Art from Code: Nice to Look At
Okay, so loops have kicked my ass. Well, coding is kicking my ass, but here I am, trying. And not trying hard enough, but trying nonetheless. This project seemed like a fun idea, but when introduced to all the new…
Art from Code: Self-Portrait
My portrait basically comes from the idea “abstract”. It was mentioned in our class, and I thought it is a good way to show how I consider myself throughout my work. To me, mosaic is a method to generalise the…
Art from Code: Collage
The title of my collage is “Japonism”. The idea of this assignment came from the time when I was organising photos taken in Japan. Since the country itself has vivid, various aspects to discover and enjoy, I decided to use…
Art from Code: Rainbow Madness
This one is all color, and a whole lot of experimentation. While with my last prompt, I had an idea from the beginning, the only thing I knew about this one is that I’d like to have a lot of…
Game Studio: Nonlinear Narratives: The Protagonist
For my protagonist, I wanted to design a character that would not stand out too much and could blend into her surroundings. She had to be different from everyone else, but not be too different. I sketched a few different…
Art from Code: BeeConstruction
When we got the assignment to create a collage, it took me a long time to decide what theme I wanted to work with. But after several hours of watching a playthrough of the game Cuphead, in which a queen…
Game Studio: Nonlinear Narratives: The Protagonist
My characters were limited by my artistic ability, but this led to a much more simpler and abstract design that I was influenced from watching the stick figure animations in my childhood. A lot of the design for the main…
Game Studio: Nonlinear Narratives: Characters for Hollie, Girl Detective
When working on this project, I was inspired in style by old flash games like Riddle School, the idea of children in adult situations like South Park, and a girl solving a mystery that the police should themselves like Nancy…
Game Studio: Nonlinear Narratives: The Protagonist
My protagonist is a woman named Alessa Solaris, who lives in a futuristic society where human space travel has been achieved. In this universe, the resources on Earth have been completely diminished and humans have taken to gathering resources in…
Game Studio: Nonlinear Narratives: The Protagonist
My Protagonist is named Kaira Barnabus. Kaira lives in a post apocalyptic world that suffered catastrophic flooding several decades before Kaira was born and is filled with various forms of fauna that can talk and have formed various societies. Kaira has…
Game Studio: Nonlinear Narratives: The Protagonist
The protagonist for my game design project is Becca Radley. She is a 24 year-old professional ghost hunter with a predisposition for off-the-wall plans. When her producers demand that she and her brother/co-host Casper provide the funds for their next…
Cultural HiJack: BAN! — Conspiracy in the Age of “Free Speech”
Statement: A visual hijack is when an artist uses the visual strategies of an oppressive image, or target, to re-establish new ideas that are counter or detrimental to the system that the oppressive image upholds. Part 1: Setup Choosing Target…
YouTube Beauty Video: Crème de Nature
Around three years ago, I came across with series of videos on YouTube called Nature Is Speaking. These videos are voiced by famous people such as Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey and many more, as if they are the…
Cultural HiJack: What I Learned From my Failed Kekistan Hijack
For my hijack i attempted to subvert the 4chan meme, the Kekistan flag. The history of the meme can be found here (http://bit.ly/2xCg1Tg), but why I chose it as my target was because it used by contemporary white supremacist and…
Cultural HiJack: A Previously Invisible Lesbian Calendar
For my visual hijack I hijacked typical heteronormative pictures from the 50’s-70’s and made them queer by replacing the straight couples with lesbian couples. I choose pictures from these time periods that I thought encapsulated the time frame best. I…
Cultural HiJack: It’s A Match! – Hijacking the Romanticization of Ideologies
A meme was the best source to visually hijack for me. In Daniel Dennett’s Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination, he writes that “in a struggle for attention, the best ideas win, according to the principle of the survival of…
Cultural HiJack: A Reworking of Aunt Jermima/ Keya Acharya/ Cultural Hijacks
A Reworking of Aunt Jemima I first heard about the racist history of Aunt Jemima in Alwin Jones’ Black Life Matters lecture last year. This year, Komozi Woodward also brought up this history in his lecture. He explained that the…
Art from Code: Healing Hands
When the project was assigned I struggled to come up with a theme for the collage. however, my friends suggested I embrace the Halloween season and explore witches! Immediately nuns stood out as their polar opposite. The further I looked into the…
Art from Code: Anti-Violence
I knew at the beginning that I wanted to have my collage be about this new headspace I feel that I’m in right now. After a serious car accident in January that forced me to take a semester off, and…
Art from Code: Virtue and Vice
My collage began with a brainstorm of words and associations, held together by the single narrative of vice and virtue. Having just finished the Odyssey in my literature seminar, I was struck by the physical and psychological pleasures and seductions…