Media Arts and Technology

For my final project, Memorials, I laid out a sequence of images that I took for a photo project a couple years ago, and set them to time. The photos were comprised of shots of roads and areas of land that some sort of accident took place, in addition to photos of the memorials found for those who l...

For my image, I created a non-traditional form out of bits from various other images. I also played a little bit with opacity and a lot with layering, and my manner of aligning the images was somewhat random. My image has a total of around 45 layers.

Elkins, Pages 63-76 In the second half of Elkin's discussion of Photography, he begins by talking about Darkness and how many genres of art have explored this "sublime" phenomena. In photography, he discusses, the risk that artists and photographers run into when playing with darkness is the proble...

Elkins, Pages 51-62 In the first section of James Elkin's Photography section of Six Stories from the End of Representation , he briefly discusses the idea of formlessness in philosophical and historical terms, and then goes into a rather lengthy discussion on the concept of blur, applied to painti...

layers-fav.jpg For this project, I used various pictures (mostly the "rejects") from self-portrait photo assignment in an Intro to Photography class I took. The pictures that I used were taken via self-timer, with multiple photos being shot in a row (similar to film stills, though I did not align t...

When first reading Harmon’s article, I was struck by the way in which he described some specific set of calculations or guidelines that a picture must have, when noise is added, in order to be recognizable by the human eye, "When the hoise is in the band adjacent to the signal frequencies, it obscur...