FMX 463 - Multimedia and Installation Art

All set up! I really love the way this final project turned out. I think it fits very well with my theme and what I wanted to try and get across. The only thing I wish I could have done better was make it bigger.

A plot of foam board to act as my graveyard topper. I have gathered all of my supplies for my graves and have also bought stakes to keep the graves in the foam board. I want this project to be more of a memorial than a creepy graveyard feel, so I am picking music to accompany my projection - possibly something from RENT :)

Response to Yayoi Kusama’s “Love is Calling”             I absolutely fell in love with this exhibit. Yayoi Kusama’s “Love is Calling” does such an amazing job at making you feel so small in a space that seems as if it goes on forever. The room could not have been bigger than an average bedroom, yet the bright colored sculptures and the infinity mirrors gave you a sense of something bigger, grandeur, and more than meets the day-to-day eye.             Kusama explains this piece has a representation between “mortals and the unknown expanse of the universe.” The polka dots on the sculptures represent being your own one dot, your own single life in the existence of a world, an infinite world that is much bigger than any of us can imagine. She believes that infinity cannot exist without human presence. This idea was very imminent in this installation because this entire exhibit would mean nothing with human interaction walking through and between this piece.  

For my last artists research, I wanted to find an artist that brings projection mapping to life more than what we ever thought. I wanted to find an artist that could show me how projection mapping could be used outside of our projects, outside of just being in a gallery. I found an artist named Ricardo Rivera and he is most known for his piece called "Electric Desert." He uses projection mapping to portray an insane, dreamlike environment for his viewers in an actual desert. People are allowed to come, walk through the desert and experience a dream like place while they are awake. I was in complete and total awe when I saw it and I had to share because this piece brought meaning to my work. http://javamagaz.com/?p=5369

For my Final Project, I have already gathered my materials. I have 4 tombstones to symbolize my 4 years of college as well as 4 bins. The bins will act as graveyards and will be filled with items from each of my years here at the University Of Tampa. I am still figuring out how to attach the tombstones to the bins, but they will each symbolize the death of my time here. I am still working on gathering all videos and clips but it has been an enjoyable time going through my old camera rolls and taking a stroll down memory lane.

For my final project, I wanted to do an overall reflection of my time in college and how much I have grown and changed as a person since moving to Tampa from Chicago. Being that I left everything I ever knew to come to a new place where I knew no one, coming to Tampa to continue my education has been a completely life changing experience that I want to try and encapsulate. I want to use old videos from high school in a juxtaposition with videos from freshman year - senior year. I want to put them in a sort of timeline to show a growth from being young and in my home town, to now being 22 and about to graduate from College. I want to use motion graphics to show specific lessons that I've learned, key things that have changed for me personally, and an overall sense of what this experience means to me. As for projection, I want to project mainly on the walls so people can clearly see the progression of my story, but I want to use 4 specific videos, one from each year of college th