Xerox Project

For the Xerox project, we had to Xerox our entire body and make something with the scans. So i made a puppet. Here is is dancing per Santiago's request. Kinda creepy, but hey, its art! :)


Seb:

Very clever  title! Very cool how you were 2-d and everything else was 3-d. It brings up the question of reality and how material possessions and technology are viewed in such high regards. It also questions what is more important, the technology itself or the person who made the technology. Very interesting and effective piece.

Francesca:

“The Mantis” was amazing. Very sexual and exquisite piece (pun intended).  I love love loved it.

Grace:

I really liked your project. I love how you showed the motion of sex with still scans. Super cool and provocative J

Luis:

I loved how you put yourself into all different characters. It allowed you to be at many different places at once, I can see it as questioning identity and perspective. Very good project.

Hessa:

Loved the collage and the story behind it. Very good piece

Sarah:

I like how you incorporated text with the scans as well. It interestingly gives more meaning to the words than the scans of the people.

Jon:

Very cool, I liked how you morphed yourself into Popeye and Olive Oyl. It would have been cool if you just did Popeye but I like how you took on the female role as well. Very gender neutral. Love it.

Stef:

I loved your project. The eyes look 3-d. I also like the idea of the monster in the closet. Loved how you did layers and layers of scans. Very cool.

Danielle:

I LOVE LOVE LOVED YOURSS!! Soooo awesome. Definitely my favorite project. Love how you had yourself in a specific scene that we can tell has happened before J

Emily:

I loved your project. I really like that you first had the lamb and then it turned into an abstract shape. First one is like pictorial photography and the second is vernacular. Great project,

Hannah:

Ok, yours was on a completely different level. I don’t even know how you came up with such an awesome idea and I don’t know how you pulled it off either. I’m still in awe. I showed all my friends, your amazing. Hands down. Amazing.

Abby:

Very cool project. I like how it questions if the person is emerging from the ground or if they are being pulled down. Very cool and interesting project. I also liked how you made it outside so lots of people could see it. Great project!

Rubix Cube

I was planning on creating a rubix cube in Maya and adding video to the faces but it didnt work right. So here is just the Rubix cube.

Video Art Piece

Danielle:

I really liked your audio and how you were beat boxing. I also like the effects that you put on the video. My favorite part was how it pixilated out at the end. Great final project.

Hessa

I really like how you used a strobe effect with the images. It didn’t matter that we could read the text or understand what was going on in the videos because we were learning subconsciously.  I like how you were in it as well and reciting a poem. Great piece!

Luis

I really like how you merged polar opposite environments. This piece also brings up perspective because of how fast it looks like you’re going on the motorcycle and how slow it looks like you’re going in the car. It was very dream like.  Awesome final piece Luis! Great having you in class as well!!

Seb

I really like how you completely decontextualized every piece of your video and technology. I particularly enjoyed the traditional Arabic writing juxtaposed with Facebook. Great final piece and great having a class with you again! Im gonna miss you when im gone! Ma’a salama habibi.

Stef

I loved your piece! Perfectly depicts an “insane” state of mind. Awesome awesome awesome.

Emily

Really liked how you built off of your previous piece. I also likes how you made comething so taboo into a joke with the audio and visual effects. Great project.

Francesca

I really liked your piece! Loved how you made speaking into singing. Super cool and very decontextualized!

Jon

Loved your video and I wish there was more. Very creative way of looking at popcorn and connecting it to popcorn’s history with music.

Roy:

I liked your use of iTunes visualizer, especially when you used your own voice. Great work.

Hannah

I loved your video!! You put yourself into the digital world! Awesome piece!!

Sarah

I really enjoyed your piece. Lots of different devices and visual elements. Great piece.

Abby

I loved how you showed us a different perspective than we are used to seeing. Great idea and great video.

Grace

Yours was just exquisite! (pun intended) 

Performance art piece

Luis:

Yours was my favorite piece. Such a great idea and very well executed. I loved how public it was and you know what a great job you did when everyone at the beach claps! Very very very good!

Hessa:

I don’t really get how it was performance art but I enjoyed watching it lol It looks like a great time.

Abby:

I loved your project! I love the idea about how Apple keeps coming out with new products and the old ones are left behind. Very visually interesting and strong. Again, I love that you did it outside so everyone could look at it and think about Apple in a different way. Great project!

