Category: AD138 – Intro to Drawing and Interaction

final zine!!

IMG_8162When I came to print my zine and put all the pages together, including my laser-cut cover and pink end pages, I used a 5 hole pamphlet stitch to bind it together as one publication. 

I also packaged them in A5 cellophane bags to help protect the laser-cut design and glitter paper, and also give them a clean, polished look.
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.gif experimentation

I started to create simple .gif animations from my illustrations/collages. I looked at elements of the image I could make move or appear/disappear to create a more dynamic and exciting image that viewers would look at rather than scroll past. In this image I erased sections of the yellow brush stroke and saved the image at each stage before combining the frames into a .gif to show the scribble being ‘painted’ on the screen.

still up gif improved
I then experimented with this collage I made near the beginning of the module. I scanned the collage in and then used the clone tool and spot healing brush to fill in the curtain and flooring to make the ballet dancer disappear but still leave the photograph looking whole. This created a really eerie effect which I thought fit in with the Twitter text of ‘What’s happening?’.

ballet gif improved

collage experimentation

As part of my image-making experimentation within my concept, I bought a range of old 1950s photographs in a local thrift store, and decided to place them in collages with imagery related to social media and internet use. By juxtaposing these vintage photos with iMessage conversations, Twitter and Facebook text boxes, it creates a strange contrast between how people spent their days prior to the internet and social media and how we spend our time and communicate now. I also found that placing these different kinds of images with each other created storylines and a weird sense of mystery about the photographs and the characters within them.

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molly soda: “from my bedroom to yours”

To kick off my research for this project, I visited Molly Soda’s solo exhibition at Annka Kultys gallery. Molly Soda is an internet artist whose work I was familiar with already, but her style fits nicely into the concept I am looking at for this module. Molly’s work consists of videos, gifs and New Hive-created digital pieces.

All the works were displayed on tablets, laptops, iphones or mounted screens around the room, and the gallery space was filled with pink beanbags and potted plants to create a comfortable atmosphere to make visitors feel like they have been invited into the artist’s bedroom.

Each piece of digital work was for sale and once bought could be transferred onto an embellished USB memory stick.

I love the idea of linking our use of the internet as a diary with the concept of teen girls’ bedrooms and what a private space that is – a great contrast with our publicised thoughts and feelings on social media.

drawing & interaction: starting point

As my starting point for AD138, I selected a piece of music by Holly Herndon which I was introduced to in a lecture several weeks ago. Holly Herndon composes her music mainly via her laptop, using digital programmes and methods to create computer-based work.

Her single ‘Chorus’ that I chose for my starting point ‘sampled her browsing experience on the internet’ by incorporating sounds taken from the web – I was drawn to this idea because I think its  a really unique and interesting way of making music and commenting on how much of our lives are spent online and how attached we now find ourselves to the internet.