Kayla's Audio & Object

The Object

The idea behind my self-portrait is that as a student I feel suspended between being an adult and being a child. The words on the outside of the container represent this that I want, or would like to be (love, confidence, happiness, knowledge, ambition, dream, creativity). The objects suspended within the two layers of glass ( an A+ ribbon, my age, the word friendship, a medallion saying “party time”, an artist pallet, and the word “student”) represent the things that are important to me, or so I thought until I got out of my own house and into university, but each has their own good and bad side – hence why one side of each object is bright and eye catching, and the reverse side is messy and uncared for.

The Audio

The audio features three sounds, two are the sounds of bubbling water, something that is calming and beautiful, but can also be terribly dangerous, just as the objects in the jar. The third sound is a music box like piano playing the notes DADEA-FADBE-CEADD using the grid below translates into my full name of Kayla Marie Clark. I chose these sounds because they reminded me of childhood which I am not sure I am ready to leave behind.

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Kelvin Hu's Self Portrait (Sound and object)

Ticking Expressions

I chose a clock because it represents life. Time cannot be stopped and to me, time goes by very fast.To emphasize this, the movement of the hand is increased. I intentionally made the hand go counter-clockwise because there is always too much to do in so little time. There are moments where I want to travel back in time to correct my mistakes.

I realize that I live through endless cycles of emotion. to symbolize this, I created a one minute sound piece that is divided into 4 sections. Each section contains a combination of sounds that are related to my moods.

The moods I chose to portray are:

Happiness

Sadness

Boredom

Anger

I used samples/acapellas from songs, recorded some material and foley sounds for this project.

Final thoughts:

The clock resembles a face.

Here is the link to my video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxZRmLHIK8

Katrin's Sound & Object

Here is a video documentation of my alarm chair. A few helpful points that were suggested in class for improvements were: 1. take off the sign that says "you must be tired, take a seat". 2. create an alarm sound in a more inviting and comfortable setting/object. Clearly these ideas would require a more intermediate approach to the installation but would likewise require more time and planned out space use. Regardless it was a fun project. Enjoy!

Monica and Katrins Paper & Motor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYvdWLvdQtE&feature=channel_video_title

Here is the link to the video documentation of our bunny. :) Enjoy

Ross' Sound Portrait

For my self portrait i chose to remix some of the songs that have helped shape my life. By taking samples from songs and cutting out significant phrases and quotes I came up with a poem that reflected (more or less) my thoughts. I incorporated this remix with a projection in order to stress the graffiti aspect of my career as an artist, further tying the remix by adding graffiti style lettering for a visual. The important thing to note here is that the wall itself does not matter, and the message can be projected on anything (just like graffiti).

Here is the poem in whole:

To check out the projection (and possibly project it yourself) click here

to see documentation of the projection itself (in small room on whole wall) click here

Kim Sokolowski's Audio and Object

For my Audio and Object Self Portrait I tried to convey the feeling that I'm pretty sure all of us have felt at some point in time. I wanted to show how busy and hectic our lives can get, so much to the point where we do feel like a hamster running in a wheel. We keep on trying to reach our goal of having everything finished so that way we can take a break from running around, but just as we finish a "to do" off of our list another one pops up causing us to keep on running. I tried to represent this continuous "to do" list through the endless cutouts from agendas, calendars and transit transfers that just keep looping around the hamster wheel.

I also wanted to show how this constant running can cause your life to become routine and mundane. I wanted to portray this endless cycle of walking up, getting ready, commuting, working, going home, going to bed and then starting all over again. Which is why I used looping sounds of iconic and familiar sounds of everyday life along with the ticking sound of a clock to show how life is pasting us by when we are stuck in this wheel.

I decided to use a hamster because I have a pet hamster myself. My hamster herself has a stress reliever for me, because whenever I'm playing with her I can't focus on anything else but playing with her. She's provided a way for me to talk a break from all the stress of life. So in a way a hamster manages to stop me from running in my wheel.

Ji's Computerless Algorithm

How to create a soap bubble:

1) Wet hands with water

2) Apply soap or dishwash detergent to hand surfaces

3) Rub hands palm to palm

4) Slowly open your palms outwards to form a triangle with thumbs and index fingers

5) If you see a thin film of bubble forming, gently blow on it and you'll have yourself a soap bubble.

Ji Woong You

Sarah Wong's Audio and Object Project

For my audio and object project I decided to represent myself as a jar of stars. Every star in the jar represents a moment in my life and every light represents a milestone in my life. the jar is only half empty and uncorked because I'm only 20 and I'm anticipating more experiences and problems to overcome. It takes a lot of time to fold such small stars which reflects the fact that I am a very patient person.

My audio consists of various clips of classical music. I choose quiet and classical music for my audio because I am really quiet and calm most of the time.

audio:http://www.vimeo.com/23008898

Helaena's Object & Audio

For this assignment I wanted to share with the class something that no one really knows about me. I decided to explore my love of painting and see where I ended up. Whenever I create a new piece of art, I look for inspiration from anyone and anything around me. I am constantly in search for new, exciting, and unique ideas that help me to form new ideas or pursue already existing ones.

