Links to Final Project

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Art Event: Will Raulin & Morgan Bailey

Will Raulin and Morgan Bailey are in the Advanced Digital Media class and created a projection project on the admission’s field on campus. The artists wanted to create a piece that would create an outside world within the St. Mary’s context. The artists wanted to project a foreign landscape onto their work since the college is located in a very isolated place. They wanted to break students away from what is known, and what is seen day to day. The artists filled up 100 white balloons, and attached them to a wooden board. They then projected spheres onto the balloons. As the images were being projected they were also rotating, and morphing into the subsequent images. The images transitioned in a very dynamic way and became somewhat of a meditative experience. 

Art Event: Kate McCammon

                Kate McCammon is a painter who graduated from MICA. She talked mainly about her experience abroad, and how her work developed and changed through residencies. She initially created life-sized portraits about heirlooms, heritage, and family history. She initially painted herself and people in her family. She focused on texture, and dramatic lighting. McCammon then studied in both Norway and Paris. During this time she worked with the artist Odd Nerdrum who integrated figures and landscapes in his work. She learned more about how she could develop her paint application style. Her paintings then became less texture oriented, and more narrative. After this she studied in Sorento, Italy she became more interested in landscape painting instead of portraiture. She then worked in Florence where she moved away from paint and began to experiment with charcoal. When she returned to Baltimore she tried to express memories of Italy in her work, along with the combination of figure and landscape. She then returned the Venice twice, and ultimately ended up creating work that referenced images from her childhood. The figures became somewhat spaceless, and were about reacting the memories. 

James White & Fabio Sasso

James White is an artist from Canada who has been working with visual design for about 12 years. He has worked for many different companies including Google, Nike, Wired Magazine, and Toyota. He started working in this field right out of school in 1998. This gave him a lot of experience quickly, especially during a time when the internet, and web design started to become much more serious of a field.
Fabio Sasso is from Brazil, and has been working with design, and web design since about 1999. Before that, Sasso worked designing stickers which is somewhat evident in his art.
Both has successful blogs that I was drawn to. The sites are relatively simple in layout, and easy to navigate. The typeface is consistent and legible. The websites are more of an elegant supplement to the material than actually works within themselves. For this particular project, I find that kind of idea, and layout much more appealing. I want my website to simply display my work, and convey a little something about my personal style without being too overwhelming to taking away from the pieces I show.

Sources

http://signalnoise.bigcartel.com/

http://abduzeedo.com/tags/wallpaper

Flow Chart

Vito Acconci

It's interesting to think about how a city does not actually belong to it's inhabitants. Even a space that is designated as a public space is under governmental control.  In some cases, the public still needs permits, and access in order to put up art, or create something in that space. People are able to use their designated public spaces, but only within certain limits. The spaces may be public, but there are still limits as to how one can act within these public spaces.

Vector Portrait