final thoughts

I really enjoyed taking this 3D design class because the 3rd dimension is something I have not explored much in the aspect of art. I think the installations we made and researched were amazing and extremely interesting. I personally liked created the final project installation with Tino of the life size Mario. I think this was a very hands on project and looked nice when we finished it. I think it was a fun installation to look at and was able to draw peoples attention. I also enjoyed learning and exploring the world of projection. During this semester I was able to discover some amazing way to use the project as an installation of art.

Final installation

For the final installation that was displayed in Babbio, Tino and I created a 3D display of the original 8 byte Mario. We were able to do this by using 150 three-inch cardboard boxes. The idea of the installation was to bring the original video game character in his original form to the 3D modern world. With this installation we were able to connect the original 8byte Mario to the present and see how video games have transformed from what they used to be.

In order to do this we started with cardboard boxes that were to be folded and painted.

original cardboard boxes

painting process

Paiting Process

Starting to put together

Body

Finished standing Mario

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol is an American artist who sis best known for his pop art. He was able to find a connection between illustration, celebrity culture and advertisements. In the 1960’s is when Warhol’s pop art flourished as he is known for his iconic paintings of popular American objects. His illustrations ranged from celebrities to a Campell’s soup can. Through his illustrations he was able to capture iconic images of the culture and media of the time period. Some of his most well known works include Campbell's Soup I (1968) and Marilyn Monroe.

Hans Hofmann

Hans Hofmann was an abstract expressionist painter. His works all included a lot of colors and are very distinguishable. His works all feature spatial illusion and interesting color relationships. He incessantly probed natural elements, focusing on volume, and geometric forms in positive and negative spaces.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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I find Frank Lloyd Wright's home, Taliesin West one of his most interesting designs. His angled walls are intriguing and his house mostly interests me because it is so close to the ground yet not uncomfortable to live in. His scale of his buildings are completely different than what other architects tend to use.  Frank Lloyd Wright has been a major influence on this century’s love affair with modernism. He focused on “form follows function” meaning the design should be built for its purpose and used few materials. Modern architects followed this clarity of forms to rid of any unnecessary detail and focus on simplicity. Although these buildings tend to be simple, they are still showing visual expression of the structure. Often, these buildings used more natural light than had been seen before. Also, he emphasized the use of rectangular shapes and vertical and horizontal lines in their structures. 

Walter Benjamin Response

How does he connect Art and Technology and Mass production of the Image?
    Walter Benjamin found new technology in the art field fascinating. With the advances of the lithograph and then film, Benjamin uncovered an entirely new way to display art and a new technique. He found that with the new technology he could change how many people could now see the art with the use of mass production. Important works of art used to be only viewed by the wealthy in a museum for a limited amount of time. However, with mass production of the image Walter created completely accessible art by many people, this of course also created a completely different type of audience viewing and critiquing the work.

Light projections Continued

As we continued with our experimenting we began to play different youtube videos and continued to use the silver reflective paper. We lined a box with the reflective paper and then used it to project these videos onto the white board. As we found more interesting colorful video to play the projections became more and more interesting.
Some of the video we used to project:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2TUYr99UGw