Sound Project Crit Schedule

Friday April 20th

2pm - Caroline Wilcoxon

2:15 - Meredith Ashworth

2:30 - Justine Mcgregor

2:45 - Helen Kohnke

3:00 - Taylor Smith

3:15 -

3:30 -

3:45 - Katherine Habeck

Friday April 27th

2pm - Harrison Boyd

2:15 - Andrew Piepenburg

2:30 - Ben Parise

2:45 - Ryan Stewart

3:00 - Ashley Coad

3:15 - David Gautier

3:30 - Parker Wood

3:45 - Chris Soohoo

Web Intervention

I used images from points in my life that show moments of happiness and created gifs to distort them. By giving red eyes to each person in the photos I essentially took a rather carefree time and placed an underlying sense of malevolence in it.

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Web Intervention

This is my AIM (aol instant messaging) speech converter program. AIM once was the craze at my elementary school, and I have been using it ever since with my close friends. I wanted to examine the way we speak over the internet -- the way we shorten, fragment, abbreviate, and employ numbers to replace words in our "sentences." One thing that I found interesting in writing this program was that it actually took a lot of thinking to come up with the words to include that we normally simplify. In order to realize what I should include, I actually just started talking to my friends on AIM... sure enough, my internet-speak began flowing out, and I noted the words I was corrupting. I think this was a good discovery (that it was difficult for me to speak "internet vernacular" on command), because it has somewhat alleviated my frequent worry that the way our generation speaks through text and IM will start to corrode our normal speech habits.

When I initially proposed this idea on the blog, Mike cautioned me that something similar already exists (the 1337 translator: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/leet). Nonetheless, I still felt confident that there was a difference between what the 1337 translator and my idea. While the 1337 translator cleverly uses symbols and characters rarely (if not ever) seen or used to create a replica of the text you entered, my translator makes more of a statement on the way we use common symbols to truncate our communication and make it more effortless.

Web Intervention- computer glitch

Web Intervention

For my Web Intervention project, I decided to take 6 famous historical paintings and glitch them using hex editing software, while trying to to keep the main subject of each piece intact.

I thought it was interesting that nowadays a priceless painting can be reduced to a few hundred lines of code, and because anyone is able to download an image from online, essentially I could be able to alter these famous art pieces to my liking. It was a fun challenge, and I actually saved about 12 separate images that I got just from changing the code in different ways, but these were the most successful results:

Birth of Venus (1486), Sandro Botticelli

Guernica (1937), Pablo Picasso

Liberty Leading the People (1830), Joseph Delacroix

Mona Lisa (c. 1503-1519), Leonardo da Vinci

Son of Man (1964), René Magritte

Starry Night (1889), Vincent van Gogh

Line Describing a Cone

I find the nature of the Line Describing a Cone project fairly intriguing. The fact that the exhibit relies on the situation in which it is being preformed to create its full effect or create a new effect, such as with how when he first started with this idea he could rely on a dusty or smoke filled room to help portray a three dimensional object of light that could be interacted with. I like the malleability and abstractness of these light sculptures and how the experience is altered based on the situation in which it is viewed.

SebastiAn - Threnody

Here's the song with the 11-minute build up. 

If you're brave, feel free to listen to the whole thing. If not, I'd suggest skipping to the 10:30 mark and holding out for the beat drop.