Second year art students create “ Figures with inventive backgrounds”.
Second year art students create “ A Vinatas” still life in charcoal.
7th and 8th grade media arts students created sneaker designs.
2D Studio art Monotypes
Creativity + Time = Awesome →
“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
7/8 grade digital media students studied the works of Jerry Uelsmann and created their own surrealist photographic composites in Adobe Photoshop.
2D Studio art students create images using the intaglio process (Linocuts) and create color areas using Chine-collé, a process of pasting in color paper during the printing process. click on an image to see full size.
Technology, Art, Math and Science...
The previous posts profile artists and makers using math, science, and technology to create “living” moving, reacting and real-time sculptures and art experiences. enjoy!
Reuben Margolin, a Bay Area visionary and longtime maker, creates totally singular techno-kinetic wave sculptures. Using everything from wood to cardboard to found and salvaged objects, Reubens artwork is diverse, with sculptures ranging from tiny to looming, motorized to hand-cranked. Focusing on natural elements like a discrete water droplet or a powerful ocean eddy, his work is elegant and hypnotic. Also, learn how ocean waves can power our future.
First inspired by the mysterious and mathematical qualities of a caterpillar’s crawl, artist Reuben Margolin creates large-scale kinetic sculptures that use pulleys and motors to create the complex movements and structures we see in nature. Margolin takes to the PopTech stage to share some of his extraordinary mechanical installations.
Great Talk by Margolin about his beginings:http://poptech.org/popcasts/reuben_margolins_kinetic_art
Learn more about Reuben at http://www.reubenmargolin.com/
The new short film by Blu
an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)
blublu.org/
blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm
music by Andrea Martignoni
produced by Mercurio Film
assistant: Sibe
Theo Jansen’s TED talk about his “Beasts”
Theo Jansen’s “living sculptures”: animaris gubernare
Time Lapse photography of the installation of Love Lace by Janet Echelman
Tsunami 1.26, an aerial lace installation, was inspired by the 2010 Chile earthquake’s ensuing tsunami and the 1.26-microsecond shortening of the day that resulted from the earthquake’s redistribution of the Earth’s mass. By meditating on these epiphenomena, the work underscores the interdependence of Earth systems and the global community. It asks the viewer to pause and consider the larger fabric of which they are a part.
Janet Echelman:
My studio generated a 3D model of the tsunami using data from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the NOAA Center for Tsunami Research. I then used software to transform an outline of the model’s higher amplitude area into a sculptural form. My studio created hand-knotted models to achieve the complex shaping of the piece.
This artwork utilizes Spectra®, a material 15 times stronger than steel by weight. The mesh is knotted by machine in order to withstand winds, but is engineered to reflect the intricacy of handmade lace.
The eCLOUD is a dynamic sculpture inspired by the volume and behavior of an idealized cloud. Made from unique polycarbonate tiles that can fade between transparent and opaque states, its patterns are transformed periodically by real time weather from around the world.
It is a permanent sculpture between gates 22 and 23 at the San Jose International Airport and was a collaboration between Dan Goods, Nik Hafermaas, and Aaron Koblin.
More about the piece can be found at ecloudproject.com
Dan Goods: directedplay.com
Nik Hafermaas: uebersee.us
Aaron Koblin: aaronkoblin.com
Production: UeBERSEE Inc.
Creative Producer: Jamie Barlow
Fabrication and Installation: International Rigging
Programming: Daniel Massey
Electrical Engineering: David Randall
Music: Will Thomas - ‘Spider Leg 26’
Commissioned by the City of San Jose Public Art Program
Listening Post
Image: Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen
Created by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin Listening Post is an installation that pulls text fragments in real time from thousands of chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums online. The text is then displayed across a suspended grid of screens and sung or spoken by a voice synthesizer. The art is “a visual and sonic response to the content, magnitude, and immediacy of virtual communication.”
Advanced 2D art students study figure drawing from life.
7/8 Digital art students photographing shadow letters.