Friday, June 1, 2012
Rude Brood BFA Thesis Exhibition Opening
It's official, our thesis show is next Thursday June 7th at 6 pm in the White Box PDX. I'm so excited. All the hard work, all the tears, all the frustration and all the joy, growth, new relationships and friendships and wonderful experiences are coming to an apex. Just 6 more days and I get to see everything come to life.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Re:Member
Re:Member
This is an old one from 2011 I believe, but I just found the video and had to upload and share it. I will try to get higher quality soon. This was a collaborative project in Colin Ives' Interactive Video class. I had the wonderful opportunity o work with a group of really talented and fun people and I think we came up with a solid idea and executed it flawlessly. Here's the official release info:
Re:Member is an interactive multimedia installation that engages group-user experience. The piece explores the varying degree of perspective in shared memory through the vocabulary of classic home made movie footage and period sound material.
The piece is made to provoke the idea of lost time, a memory of distant past. As participants move throughout the space, they gradually reveal segments of the video footage. When multiple users interact with the piece, more of the footage is uncovered. Much like a memory, the more members present, the more is understood. By public interactions of users inside the space, clues to distant memories are revealed through the triggering of color, sound, and video masks.
This interactive media installation was created in ARTD 410 (Interactive Video), using the program Isadora and an IR camera for motion tracking.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Rude Brood Spring Review
(Just picks for now. Descriptions to come.)
Chaotic Control (Winter)
Chaotic Control (Winter)
Untitled (Winter)
The Wall (Spring)
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Image Mapping: 4th Floor window projections
Las week Trevin S. and Keith C. and I were placed in a team for the Interactive Video class' first project. We decided to proejct onto the window of the 4th floor that overlooks the Burnside Bridge. We tossed around ideas as to what we wanted to do and after a bit we landed on the idea of projecting loaded terms and icons, autonomous themes which are loaded and socially relavant. We decided that using words and the idea of signage would be pretty potent.
For me, my first draw was to pursue something relating to the visual qualities of electronic billboards or signs, like the kind you see over bar/tavern doors, or the electronic signs at baseball games or bright signs advertising a motel's vacancy. So that night I went out and started shooting what inspired me and what I wanted to observe as example.
At first I was interested in any well lit artistic signs I could find, but as I walked around downtown I started getting drawn toward the aesthetic of neon. I also noticed that I was particularly interested in new neon signs. The more mass produced, on-demand and generic signs that seemed to lack some of the art and craftsmanship of old-school neon which was a hybrid of signage and light (not just glowing light tubes). However, I also went onto the net and found some inspirational images of the neon graveyard/museum out in Las Vegas. I found that I was, at the same time, interested in how dead, lifeless and devoid of fun and excitement these signs were, yet they seemed to cling onto the empty meanings and promises they would have boasted durring their use. They were like smiling dead men. It was kind of profoundly nostalgic, hopeful and yet sad.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Vinyl Experiements
So, last term I experimented with vinyl. Since I first learned about the vinyl cutter I've been curious about it, but I couldn't pull myself out of my worry-induced lethargy enough the year past to actually try it with any real commitment.
My Resolution is to be Resolute
I made a New Year's resolution that I would take the time out of my day to stop and post about my work. As much as I talk about my art, I don't sit down and think about it as much as I should and I don't reflect on it. I kinda just react to it while I working on it, then put it on a shelf when I got home. Perhaps this isn't the best way to understand my work and why I do it--why i want to do it. So, my resolution is to update my blog. If I can't be arsed to keep a journal or stay active with my sketchbook, at least I can engase my mind. I'm sure this will help me with the review as well in some manner. So, in that, I'll be resolute in my decision to blog and blog often.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Dem Golden Slippers - Visual Conversations on the Struggles of Racial and Cultural Identity
http://www.arviesmith.com/collection-pages/chitlin_circuit/dem_golden_slippers.htm
My father had come up to Portland for the first time this week, and he came to finally see my in my new apartment and get a tour of my new "adopted" city. As per usual we talked for hours at home and out on our journey about history, religion, art and culture. Even though our conversations seem to drift, digress, pause and evolve, they somehow always seem to come back to the core concepts that sparked our interests in the beginning. This weekend one of those concepts that kept emerging and tumbling back and forth was identity. We looked at my piece in the "Nothing On The Wall" show and spoke about how individuals from birth are unique, and yet who they are and will be is not singularly contained within themselves, but also projected and outlined within their environment. The environment helps to define and outline individuals just as much as that individual themselves. To be an activist, our environment must first challenge us to have something to act upon, therefore helping us define ourselves in relation to that external event. To be an intellectual, we have to find engagement with the world and share intellect, but only more so comparatively than someone else in the world. To know what night is, we have to be aware of day, and vice versa. There have to be at least two elements for comparison, before we can make distinction and definition between one or the other.
I feel that the push and pull of influences and forces that create definition and outline individuals is extremely powerful when it comes to race and culture. It is common to understand someone of a different culture by first examining our own. Then we compare, weigh, and judge, based upon our own unique understandings. In anthropology, this is called an ethnocentric viewpoint. [explain ethnocentricity] It is an analytical and very human point of view. We learn new languages by connecting the meanings of the strange sounds to the meanings of the familiar sounds we've grasped. In school we learn new concepts by piggy-backing on the foundation of old, familiar concepts (as seen strongest in math in which simple formulas like addition and subtractions are often conceptual building blocks for the more complex formulas of quadratic equations and (TBC).
My father had come up to Portland for the first time this week, and he came to finally see my in my new apartment and get a tour of my new "adopted" city. As per usual we talked for hours at home and out on our journey about history, religion, art and culture. Even though our conversations seem to drift, digress, pause and evolve, they somehow always seem to come back to the core concepts that sparked our interests in the beginning. This weekend one of those concepts that kept emerging and tumbling back and forth was identity. We looked at my piece in the "Nothing On The Wall" show and spoke about how individuals from birth are unique, and yet who they are and will be is not singularly contained within themselves, but also projected and outlined within their environment. The environment helps to define and outline individuals just as much as that individual themselves. To be an activist, our environment must first challenge us to have something to act upon, therefore helping us define ourselves in relation to that external event. To be an intellectual, we have to find engagement with the world and share intellect, but only more so comparatively than someone else in the world. To know what night is, we have to be aware of day, and vice versa. There have to be at least two elements for comparison, before we can make distinction and definition between one or the other.
I feel that the push and pull of influences and forces that create definition and outline individuals is extremely powerful when it comes to race and culture. It is common to understand someone of a different culture by first examining our own. Then we compare, weigh, and judge, based upon our own unique understandings. In anthropology, this is called an ethnocentric viewpoint. [explain ethnocentricity] It is an analytical and very human point of view. We learn new languages by connecting the meanings of the strange sounds to the meanings of the familiar sounds we've grasped. In school we learn new concepts by piggy-backing on the foundation of old, familiar concepts (as seen strongest in math in which simple formulas like addition and subtractions are often conceptual building blocks for the more complex formulas of quadratic equations and (TBC).
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