Category Archives: Exercise 1
Image + Text = narration
For this exercise I decided to work on a project that would show how the mind subconsciously tries to make associations and connections between two different forms of data when that data is presented to the user at the same time. The two sources … Continue reading
Colour My World
Concept I began brainstorming by thinking of different ways to make a composite of more than one image. Images can be overlaid, which often creates dramatic but visually overwhelming images. Blending them can produce appealing results, but it … Continue reading
Marching Band
Context/Concept The idea behind this piece is using the images themselves as a form. As is the case with many marching bands, they strive to entertain an audience with interesting forms and shapes (along with music). I’ve tried to capture … Continue reading
Zoom In
Concept: I liked the idea of making users interact with the image, since Processing can do a lot with the mouse and key. Then I was just searching through the Processing library and realized that there’s no specific function … Continue reading
Beauty (or Whole < Sum of Parts)
Concept I wanted to demonstrate the idea that many parts combine to form a whole greater than their sum. I chose to do this by searching for “ugly” on Flickr, then combining them into one random photo chosen from the … Continue reading
Color Blocks
While we were going through the examples in class, I liked how the Accessing Pixels program worked and wanted to take it a step further by adding animation. After messing around with processing, I decided that the concept I wanted … Continue reading
Using pixels to paint
I wanted to explore the idea of our surroundings being not just the inspiration, but the material of our artwork. To take it quite literally with respect to digital images, the simplest and most complete breakdown of the image is … Continue reading
Through the City
Through the City The idea for my project was to have the images appear as if a person was walking through a city. I would pull images of buildings and city streets and cycle through them as the person “moves” … Continue reading
Pollock’d
Concept: I really like abstract art, and I have always been interested in the debate about the importance and credibility of abstract art. As such, I have attempted to recreate images from Flickr by generating random strokes of color. This … Continue reading
Anatomy of images
Concept Screens are arguably the most heavily used visual medium in nowadays, and we’re so used to looking at the screens as if we’re looking at the real world. Yet what are we looking at when we look at the … Continue reading