Final Project Groups and Ideas
Post your tentative final project groups and project ideas here.
Each group needs to have at least one fine arts student and at least one engineering student. If at all possible, please try to keep groups at no more than five members--preferably three or four.
Each project needs to use skills from both disciplines to a similar depth. No having an engineering student build an electronic widget and having an art student slap on a coat of paint, nor having a fine arts student build a kinetic sculpture and having an engineering student connect an electrical plug to it.
Team USA
Steve Wilson (Music) Keith Blanding (Lights/Effects) Tyler Williams (Lights/Effects)
Please see our wiki page below for more info.
Team VICTORY
Hicham Hatime
Wail Elkabbadj
Andrea Kindle
This project consists of analyzing paintings at pixels level and generating new paintings. What we are trying to do is get the main characteristics from two paintings and merge them in one painting. The first approach we tried, is select the highest and lowest intensity pixels from two painting. The program will use two arrays of twenty paintings each from two different artists. It will select randomly two painting, compute the highest or lowest pixel intensity and generate a new painting using the selection criteria. Using twenty painting in each array, we will be able to display 400 permutations.In this project, we will use a laptop and a projector for our exhibition.
Please join us, email the class mailing list at WSU-Tech-Art-and-Snd@googlegroups.com
The Three Musketeers
Porthos - Scott Yang
Aramis - Jeff Bennett
Athos - Joshua Unterman
Working with attention span, and having a record of how long one is in front of a parlicular work of "art". This piece will involve a change in the piece when there is or is not a viewer standing in front of the work. The change will be documented in the LCD read outs and also there will be a sound/noise element that changes depending on how close or how far away the viewer is to the work. The four LCD's sceens will be inset to three pannels that will be mounted to the wall and a hidden speeker above. Imagery is still in flux.
See how we made Romeo
Team A
Kendra Teel,
Muhammad Rahman,
Aaron Crain,
Rhujuta Kulkarni,
Artist Statement
Much of what I have been working on this semester has dealt with my ideas through path, agency, or process. This is my first semester as a graduate student and I want to examine my interests in various formats. For me, exploring the use of metaphysical maps seemed like a natural next step in sorting through ideas of a fashion similar to agency or process.
Metaphysics to me is exploring the nature of my reality: What is humankind's place in the universe? Is art objective or subjective? Does the world exist outside the mind? What is the nature of objects, events, places, and dreams? When I was young I would collect the maps from the National Geographic Magazine. The maps that I found interesting or beautiful I would hang in my closet. On these maps I would place banana stickers, write secrets, study, and get lost in them. I think; I used them as way to escape, or create order in my life. I still have a secret stash.
Maybe it would be helpful to explain, and give examples of where I get these ideas of organizing my thoughts through art.
Investigating types of things there are in the world and what relations these things bear to one another (Ontology). Rather than metaphysics in reference to subjects that are beyond the physical world. Spirits, faith healing, occultism, interest me. I generally seek to translate through art inherent elements of reality which are not easily discovered or experienced in everyday life. Religion, health, or what’s going on in the mind of my dog. Using logic based on the meaning of human terms, rather than on a logic tied to human sense perception of the objective world. I would like to use the mapping to help explore relationships of how things react to one another, and not as a measure of truth or reality.
Philosophy is metaphysical in nature. However because metaphysical ideas are not based on experiences with material reality they are often in conflict with the modern sciences. Some metaphysical ideas are used to measure truth and reality. Therefore there is controversy and skepticism concerning metaphysical claims, which are considered unverifiable by modern science. However mapping of metaphysical ideas has been something prevalent in many cultures.
This specific project with be taking advantage of ideas about haptic space in reference to the viewers reaction to paths of light. Questions I am asking myself will be about the desire, reaction, and social parameters of personal space and touch. Using metaphysical mapping to organize the ideas.
Team Doccia
Ryan Olsen,
Nick Meyer-Hesler,
Thomas Engdahl,
Muhammad Zahid,
Our project will consist of an object that pursues ideas present in phenomenology, and will be made using cast rubber, motorized skeletal structures, capacitive sensors, Peltier junctions, and human tears. The idea is determining the structure to become some sort of hybrid "thing" crossing plants with animals and being controlled by or being kept alive by man made mechanical devices.
Team Volkswagon
1)Gina Cumberland - gathering objects to fill collection
2)Ezel Lever - construction of shelving unit and other things that need to be built
3)Andy Zerngast - working out technology needed to manipulate the ferrofluid
Our project is continuing along the same lines as our mini project. We will be doing an installation in the gallery using the ferroforms. Plans for now consist of building and installing a "lab"consisting of: a shelf system of some sort, creating a collection in jars on the shelves, and create a "living" ferroform. Some of the ideas that this piece explores are myth making, discovery, collection, categorization, the compatmentalization of objects, people, and ideas, life being formed through the use of technology, technology ineracting and mimcing nature. We are also interested in how we can raise people's awareness of their own existence and their relationship to their environment through blurring lines between reality and fantasy. Since reality is defined by our individual perceptions, how much do we take those perceptions for granted? Other more personal concerns with the piece are site specificity and issues of displaying and viewing the work. The original concept of the piece was a series of outdoor installations. However, we have had to compromise some of the content to fit the project into the requirements of the class and the show. This has been a topic of endless debate, though it is not something that we expect viewers to get from the piece.