Senior Seminar Write up

This semester I attended a showing of Alfred State’s “The Seussical”. The production of the musical did very well all the days it was playing and I managed to catch the last showing. The set design was well constructed but because the stage was so small it was limited. With that being said there was…

Production Write up

Last week I had gone to the Robert C.Turner Gallery and saw a show titled “Live Feed Live Feed Live Feed” that incorporated digital video. The main piece involved a camera in the middle of the room that recorded the viewer in realtime and projected the image on various walls. On the walls the videos…

Advanced Animation Write up

Earlier in the semester I had an opportunity to help one of the seniors with their thesis project. I was called upon by John Maffett to model a kitchen in the 3d program Maya. The requirements for this side project were to model and texture the room while meeting with John every couple of days…

Production 1 writeup 2

On sunday December 1st I went to the Fosdick Nelson Gallery, there I saw a piece titled “Ark 3: The Workshop Scenarios” by Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin.

Advanced Lighting and Texturing Writeup 1

On Thursday November 27th I visited the Hinkle Library and saw the water colour works of Barbara Fox.

Interactive Media Writeup 2

Today I went to a gallery piece put on by the juniors of the Alfred DMA program.

Interactive design writeup 1

Today I went to a gallery put on by the seniors at Alfred state called a “Bicubic Sharper.”

Art History II Writing number 14

The two post minimalism art pieces by Naumen and Hess “La Brea/Art Tips/ Rat Spit/Tar pits” and Accession II raise a few of the same questions. Both pieces are very minimalistic in their execution. The piece by Naumen “La Brea” is a fourecent light put in a circle that cycles through different ways of saying…

Art History II Writing number 11

The artists Alice Neel and Leon Golub had an interesting take on figures in their artworks “The Family” done in 1970 and “The Go-ahead done in 1986.” Both paintings portray the human figure in a colorfull and flat way. “The Family” by Alice Neel, shows a family of three sitting together. This composition has flat…

Art History II writing number 2

The cubist painting Violin and Jug uses many elements in artwork in new and axciting ways for the time. The piece has a strong diagonal composition by breaking the image into sections. The shapes, however, are not made unrecognisable by this process. The paint uses brush strokes to give the comosition depth and a grainy…

Interactive Design writeup two

Last week I went to the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred University.

Interactive design Writeup

This weekend I went to the Robert C. Turner Gallery and looked at a piece by Barrett Anthony Long.