Media Arts and Technology

Aimee Jenkins and I are working on this project together. here is our lab of interest: Many modern physical structures are affected by natural elements like gravity, temperature, aging and pressure. Professors at University of Southern California and University of California, Santa Barbara have been...

Using Roland Barthes' system, an image can be analyzed by being broken down into linguistic, denoted and connoted messages. The first image under scrutiny is an advertisement for the deodorant company Secret. 11_kuku.jpeg Linguistic: The denoted linguistic message is describing the product. "Kuku Co...

" 'Movement' as a word equally conjures up the artistic and the scientific. The dancer, the athlete, the beating heart, the gallops of a horses hooves, the tracing of a figure through space-all can suggest a simultaneous desire to capture and to analyze."- Stephen Mamber To create an image of moveme...

Both Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction use photography to explore the characters’ humanity or lack thereof in the dark, shallow world in which they live. Blade Runner uses high contrasted, dark scenes to show the struggle between natural darkness and artificial light, ...

"Camera Obscura" literally translates to "dark room" in Italian. The phrase describes the phenomenon of being in a dark place and looking through a peep hole. The waves of light come through the whole at a diagonal angle so that the image appears upside down to the person who is in the dark room. Th...