For this reading blog I want to talk about the immersive Van Gogh exhibit that travels state to state. I went to see it with a friend of mine and we were kind of laughing the whole time because it felt cheap and fake. But I don’t think that’s exactly fair now that I think back on it. I think digital art, this immersive stuff that’s coming out is a way to make the non-available available. Most of Van Gogh's works are in Amsterdam, and while the price for tickets into the museu

For this blog, I’d like to respond to the Immersive Media Exhibition for CMDI that happened on April 17th. I want to respond to one specific project within it that I find interesting- a facial scanner that drew from a folder of racist imagery and matched up your face to particular images. It was actually quite jarring to experience and since it was realtime, the image kept shifting and changing with the use of AI. I think it was incredibly thought provoking though given the c

My project was about childhood trauma in connection to childhood objects. I took some objects like my stuffed animals and an angel statue and a bouquet of fabric flowers. They all feel haunted in some way or another- imbued with memories I’d rather forget despite them not being at all present during those memories. The project is audio reactive. If it registers loud noises, the opacity of the “good” videos lowers and reveals the “bad” videos. I’m referencing the PTSD response

This may be difficult to accomplish but I feel like I have a specific vision for this project. I think I tend to lean pretty feminist on this sort of thing- so here we go again. I’m going to use two mannequins, I was hoping for something unisex but I found that difficult to find. I’m going to project onto the mannequins and use different videos that showcase different relationships. Think Bees and flowers Blades and meat Bird and worms Water and the gills of a dying fish Fire

Honestly, this project for me was just about learning and having fun. I have a lot of experience in modeling and textures and rendering but not much experience with rigging. So it was a great opportunity to get an edge on that. Everything that I modeled was something I wanted to model which I don’t do very often. I’m focused on a career in motion animation and VFX so oftentimes I’m just trying to make everything as realistic as it can possibly be. However, the silly fungi, Un

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I don’t have a set plan for this project. I love blender and skinning and rigging, so I’m happy to do anything involving that stuff. I will say that I’m looking to expand my 3D portfolio for my graduate application. So, I’ll likely have a main focus on original, stylized models. I would’ve loved to use the grease pencil a bit more, considering it’s an easy and aesthetic way to stylize without spending hours messing with textures. I already have my mushroom done, so I might tr

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I’ve been feeling this lingering unease in the rural South for as long as I’ve been visiting. I wasn’t very sure how to express this feeling. It was like a word on the tip of my tongue that refused to budge. However, when I began pursuing glitch art, it clicked into place. The South, to me, was like a glitch in my life. The base of each memory was there, but something was wrong.  I attempted to give this feeling a narrative in my project. I would take photos from the rural so