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Video Art / Digital Art
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Veronica Avola, “When It Reigns”, 2020, hand drawings, Unity, Blender, Maya, Photoshop and html, 10 minutes. In this composition, I brought together hand drawings, self-made 3-D models, sounds I generated, and creative coding to create an interactive experience. I wanted to make the experience highly immersive and interactive both by letting the user move around inside the realm, and by being able to trigger sounds and alter the soundscape.
Tom Farrenkopf, “Discordance”, 2020, video performance with self, 5:20 minutes, 1080 px x 1920 px. Originally designed to be a performance art project, this project changed to video format due to the pandemic.
Will Holt, “4/the beginning”, 2021, iPhone camera, Beastgrip stabilizing rig, Adobe Premiere, iPad app Filmmaker Pro, iPhone app Filmic Pro, 4:14 minutes. “4/the beginning” is my initial foray into video art. Heavily inspired by artists like Nam June Paik & Pipilotti Rist after being introduced to them in ART 103: Understanding New Media Arts, I produced “4/the beginning” as my final project. The piece is divided into 4 sections, each with their own poem. The final lines of each poem appear on screen, available to be considered before they are recited in the accompanying audio. An instrumental ambient track pairs with the poem’s recitation, as images shot in the style of a VHS camcorder flicker on and off screen.
Sharon Lee Wagner, “Hazel”, 2020, cardboard mesh, yarn, plastic yogurt containers, woven scarves, yellow t-shirt, pom poms, crayons, foam pipe insulation, string, shells, pool noodles, 4.5′ x 1.5′ x approx. 1′ (variable). Hazel is a light, playful, colorful, and kinetic wearable sculpture made from scrap materials from home, cardboard mesh from a car battery divider, and scarves from the Goodwill outlet. Playing with the mesh led me to make it into a cylinder. I loved the curve in the yogurt containers and made sure to keep that quality visible in the sculpture. Next I added color and more texture. For the video I wore black and tied some of the main yarn around my wrists and ankles to complete the look. Playground kids loved watching and were not the least bit scared.
Stu Guidry, “Sentinel Gardens”, 2020, digital collage. This was for a collage assignment. I wanted to avoid the clutter one can easily stray into with collage, so I restricted myself to just two elements. I’ve always had an admiration for artists from the op art movement like Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely, and it tends to come out in my collage work.
Stu Guidry, “Roadside Attraction”, 2020, digital painting. Occasionally for assignments I try to do something illustrative that could also serve as concept art for my personal projects. In this case I needed a decrepit motte and bailey castle surrounded by swamp lands. I kept the colors somewhat subdued to maintain an air of quiet mystique.
Cody Popish, “Microbiome”, 2020, digital illustration on photograph. This image is part of a three-part series of images that I have photographed and drawn over for a photography class project. While I was in a photography class, my roots are in illustration, and so I wanted to explore these two mediums combined in my own personal style. This image represents an ecosystem at a smaller scale, and the diversity of species that we possibility haven’t even discovered yet.
Cody Popish, “Mr. Blue Sky”, 2020, digital illustration on photograph. This image is part of a three-part series of images that I have photographed and drawn over for a photography class project. While I was in a photography class, my roots are in illustration, and so I wanted to explore these two mediums combined in my own personal style. This image is meant to show how one can find beauty and inspiration from even the simplest of things.
Cody Popish, “New Earth”, digital illustration on photograph. This image is part of a three-part series of images that I have photographed and drawn over for a photography class project. While I was in a photography class, my roots are in illustration, and so I wanted to explore these two mediums combined in my own personal style. This image explores the overgrowth of nature in abandoned manmade spaces, and how it oftentimes makes a place look magical.