{"id":74761,"date":"2022-10-26T21:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T01:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/?p=74761"},"modified":"2022-10-26T21:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T01:22:44","slug":"looking-outwards-08-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/15-104\/f2022\/2022\/10\/26\/looking-outwards-08-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Outwards 08"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hannah Wyatt <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicole Aptekar is a digital artist based in Brooklyn, New York, who creates paper-sculptures, provoking deep questions about the world around us. Aptekar studied at NYU ITP, and has always strived to build a artistic-technical relationship with audiences, through mediums: musical synthesizers, painting, animation, digital art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aptekar’s work mainly depicts her dark anxiety\/fear in a fictional landscape, complete with strong shadows, curves, and a black and white color palatte. After each piece is finished, she writes the moment the art represents- and an excerpt becomes the title. (Seen below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I watch enraptured by the gaze of the mountains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>

I also appreciate Aptekar’s acknowledgement of the creative process, and her expression of the hardships she faced along the way. From creating a fire- touch sensitive version of popular arcade game “Dance Dance Revolution” (see below), to a “LED lit, fire breathing, collaborative music sequencing, cube tornado!”, she has experimented with a lot to get where she is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Syzygryd: A Living, Breathing Kinescape | levitica neueVisit<\/a>
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