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Diary Forms: Community Garden

Community Garden is a miniature garden made from collected trash/unwanted objects. I wanted to collect something from my friends, and the easiest way to do that was to ask if they had anything on their persons that they didn’t want…

Diary Forms: The Fight to Focus

My project is in the form of audio recordings on a computer played out loud on speakers. There are three separate audio recordings of me reading passages from three Jewish novels and one article on community psychology with the choruses…

Diary Forms: What to Watch

I created a DVD player, TV, and remote using foam, push pins, a silver paint marker, string, and construction paper. Initially, my project was a disc ladder showcasing the discs designed to depict the movie without giving away the title….

Art from Code: View Through a Train Window

This piece is my venture into the more digital side of art by learning the mechanisms and language of processing while weaving together a narrative that takes you on a journey through multiple different landscapes. When continuing to work on…

Art From Code: Choo Choo In the Snow

My Sidescroller of a train really helped open a path to get to my goals. I decided early this year I wanted to try and become a game dev, and while I had done some other interactives, this was one…

Art From Code: Hearth and Heart

The inspiration of this piece comes from a meme.  It is a picture of a man who has put several tuba parts on various limbs, and is posing like a knight. This meme spawned various tracks which combined the Tuba,…

Cultural Hijack: Recollective Prospectus

The Reccolective Prospectus for West Austin Park is a proposed approach to the improvement and maintenance of the park located at 1317 West 10th street in Austin, Texas, 78704. The document outlines a prospectus centered around preserving the cultural memory…

Cultural HiJack: ‘My Great Grandfather’s Flower Garden’ and ‘Left Behind’

My Great Grandfather’s Flower Garden (quilt, 2022) My great grandmother made lovely quilts, but no one in my family has taken up the craft since. My Great Grandfather’s Flower Garden breaks this trend as my first attempt at making a…

Cultural HiJack: I Didn’t Mean To

This piece is a large and wide canvas that includes paint and painted paper appliqué. The picture depicts a group of children that are running towards one of their smaller friends that seems to be getting tormented by a duo…

Cultural HiJack: Indexicality

The two pairs of images displayed are from a large group of photos that I have taken over time that I would describe as being pieces of moments in time. I felt compelled to include these photos in this exercise…

Cultural HiJack: Where’d Tiny Go?

This is a tableau that is based on a mostly blurry memory from my childhood of me wandering a garden that I hold very dear. During the time in which the memory took place, there was a lot of chaos…

Cultural HiJack: Early Experiments

Towards the very beginning of this semester, we were given the task of completing an ‘I remember’ exercise. In such, the words “I remember” are repeated and what results is a series of simple sentences all beginning with the words…

Drawing Machines: Drag ‘N Draw

When I first began work on my conference project, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do. I hadn’t ever had to make a physical conference project before, only written papers, so at first I just decided to make…

Drawing Machines: Machine Image

This is a still image from my first rescan, where I focused on dancing as a subject (the original video that this image came from was the crab rave video). With my rescans, I mostly decided to work with different…

Drawing Machines: Wave Simulator

Wave Simulator In physics a wave can be thought of as a disturbance or oscillation that travels through space-time, accompanied by a transfer of energy. It could be described as oscillations or vibrations. There are different types of waves, it…

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Drawing Machines: 81749HUFFY26827

I created a drawing machine from the frame of an old ten speed bicycle. After disassembling the bike,  I placed the frame horizontally onto sawhorses so the gears and rear wheel could spin freely, and I attached a cardboard disc…

Drawing Machines: Nevruz

The title of my film is Nevruz. The film was made using the Epson scanner to scan each individual frame, accumulating all of these images into a video through stop-motion editing technique. It begins with a red circular character, inspired…

Drawing Machines: What Can We Find on a Night Walk in the Woods?

The culmination of my conference work for this class is a twelve-image series titled “What can we find on a night walk in the woods?” I explore curiosity, discovery, wonder, and the senses through the setting of a night walk…

Drawing Machines: Automatic Jackson-Pollocker

Working with color has always been one of my biggest interest, so the second I started thinking about my conference project I knew that that was something I wanted to pursue. Throughout my artistic career, I never really had an…

Drawing Machines: Colorful Catapult Conference Project

A few months ago I went on a family trip to Spain. We were taking a tour in Segovia when I saw this small book shop in one of the streets. I went to take a look through the glass…