MAR 221 : Digital Collage
Assignment: Like the typical collage assignment, but assembled digitally. Magazines were cut up, pieces were scanned, and the files assembled into a digital collage.
Stills
Some of my still image design; at the moment, mostly class assignments from the Media Arts (MAR) department at the University of Montana.
MAR 221 : Found Objects Composite
Assignment: Use found objects (scanned or photographed) to create a digital composite image.
Secondary Assignment: Limit to one source object :
MAR 221 : Progress
Exercise: In short time in class, design something that comes to mind when you think of “progress.”
MAR 221 : Typography
Assignment: Create an image design where text is the “hero.”
I took this a step further and made the design an animated GIF file to be the placeholder for the web domain UCTIV.NET
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MAR 221 : Artist Inspired
Svankmajer Smells
Assignment: Research, then create a digital still image design inspired by the style of an artist of your choice.
I chose Jan Svankmajer, the influential Czech. surrealist artist known for his stop-motion animation. For this assignment I was drawn to some of his earlier drawings and sculptural “Natural Science” installments, in which he would assemble different found objects (bones, shells, etc.) into fictional creatures, and display them as if they were scientifically sound. Similarly, I found biology diagrams and reassembled the pieces to make my own fictional creature. I printed it out, crumpled it, and added notes, as if it was a homework handout from a twisted Svankmajer Biology class.
Dance Steps New Composition
A simple desktop image: re-composite of souced images from an instruction booklet of the how-to-waltz lp.
MAR 311 - Project 1 : Diagram and Dance Steps
Assignment: Create a still image design from sourced images. This was more an exercise to get the creative juices flowing as we were thinking about our upcoming motion designs.
MAR 111 - Project 2 : Self Portrait
Snippets of my notes, doodles, calendar, to-do lists, & close-eyed sketches.
Assignment: to create a still image self portrait in Photoshop. I think this is a pretty fair representation of me at the time, and goes with the idea that we can’t separate who we are from what we do. At the time, I was Program Director at KBGA and was the most busy I’d ever been. My clipboard of notes and papers was all that kept me organized.
Eye of the Beholder.
Photoshop deconstruction of the Mona Lisa. Created(?) in just a few minutes in class today, during a thought provoking discussion of art for art’s sake vs. art for profit: The slippery slope of making a living and trying to remain true to personal values and creativity. Where do depersonalized commercially produced / kitsch items fit into the art world? It’s all a matter of perspective.
