FMX 211 Art and Tech

For my video art piece, I took the idea of how life is short and made it into a video. I took a video of a metronome ticking at 60 bpm as the pace and cut clips of objects around my dorm as well as videos of my friends throughout the semester to play on the beat. By doing so, I hope to convey how moments in life are truly brief and why we should enjoy life while we can. https://youtu.be/CU6nXv6G86U

Yoko Ono, John Jessurun, and the flash mob pieces were the performances that stuck out the most to me. The sit in that Yoko Ono and John Lennon held in their hotel room was extremely unique and helped to convey the importance of peace within society. John Jessurun created beautiful dance pieces that provided audiences with entertainment. and convey meaning through dance. The flash mobs provide entertainment, like John Jessurun, and bring people together to enjoy music and dance. All of these pieces are designed to bring people together. Ono and Lennon held the sit in in order to teach the world that peace and unity is the answer rather than war and division. Jessurun and the flash mobs are designed to bring people together through entertainment. Technology is essential to all these pieces as it allows them to be spread and viewed by a wider audience. Ono and Lennon would not have been able to share their bedroom sit in had there not been technology to share it. Flash mobs would not hav

             My inspiration for this project was flowers. I thought it would be interesting to try to make various flowers using different forms of my hand with my eye as the center of the flower. The background colors were inspired by Warhol. I thought that by making the hand flowers black and white, it would add an interesting contrast against the colorful background making them stand out more.

I used tissue paper and poster paper to create this grid art of Cinderella's Castle with a Mickey Mouse in the center. I used the photoshop image below to create it. I took a picture of the castle with the mouse head in it and made a 30x39 pixel image. Since it was black and white, I then painted each pixel a different color in order to make the image come to life. I then took my poster paper and created a 30x39 cm grid where each square became a pixel. I would rip little pieces of tissue paper, ball it up, and then glue it to the grid in order to recreate the image. The finished product is seen above. The black and white castle is the original image that the grid art was based off of.

Vacuum tubes were revolutionary in terms of radio, television, and computers. In terms of radio and television, vacuum tubes were essential in terms of broadcasting. They gave these devices the opportunity to cast higher frequencies, allowing them to transmit signals that could be received worldwide. As technology advanced and the vacuum tubes are tweaked, the signals become more clear and more reliable. Eventually, ships are able to use radios over morse code to communicate between one another. Vacuum tubes in relation to computers were important, but highly inefficient. The early computers required many vacuum tubes and consumed massive amounts of electricity because of that. Transistors have now replaced the vacuum tubes for all of these devices as they more efficiently transmit signals than the vacuum tubes.

The concept for this flipbook is inspired by the book in which it is created in: 1984  by George Orwell. The novel revolves around the concept of the all-seeing and all-knowing Big Brother, so the animation is a representation of that all-seeing being in the form of an eye, and the concepts that Big Brother revolves around appears around it to symbolize the brain washing that occurs within the novel. https://youtu.be/_IHaU7oidfc