Media Arts and Technology

I wanted to create a maximum amount of visual information from a small number of images using After Effects' layering and blending techniques. I began with twelve photographs of the abstract surface of a red painted metal bench. I then sequenced these images into several "compositions", using differ...

My research project discussed Leo Villareal, an artist who creates light installations based on cellular automata algorithms.

For this project I assembled a composition from images of architecture using Photoshop and HDR stitching software. I then "cut out" the frame for the image, allowing the angles and shapes of images to suggest the final outline.

Pages 63-76 In section 12, Elkins discusses the use of darkness as another operation that allows photographers to creatively obscure meaning. He prefers the use of darkness in paintings by Rothko or Richter to its use in many contemporary photographers' work, since the latter seem to "end up making ...

Elkins, Pages 51-62 Elkins discusses the etymology of the term informe, "formless," tracing its origins from Aristotle through Bataille and finally to Krauss and Bois in their book, Formless. In Formless, the term usually refers to an operation, rather than a state or quality. The clearest definitio...

I wanted to investigate what formal features would stand out after averaging multiple photographs of paintings. I was interested in using digital techniques to study a traditional medium and revealing connections between historical and current artworks. I began with 20 photographs of French and Amer...

From the Harmon article, I was interested in the relationship of critical band masking to image perception. Harmon suggests that adding noise inhibits our perception of an image largely by masking its spatial frequencies, just as, in sound, a sine tone masks another sine tone occupying a close frequ...