New Genres

This video shows my blinking eye overlayed with a digital shape that appears to be blinking. The eye and the pulsating sphere are meant to look like they are affecting each other to blink.In this experiment, I was initially following…

DESCRIBE THE OBJECT  A thin, alabaster spire standing over five-and-a-half feet tall, wrought of paper plates and a single paperclip. It is slightly thicker at the bottom, and creeps haphazardly upward, precariously balanced. DESCRIBE YOUR PROCESS Our objective was to…

This video is one of my first experiments with TouchDesginer. It is a video with a colorful overlay and switching light points. The video is repeating over 1 minute and the texture changes over time with the color.  My motivation…

I’ve had a vested interest in making art about rooms and how we can tell a lot about people based on what their rooms look like. My conference piece is called “Honeytrap,” and in creating this piece, I was trying…

DESCRIBE THE OBJECT This project is part of my optical illusion collection. One of the themes that really interested me this semester was creating (occasional 3D) optical illusions through hard code. This ‘Pink Rose’ is a bunch of organized rectangles…

The Gala of Time. In which relics from the past and present are shown in a miniature exhibition. Looking at old photographs of these items made me realize that I wanted to add on an aura of nostalgia. I have…

A closer look at some of the charms I made for the spinning tree:

An installation of a tree shooting up and out of the ground;holding precious charms on its branches! Turn the tree and hear their cheers!

This project is a daily documentation of the learning process of crocheting for the first time. Over the course of 41 days, I created 34 crochet pieces in the form of various granny square patterns as well as 7 scraps of…

DESCRIBE THE OBJECT This project depicts a fish tank on a desk with various species of fish swimming around and doing fish things like eating food (and occasionally each other). It also contains a treasure chest that periodically opens to…

When I was coming up with what I wanted my final project to be I thought about a watching a tree go through all the seasons like a montage from a movie. The ecosystem starts with spring and rain that causes the leaves to grow. It then transitions to summer and then fall. The leaves change color and fall. When the leaves fall the ground changes color and reveals a squirrel and bird in the tree who then leave the tree before winter. When it becomes winter it starts to snow and the ground changes color again. And then just like the seasons it becomes spring again.

DESCRIBE THE OBJECT My code consists of eleven circles of circles extending out from a center circle. The circles’ directions go in the same direction every other line and then another direction every other line. The circles in the circles…

Having a Space is really important. You need a place to go thats your own. If you can not find one, make it! When growing up I moved around a lot. This meant different places, different schools, and different friends….

DESCRIBE THE OBJECT This project contains hundreds of points that are randomly placed around the screen that are constantly moving. Every time they get within a certain distance of each other, they connect causing a line to appear in between…

By Lily “Billy” Olson Please note that the artist uses he/him and they/them pronouns. This sculpture was made in response to a prompt about self presentation and how we are perceived. By the world around us. As an individual on…

“Windows” began as a documentation of the various windows that have appeared in my life, memory, and over Facetime across this semester, but it also became a diary of labor and a sustained project of noticing. I worked on this…

In every class that I am taking that is not Diary Forms I am working with poetry. I am taking a writing class in which I am generating a lot of poetry and I am taking a class on queer…

by Lily “Billy” Olson Please note that the artist uses he/him and they/them pronouns. “Sailor’s Hitch (and other knots)” is a work I began as an abstract concept meant to document my difficulties with keeping diaries throughout my life. I…

DESCRIBE THE OBJECT Drawing from the world of platformer games, this piece has three main objects. The rainbow circles, the grayscale squares and the lavender platforms. Based on these objects, occasionally the background of the piece will flash this shade…