So far, I’m feeling a little lost (hopefully in a good way). Interactive art / large scale art is pretty new to me, and I’m interested to see what I’ll end up creating this sem. We were asked to come up with some ideas of what we’d like to make to go on the media wall, and I came up with two. Both of them are intended for the theme of ILLUSION.
IDEA #1: Moving Memphis Patterns
Memphis was a design collective started by a group of designers who did NOT hail from Memphis, Tennessee, but instead from Italy. The name came from Bob Dylan’s song, “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”, which played repeatedly during one of their meetings. The movement came about as a rejection of minimalist design in the 70s, and traces of Art Deco, Pop Art and 1950’s Kitsch are consistent with the Memphis style.
I’ve been in love with Memphis patterns for a while now, and thought of creating my own patterns inspired by the Memphis style, and animating the patterns to bring them to life. The bright colours and moving geometric shapes could look interesting on the media wall.
An example of animated patterns (and a questionable pairing of music).
IDEA #2: Solid to Liquid to Gas
I was thinking of using film as a medium for this project, because I’m more comfortable with it than programming/animating. While looking around Vimeo for inspiration, I saw a timelapse video of ice melting, and thought it looked pretty cool. There’s something oddly satisfying about watching a sped-up video of something morphing and changing its state.
The idea of objects changing state (solid to liquid, liquid to gas etc) can be a metaphor for impermanence and the transience of life. Still trying to further develop this concept.
I really like how the ink reacts with milk and creates this marbling effect.
The glitching and fast cuts are something I would like to incorporate in my project.