After watching Laurie Anderson’s interview for our assignment this week, I wanted to listen to more artists talk about their inspirations and give advice. Shara Hughes’s lesson seemed to be similar to Laurie Anderson’s in that they both reached a point of realization after trying out everything. The courage that Read more…
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/09/learnings-coding-artwork/ The article above contains a personal story and dialogue of experiences from an artist that has been creating one digital artwork every day for the past five years. I found this perseverance of creation to be amazing and it was very motivational to read through what the artist learned Read more…
https://blog.usejournal.com/coding-art-312efa2020fd This article on creating art with code was very interesting to read through. I especially enjoyed the section on Code Poetry where the boundaries between linguistics and computational literature were blended in together. I think this highlights the extent to which technology and coding can blend into our lives Read more…
In high school, I was always interested in the idea of uncovering the hidden voices of the less powerful and underrepresented people in our society through my artworks, so I did a lot of work with especially the young North Korean defectors. After several years of volunteer work with them Read more…
After coming across this article on surreal collage art, I was inspired by Mikayla Lapierre’s project titled Side Dimes (a collection of photoshopped works with historical paintings). The way she modifies those works with contemporary items while also preserving original elements was very interesting, and it helped me get started Read more…
I came across this interesting video of a What Design Can Do event. In this specific clip, Shihab-Eldin and van der Laken talk about what it is like to be a media activist and addresses a big range of issues like racial stereotypes on screen. The What Design Can Do Read more…
Since we started working with colors in class, I have been looking up the importance of color in abstract designs. In the example attached above, the two paintings are very similar in style, but the painting on the left uses more warm colors like yellow, orange, red, and pink, while Read more…
I came across a graphic designer named Edvard Scott while looking up abstract illustrations, and this piece really stood out to me. The use of patterns and the placement of each of those unique items create a sense of unity that ties the entire piece together. The overlapping of all Read more…
This article really focuses on iconography and its role as a whole different language. This piece emphasizes the universality of these icons that extend beyond that of spoken languages. By the end of the piece, the author mentions that the future of iconography relies on the addition of sound, and Read more…
Throughout our Sound Analysis project, I continued to look more into the art of audio and sound itself. I found a lot of amazing audio works, but the one that I want to share is a piece called “Out of Range” by Jana Winderen. She’s also a biochemist and fish Read more…