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- Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:20 pm
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk10 - Final Project presentation Here
- Replies: 21
- Views: 41219
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...
- Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:48 pm
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk9 - Translate from the Science Lab to Art
- Replies: 21
- Views: 41757
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...
- Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:34 pm
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk8 - Vision Lab on Campus
- Replies: 22
- Views: 53574
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...
- Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:14 pm
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk7 - Computational Camera
- Replies: 25
- Views: 115724
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...
- Sun Oct 28, 2012 1:05 pm
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk05 - Elings Open House OR Review Assigned Paper
- Replies: 21
- Views: 44686
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 ...
- Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:12 pm
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk04 - Barthes' Rhetoric of the Image
- Replies: 24
- Views: 39594
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...
- Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:32 pm
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk03 - Chronophotography
- Replies: 25
- Views: 42256
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...
- Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:30 pm
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk02 - Photography in Cinema
- Replies: 28
- Views: 54658
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...
- Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:17 am
- Forum: Fall 2012
- Topic: Wk01 - Camera Obscura
- Replies: 30
- Views: 305155
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...