Welcome to our class blog for Foundations of Art, Design, and Digital Culture! You will be expected to post on here once a week before each Monday’s class. Your posts should relate to something we are talking about in class. They can range anywhere from design, painting, photography, sculpture, performance, composition, fashion, video, architecture, and theory….
Public Art or Infrastructure?
When brainstorming ideas for the Public Art Proposal project I did a lot of research into various approaches to the art form across the world. It was interesting seeing how the intervention style is trending towards much more interactive art that is blurring the line between art and infrastructure. These pieces range from art that…
Nusi Quero
https://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/article/grimes-tattoo-artist https://www.instagram.com/nusi_quero/ Nusi Quero is an artist that I’ve followed on Instagram for awhile who does 3D virtual art. He specializes in futuristic 3D-rendered couture pieces, like corsets. He recently designed Grimes most recent tattoo. I think his work is really beautiful and intricate and takes advantage of modern technology to create complex 3D patterns…
Technology and art
Now that we have begun to integrate coding into our designs, I have thought about the impact of technology in art. Silk-screen printing, cameras, neon, film, and computers have all had an intense impact on the chosen mediums that artists have taken on. In fact, it is largely unknown that Andy Warhol was a pioneer…
Modern Still Life
I thought this comparison between older, more traditional, still life and modern still life was very striking. The use of color, choice of elements in the art work, and medium tell two, very different stories in each of the artworks. It’s interesting to see how culture and social expression are depicted even in art work…
Abstract Browsing: Art through Chrome
Rafaël Rozendaal is a Dutch-Brazilian artists that used websites to make art. He created a chrome extension that takes a website and transforms it into an abstract collage. I think it’s really cool to make art out of our extensive daily screen life. It’s especially interesting to use a chrome extension as a method of…
Generative Portraits with Processing
After this project, I was curious what artists have done with processing, so I searched through youtube looking for cool animations. One artist makes faces generatively by layering lots of swirls with different stroke weights and colors.
DataIsBeautiful
After reading the blog post about art made of data, I looked up data visualizations and I came across the subreddit r/dataisbeautiful on Reddit. R/dataisbeautiful is a community where users submit posts where data is communicated effectively but also in a way that is aesthetically pleasing. Using art to convey data makes the data more…
(Not So) Still Life
I think this example of still life really struck me, as it demonstrated how the bounds of a “still life” can be pushed. In the image featured, you see only inanimate objects, but it a moment with much movement captured. Still life creations have evolved to move away from flowers and food into other household…
“Line Segments Space” by Kimchi and Chips
“Line Segments Space” is an art installation by Kimchi and Chips. This piece combines physical elements– lights and strings– with code to create an immersive art experience. I really like the way that the code clearly leads to a more immersive and enjoyable experience for viewers. It pushed me to think about how to combine…
Creativity of AI Art
As we began to use programming to create art, I wanted to learn more about the creativity and originality of AI/technology art. According to this article, creativity is translation of innovative/obscure thoughts that are both hard to trace and clarify by humans. Yet, art created by AI can readily duplicate and recreate the patterns, performance,…
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