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UNIT 2 Speed Project #2: Digital Mask
Start in class 3/8 and finish over the break. We will look at these together Monday 3/21. Please follow instructions from LENS DAY and make an augmented face mask using SPARK AR. Please make a blog post sharing a screenshot, gif, or filter idea (depending on how far you got in class/over break)
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3/21 Faces that do not exist
An extremely abbreviated overview of Machine Learning through the lens of Portraiture. Thanks to Golan Levin for compiling many of these examples here. As with ‘traditional’ generative art (e.g. Vera Molnár), artists using machine learning (ML) continue to develop programs that render an infinite variety of forms, and these forms are still characterized (or parameterized)…
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3/9 Lens Day with guest Aashish Gadani
1. Download Lens Studio, install using the defaults. (https://lensstudio.snapchat.com/download/) TO TEST LENSES ON PHONE:2. If you don’t have a Snapchat account, or want to use a throw away account, make a Snapchat account. (Get the SnapChat app off of app store and create an account using the app) 3. Link the Snapchat account with Lens Studio (when…
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Portrait: W, A, S and D.
I chose video game players as a subject of my portrait series. I got this idea from the process of cleaning my own keyboard. Unlike the keyboard of laptops or mac, the keyboard designed for gamers focus more on providing feedback after pressing a key, cool backlight visuals and special designs on the keys that…
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Caffeine in College Students
I decided to go after between a mix of two prompts: Indirect portrait using physical objects and data. To begin with, I went around browsing for a little bit looking for data about average caffeine consumption. Then I decided to narrow it down to only coffee and tea because I wanted to focus on experimenting…
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3/15 Collecting a Portrait over Time
PORTRAITS AS MEANS OF COMPARISON These artists are using comparative portraiture to describe what has happened between shots. These works frequently focus on visualizing the impact something external had on the subject. By looking at the “before and after” the unseen space in between can be alluded to. Before and After Danish artist Nicolai Howalt created a…
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3/1 Digitally Mediated Avatars, Personas, and Performances
Reading Text on this page comes in part from ‘A short History of Self- Representation in Digital Art by Tina Sauerlaender Hennessy Youngman Art Thoughtz Hennessy Youngman is a persona invented and performed by Jayson Musson. Youngman makes addresses to the Internet at large in online episodes of a series titled “Art Thoughtz.”Most often, Youngman takes on…
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fabric sample origin_ “decomp”
here we have some mutually growing and decomposing plant life, which is a nice demonstrative concept – natural cycles of symbiotic life and decay camo patterns/ rugged outdoor wear feature standardized designs, and are often on-trend (patagonia, carhartt). i wanted to make some comment on the hiking-streetwear intersection multitudes of texture can create an illusion…
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Hint of Each Region
After doing the speed projects over the unit I had a general idea of a direction that I wanted to go in. I wanted to pull something that I was already very familiar and used to and turn it into something almost unrecognizable. I enjoyed the first, speed project, “Dimensional Still Life”, and decided to…
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NFT’s: Portraiture and Interactive Media
What is an NFT? NFT stands for Non-fungible token. You may have seen the term somewhere across social media in the form of an artwork, collectible, or even an in-game item. Today we will be focusing on two of many possible forms of NFT’s, collectibles and in-game/usable items. Ethereum.org describes NFTs as, “a way to…
NEW LENSES: Experimental Capture and Release 