iMovie project!

This was my iMovie project for class. I really hope you all like it! Show your firends haha

Tank Man

 

Modified in Photoshop. Put some good work into this. Enjoy.

PS: There’s more going on here than there seems to be.

Digital/Analog Project

This is a project using both analog, hand drawn work, and digital, computer drawn, artwork. All of the lines were hand drawn and then scanned into Illustrator. Hope yall like it ^^

Composite Project

These are the projects I did for the composited image assignments.

Sarah Zwerling

Sarah is a professor here at Tyler. She showed us a fair amount of her work and I enjoyed most of it thoroughly. I really enjoyed the piece she did for the airport. The steps that she took to get through all of that were ridiculous.  I can’t believe she photoshopped out so many tiny little details. She said it took her months! She did a great job with that piece though.

But… The one thing that wasn’t really discussed was the fact that she had a BA and an MFA not a BFA. This really struck a chord with me. If I’m not in the art world for an “art job” and I just want to be an artist, do I really have to kill myself trying to get a BFA? It’s something I’m going to have to seriously look into. I’ve got to investigate my priorities before I invest too much money into a degree that I may not necessarily want or need…

Melinda Steffy

Melinda talked a LOT about Etsy. It’s a website where craftspeople can sell their goods. The site stongly emphasizes handmade goods. It was good to learn about but it was strongly business oriented. When she mentioned it I thought it would be a great thing to do but likely not for what I make.  She said someone who makes small things that are easily recreated are the perfect product for Etsy. I however tend to learn towards the one-of-a-kind, fine art production. She also showed us a bit of her work and I found it very interesting, especially the idea of a “residue” piece (a piece created with the by products or through the process of making another piece).  She was a pretty good speaker and she held my interest, but her lecture didn’t seem to appeal to too many of us right now in foundation year.

Superflex and Brett Cook

Superflex was an artist collective with a strong focus on discussing copyright issues in their artwork. They created a guarana drink and competed with the worlds biggest guarana company over copyright issues just to bring them to the front of the newspapers and the front of people’s ideas about copyright infringement.  They’ve opened stores to make statements about branding and how brands are practically open source material in our world because so many people are familiar with them and use them every day.

Brett Cook had a strong focus on artwork in a community setting.  His work started out as an anonymous, social collaboration in the community using spray paint as his medium.  He gained an anonymous fame through these actions but eventually changed his focus. He then started going into communities and doing portraiture of local people on an iconic scale. He showed focus on everyday people. His most recent projects are very VERY community intensive. He decided to go into a community and attempt to unite the people through a series of goal oriented community building exercises.  A lot of his work is socially oriented now and is very different than where he started.

Doug Bucci

Doug was an outstanding speaker. Extremely interesting to listen to, very enthusiastic, and very engaging.  His work was very VERY interesting to me. He is a professor in the metals department. He makes most of his artwork with software and programming and then prints it in 3D. He’s done work for famous shows as well as different medals for award ceremonies. His personal work became strongly based on his life as a diabetic.  His newest venture is a bit of software that wirelessly monitors and transmits his blood sugar levels and produces an image of it that he can then print in 3D to use as a piece.  In this art, he needs only to walk around and live to create his artwork which I find to be awesome.  I hope to see more of Doug’s artwork or take a class of his because he seems like a great person to talk to about art and seems to also know a lot about his craft. Great speaker.

Eileen Neff

Eileen is a professor here at Tyler in the painting department.  She came in and told us a bit about her evolution as an artist. In the beginning she was a painter, then she became a photographer. And now she is a photographer who paints in her colors and uses the computer to create simple modifications to her work.  Where as with new technology one can make an entirely new piece of artwork within the realms of that software, Eileen prefers to use a simpler function of the programs. She’ll do very very simple things like cutting and cropping and some color adjustments instead of intricate alterations. As a speaker she wasn’t extremely captivating but the topics she was discussing were interesting. Using technology to do the simplest things is usually overlooked for intricate and complicated pieces. Eileen showed us a bit of the simpler side of using new technology.

