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by rdouglas
Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:20 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk10 - Final Project presentation Here
Replies: 21
Views: 37781

Re: Wk10 - Final Project presentation Here

Marie Sester is a French-American artist working primarily with digital technologies to create works that take on many forms but ultimately study ideological structures of how culture, politics and technology affect our spatial awareness in the world. One of her projects, EXPOSURE, consists of X-ray...
by rdouglas
Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:48 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk9 - Translate from the Science Lab to Art
Replies: 21
Views: 38416

Re: Wk9 - Translate from the Science Lab to Art

Using the research I have outlined here: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=203#p1239 I will be creating a site-specific installation in UCSB's AD&A Museum that, very much like Marie Sester's seemingly invasive X-ray and LiDAR scans, will pry into a potentially personal and private e...
by rdouglas
Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:34 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk8 - Vision Lab on Campus
Replies: 22
Views: 50658

Re: Wk8 - Vision Lab on Campus

My final project will utilize very similar technology to Marie Sester in her piece EXPOSURE : http://www.sester.net/exposure/ Sester is a French-American artist working primarily with digital technologies to create works that take on many forms but ultimately study ideological structures of how cult...
by rdouglas
Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:14 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk7 - Computational Camera
Replies: 25
Views: 104683

Re: Wk7 - Computational Camera

Matt Richardson, a creative technologist in Brooklyn, has created a project called Descriptive Camera . The Descriptive Camera is like an ordinary digital camera in that you point it at a scene, press a button and the camera captures the scene as digital information. However, this camera captures sc...
by rdouglas
Sun Oct 28, 2012 1:05 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk05 - Elings Open House OR Review Assigned Paper
Replies: 21
Views: 41465

Re: Wk05 - Elings Open House OR Review Assigned Paper

During the Elings Hall open house, I was a spectator to a number of unique and technologically advanced projects and performances. After a couple of hours I left the building and was placed into a very optimistic mindset of the practical and artistic possibilities that these artists/researchers and ...
by rdouglas
Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:12 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk04 - Barthes' Rhetoric of the Image
Replies: 24
Views: 36694

Re: Wk04 - Barthes' Rhetoric of the Image

http://i.imgur.com/ThVyb.jpg This is an aging Volkswagen advertisement released simultaneously with the Volkswagen Beetle in the 1950s. Linguistically, there is one very short sentence in bold and some smaller sub-text beneath it. The text is pushed to the bottom of the document and directly border...
by rdouglas
Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:32 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk03 - Chronophotography
Replies: 25
Views: 39023

Re: Wk03 - Chronophotography

It's also important in itself that Marey saw photography more as a graphing technique than as a superior form of visual representation. The most brilliant component of Marey's use of photographic methods is that his chronophotographs are still a form of visual graphing, a mapping of data for analys...
by rdouglas
Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:30 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk02 - Photography in Cinema
Replies: 28
Views: 51181

Re: Wk02 - Photography in Cinema

Blow-up , a 1966 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, depicts the elaborate life of a fashion photographer as he comes to discover that a roll a film shot on a quiet afternoon may contain undeniable proof of a murder. His lifestyle is quick and seemingly without any moments of pause. If he is n...
by rdouglas
Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:17 am
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk01 - Camera Obscura
Replies: 30
Views: 300258

Re: Wk01 - Camera Obscura

In researching the practical applications of the camera obscura before the advent of chemical photography, I came across detailed reports of this simple device being used as a popular drawing aid for artists in the 18th century. The artist Paul Sandby, among others was known to use a portable versio...