Final Artist Statement & Final Documentation

My project was a live installation of creating a 3d game environment. My entire semester has been dedicated to creating these for my senior project and i wanted to give a taste to everyone what it was like. I also wanted to give them the ability to design something of their own.

     This project unfortunately didnt get to fully be presented due to time, but the essence of giving someone else control on what i was making was something i was looking forward to. I wanted people to be able to design a world they wanted to see. A lot of people dont get to see what its like to design something of their own like this, and i wanted to share that experience with everyone.

Artist Research 4

For my final research i chose Jim Campbell.

Jim is an artist who has done a lot of LED and screen related art. He  is known for his exploded view installations, which are led's dangling from thin wires that when blinking in a 3d dimension and viewed in the right way are visuals of things, such as birds flying, people walking and running. These installations are really interesting, as taking something like light, and turning it into a sculpture.
These works expand a flat, two-dimensional moving image into a three-dimensional space of 1100 hanging LEDs.  
This art i chose is the commuters exploded view, the piece is very interesting as when you approach and get a different angle, it looks completely different than when youre looking at it in a orthographic angle.

Final Project Process post 3

Worst case scenario has happened, the ADK and JDK licensing for oculus isnt working out right. My phone wont be picked up when trying to run a command prompt for it. I'm going to have to change the project to be about me designing a game environment. I dont know what im going to project or onto. But i will figure it out.

Final Process post 2

The environment is created and is looking good! Hopefully the gear VR will work out its becoming annoying to try to connect to android studio.

Final process post 1

Ive attempted to license and start creating the game environment for the gear vr

Final Project Proposal

The final project I would like to do something involving VR.

     I would develop a world, that you could view in VR with the world also being projected onto a surface in one of the classrooms. The world would be created in Unity, and output to the Samsung Gear VR or an HTC Vive if i can borrow one from professor Sutherland.

The world will be developed so that you can travel around and experience it like you are in it yourself. The world will potentially a be a forest that ive already started to work on. The concept will be to experience a world that is not the same as ours, with temples, and other locations to view and try to be as immersive as possible.

Materials:

VR gear
(HTC Vive or Samsung Gear VR)

Unity
Maya
JDK
Google VR Development Kit
Projector

Samsung S8 for Gear Vr
or
Laptop for HTC Vive

Artist statement

The goal of this project was to work with Joey and set up an experience that everyone would be able to enjoy and participate. Combining both the talents of joeys music and my visual style, we intended to mesh it together.The goal is to have everyone have fun and to show their creativity using a method not many normally do. Combining the creativity of the visuals, and using the playstation controller as something other it was intended for, while being able to use Joeys dj platform.
     I chose Joey because we both have a similar style and work really well together in the past, he is an incredible guy who has alot of experience and talent in his field. We worked together in the past and he has made music for me before as well. The idea i had would not have worked with anyone else, it was something only he and i could have done together.

Process post 3

I finalized the videos, made the listeners work and was setting up in the black box the night before the stage so we could get our gear ready. I prepulled the stands, and the boards, and got the screen set up and ready to project.

Process post 2

Joey and i set up in the black box 10/30 to see what would work best, we set up a projector stand, and two bounce boards. We also set up his dj booth on the stage

Process post 1

The project me and Joey will be doing is a live DJ show, i started making the visuals and testing out the audio listeners on madmapper. He sent me footage of dancers for and the crowd for me to edit and put together.

Artist research 3

• Marina Abramovic

Marina is an installation and performance artist who is most known for her interaction with her fans during the performance. One of the most popular ones"the artist is present" involved her sitting in a room and her staring at someone, at the end of the performance her ex lover came and sat down in front of her for the first time in years, and it turned into an emotional situation. Another performance is house with an ocean view where she lived on three platforms for 12 days without eating or speaking with zero privacy as museum goers could see her at all times.

Project 3 Proposal

For this project, I will be working with Joey,

 I will be designing visuals, and reactive video to music, while joey will be creating music and setting up a MIDI controller for the viewers to interact with.

   The project is going to be a live DJ show, with interactive music decided by the viewers. They will walk up and play the notes on the keyboard so that it will be fully decided by the viewer. The footage will react with the audio and create a video based on what they choose. We will have a variety of music to go along with variety of video effects.

There will be a background behind the DJ booth with a crowd acting like its in a club/venue.
The entire performance should last less then 5 minutes.

Materials:

MIDI Controller

Laptops

DJ Console

XLR Wires

Power Cords

RCA Wires

Projector(s)

Erik Duty: Video and setup

Joel Duty:Music and setup

Timeframe:

by the 2nd of november, we will have the test performance ready

by the 8th will be setup and ready for presentation.

Project 2 Artist Statement

What is this thing? Why does is seem to radiate? Where did it come from?
The theme i want to follow for the semester is sci-fi, first with mythology in the first project and now
with aliens in the second. The mysterious is very appealing to me, i would like to channel it in all that i do.

The object is supposed to have magically appeared and the video is meant to be like found footage. What is this mysterious object, why does it radiate energy, are all things i want to convey in this.

Project 2 Process Post 3

I have started working on the footage and making the video on tuesday

Project 2 Process post 2

On sunday i started to come up with ideas of where to place the artifact and what effects to use and what content to create for it.

Project 2 process post 1

To start the project me and my friend Justin started to create the basic shape of the alien artifact.

Artist Research 2

My research is on Yayoi Kusama's Love is Calling at the TMA. I went to see this last weekend, and it was absolutely incredible. The wait to get in was pretty long, over an hour, and while waiting you can watch a video of an interview with her as well as the wall having lots of information about her and her art style, as well as why she picks Polkadots.
You are only allowed to experience the room over 2 minutes, and afterwards they air out the room for a minute. Ten people can be in it at one time, and during the 2 minutes you hear a poem being spoken by Yayoi in japanese.

Proposal 2

For my next project I would like to continue with a sci-fi theme.
I want to project onto a piece and create the element of alien technology in the darkness of my yard and create a sculpute for this. I will then record someone discovering the artifact and it activates it. The projection should be able to activate the effects and if I have to add post process effects to enhance the effect.

I will use props that I have already started making as well as a
camera, fig rig, the HD projector and a few other small things to set up and record the scene.

Process Post 3

I was able to get my videos set up and projected to the boxes on the stairs. as well as final prep for the projection.

Process Post2

For the second working test i was able to get it set up and working on the wall. I have to use sand bags, ratchet clamps, and apple boxes to get it set up. I have to use white boards and appleboxes with clamps to hold them in place over the staircase.