WIP - Work in Progress

For the final project, I’ve continued with putting together animations. I have a small TV and several laptops that I can use to display my project. I’ve gone with a theme of self-portraits and want to do a “portrait” showing different sides of myself on each screen. The small TV The electronics I

For this final project, I am experimenting with spray paint, and stencils made from sourced images. I am taking stencils from these images, by editing them in photoshop and illustrator, and then printing them out and cutting them, and using a laser cutter. I hope to comment on the singular definitio

For the final project for this class I want to do a polished mixed media zine. I think for this assignment I would want it to be done in a way that has it have some common universal themes but still tells a story. For this assignment I would want to do another eight-page zine in which I make it a

Blog 8 For project 3 I chose to do more analytical side. I drew a simple throw of my name on a piece of paper, after that I took pictures of my progress making the drawing on my phone. After this i went to walmart and printed out the pictures at walmart. From there i took a sharpie and drew on the

For this project I want to experiment with the integration of digital and analog collage. While I am still narrowing down a specific theme or topic, I am circling around the ideas of envy, possessions, and materialism. I first want to collect a series of photos from a Google image search, and edit t

For this "digi-log collision" project I was thinking of revisiting methods and aesthetics used for an older project I did back in Studio Art 2. I believe it fits the theme of “digi-log collision”. I used physical objects as well as traditional art (analog art) and added in digital effects/animation

For this project I will finally be going back to the game project I started last semester with a focus on some major changes in art, game design, and underlying programming. I’ve been wanting to jump back into this project for a large amount of time, but I didn’t think I could make noticeable pr

For the second project I want to try and go off something I tried last semester which was making inanimate things animated. Last semester I did a painting that changed faces every so often. For this project I ant to try and make "history repeat itself" while moving. I will try and animate some of my

I am still very much in the concept formation part of this project. I recently wrote a song called "Baseball Hats and Horned Rims" that is about songwriting itself. There is a line in the song that says, "His baseball hats and his horned rims/ they are his mask but nothing is hidden." From this po

Daydreaming Alex Smith I often find myself drifting off, daydreaming about random things and it would be interesting to show an audience where my mind is at most of the time. I’ll be using an actor/actress in place of me so I can control the projection and the camera, but I plan on projecti

My final project will be an interactive sculpture; a laser harp. I will laser cut an enclosure but instead of including strings, I will be using 5mW green lasers. How it will work is that when someone "plucks" the lasers, the corresponding photocell sensors will read the disruption in the laser an

Final Project: For my final project i have decided to do an original piece by me. I am going to create my own clothing. This will be  full outfit but it will not be hand stitched by me. I'm going to use a white shirt from forever 21, and black track pants from forever 21. These outfit will be compl

For this project, I think I want to take another crack at generative art. I've been watching and coding tutorials by Daniel Shiffman on Processing and p5.js to get some ideas going. The ones I've been most drawn to are the ones that use some established mathematical relationships to visualize a natu

For this project I want to go in the direction that I have become interested with since last semester. I have found an obsession with Projection Mapping, especially with projecting onto paintings and photos making them come "alive". I want to go back into this by projection mapping videos and my

For this project, I feel very much so in my domain, and I'm quite excited. For my piece, I will be gutting out an old computer tower, and replace most to all the parts with wood. This includes the CPU heat sink, the video card, RAM, hard drive, fans, and so on. If I have time, I would also

For this assignment I really wanted to make something physical that someone can pick up and take with them and hold onto. So with that in mind I decided that I am going to make this sort of pieced together zine that is going to be about all of my film scans and also prints that I will scan in fro

An example of a cool surrealist photomontage form the web. For this project, I want to make a digital/analog photomontage. Traditionally, photomontages are made by cutting up photo prints and reassembling them into new images. However, I could mix in 21st century techniques like photoshop, and sc

BLOG 5 I’m really not to far in my next project. I have not considered much of what i am going to do. An i have never done a projection mapping project so this is very new to me. But i have been looking up different projection mapped videos and artist to kind of get a feel for what projection mappi

I feel a bit of anxiety from this project because of my lack of experience in projection mapping and video jockeying. That’s why I’ll be also incorporating a couple of things in my project that I do have experience in—music and animation. For this project, I will be projection mapping animations

For this upcoming project, I wanted to some how combine and/or augment an existing art work of mine that is of a more traditional nature. After watching the video in class of the artists that use projection mapping to alter and create a more immersive experience for the viewer out of their physica

Almost exactly a year ago, I started writing poetry. It was a project that started with the simple thought of "what would happen if I wrote a poem a day?" So on April 18th, 2017, I wrote my first poem. Over the past year, I have written 180 more. It quickly became deeply personal and cathartic to ex

For my fourth and final project and I am planning on doing a projection mapping piece. I plan to take 6 Polaroid pictures (previously taken) and project videos that have to do with the photograph, onto the picture. Each video I project will make something in the picture that should be moving, move a

For this project, I want to revisit the idea I did for the last show, but my aim to to make it bigger and better! I want to rework photos digitally by making digital collages of sorts, using old, vintage photos I can find and pull from online archives. I love the aesthetic of taking an old image and

For Project 3 I am going to make a record player using LEGO bricks, an Arduino, a servo motor and a microphone. Here is a video of a similar project: And Here is a video of my servo motor rotating: This is the Arduino code: #include <Servo.h> Servo motor1; int motor1Speed = 180; // Full spee

For this project, I want to take meaningful analog objects, transform them digitally, and then print them back out to analog. I will be taking old photos, some photos, some polaroids, and scanning them back into the computer. I want to scan in old photos as opposed to just using digital photos becau

For my third project, I believe I am going to use the combination of analog and digital processes to show how each process takes away from the original. Every copy we make is less than the original, both metaphorically and literally. Isn't what makes fine art "fine", is that there is only one of it?

For my projects I really have tried to do thoughtful peieces thats show my idnetity slighty or things that mean a lot to. For my first project I brought up the idea of sucide and celebrity's. This is something that bugs me often. Yes i am just a student athelete but the pedalist and "power" I have b

Earlier this February (on the 16th), it was the Lunar New Year. This year is the year of the dog and last year it was the year of the rooster. I own Chinese paper cut of the rooster and dog and plan to use it as part of the projection, with videos/imagery corresponding to 2017 surrounding the rooste

When looking for this inspiration for this project I turned to the work of the past, I knew I kind of wanted to combine the old school film cinematography look of the past with this new age style of Vjing. I am a double major with art and advertising so I do find old school advertisements as some

For my second project, I am very early in the thought process. I have never done projection mapping before and I also have never used videos in an art project before. The entirety of this project is new territory for me and it's proving to be difficult to plan out all the pieces. I am having a very