Month: August 2019

Ilona Altman- Looking Outwards 01 – Fluid Leaves

In this project the designer Reinoud van Laar created a new brand concept for the tea company Tee & Cupp in Xian.He did so by creating a pattern for the company that was created generatively, by simulating the movement of leaves in hot water. Thus, tea becomes defined in terms of a process rather than a product. I found this project very beautiful because its is interesting that a corporate project could become so poetic. The pattern of the tea leaves swirling in hot water makes me think about those practices of reading the leaves to see your future. It is also interesting because this project was made individually and with Processing, so it is something that maybe we could make someday, with enough practice. A way I think they could have expanded this project however would be to pay greater attention to materially. It would have been lovely to see these patterns on ceramics.

the project fluid dynamics in action, crafted as a pattern for a tea company
photos of some of the generated patterns
still of fluid dynamics digital simulation

It also poetic to me how the ebb and flow of natural life is both a visual and temporal pattern. It is interesting that this element of chance determines composition. It makes me think about the Fluxus movement and John Cage, with his chance operations. Others that set precedents for generative patterns include Georg Nees and Vera Molner, who created works within a strict set of rules. There works are like maps of the relationship between order and chaos.

Vera Molner, a possible precedent and one of the first generative artists

http://reinoudvanlaar.nl/project/leavespattern/

https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/why-love-generative-art

(the first link is a link to the fluid leaves project and the next one links to some history of early generative art).

Fallon Creech – Looking Outwards-01

Drawing machine marking dots on canvas

Wellograph, designed by TehranPlatform, targets environmental concerns through performative art. Using a mobile drawing machine, the installation produces a set of square drawings that represent the amount of wells located around disappearing lakes in Iran. The interactions this product incites with its viewers is a relatively simple one; they follow the drawing machine’s movements as it repetitively pinpoints each of these wells on an abstracted map. I appreciate the artists’ gesture in this story-like depiction. The viewer begins their experience by watching the drawing machine mark similar dots on a page before it ultimately composes the final image, in which it finally reveals itself as a map. To complete this process, the artists designed a robot that projects a 2D image onto a canvas along with an ArUco marker that draws the dots on the canvas.

Minjae Jeong – Looking Outwards – 01

https://cool3dworld.com/

Cool 3D world is a collaborative multimedia project between Brian Tessler and Jon Baken. Cool 3D world is known for short absurd 3D animations on social media such as instagram and Youtube.

Jacob and the Giraffe by Cool 3D World

Couple reasons why the project by Tessler and Baken inspires me are that I’ve always wanted to create animated videos which I can express my imagination. As seen above, the animation is something else that we do not expect to see in reality. It’s bizarre, calming mood and characters in each animation keeps it uncomfortable but interesting enough to look for different animations that stimulates my thoughts. Cool thing about 3D animation is that it allows creators to fully utilize their imagination and let them express all.

Rachel Shin – Project 01 – Face


I identify myself as a pretty basic looking person. I find myself being too lazy to do much makeup so at most times, I just do my brows in my morning. In addition, a key part of me is how much I like boba. I chose to incorporate it as a part of my self portrait. The key thing that I focused on was positioning and layering. Since I am familiar with working with layers on Adobe Photoshop, it was fun to play around with layers again in this project.

Rachel Shin – Project 01 – Face

//Rachel Shin
//15-104 (Section B)
//reshin@andrew.cmu.edu
//Project-01



function setup() {
    
    createCanvas(600, 600);
    background(157,190,196);
    text("Rachel Shin. 15-104 Section B. reshin@andrew.cmu.edu. Project-01", 10, 15);

}

function draw() {

    //hair
    noStroke();
    fill('black');
    rect(175,150,250,450);

   

    //face
    noStroke();
    fill(219,214,178);
    ellipse(300, 320, 200, 260);

    noStroke();
    fill(219,214,178);

    //hair part 2 bangs
    noStroke();
    fill('black');
    rect(175,180,250,120);

    //eyebrows
    noStroke();
    fill(56,54,41);
    ellipse(250, 320, 40, 5);

    noStroke();
    fill(56,54,41);
    ellipse(350,320,40,5);


    //eyes brown
    noStroke();
    fill(56,54,41);
    ellipse(250, 340,20,20);

    noStroke();
    fill(56,54,41);
    ellipse(350,340, 20, 20);

    //nose
    noStroke();
    fill(56,54,41);
    triangle(300, 360, 290, 380, 300, 380);

