Mary Ellen Bute, born in 1906, was one of the first experimental filmmakers in America. She is considered one of the “pioneers” of this art form and was widely known for creating the first electronically generated film images. Bute was born and raised in Texas up until her teenage years. From 1922 to the early…
Final Project
For this final project, I had to create a new work of digital art that demonstrates the technical, aesthetic and conceptual skills that I have been developing and refining throughout this course. I could use what I have learned and apply it to a new medium by doing something like making a video or circling…
Lauren McCarthy
Lauren McCarthy is an artist based in Los Angeles who is “examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living.” She is also experienced in programming and made a language called p5.js. It has over 1.5 million users and is used for learning creative expression through code online. Her technology-based creations are…
Jason Salavon
Jason Salavon is a 49-year-old American digital artist currently based in Chicago. He focused not only on art, but also programming during and after attending school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He takes popular culture media and creates his own piece that shows a new perspective of the already familiar content….
Takeshi Murata
Takeshi Murata is an American, New York based multimedia artist that has concentrated on special affects and computer-generated images since 2003. Because he has not attended any prestigious art school, he mostly relies on tutorials and inspiration from other YouTube videos to create his artificial pieces. According to Artspace, “Murata’s work has been shown at…
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is an artist that who “has been exploring the potential of working with electronic devices in visual arts” since the 1990s. Although he has a degree in physical chemistry, be chose to follow the artistic path that the rest of his family did. By experimenting with “visual or sound trackers and recorders, internet…
Maria Chavez
Maria Chavez is a Peruvian sound artist and DJ based in Brooklyn, New York. She has been actively creating works since 2007 and has had dozens of installations and exhibits all around the country. Her specialty includes [abstract] turntablism, where she takes music from records and creates new sounds of her own by physically damaging…
.gif
The goal for this project is to create three looping animated .gifs using my original photographs. Each of my gifs should be a perfect loop, meaning the action starts and ends in an identical location creating a seamless sequence of images. The .gifs should have at least 20 unique frames of animation and a width…
