Final Video for Saudade

 

I walked through a bunch of different ideias, but all of them were around the 2D world being the missing part and the 3D being what's missing. I decide to go for a video then, trying to translate a little bit of what a feel. Along the way I ended up having some problems with my script and the video is kind of incomplete. But I think that is still expressive.

And here is the link for my final video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqi0j5WNDko&feature=youtu.be  

María Velasco 
 Is a Spanish -born artist that came to United States in 1990. She got her Bachelors  Degree in Painting from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid in 1989, received her Masters of Fine Arts in New  Genre from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1993. In 1995, she began teaching at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, where she currently works as an Associate Professor of Fine Arts.

Maria is creating very experimental work in New Media with the use of the projections, Installations,  animations , sculpture and Drawing. Her work investigates notions of female identity, sexuality, and language. She has worked with installation, video, sound, photography, and performance. Her approach to art is to engage with the surrounding space, to create and overwhelming experience, where viewers wouldn't be able to identify the beginning and the end of the magical world. By bringing together layers of history, culture and personal experience in poetic and intellectually challenging ways, she creates an experience rather than a single piece.

She is an internationally known artist. Her work had been displayed in Spain, Germany, Mexico, Argentina and Paraguay. Her work has been exhibited widely, nationally and internationally in university and private museums, and contemporary art venues such as The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, MN, the Contemporary Arts Forum in Santa Barbara, CA, the ARC gallery in Chicago, IL, the Spencer Museum Of Art, Lawrence, KS, the Paula Cooper gallery and the Elizabeth Foundation For The Arts, both in NYC.
"I use my artwork as a vehicle for exploration, as a tool to encompass art and life, and as a mirror where unexpected connections and relationships arise. In my work, I seek beauty, wonder, and connection." - María Velasco
                                         Wishing Well

My Final Projection with the Painting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slc38YTO-4o

Final Project

Here is my final video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCqsaWk7Cc&feature=youtu.be

Have a great break everyone.
Melissa

Process Deck for New Forms Animation

Hey everybody!

Here is a link to the process deck I made for New Forms.

3D Animation Process Deck

Thank you,
Tom Kemper

Artist stuff

I recently found this work by Chris Larson. He has been invited to participate in the 2014 whitney biennial. his piece "deep north" was inspired by a sudden snowstorm he saw in Switzerland. 

"…while vacationing in Versiox Switzerland, an intense ice storm moved in the night before covering everything. He said it was "gorgeous and apocalyptic." This inspired him to recreate the moment in his hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota. In the fall of 2008, he built a house, and then in February, the coldest month of the year in Minnesota, he sprayed hundreds of gallons of water on the house to recreate what he witnessed in Versiox. He then shot a short film inside of the house called "Deep North"."

Some people say that it is related to global warming and environmental concerns. Others say that it has Protestant imagery because the machinery and labor involved in it focuses on a way of life centered around working. I was personally attracted to the piece because it can also be related to memory and time. Interestingly these were also made into photographs and the double play of freezing time literally and metaphorically is another facet to this work. The use of objects in the house give it a sense of personalization that i am still trying to figure out in my thesis work. In some ways these pieces can be related to photographs of Chernobyl and of New Orleans after Katrina. The presence created by the objects implies inhabitants even if they are not actually pictured. I find that the frozen quality lacks the sense of tragedy or moroseness that might come from places where actual tragedy occurred. I am not sure how much historical context/knowledge plays into the viewpoint of this piece. Perhaps my perception would be different if someone told me a story of it. Because I know its created I have a positive feeling about it. Also the light quality of the ice adds to the positive feeling. Ice also gives the potential for a thaw, which is more positive than something resulting from destruction.

I have been thinking a lot about personal objects and what makes them significant. Some of the objects in this piece have a newer quality to it. Other objects have a sense of age or history to them, like the television or the push button telephone on the dresser. The use of the 'shotgun' style house was also of interest to me as that has multiple cultural associations but not very often with frozen climates.The video is very interesting but I think I find the photographs more compelling because of the frozen time association I spoke of earlier.

http://www.videoartworld.org/video_422.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkLmp8FPAUo

My process for this semester, I decided to concentrate on one piece that I was creating the projections for.