dIGITAL mEDIA
MEDA-Assessment 2
Printer in the Gallery
This project was developed through ‘play’, only once the printer had been stripped back to its bare systems, and some testing was being tried to assist with ideas, the idea of allowing people to create photograms, in a gallery space was developed. This project has great interactive capabilities as people are able to interact with something in the gallery space, to generate their own art. The art generated from the scanning process, will then be pinned behind the printer to become part of the exhibition and fuel other people’s ideas with possible things they can generate, and how they can improve on previous people’s problems that they could have encounted whilst making copies of objects. The genre of art that photograms are categorised amongst, is Xerox Art. Xerox Art are generally pieces that are a little abstract with their result but are interesting to try and figure out how the piece was generated after the fact.
For interesting results, multiple processes can be toyed with to get unusual results. Processes such as a Collage of Objects. The way this type of copying works, for pleasing results, is by placing several items on the glass of the scanner in a scattered way, and this will bring out the fine details of the objects that are being placed upon the surface. This process emphasises what is in the foreground by showing things clearly, with vibrant colours and textures, and the background is white.
Another interesting process that can be achieved though this photogram process, is a process called, Overprinting. This method is done through adding layers of images upon one another, this combines two images into one neat, aesthetically pleasing copy. Motion Copying is also a visually appealing way of presenting, as this process plays with the way the scanner works (by slowly gathering information across the surface of the scanning surface), and allows for an object to be slowly moved along at the same pace as the scanner, across the glass surface to generate very distorted, elongated objects that are difficult to recognise if distorted to a far enough extent. Finally, Degeneration of an image is created through making a copy of a copy. This process degrades from the original image, as small amounts of data are lost with each pass through the scanner. This data loss is interesting to track, to notice what information is lost first and notice the consistencies and patterns. Another thing to test in the scanning process could also be to try lifting off the object from the surface of the glass, which will affect the colours that are generated, changing from dark to light.
Matthew Favaloro
Printer in the Gallery
This project was developed through ‘play’, only once the printer had been stripped back to its bare systems, and some testing was being tried to assist with ideas, the idea of allowing people to create photograms, in a gallery space was developed. This project has great interactive capabilities as people are able to interact with something in the gallery space, to generate their own art. The art generated from the scanning process, will then be pinned behind the printer to become part of the exhibition and fuel other people’s ideas with possible things they can generate, and how they can improve on previous people’s problems that they could have encounted whilst making copies of objects. The genre of art that photograms are categorised amongst, is Xerox Art. Xerox Art are generally pieces that are a little abstract with their result but are interesting to try and figure out how the piece was generated after the fact.
For interesting results, multiple processes can be toyed with to get unusual results. Processes such as a Collage of Objects. The way this type of copying works, for pleasing results, is by placing several items on the glass of the scanner in a scattered way, and this will bring out the fine details of the objects that are being placed upon the surface. This process emphasises what is in the foreground by showing things clearly, with vibrant colours and textures, and the background is white.
Another interesting process that can be achieved though this photogram process, is a process called, Overprinting. This method is done through adding layers of images upon one another, this combines two images into one neat, aesthetically pleasing copy. Motion Copying is also a visually appealing way of presenting, as this process plays with the way the scanner works (by slowly gathering information across the surface of the scanning surface), and allows for an object to be slowly moved along at the same pace as the scanner, across the glass surface to generate very distorted, elongated objects that are difficult to recognise if distorted to a far enough extent. Finally, Degeneration of an image is created through making a copy of a copy. This process degrades from the original image, as small amounts of data are lost with each pass through the scanner. This data loss is interesting to track, to notice what information is lost first and notice the consistencies and patterns. Another thing to test in the scanning process could also be to try lifting off the object from the surface of the glass, which will affect the colours that are generated, changing from dark to light.
Matthew Favaloro
Extended Circles
I collected the framework of the code from Week 5’s tut, and since, added the shapes to make them work, in a way that I understood, and looked interesting. The first decision for this project was to set the size of the ‘canvas’, so I decided a shape, quarter size less then the width, will provide the height. Then to have a black background to define the foreground shapes. I then decided that there should be 4 circles horizontally and 3 vertically and for the border to be tight around the 12 shapes. The decision of 4x3 was a decision to attract some kind of interest to the piece, by not having the same number of shapes vertically as horizontally. A single extended circle, draws interest, and is outlined by the adjacent extended circle. The random fill colour of the shapes was to give different colours to each of the extended shapes.
I collected the framework of the code from Week 5’s tut, and since, added the shapes to make them work, in a way that I understood, and looked interesting. The first decision for this project was to set the size of the ‘canvas’, so I decided a shape, quarter size less then the width, will provide the height. Then to have a black background to define the foreground shapes. I then decided that there should be 4 circles horizontally and 3 vertically and for the border to be tight around the 12 shapes. The decision of 4x3 was a decision to attract some kind of interest to the piece, by not having the same number of shapes vertically as horizontally. A single extended circle, draws interest, and is outlined by the adjacent extended circle. The random fill colour of the shapes was to give different colours to each of the extended shapes.
