Visual HiJack: The Menstrustation
Almost every time I enter a grocery store, or a building with bathrooms, I am reminded of the persistence of the gender binary. There’s something...
Visual Hijack: Trump and Putin Kissing
The image I chose to hijack is the mural of Trump and Putin kissing, installed in Lithuania by artist Mindaugas Bonanu in 2016. It is...
Visual HiJack: Nike profits from your identity
The inspiration for this hijack came from seeing the use of LGBTQ+ specific advertising during Pride month for companies to attract a market of individuals...
Visual Hijack: Campus Dealer
For this assignment, I set out to find images I found oppressive. Spending the summer at home in Los Angeles, I saw a lot of...
Visual Hijack: Body Positivity
For this assignment, I started by identifying two images that I felt were oppressive. The first one was a Gillette ad with the slogan “My...
Cultural Hijack: JUMP THE TURNSTILE! :D
by: Isiah Powell Taylor When concerning stickers, I was unsure at first of the way stickers function within space. Artists such as Banksy are able...
Systems Aesthetics: A Later System – Noise Pools
My inspiration for this system came from what we’ve explored in class with noise. I enjoy the random, unexpected effects and interactions that can occur...
Drawing Machines: Vision Machine
For my Vision Machine project I chose to create a stereographic viewer, that when used can simulate a three dimensional image in two dimensions. I...
Systems Aesthetics: A Later System: Paper Unbound
The idea of repetition as a stylistic technique has been popular throughout art history in order to convey things with a unified focus in multiple...
System Aesthetics: A Final System: New Approaches
My conference project was guided by my interest in person-to-person interactions and simple, conceptual art. In class, we tried acting out a few event scores...
Systems Aesthetics: A Final System: Filters
My final conference project is called Filters. This was a long and hard journey to get here but I am very happy with the end...
Systems Aesthetics: A Final System: Collision Game
For the first check-in of our systems class, I made a simple video game that goal was to get to a checkpoint while avoiding collisions...
Systems Aesthetics: A Final System: Glitch It
For this final system conference project, I was inspired by the check-in assignment we did for the pixel sorting, the research we did on Rosa...
Drawing Machines: Stars
My conference project is very different from my original outline and plan. When I presented the original project it was meant to be a variation...
Systems Aesthetics: A Final System: Let-It-Fly
I conceived of this project when I was playing with children’s puzzle pieces. I wondered: ‘These puzzles are clearly a system. They take on similar...
Drawing Machines: Happy Birthday
This is the old draft of Zoetrope, and it also gave me the idea of how to make my own zoetrope. But in the studio,...
Drawing Machines: Conference Post-Mortem
This semester I have chosen to expand on my experimentation with weaving through another handmade loom. I intend to explore the realm of textile and...
a later system: Stars in the Galaxy
What I wanted to achieve with this system was initially, a better understanding of patterns – specifically the creation of a pattern. It was hard...
Systems Aesthetics: A Later System- ‘harder soft or softer hard’
This studio exercise was an instance where the revision process helped me understand the concept much more deeply. Initially, I built upon check_in 12, where...
Drawing Machines: Exploded Nest
I am going to construct a hanging, nest-like installation made of found branches, sticks, ivy, and dried flowers. I will hang vine charcoal from the...