    //mouth and boba
    noStroke();
    fill(128, 79, 78);
    ellipse(300, 400, 10, 10);

    noStroke();
    fill(128, 79, 78);
    rect(295, 400, 10, 50);


    noStroke();
    fill(255,255,255);
    ellipse(300, 450, 100, 15);

    noStroke();
    fill(255,255,255);
    rect(250, 450, 100, 150);

    //bobas
    noStroke();
    fill('black');
    ellipse(300, 570, 10, 10);

    noStroke();
    fill('black');
    ellipse(260, 580, 10,10);

    noStroke();
    fill('black');
    ellipse(340, 590, 10,10);

    noStroke();
    fill('black');
    ellipse(280, 585, 10, 10);

    noStroke();
    fill('black');
    ellipse (320, 585, 10, 10);




    
 }

Ilona Altman – Project 01 – Face

sketch

function setup() {
    createCanvas(200, 20);
    background(220);
    text("p5.js vers 0.9.0 test.", 10, 15);
}

function draw() {
    createCanvas(600,600);
    fill(255,255,255);
    noStroke();
    rect(0,0,width, height);
   
    //triangle 1 blue
    fill(100,120,200);
    noStroke();
    triangle(0,0,width,0,width,height);

    //triangle 2 green
    fill(100,150,150);
    noStroke();
    triangle(0,0,0,height,width,height);

    //semi-circle 1
    fill(190,80,50);
    noStroke();
    arc(width/2, height/2, width, height, PI/4, 5*PI/4, CHORD);

    //semi circlen 2
    fill(230,170,100);
    noStroke();
    arc(width/2, height/2, width, height, 5*PI/4,PI/4, CHORD);

    //semi circle 1 small
    fill(100,150,150);
    noStroke();
    arc(width/2, height/2, 3*width/4, 3*height/4, PI/4, 5*PI/4, CHORD);

    //semi circle 2 small
    fill(100,120,200);
    noStroke();
    arc(width/2, height/2, 3*width/4, 3*height/4, 5*PI/4, PI/4, CHORD);

    // eye circle 1
    fill(230,190,180);
    noStroke();
    arc(width/4, height/4, width/5, height/5, 0, 2*PI,CHORD);

    // eye circle 2
    fill(200,140,210);
    noStroke();
    arc(3*width/4, 3*height/4, width/5, height/5, 0, 2*PI,CHORD);

    // eye circle 1
    fill(235,235,236);
    noStroke();
    arc(width/4, height/4, width/5, height/5, PI/4, 5*PI/4,CHORD);

    // eye circle 2
    fill(70,80,130);
    noStroke();
    arc(3*width/4, 3*height/4, width/5, height/5, PI/4, 5*PI/4,CHORD);



}

I wanted to make a smile/face something dynamic with two sides, but whole, almost like a ying and yang. Identity as both hidden and revealed.

The colors are based off a favorite Matisse painting of mine.

Fallon Creech – Project-01-Face

sketch

function setup() {
    createCanvas(600, 600);
    background('hsl(160, 100%, 50%)');
}

function draw() {
  noStroke();
  fill(0);
  quad(0, 600, 0, 365, 35, 300, 35, 600);
  quad(35, 300, 100, 250, 100, 600, 35, 600);
  quad(100, 250, 100, 600, 250, 600, 250, 350);
  triangle(250, 600, 250, 350, 305, 600);

  noStroke();
  fill(125);
  quad(250, 350, 100, 250, 150, 175, 300, 260);
  quad(260, 290, 335, 275, 375, 250, 290, 255);

  noStroke();
  fill(225);
  quad(290, 255, 375, 250, 365, 180, 150, 175);
  quad(150, 175, 325, 40, 343, 115, 200, 177);
  triangle(343, 115, 365, 180, 175, 180);
  triangle(365, 180, 385, 170, 340, 110);

  noStroke();
  fill(195);
  triangle(325, 40, 250, 25, 150, 35);
  triangle(325, 40, 250, 100, 150, 35);
  quad(150, 35, 250, 100, 250, 325, 150, 325);
  triangle(250, 325, 280, 325, 250, 280);
  triangle(150, 325, 100, 250, 150, 150);
  triangle(100, 250, 150, 150, 150, 90);
  triangle(150, 90, 150, 35, 130, 180);
}

I decided to approach this project by using a different composition than is typical in self-portraits. This side profile provided the opportunity to explore more angular forms, which I achieved with quad and triangle functions. I thought the restriction of elements allowed for experimentation with abstraction, so I further highlighted that requirement by using a limited color palette and geometric forms that belong to the same family.