Danielle

I really like how you show your sense of identity and culture in your pieces, like your grid project. It’s like you represent New York just like the Statue of Liberty does. Great piece, I liked it a lot.

Stef:

Very interesting piece. I love that you got your hands on such an old piece of technology. I don’t know if you know anything about the innovation adoption lifecycle, but it’s a diagram in business where you learn about who is buying what products and when. In the diagram it has the innovators, which are the first people to buy new products and the last is the laggards which would be like people today who do not have a computer or an ipod. In this piece, I see you representing the laggards and saying that it’s not because they are behind the times, it can be a conscious and rational choice not to just go along and join the “iGeneration.” Great piece

Grace

Cool piece. Like how you used old phones that are not functional. I really liked where you stopped and were talking to the statue. Great piece that brings up a lot of questions about technology and always being “connected” with the world.

Seb:

I loved your piece! Sooo awesome and interactive. I wish I would have seen it and been able to interact with it. Awesome.

Emily

I loved how you gave people the opportunity to vent the anger they had towards technology without them knowing that they had any anger towards technology at all. Great piece. Loved it.

Francesca

I loved the Binary symphony, im gonna be honest that I really didn’t understand it but I liked it anyways lol.

Jon

I don’t really get how this relates to technology or performance art but it was interesting seeing all the peoples reactions to you in Walmart.

Roy

I really liked how you brought up the phasing out of human’s importance in relation to technology. Very interesting. Great piece.

Hannah:

Great piece.I loved when you were jogging with the joggers. Very comical. I also liked how you ended your piece with a cliff hanger. Very cool.

Sarah

I likes watching it and it was very pretty. 

Grid Project

Luis:

I loved your project! The tiger was awesome! I also thought it was so interesting that you used a giant light panel. The shading was amazing. Very well done. My favorite grid of them all.

Seb.

I liked your tree. I thought it was very interesting that something so temporary was inspired by a tree that grows for over 100 years. Very decontextualized J

Danielle:

I really liked how you incorporated your sense of identity in this project and you showed us three different sides to yourself. Very cool.

Emily:

The monkey was so cute. I liked it a lot. Hopefully you ate it afterwards ll it looked really yummy J

Francesca

Yours was soooo cool! I loved how you made a very 2-d element (cards) into a 3-d picture with ethe sharks teeth jutting out. Super cool!

Stef:

I love how you physically drew on the computer and it looked like something that was created by the computer. So awesome. I loved the colors and the whole idea itself. Very good project.

Jon

Interesting beehive. I’m going to be honest that I don’t really understand how it was a grid but it definitely looked cool.

Hannah

I loved your project! It was such a unique idea. So awesome that you could put it in front of the projector and see the image on the other side. I also really like that you posted the progression of the project.

Sarah

Cool beads. So funny that you glued them to the floor.

Grace

I loved your Michael Jackson. I also liked how big it was and that you showed the picture that inspired the piece. Very good project.

Mark J. Stock

Although i don't understand the method behind his creation, i do appreciate how he uses his medium. I love the fact that he is able to show imagery that people can only imagine. I have chosen a few of my favorites to show in this post

MAGMA 19
This is what i was talking about earlier how he is able to show imagery that people can only imagine. This is a visual representation of the magma at the Earth's core. No one has ever seen the Earth's core before but with science, he is able to show us a glimpse. Awesome.

WAVE FOR HOKUSAI
I love how he uses appropriation in this piece. He is appropriating "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai and recreating the imagery using his own medium. It is beautiful and peaceful. I also like how he mentions in his captions below the picture, how this particular image was very important for both art and science. It is so appropriate that he uses this picture because we can see his love for both art and science and how he shows us that they can go together beautifully. 

SPRAWL
I love how he brings up large questions with his work. Here he questions the difference between science and nature. With this image, we can see that there isn't much of a difference at all. What can this mean for our future?

Fastest Supercomputer in the World

On June 20, 2011 the Top500 Supercomputing List released which Supercomuter was the fastest in the world: the K Computer.  The "K Computer" lives at the Kobe's RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Japan and was made by Fujitsu. "K is a cluster of 672 server cabinets filled with over 68,000 Fujitsu SPARC64 VIIIfx processors, with a combined processing punch 8.2 quadrillion calculations per second (8.2 petaflops)." (Quote from the New York Times.) For people like me who do not speak computer language, this computer is as fast as about a million desktop computers! It also uses the equivalent of about 10,000 houses worth of electricity!