because all media are new4D media 5 | very interesting REFERENCES ||universes linkedInLearning EXERCISES production ARTWORK microFilm Introduction Audio-visual digital film production is a powerful addition to the multimedia web artist’s toolbelt. This kind of work speaks the language of cinema, even as it combines with many of the other expressions we have investigated in this wiki. This project… read more »
4D media artMachine REFERENCES deathOfFlash flipBook javaScript EXERCISES rhythm pacing interactivity ARTWORK (re)Animate Introduction In the Infinitely Indestructible Object project by williamCromar, interactivity stops when the eye is tapped or clicked by a hammer controlled by the spectator, then started again when the key is activated in the same way. Built in Flash/ActionScript3 in 2010,… read more »
4D media 3 | concrete poetry REFERENCES webOrigins sftp helloWorld EXERCISES videoMashHTML marinettiCSS marinettiJS ARTWORK .code {is: poetry;} Introduction The notion that there are such folk as “digital natives” strikes us as kind of hollow, unless and until the “native” has learned the language of digital stuff: coding. Coding is for many artists a bridge… read more »
4D media 2 | a2z REFERENCES alphaBravo eTypography fileTypes EXERCISES webGraphics wordImages webAnimation ARTWORK ABCnimation Introduction Think you know your ABCs? Think again! What distinguishes artists is not their skill with a pencil or cutting wood, but rather how they can see something others take to be common and mundane in an utterly uncommon and… read more »
Fabbing 3D | plane > volume looking glass View Scan Library here Through the Looking Glass In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room. The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased… read more »
Fabbing 3D-4D | implied motion REFERENCES ||universes LI Learning collage EXERCISES motion mods mold making ARTWORK altNevelson CNC fabrication Introduction The sculpture by the author that serves as the icon for this project is an example of implied motion in a 3D object. Rotating a profile of a face about an axis creates a dynamic… read more »
Fabbing 3D | plane > volume REFERENCES ||universes LI Learning altRealities EXERCISES mesh mods booleans ARTWORK looking glass 3D printing Introduction Like the Donald Judd sculpture that is the icon for this project, 3D printers work by “stacking” material to create the Gestalt inference of a shape. In Judd’s work, he makes it explicit. A… read more »
2D digital art 6 | neverending REFERENCES coEvolution hierarchy graphic units EXERCISES unity tension ARTWORK portfolio Introduction It has been difficult to know exactly what to say of such an epitome of a life work. You have invented a new kind of autobiography. It is a kind of autobiography in a performance of marionettes. You… read more »
2D digital art 5 | variations REFERENCES multiples framing need to bleed EXERCISES cloning quick masking ARTWORK large print Introduction This project provides you with a deep dive into Photoshop’s powerful image editing capabilities, with the application of these to a large print file and print the content of which is entirely up to you…. read more »
2D digital art 4 | corpse REFERENCES collage corpse layers EXERCISES scanogram tonal scale corpse collage ARTWORK round robin Introduction This project is our introduction to Photoshop, a raster or bitmap image editing software that some say is the greatest invention since the wheel. Our first Photoshop project will take advantage of some of the… read more »