intro to new media arts
My final project was inspired by Camille A. Brown who is a performative artists and centers her work mainly around African-American experiences. For my project I wanted to do a call and response theme which is a performative act that is well-known in African-American music and rituals. The project is very simple; individuals who have…
Call and Response Attached below is my proposal: Interactive Project Proposal, Douglas, Tamae Questions: How can i conceptually express my work better so that you(the audience) have a better understanding of what I am trying to portray? Is there any advice on how to utilize circuit playground/adafruit to mimic sounds? Since my project is…
For this creative switch project I decided to attempt making a thinking cap. By simply putting on a pair of glasses an idea is formed, indicated by lights that appear on top of the hat. Materials Needed hot glue/tape glasses hat 2 white LED lights 6 voltage battery pack( 2 three voltage batetries) red and…
For this assignment I went for something fairly simple. My idea was to create a rainy day image with a moving cloud image that would float around by manipulating the mouse. I was able to get a nice backdrop of rain falling with the help of some videos. Initially, I wanted to download a cloud…
For this assignment I was experimenting with different colors that I thought complimented one another nicely, specifically brighter colors. With the use of these specific colors, I wanted the image to look playful and inviting. I believe with the use of these colors, it can be perceived as reminiscent of childhood and youthfulness. The use…
//program made by Cody Colgren void setup() { size(500, 400); strokeWeight(0); stroke(0, 100); smooth(); } void keyPressed() // if the ‘z’ key is pressed the image will reset, if the ‘s’ key is pressed it will take a screenshot { if (key == ‘z’) { background(255,255,255); } if (key == ‘s’) { saveFrame(“drawing-####.png”); } }…
During the first day of class I thought I had a grasp of what new media arts was, but I looked deeper and found some interesting things. When looking through various pieces of art I had realized that my perception of the subject was different and I had to look deeper to understand it. I found…
Initially when I heard about new media arts I thought it was only things like digital art and graphic design. I didn’t know how wrong I was until I saw some of the great things some artist made like Jer Thorp and Robert Hodgin just to name a few. New media arts isn’t just traditional…
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…
Shu Lea Cheang is a new media artist who focuses in societal issues, identity and governmental power using different multimedia platforms. A project of hers titled the Locker Baby Project centered around Ryu Murakami’s novel Coin Locker Babies (1980), a fictional world where test tube babies were bred in coin lockers in the subways of…