Statement:
"I attempt to depict time and space as sensations shared by both viewer and artist.”

Project 4 Proposal

For this project I will have a board of nails or pins in which participants/viewers will take string and place them on two nails to make a line. In the end a image will be made from the collective participants. Therefore, end result is up to the viewers, in which I have no control over

Materials:
Board
Nails
String

Time:
April 12: get  materials 
April 18: drill in nails to board
April 30: presents

Project 3 Artist Statement & Documentation

I have always had an interest for science especially space science and from that interest of outer space, I was inspired to transform my room into a solar/planetary system (not to scale of course). Like my last project I wanted what was being  projected to feel surreal as if it was really there.

I would have rather had the beach balls hang from the ceiling with fishing line but it was too difficult to get a hook into the ceiling to tie the fishing line on. I would have also preferred the time of day to be night, where much light couldn't escape from the behind the curtains.

However I am happy how well the spray paint made the color of the beach ball look uniform and reflected the light of the projector and directly attaching the balls to the ceiling didn't end up looking too bad.

Project 3 Process Post 3

I imported animated planets into MadMapper then positioned the images with the hanging beach balls.

Project 3 Project Post 2

With the beach balls I spray painted them white, then used hot glue to stick them onto the ceiling.

Project 3 Process Post 1

I bought 4 beach balls which were very cheap, only 99¢. However they have colours which will show when being projected on, so later I will need to buy white spray paint. 

Artist Research: Camille Utterback

As an Assistant Professor in the Art and Art history Department of Stanford University, Camille Utterback also creates masterpieces of interactive installation arts. Utterback was in Bloomington, Indiana, 1970. She earned her master's from New York University's Tisch School of Arts. Utterback uses and combines several different techs to express with such as, projection, screens, LEDS. She often uses the kinetic energy of viewers or passerby's to manipulate and change her artwork. Other times, the audience is what powers the work.
In her work the "Aurora Organ", the piece needs the interaction of people. Hanging from the theatre's ceiling are six long glass cylinders. Parts of the railing for the second floor railings are installed with touch sensors that changes colors. When a viewer taps the sensor the hanging cylinders start to pulse with light, depending on how you touch the sensor: holding touch, continuous strip of light; short tap, small pulse. Therefore, the viewers are the ones who create the art and pattern, the cylinders even uses previous pattern of viewers if left unattended.


ARTIST STATEMENT:
My work is an attempt to bridge the conceptual and the corporeal.

Project 3 Proposal

MAKING THE ROOM A GALAXY

Using a corner of the room, I want to transform it into something that looks like putter space. I want there to be a few planets, asteroids and other celestial bodies hanging from the ceiling, as well as stars in the background either on the walls or on physical shapes like the planets. The image projected will also be animated or gifs of rotating or swirling to make the objects feel as if they are actually floating and in motion in mid air. 

Materials:

At least 5 foam spheres 

Black backdrop 

Room for structures

Ceiling space 

Projector

Photoshop

Illustrator

Timeline:

March 24: have a plan to place the structures

March 29: have the illustrations of rotating planets and bodies finished.

March 31: shop for materials
April 3: make sure everything is good to go pre setup

Project 2: Artist Statement and Documentation

(someone may have bumped into the projector shifting the images a little to the right)

I made instillation art using stop motion animation and illustrated textures for the walls and roof of the houses. I wanted viewers to see the houses and animations as if the houses were actually there and people where turning on and off lights and walking across the rooms. To support that idea of submersion I added a night nature track so that they not only see two houses in the night but also hear the night.

Project Post: March 6

Using an animation tripod, I animated my two figures using stop motion as well as the switching of black and yellow paper to emulate the switching of light on and off. The animations will then be mapped onto 6 different windows on 2 of the houses.

Process Post: March 3

I drew a male and female on paper and with the drawing I impressed the outline of the different body parts that I wanted to be able to move on my own. Then I cut out the parts with scissors and with a safety pin punctured where I would want the joint to be and place a pin so that part can rotate.

Process Post 1: Feb 23

I bought 2, one sided marker boards from Lowes in order to construct a simple house from it. I went to the UT's wood shop to cut the sizes i needed for walls, roofs, windows, etc. Then i used to hot glue to assemble the pieces together.

Artist Research: Rachel Rossin

ARTIST RESEARCH

Rachel Rossin is an American artist born in the year 1987. She enjoys working with unusual mediums such as virtual/augmented reality through Oculus Rift, which can only be seen through another device or headset. Rossin also translates her artwork onto glass-like sheets, that she bends and folds in places in order to add to her unique design. In her piece, Safe Apron, Safe Cape, she places several printed glass sheets upright in the room, in which the viewers can walk around the space feeling like they are in virtual reality.

Rossin loves to place her viewers in the environment of her work, instead of having the piece hang on the wall without any interaction. She also uses a lot of colors and abstracts shapes and lines in order to create the mood in the environment she wants. There is also something pleasing about seeing images on top of a clear transparent material, as if it is floating in air.

ARTIST STATEMENT

"The piece can't exist without the viewer. In order for the piece to exist, it needs to have an audience" -Rachel Rossin

Project 2 Proposal

For my project I will construct from cardboard miniature houses, using the windows as the light surface for my installation as well as using pictures to texture the house. I want it to look like the viewer is looking into the lives of the residence. I will use stop motion puppeting to animate the figures in the window. I want the setup to be on the side of the wall because i want the focus to be on the front/sides of the houses. With one projector I can only get the maximum of 3 sides of a cubic-like building. I will also have a picture of the night sky, stars, moon, etc. The sounds I will use will be crickets and night-time environment noises.

MATERIALS:

• 2-3 cardbaord
• hot glue and gun
• white paper
• contruction paper
• wood shop
• stop motion lab
• projector
• phone/small speaker

TIMELINE:

Feb15: purchase cardboard, hot glue

Feb18: 8-12 short stop motion animations finished

Feb22: have houses done and constructed

Feb25: video mapping done

Feb27-28: place and set up houses and adjust as needed

Project 1: Process Post Feb 1

I finished editing and mapping my videos into 6 different quadrants and exported it into a mov file.

Project 1: Process-Post Jan 31

I imported my video into Premier to begin setting up and dividing the video into 9 clips.

Project 1: Artist Statement

The clips I used to make this short film are non-sequential clips of my journey from the Barrymore Hotel, to the Cass Building at the University of Tampa. It shows my average day to day walk and gives you a chance to see from my point of view my walk. It's interesting taking videos of people not expecting to be taken a photo or video. It brings a sense of realism to the film.
I also wanted to play with non-linear storytelling and I think a walk from one destination to another in different sequences would be cool to wittness.

Artist Research: Mike Kelly

I researched the artist Mike Kelley. He was born on 1954 in Detroit, Michigan. He earned his masters of fine arts from California Institute of the Arts and won several award afterwards, such as Awards in the Visual Art Grants. His works are housed in many galleries and museums in the US and internationally.
His piece, Kandors (2007), is a work I find enjoyable. It is his interpretation of Superman’s home planet, Krypton, and the city. The colors are very vivid and the images on the projectors show mystical speckles of light that look like something from outer space, or a nebula.

Project 1 Proposal

I filmed my jorney from my off campus residence in the Barrymore Hotel to the University of Tampa's Cass Building. I will be dividing the film into 9 different non-linear clips and tiles.

My name is Krystal Scott, I'm a Senior attending the University of Tampa and majoring in digital arts. I am from Orlando, Florida and my favorite color is clear. I look forward to taking the class Multimedia and Instillation in order to better my understanding and practices of the arts. I hope to enjoy the class and learn a great deal in the process.