Gallery Choices

If I had an opportunity to display my work I think I would choose the Bruce Nauman recreation. This decision comes from how well I believe the flow of the video works as well as how the music works well with the actions of the video itself.

Another project i would not mind seeing displayed is the final project. Perhaps not in it's entirety, but a couple of the final printed images and the kinetic piece. This form of kinetic art, in my experience, is very esoteric. I grew up with it and would like to share it with other people. One sees an image change right before their eyes with no machine turing the piece.

Finally, I would say the origami truck that I made. This was pretty difficult to make. the video was easy to follow in some places, but also required a lot of brainpower to decipher how a person folded in changed the paper at other times. There was also a very pleasant feeling to see my work move and in my mind was a complete success of the phrase movable origami.

What I Obtained From New Media New Forms

When I signed up for the class I thought this class was mainly about exploring photoshop and a little bit about the 3-dimensional printer (since everyone talks about it). I was really amazed at how extensive technology is and can be in the art making process. The class has given me the courage to approach different media and explore it and then potentially teach it. I really liked how Richard incorporated other parts of our program into this class as well by asking everyone to create lessons on a certain topic. This allows us to look back and use a lesson if need be. In addition, by having access to other people's blogs, if permitted, those lesson ideas can be shared as well.
Thank You Richard for a great class.

3d Printing and Printmaking

When we were first assigned the final project I was happy that I rolled familiar subjects. Printmaking, Identity, and Computers. I wanted to use a laser printer but known existed on campus. Well it took me a month to realize and after completing my final project that even though the lab doe not have a laser printer the lab does have an instrument that can create plates. That's right he 3-dimensional printer. I have made a test plate to see if the process works and it does. the printer gives great texture, but with a 10% fill breaks easily. Here are the results. Also side note; the stop motion gifs are of the printing process for this plate.

 the printed image

 the inked crushed plate

 the printed image

 the plate without ink.

I was told the fill can be increased to make the plate more durable and further testing is needed. I really like the honey combs. 

Slow Motion GIF

Thought I would try my hand at stop motion. I used my cell phone and it has the capacity to take 1000 photos or 5000 photos in a very short amount of time. this gif has 91 photos and sped up to a speed of 40 milliseconds per frame. It looks like a real video!

https://imgflip.com/gif/8inzx

This gif is made with 150 images and has the same frame rate.

Final Part 3: Discussion and Point.

My 3 dice were printmaking, identity, and computer. These forms were familiar to me all too well. After all, I have taken printmaking for over 2 years now, I have used a computer in one form or another since i was very little, and I have always known a great deal about myself. When I received these categories I thought it would be nice to bring an image from the digital realm into real life. I remembered learning that there are specific printers that carve the image for a person that has been pre programmed. One such printer is a 40W CO2 Basic Hobby Laser. After the image has been transferred to a plate of some sort, the plate can be inked, layer on top of a piece of paper, and then put through a press in order to receive an image. Needless to say we did not a 40W CO2 Basic Hobby Laser printer. I was sad. Then after doing some research about what people online thought printmaking was inspiration struck. These fellow bloggers mentioned that printmaking requires a plate or multiple plates to make a final image. I asked myself, "well why can't an image not be copied or scanned through a computer and then either reuse that piece of paper to have multiple images on it or combine the scanned imagery in photoshop to obtain the desired image.

This process actually works and is do able. I first thought of what I identify with. For the past 3 years of my life I have been painting candy bars and have gotten to know the wrappers quite well. I have painted the wrappers so well that when i bring chocolate in as a pick me up to fellow classmates, people say, "Of course you would". So as for now I identify myself as a person who loves chocolate and will use that idea for as long as it interest me.

Here is where the second part of the project came in. I had been collecting candy wrappers since the beginning of the semester and had the chance to use them in this project. I took various candy wrappers and placed them on a white piece of paper. In essence, this combined object became my "plate" for printing. This plate was not inked but copied and scanned as mentioned above. This picture shows what one plate looks like.

Any plate following this one were made too to fit around the image. After copying this image. Other plates were copied onto the same piece of paper. This process resulted in a semi success. It showed that the plate could be directly scanned and printed in one go and then quickly prepped for another plate. The process resulted in the following picture. 

In this picture I did mess up the orientation of how I placed the paper in the printer and a second test was conducted with the appropriate insertion of paper, which resulted in this picture:

These pictures told me two important things. The first was I did not want there to be any overlap of wrappers in the printing process no matter how cool it may look. I am referring to the dove wrapper with the M & M bag. The second thing is that takes away any spacial reference a person might have. I decided I needed to manipulate the image in photoshop to improve upon the idea. A scanned image looked like this picture.

Images were then compiled in photoshop. When combined with another image in photoshop the image underneath was completely hidden. The merge function merges layers but did not provide the necessary function of merging pictures together. There was also the opacity level of each image, but then one image was faded. Using the knowledge I learned from my digital foundations course, I created a mask and then selected the eraser tool to reveal the layer below. This action provided the following image. 

The image seen here was printed on 8.5" X 11" ultra glossy paper in the Meyers Studio Lab, but this was not the first paper I tried. I first tried a bad 8.5" X 11" glossy paper and regular printer paper from my printer. The glossy paper smudged and the printer paper was soaked with ink. Printing on 4" X 6" ultra glossy paper worked with my printer though. The other results can be seen in Part I of the Final Project. 

The problem with a small image is that one may not necessarily see all the detail. However, the bigger an image becomes the question of how does one store it comes into play and if that is really what one wants. I like the smaller versions for postcards and thank you letters. I think the glossy paper adds a necessary shine for chocolate bars. 

Thinking I was done I approached my teacher, Richard Jochum, and fellow art students. I was given some insight after explaining that here is what I have and done is there anything else I can add to it? Richard suggested bringing he images back to the audience and trying to make the image relate to them. I thought about this for a while and realized that although it is a great idea it is not the audiences identity, but mine, not a self centered comment, but that is how I viewed the identity part. The fellow art students suggested I take the above image and add Dove wrappers throughout the whole piece. I liked that suggested, but did not go through with it because I like the break up of space at the ends.

Finally, in order to try to bring the image into the viewers realm, maybe not so they relate to piece but have to do something else besides stare at the images, I made a kinetic piece of art. This requires four images to show a progress of how the image changes as one walk around it. 

This project redefines what the printmaking process is and shows an effective way to use that process. The process is redefined in how the plates were made and possibly in it's final form. After all plates are not usually scanned into computers and prints are not usually placed on an accordion like piece of paper although they can be cut up and re-organized. 

Final Part 2: Final Form

                                                                       Kinetic Artwork:

Final Part 1: Pictures.

I am separating the pictures out from my description of the process to see if people can understand the process in which was taken to achieve the finished product. I believe this is important because when someone walks into a gallery and sees someone's work I believe they should come with an open min and be blown away by the artwork's beauty. The viewer should come in with no knowledge of the work before in order to have a more personal experience of what is being displayed.

                                                                          plates:

Reused Paper Copies:

Scans:

Final Image: Different Pieces of Paper:

Printer Paper

                                                                             
                                                                       Matte paper  

                                                                       Glossy Paper

Final Image on Ultra Glossy Paper: