Music and Illustrator

Professor played some uber obscure tunes in class that he made with a friend some time ago, and was then remixed by some friends in Japan. It was so digital/futuristic, and weird....and cool! He told us to use the tools on Adobe Illustrator to create an image according to the music, just like Kandinsky painting to jazz music. Anyway, this is what I came up with:

Digital Self-Portrait

For my digital self portrait, I want to display a realistic copy of an original photograph and I'm planning to accomplish this through Adobe Illustrator. I've had some experience with self portraits on Illustrator before, but they've always been line drawings. I am used to capturing the shadows and defined lines in my images with the pen tool on a black swatch, so it will be interesting to do the same thing with actual color and fill.

Here is the image I will be using:

Illustrator

First day of Illustrator. The blue and green image is made of random lines, the flower is the paint brush tool using a Bamboo tablet, and my signature is traced blue with the pen tool.

5 Self Portraits

Abecedarium:NYC

This has to be one of the most interesting productions I have ever seen. Lynn Sachs and Susan Agliata are the artists and producers of this interactive online art exhibition, which is collaborated with eleven additional artists in New York City. Sachs and Agliata both have backgrounds in filmmaking and media studies. The remaining eleven are Joseph Tekippe, In Choi, Alisa Besher, Beth Botshon, Janine Fleri, David Gatten, Barbara Hammer, Heather Kramer, George Kuchar, Ethan Mass, Scott Nyerges, and Erik Schurink ,which all specialize among digital media, filmmaking, photography, media arts, and other fine arts.

Their goal is to take 26 unusual words following in alphabetical order and create a relationship between said word and sites in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island using original video footage, animation, photography, and sound.

I find it very interesting how these artists are using media tools to create this interactive online exhibition to capture the culture of New York City through a series of selected words. Each word is extremely unusual; they are those words that you never find yourself using, yet these artists have found ways to apply them to their selected visual and audible representations of New York culture.

This exhibition almost reminds me of a form of ethnographic work in that it captures what it is to be in NYC. There are definitely emic and etic views to each representation.

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http://rhizome.org/object.php?o=47250&m=1048649
http://www.abecedariumnyc.com/