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by hcboydstun
Tue Nov 27, 2012 2:48 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk10 - Final Project presentation Here
Replies: 21
Views: 37654

Re: Wk10 - Final Project presentation Here

In summation of my final project, I chose to research and create my art installment surrounding the ideas of two of UCSB’s research centers: Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation and Center form Polymers and Organic Solids. To begin my research I explored Quantum computation, which is anoth...
by hcboydstun
Tue Nov 27, 2012 12:13 am
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk9 - Translate from the Science Lab to Art
Replies: 21
Views: 38295

Wk9

Over the past week, I have been further investigating the art possibilities behind light harvesting materials and quantum computers. While I did most (if not all of my research last week (http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=203#p1235) this week was more about creating the final layout...
by hcboydstun
Tue Nov 13, 2012 11:20 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk8 - Vision Lab on Campus
Replies: 22
Views: 50581

Re: Wk8 - Vision Lab on Campus

This week I began research on two very different labs under UCSB’s umbrella of research centers: Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation and Center form Polymers and Organic Solids. Foremost, UCSB’s Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation overviews a broad range of research from physic...
by hcboydstun
Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:17 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk7 - Computational Camera
Replies: 25
Views: 104374

Re: Wk7 - Computational Camera

Within Harvard University’s Graphics, Vision and Interaction (GVI) department researchers Ayan Chakrabarti and Todd Zickler are experimenting with hyperspectural images. In order to fully understand the concept, I started by researching: What is spectral imaging? Spectural imaging is ‘a branch of ph...
by hcboydstun
Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:23 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk05 - Elings Open House OR Review Assigned Paper
Replies: 21
Views: 41341

Wk05 - Peter's Assigned Paper

Under the broad spectrum of the ‘human visual system,’ Gabriele Peters has detailed six dimensions of visual aesthetics: color, form, special organization, motion, depth and the human body. Combined, these categories form what Peters calls ‘the aesthetic principles.’ These not only define what we se...
by hcboydstun
Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:25 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk04 - Barthes' Rhetoric of the Image
Replies: 24
Views: 36602

Re: Wk04 - Barthes' Rhetoric of the Image

After reading Roland Barthes' article "Rhetoric of the Image," I decided to analyze two images that are similar in content, but polar opposites in terms of Barthes' system of the three messages: http://noteconnection.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/france1.jpg Lets begin with the image above. The lingui...
by hcboydstun
Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:31 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk03 - Chronophotography
Replies: 25
Views: 38931

Wk03 - Hannah Boydstun

Hannah Boydstun October 10, 2012 “One can say that digital media have blurred the line between work and play, between science and art, between product and process” In the case of Etienne-Jules Marey, his interest and fascination in both science and art integrated into the formation of beginning of f...
by hcboydstun
Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:44 pm
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk02 - Photography in Cinema
Replies: 28
Views: 51061

Wk02

Hannah Boydstun October 7,2012 In the film “Blow-Up,” Michelangelo Antonioni depicts the media-enthralled life of a photographer. From an outsider’s perspective, the photographer goes beyond personal boundaries in order to get his images on slides. For instance, photographing men, naked in their sho...
by hcboydstun
Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:34 am
Forum: Fall 2012
Topic: Wk01 - Camera Obscura
Replies: 30
Views: 300105

Camera Obscura - Hannah Boydstun

To conduct my research, I searched Google for "artist camera obscura." Under this search umbrella, I came across MOMA’s (Museum of Modern Art) personal overview of camera obscura. Interestingly, the origins of the camera obscura date back to Aristotle’s Problems . Within his own series of writings, ...