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.