Code
void setup() {
size(1600, 1200); //setting up the height and width parameters
background((0), (0), (0)); //background set to black
noLoop();// sets the image not to loop through different fill colours
}
void draw() {
// noFill();
for (int x = 200; x < 1600; x = x + 400) { //the first value changes the vertical placing of the extended circles
//the second value changes the number of extended circles allowed to be created in the perimeter
//the third value is the spacing between each shape
for (int y = 200; y < 1200; y = y + 400) { //the first value changes the horizontal placing of the elongated circles
//the second value changes the number of extended circles allowed to be created in the perimeter
//the third value is the spacing between each shape
MAT(x,y); //this line is to make the code shareable by putting it in one command MAT
}
}
}
void MAT(int x, int y){ //this line is looking and locating the command MAT
fill(random(200), random(200), random(250)); //this line is randomly changing the extended circles colour
strokeWeight(0); //this line decreases the outline thickness of the circle and rectangle
rect(x, y, 400, 400); //the x,y locates the first shape and then from previous functions, rectangles are made from that point on
ellipse(x, y, 400, 400); //the circle is located with the x,y axis, the same as the rectangle, this is because the rectangle point of reference is on the top left of the shape, whilst the circle point of reference is in the centre
//the circles and rectangles are the same colour because the fill command is above the shape command
}
MEDA 102- Assessment 1
Instructions
Analysis
For the original concept, I was trying to achieve something that would be raised from the displaying surface, this idea didn’t quite work properly, because I was trying to achieve this through folding without measurement and I was having trouble trying to explain how to fold the paper that had already been manipulated past its original shape. I still wanted to have a different shaped piece, which I had been achieving through folding without marks or measurements, I now am achieving it through measuring and folding along a line.
I wished to create a collaboration of the Sol LeWitt Drawing 11 and 462, as I wanted to see how combining circles, like in 462, creates interest. I thought that when compared in four different directions, like what is achieved with diagonal lines in Drawing 11, it would force the viewer to explore the entire piece instead of being drawn to a centre spot like Drawing 11 does, this is mainly done with the shape of the circle and its wavy features when two circles are put together.
The initial execution of the piece was not achieved how I wrote the instructions, but I adjusted the instructions to what they stand now, for easier understanding and execution. Having different colours for the piece could have made it stand out more but I did not have resources available to use once I achieved the final instructions. Bold colours could make the piece seem more alive and put it into a better league and make it more aesthetically pleasing, if the piece was to be recreated.
Accurate measuring, with time and care being put into the execution and interpreting the instructions did seem to create for different results and carful measurement and folding did provide a cleaner look to the final piece.
Overall the piece did its intended purpose, which was to be created by someone else with simple instructions with simple equipment. If the piece was to be recreated, more measurements could make for a very uniformly finished product, between different executions. Colour could also create a greater interest.
Photos
Order of Photos: First one done by myself and three others done by different people
Instructions
- Orientate the page vertically
- Fold in half vertically and then unfold and run a mark down the crease
- Make a mark in the middle of the page 150mm from the top then extend that mark to the edges of the paper
- Draw a circle within each of the rectangles and squares
- Expand on the original circle, with other circle around it, spaced at least 1cm apart
- Continue to draw circles around the previous one. Fill the square/rectangle with the expanding circles, even if the circles are not whole. Do this to all four circles.
- Mark the two edge marks that were drawn in step 3 with the top and bottom marks
- Cut along the external diagonal lines
Analysis
For the original concept, I was trying to achieve something that would be raised from the displaying surface, this idea didn’t quite work properly, because I was trying to achieve this through folding without measurement and I was having trouble trying to explain how to fold the paper that had already been manipulated past its original shape. I still wanted to have a different shaped piece, which I had been achieving through folding without marks or measurements, I now am achieving it through measuring and folding along a line.
I wished to create a collaboration of the Sol LeWitt Drawing 11 and 462, as I wanted to see how combining circles, like in 462, creates interest. I thought that when compared in four different directions, like what is achieved with diagonal lines in Drawing 11, it would force the viewer to explore the entire piece instead of being drawn to a centre spot like Drawing 11 does, this is mainly done with the shape of the circle and its wavy features when two circles are put together.
The initial execution of the piece was not achieved how I wrote the instructions, but I adjusted the instructions to what they stand now, for easier understanding and execution. Having different colours for the piece could have made it stand out more but I did not have resources available to use once I achieved the final instructions. Bold colours could make the piece seem more alive and put it into a better league and make it more aesthetically pleasing, if the piece was to be recreated.
Accurate measuring, with time and care being put into the execution and interpreting the instructions did seem to create for different results and carful measurement and folding did provide a cleaner look to the final piece.
Overall the piece did its intended purpose, which was to be created by someone else with simple instructions with simple equipment. If the piece was to be recreated, more measurements could make for a very uniformly finished product, between different executions. Colour could also create a greater interest.
Photos
Order of Photos: First one done by myself and three others done by different people