Minjae Jeong Project-01

sketch

function setup() {
    createCanvas(500,600);
    background(255,229,204);

}

function draw() {
    fill(242,215,215);
    ellipse(140,130,100,50);
    ellipse(360,130,100,44);

    fill('black');
    ellipse(140,130,40,40);
    ellipse(360,130,40,40);

    fill('brown');
    triangle(250,150,190,310,310,310);

    fill('black');
    strokeWeight(3);
    line(170,60,200,80);
    line(145,60,175,80);
    line(120,60,150,80);
    line(95,60,125,80);
    line(70,60,100,80);
    line(45,60,75,80);

    line(330,60,300,80);
    line(355,60,325,80);
    line(380,60,350,80);
    line(405,60,375,80);
    line(430,60,400,80);
    line(455,60,425,80);

    fill('red');
    rect(100,380,300,80);
    line(100,420,400,420);


}

I drew the most simplest self-portrait with only certain notable characteristics. Bushy eyebrows, smaller right eye, and big lips. Although no one might think this is my self portrait, but I tried to keep it as simple as possible while including some distinctiveness.

*I do not know how to modify the frame size, the whole frame disappears when I try data-width and data-height **Fixed

Sydney Salamy: Project-01-Face


The process and resulting product were interesting. The restriction to around ten graphic elements really forced me to focus on the most basic aspects of my face, with it being simplified enough to fit the requirements but contain enough features so that viewers could kind of see how it could be a portrait of my face. Even with the restriction, I was able to make the portrait a bit interesting with the use of colors.

 

SydneyFaceSketch

function setup(){
    createCanvas(400,400);	
    frameRate(.7);
}

function draw() {
    background(random(250),random(95),random(95));
    noStroke();

    fill(242, 226, 124);//yellow
    ellipse(200,200, 300,300);//yellow circle
    ellipse(200,200, 5,5);//yellow for shirt
    
    fill(46,2,2);//brown
    ellipse(200,210, 160,200);//hair base
    quad(97,299, 120,207, 280,207, 303,299);//hair bottom quad
   
    fill(242, 226, 124);//yellow
    ellipse(200,300, 195,80);//yellow for shirt
   
    fill(238, 179, 118);//darker tan
    ellipse(200,290, 90,70);//chest
    
    fill(245, 186, 125);//tan 
    ellipse(200,200, 125,140);//face
    
    fill(46,2,2);//brown
    quad(210,124, 200,150, 136,190, 143,155);//left bang
    quad(190,124, 200,150, 264,190, 257,155);//right bang
    quad(155,150, 185,120, 215,120, 245,150);//filler
   
    fill(255);
    ellipse(175,200, 35,35);//left eyeball
    ellipse(225,200, 35,35);//right eyeball
    fill(46,2,2);//brown
    ellipse(175,200, 25,25);//left eyeball inner
    ellipse(225,200, 25,25);//right eyeball inner
}

Rachel Shin-LO-01

Polina Efremova is a Berlin-based photographer who has merged two digital eras into a single artform. Efremova runs digital video through an old PC which glitches, allowing her to screenshot the glitches and therefore providing a newly created artform that conjoins the digital ages decades apart. This project interested me because it embarks upon an artform that conjoins two juxtaposing ages in which old and new are merged together. I appreciate Efremova’s effort to utilize the “antiques” that are so easily discarded nowadays as it also represents the distorted and imperfect nature of our world today. While most photographers would turn to their macBooks with Adobe software to import, edit, and export their photos, Efremova uses a unique system to produce her artwork. This might have been more effective by collecting several old PCs, allowing her to produce several versions of this art style. However, it does produce a distorted reflection of society today. 

Here we see one of Efremova’s many “glitched works.” Efremova creates this images by running new technology through old.

Efremova describes that she accidentally discovered her art style in 2013 when she “installed a new video player on a very old PC” (Pangburn, VICE). She claims to not remember why she decided to try running her Canon footage through her PC. Even as a photographer, Efremova often worked with film to produce her work, but after this happy and sudden discovery, Efremova has decided to go forth to produce videos in this distorted, glitching style.

Glitch: Merging Old and New

Jacky Tian – Looking Outwards – 01

Technology, Engineering and Art Expression

Millennium Bridge in London

On June 1oth, 2ooo, a new walkway the link the city of London with the historical district of St. Paul’s Cathedral was completed across the Thames River. The 325 meters long Millennium Bridge in London is the winning entry of an international architectural ‘bridge building’ competition.

The competition entry was name of “the blade of lights” with innovative steel structure, supported by complex engineering calculation done by varies computational design and simulation tools. The designer group, Foster and Partners worked with a specific technology company as well as a famous sculptor, Sir Anthony Caro.

The Millennium Bridge in London perfectly demonstrates how technology can affect bridge engineering towards a more artistic expression and tectonic patterns in design. The