{"id":8700,"date":"2018-04-24T04:20:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T04:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=8700"},"modified":"2020-05-06T20:38:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T20:38:39","slug":"kinetic-text-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=8700","title":{"rendered":"Digital Tools for Artists: Kinetic Text \u2014 As I Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From viewing other work in class, I liked the idea of \u00a0using background images to keep the composition cohesive as the text changed. \u00a0I wanted to recreate the colors and textures that I was seeing when I wrote this poem.\u00a0 I wrote the text sitting by the ocean in San Francisco last summer.\u00a0 I wanted to use the ripple effect to explore animation patterns which mimicked water.\u00a0 I like the way this animation simulates the light on the edges of the rings and how the movement makes the piece dynamic.\u00a0 I was also simultaneously working on another video project for a performance media class, and these two pieces definitely informed one another in color and texture.<\/p>\n

I struggled to fill four minutes before the deadline. \u00a0I started by breaking up my source text into stanzas and worked only with the first stanza. \u00a0I have been thinking recently about the differences between still and moving images. \u00a0Gotthold Lessing says about the difference between painting and poetry that “signs existing in space can express only objects whose wholes or parts coexist, while signs that follow one another can express only objects whose wholes or parts are consecutive”. \u00a0This made me think about how reading a sentence is different from looking at an image. \u00a0I realized that language is a time-based art form, just like video. \u00a0(And if we are talking about video as a medium for expression of ideas, then obviously language is also a medium).<\/p>\n

I was introduced to the idea of “radical digital painting” by a friend recently, through this webpage:\u00a0https:\/\/schloss-post.com\/manifesto-radical-digital-painting\/<\/a>. \u00a0This made me think about the work we are doing as paintings that can be run. \u00a0I think these works have a lot to say about objects existing in space and time. \u00a0A section of Scudder’s Ten Minute Painting <\/em>states that\u00a0“repetition is the only thing that makes something less random than it already is”. \u00a0I see a connection between this quote and the way I have been using patterns in my work.<\/p>\n

This project tested my patience and taught me much about when things go wrong.\u00a0 I spent a frustrating evening with the Media Encoder, which taught me more about how the Dynamic Link works.\u00a0 This knowledge was useful when I was rendering my second draft of the project.<\/p>\n

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In refining my initial sequence, I decided to add the second stanza of my poem.\u00a0 I thought a shift in color was needed to reflect the tonal shift of the text.\u00a0 The bright pink seemed like a strong contrast which would\u00a0still exist harmoniously together with the blue. I also tried to incorporate the general notes given in class about smooth transitions between sections and at the ends of pieces.<\/p>\n

The piece has a gentle rhythm with slow and gradual transitions between sections. I wanted to let the text sit without much adornment on the screen.\u00a0 I am still not fully satisfied with the finer technical points of my animation.\u00a0 In critique, I received notes about making the transition between phrases more smooth, and that is something I could work on.\u00a0 I also would like the sequence where I make the letter “c” rotate to be more lively and seem like one concrete element.\u00a0 I do think I was successful in choosing a font which complemented the mood of the piece.<\/p>\n

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From viewing other work in class, I liked the idea of \u00a0using background images to keep the composition cohesive as the text changed. \u00a0I wanted to recreate the colors and textures that I was seeing when I wrote this poem.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":9051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[322],"class_list":["post-8700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-tools-for-artists","tag-kinetic-text","wpcat-263-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8700"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14039,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions\/14039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}