Media Arts and Technology

My research presentation focused on James Turrell and his work with light installations.

youtube for final revised video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsDFzfD9USA

For my final project I combined two videos- the first was the final dance sequence by Natalie Portman in "Black Swan", the second was the hippo dance sequence from "Fantasia". I imported the animated sequence as a series of stills and adjusted their time and added space between each clip. Then I put...

78-87 The final section of Elkin’s segment moves on to the problem of qualifying blurred and formless images. While he clearly believes that formless photography is less auteuristic than painting, he gives a lovely example as an exception to his preference of Jennifer Ramsey who photographs ‘overloo...

For this assignment I wanted to add a bit of playfulness and humor to my assemblage. I took an old cartoon of Betty Boop and used this shape as a frame within which to assemble my collage. For the inside of the shape I copied different parts of old Mickey Mouse cartoons, using his shoes to create a ...

63-76 Darkness is the next technique analyzed by Elkins in his quest for formlessness. Painting with darkness is deemed qualitatively superior to photographing with darkness, because the latter is too easy to achieve and is employed by too many photographers. Elkins favors the use of the grid as a t...

51-62 James Elkins chapter on photography discusses what he calls the decent into inadequate representation. The term formlessness is defined as a multifaceted attribute that can be a conceptual formlessness of a visual formlessness. Elkins acknowledges that there is a facet of contemporary art theo...

For this project I decided to work with a series of images I took on my SLR for a stop motion animation short I created last year. I chose a series of 13 images capturing a skateboarder riding by. I set the bottom images to 90% and then minimized the opacity of the layers on top of it by varying deg...

Image 1. Waste minimize to 1% vertically; 10% horizontally return to original size add noise (25%) invert pixelate-fragment blur smart sharpen Image 2. Mess Add noise (15%) blur compress to 1% vertical and 1% horizontal return to original size blur smart sharpen increase brightness and contrast to 9...

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