Sharon Louden

Sharon was a great speaker. She was extremely engaging and enthusiastic with her lecture.  I found her work very interesting.  She used glow in the dark paint on papers that she installed in a 3D space to push the limits of painting. She also had another piece that was hair hanging form the ceiling… Strange but very well executed.  She’s done a lot of work for big name corporations OH and she has her own color paint, it’s glow in the dark blue ha  I was very struck by the idea that an artist with a formal, figurative background (like Sharon) could go on to create such conceptual work. This is an idea that I’ve been pondering since I’ve arrived here at Tyler.  I would very much like to learn more about her work and plan on emailing her sometime.

Brad Litwin

Brad Litwin was really the first artist who came in to talk to us about his own actual work. His work was on display in the lobby for a bit and I thought they were amazing pieces. It was great to actually meet the artist who made them. He was an old man who basically took mechanics and made machines for his art work. He talked about how technology made it easier for him to make what he wanted to using precise measurements of the computer instead of using hand drafting. His pieces were extremely intricate and complex so I can’t imagine being able to make them without the assistance of technology. This lecture was extremely well chosen regarding the subject of our lecture series.

Kate Cuffari

Kate works at the PMA as a conservationist.  She takes care of the pieces at the museum as they grow older, moves them throughout the museum and in and out of storage, and creates custom containers to ship the pieces.  She taught us a lot about our artwork and artwork in general over a long span of time.  Some key points she mentioned were willful destruction, intended degradation, decomposition, and having insufficient documentation to know what the artist wanted in regards to these terms.  She showed us a lot of examples of work in the museum that needed restoration or needed to be updated or maintained in some manner.  She told us to consider a few things when creating a piece of artwork if we are concerned about its longevity: consider the materials used, do some research on how the materials will react to one another, consider storing archives on updated file formats, and be sure to document decomposition sentiments regarding the piece.  Her lecture was VERY informative and I learned a lot about her job and how my work as an artist can benefit from knowing what she does.

Phillip Glahn

This speaker was very interesting and engaging compared to the first speakers.  His had an enthusiastic and informal attitude toward the lecture and made it very digestible for us.  He showed us a lot of art which I enjoyed.  The lecturer talked a bit about deskilling in relation to art and technology.  Where is the artist’s work in a piece? Did he really do anything that required training or skill?  Does an artist NEED training or skill? All of these are very worthy of discussion.  I feel skill is very good to have in art but in many cases is not necessary. I find that those who have those skills are very easily frustrated by art that is of a “de-skilled” nature.  I would like to think that after 4 years of art school I will be more likely to come up with some great work but the fact is that some one off the street with a good idea and zero training can be the next big thing.  That’s just life though. Phillip Glahn was a great speaker and I hope to have class with him at some point as I’ve heard he’s a great professor as well.

Scott Rigby

So this lecture was pretty boring.  If I do recall, this lecture really set the mood for the entire series. All the following lectures would be compared to this one for a level of interest it created.  Scott talked about Basekamp A LOT and although it sounded like a great group that does some interesting events, but he really didn’t deliver it in any way that relates to any learnable material.  He talked specifically about HIS operation and not really techniques learned from or ways to have a similar learning experience. It really was torturous. He kept dragging on as if he were to talk about something relevant but even after Gerard prompted him to talk about a relevant topic, he started rambling again.  This lecture was not very helpful in any way but I did see the basic idea of communicating internationally through Skype to sample other artist communities that are unavailable through most avenues.

Peter Hanley

It seems that our entire lecture series would be based on the idea of merging technology and artwork.  I personally never used the computer very much to make art other than for sizing and cropping of images from the internet.  Peter was a good introductory speaker for the technology lecture series.  He didn’t hit us too hard but he did give us some good information.  The print center was nice to know about.  At first I didn’t think it would be very useful but It comes in very handy for graphic printouts and 2D projects.  The lecturers that were supposed to come for the series seemed like they would be interesting enough. Overall good first lecture.