Sparta

May 10, 2015

Sparta

Final Piece: Ire

April 20, 2015

Final Piece:

Ire

(features Ragnar Lothbrook, Britton Buford, Cameron Buford, Sophie Robinson)

Guidelines and Process:

     "Choose from all the processes we have used so far."

     I chose four people. I took a photo of them (Ragnar's was from a scene from the TV show Vikings) and drew them with graphite. I added ink to their faces based on an emotion that represents them. The emotion I chose was anger. Ragnar has a patient anger. Britton has an icy, cold anger. Cameron has a fiery, hot anger. Sophie has a delicate, yet bold anger.

Generative: MNCC Reborn

March 4, 2015

Generative:

MNCC Reborn

Guidelines and Process:

     "Generative art is art that in whole or part has been created with the use of an autonomous system. An autonomous system in this context is generally one that is non-human and can independently determine features of an artwork that would otherwise require decisions made directly by the artist.

For this assignment you will come up with your own system that will “generate” and determine the majority of the composition."

TRIBUTE TO MNCC:

     In high school, I was a co-president of workout club (with two of my best friends) titled Miner Nation CrossTraining Club. On the club website we posted daily workouts. This project was developed using that website: pchswc.com. I used the structure and posts of the club website to generate this piece. The process was complex, but here is a summary of the artistic process: I rolled various combinations of dice to determine a year, month, and day between 2012 and 2014 (the years the club was running with my two friends and I still in high school). I then chose the first movement of that particular day's workout. I did this 20 times, then categorized them according to the movements (cleans and deadlift, cardio, pull ups and push ups, bench, squat, Final Word). I chose images that the name of each workout made me think of. Then I created a 5 x 4 grid, assigning a background color for each of the six categories, and arranged them in diagonal lines (the Hero WODs have a gold background). Finally, I added blue diagonal lines to the WODs which had comments on that day's blog post. There was a little more to it, but that is the basic process.