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