This week I experimented with projecting animated handwritten text onto a number of surfaces. I started with glass — a clear glass tumbler, a green glass lamp, a bottle of perfume — to see how the glass caught the image and diffused the light. I … Read More →
Category Archives: Video Sculpture
Found Letters meets Video Sculpture ~ Antique Hack, phase one
In Video Sculpture we were asked to use video projection to bring an antique to life. I choose to experiment with this letter box in order to test a variety of ways these materials might be animated by media. What follows is my one-page write-up … Read More →
Glass & The Raven
Can you translate the essence of a physical work of art into a digital medium, like video? Assigned to create a piece of video art that reinterprets a classic sculpture, I decided to use paint and plexi and treat the act of painting as performance. … Read More →
A Work of Glass
After an afternoon museum visit, I’ve decided to revise my original “Classics” concept for Video Sculpture and reinterpret a contemporary work by Javier Perez currently on view at the the Museum of Art and Design in a show called Glasstress New York: New Art from … Read More →
The Fountain of Memory ~ Re-Visioning the Fontaine Saint-Michel
Built between 1858 and 1860, the Fontaine Saint-Michel presides over the entrance to Paris’s Latin Quarter. Known both as meeting place and wishing well, crowds gather at the fountain in all weather. One might see someone turn their back and toss a coin over their … Read More →
A Study in Influence ~ Days of Heaven and Terrence Malick’s Magic Hour
As part of my thesis, I’d like to create a system of expressive techniques that bring poems off the page in a way that is not quite theater, not quite art installation, and not quite public reading, but which incorporates elements of all of these. … Read More →
Found Letters ~ Thesis Proposal
The Idea Found Letters : Jack & Matilda Elevator Statement Found Letters: Jack & Matilda is a work of historical literary fiction and an environmental reading experience that follows a World War II-era couple, Jack and Matilda, from occupied Paris to post-war rural Kansas, engaging … Read More →
Negative Capability ~ Sculpting with light, Cubist-style
Description Negative Capability is a light sculpture that expresses the dialectic between a reader and a text, exposing the negative capability of meaning. Concept Development As passionate readers, we are intrigued by the way we interact with texts, with other readers, and with the story … Read More →
Found Letters ~ Video Sculpture Final
Found Letters is a transmedia verse novel that translates history into fiction, immersing readers in the objects, documents, and letters a genealogist uses to reconstruct her family story. This proof-of-concept prototype reveals one of the seven media channels through which this story is told: a … Read More →