because all media are new4D media 5 | very interesting microFilm Still from Brett Harte’s Face, 2011 A 3-in-1 video project We will model this project on three popular challenges in the world of indie filmmaking: To succeed at this, we’ll explore some resources, but before we do that we’ll embrace the related ethics of two principles that define… read more »
4D media artMachine (re)Animate Download the .zip file > (re)Animate: creating a virtual Art Machine Beginnings The machine is a way of establishing your distance from the object. Marcel Duchamp, Anémic Cinéma, 1926 Largely a phenomenon starting in the 20th Century, works of art that use either a machine aesthetic or machine strategy have by now… read more »
4D media 3 | concrete poetry .code {is: poetry;} From the introduction to ./code –poetry by Daniel Holden and Chris Kerr “Code is Poetry” is one of the evocative and thought-provoking taglines coined by WordPress, one of the most popular content management systems on the web — it’s the one we use for this wiki…. read more »
4D media 2 | a2z ABCnimation Sterno alphabet, from a studio by the author Animate the alphabet Synthesize your knowledge of e-typography, web file options, sophisticated web graphics, and animation in a project that reinvents the alphabet as a new image. Concept What kind of alphabet do you want to design? Do you want to… read more »
Praxis 6 | publication Being an artist Tell your own story and you will be interesting. — Louise Bourgeois The key word in the quote by Bourgeois is tell. Tell implies communication, an exchange with some kind of audience. A person who likes art is an enthusiast. A person who makes art has a nice… read more »
3D modeling 5 | entities possible world II Integrate possible worlds PART 2 of our Possible World project focuses on the creation and cinematic exploration of a character, animal, machine, or other hierarchy-based, joint-and-IK animated entity in a simple performance narrative, using the environment from PART 1 as the setting. Warm-up: playing with a rig Before we… read more »
2D digital art 6 | neverending portfolio Download sample files here Your second tactile print project So instead of lamenting “woe is me”, try this: Don’t create a resume, create a portfolio. As the final project for the term, the portfolio is a logical look back at your progress. At the same time, it is an… read more »
Fabbing 3D-4D | implied motion altNevelson Think negative This project will explore how to create a file that can be used for creating a mold using a CNC router. Mold-making requires the artist to think in Gestalt terms of negative volume and subtractive making intrinsic to the CNC process. It also synthesizes many of the… read more »
Fabbing 3D-4D | implied motion CNC fabrication CNC router safety training MakerSpace Visit the MakerSpace website here. General shop safety forms If you missed an opportunity for general safety training, go here to catch up. Equipment-specific safety forms Equipment-specific forms are here: Hello CNC router The Shapeoko 4 CNC router is the bench-top version of the Shapeoko… read more »
2D digital art 5 | variations large print Visit upsampling demo directory here Visit the case study file directory here Your first tactile print project There is no solution because there is no problem. So, what will your work be? You have done several projects with fairly specific conceptual goals. But for this one, the… read more »