intro to new media arts
Creative Switch Project 2/2/17 Summer Shaw My project adapted the potentiometer as my switch. The LEDs are placed in the picture frame. I used oil pastels to create a sky to make the lights imitate stars. Initially, the sun, which is connected to the switch, is above the frame. When the sun is above the…
Marie Sester: Moved Settlement Marie Sester seems to focus on breaking out of what we consider to be our normal comfort zones. From her statement from her website, she states, “I examine notions of transparency, visibility, and access. And what makes things interesting is that her pieces seem to go…
The first artist I chose from the reading is named Roy Lichtenstein. He is famous for his pop culture artwork. The piece of artwork that was interesting to me is called ” Look Mickey”. What I think is interesting about it is that is uses Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. These two characters are well…
Roy Lichtenstein ( Drowning Girl) Roy Lichtenstein was an American pop artist during the 1960’s. His worked was based off a new movement called pop art work it was more of a parody during the time. The artwork he did was inspired by a comic strip. He described pop art as industrial painting. Drowning Girl…
Every Icon, a new media art piece by John F Simon Jr. , which is a visual representation of computer symbols. This work is a white 32 x 32 square grid where each square turns black in until every pattern is completed.For the artwork to run through every pattern it would take around 5 billion…
Roy Lichtenstein Roy Lichtenstein was a well renowned American Pop artist from Manhattan, New York and has really made a name for himself in the art industry. He is seen as one of the leading figures in the new art movement, in which his work defines the premise of pop artwork through parody. “M-Maybe” is a…
John F. Simon Jr is multimedia artist and a software art pioneer. His daily drawings inspire his larger pieces of art. In 1999, Simon decided to start the practice of “Divination Drawings”. Basically it was a daily drawing that he would use to meditate. He let his pencil just be guided by the unconscious thought…
PAM on Sofa by Mark Napier In the digital age it is very clear that human nature is able to makes its way into cyberspace. This piece was inspired by the painting of the Venus and the ideas it represents making their way into a prevalent part of the internet. The piece is…
Six Years of Mondays, Jon Thomas and Alison Craighead A man named Graham Smith had been recording the view from his bedroom window for six years, everyday from 6am to 6pm. The video shows every Monday throughout the six years. Every year has a different soundtrack. This piece was really interesting to me because it’s very…
Roy Lichtenstein is one of those artists that everyone knows of but not many people actually know. The work of his that jumped out at me the most was his rendition of Bedroom at Arles (1992). As a fan of Van Gogh’s original painting this work seemed a humorous…
Allan Kaprow: “Fluids” (1967) Allan Kaprow was an American artist most famously known for the development of what we now know as performance arts….
This picture mimics || mocks the current selfie movement. It shows the usual transition after faking certain emotions when in reality being in a different state or mood. The phrase it contains in the manner of snapchat text only makes it a clearer and more direct satire of all those that use their social media…