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.