Object: I chose a blank canvas with a quotation saying, “Art is not so much expressing oneself as it is discovering oneself.” The students in class painted on the canvas anything that they wanted, contributing to an evolving piece.

Sound: I wanted the sound to be authentic so therefore I recorded the sound of a paintbrush sweeping across a canvas, essentially the sound of me painting a picture.

Gallery: I would love to have the canvas the size of a large wall, inviting the viewer to come and contribute to the piece. I would make it more obvious as to what exactly the viewer was to do, perhaps a set of instructions. I would also like to see the piece have a specific theme, rather than anything the viewer wishes. The sound would fill the room through hidden speakers and would intentionally have a calming effect. Taking a step further, I would like to create a piece of artwork based on the inspiration I drew from the final completed piece.

My documentation can be found here.

ENJOY!

Helaena, Erin & Dean's Paper and Motor's Assignment

Here is our documentation.

ENJOY!

Helaena's Computer-less Algorithm

HOW TO MAKE A PAPER AIRPLANE

-fold paper in half, vertically

-open paper

-fold down top left corner to meet middle

-fold down top right corner to meet middle

-repeat using newly formed corners to meet middle

-fold whole thing in half, inwards

-fold right side in half

-fold left side in half

-fly away!

Documentation can be found here.

ENJOY!

Rola's Audio & Object

For a person who thinks a lot, the sound of my inter voice speaking to me is something I had to get used to hear continuously over the years. In my self portrait, the audio presents the mind game between the good side and the bad that I play before taking a decision. I believe that every decision a person takes could change his/her life or lead him/her to a new road. Therefore, the movements of the glitter and the different shapes created is a reaction to every winning argument or decision taken. Moreover, the colors of the glitter has been chosen according to their symbolic meanings. Red, blue and green carries the meanings for emotional, trustworthy and calm, which also present the artist's personality.

The video’s link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG1Hap2U7F4

Karen C's Audio Object Project

I wanted to create something that no one knew about me. Deciding this, I wanted to look at skiing a little more closely.

Object
I decided to create an image of a skier skiing down the hill. There are a lot of twists and turns on the ski hill and i wanted to incorporate this into my project. To do this, I used a motor and programmed it to ski in a circle. Therefore, it did not matter where the audience was, they could see the skier. I used a audio and motor shield for this project as well.

I created a clay skier ontop of the snow to give a very realistic approach on skier. I decided to not put a face on the skier so anyone could remember skier down the hill.

Sound
For the sound, I wanted it to be as realistic as possible. Therefore, after creating a lot of different folli sounds, I decided the best was to do this would be to film myself skiing down the hill.



This piece is to represent my love of skiing. It is a lot of fun and it is something I do not talk a lot about. I wanted to create something that represented me but not a lot of people know about me.



Here is the images I took while constructing the piece.

Audio as Object

Object:
This picture frame was a gift from my boyfriend's mother Laurie, who has greatly impacted my life by introducing me to new lifestyles and trying to have a more positive overall outlook on life. The frame has pressed flowers around the border which are artifacts that I would like to collect, and I hope to learn more techniques about. I altered the picture frame by removing the picture holder from behind. I then used the existing frame and created an opaque screen using many layers of tracing paper.

My goal was to create an imitation Bokeh picture. I did this by attaching about 6 or 7 led lights together with 2 butt connectors for the positive and negative ends, and then attached those connectors to wires that were part of a battery pack. I started with the led's all lined up, but they did not seem to illuminate how I had wanted. I then bunched them up so they were a lot closer and this fortunately achieved the Bokeh style.

I have a great passion for photography and for as long as I can remember, I seem to have always be drawn to taking pictures of the mundane, the every day and the unnoticed. I have only recently learned about the Bokeh style, but I find that there is some astonishing beauty in the blurriness of an image.

The different coloured led lights that move at various speeds are supposed to represent myself as being a human with many emotions. Being a cancer star sign, I tend to be an emotional person. I thought that the lights do a great job in representing varying emotions, and with the changing speeds, it represents how life is fast and ever-changing, sometimes too fast for me to even comprehend what is happening around myself.

Audio:
The audio that accompanies my picture frame is a silent ticking from an old clock motor. I chose this sound because it is really faint, and it representative of how I am a very quiet individual. I wanted to use the ticking to be a reminder to myself that life is short, and that we should live each and every day to its fullest.

Paper Motor Project - Chris Olsen

I used an Arduino, Motor Shield, 3x 5v DC Motors, 2x LED.

I wanted to create a decorative light. The original idea was to have the cutouts cast a shadow on the fluttering upper layer to create subtle movement. Unfortunately the motors I was using couldn't handle being run at such low speeds and the movement wasn't as fluid as I was hoping for. However I like the added sounds the motors brought to the piece so I decided to make the LEDs flicker to exaggerate the old-fashioned projector effect. If I were to improve upon the original I would like more intense lights, for a clearer effect.

See video below:

Paper Motor Project - Chris Olsen from Chris Olsen on Vimeo.

Ji's Audio & Object

For this project, I've decided to work backwards. I just crafted whatever that came into my mind, which came out to be a cardboard piano, and later try to figure out why I made this piece. However, I did want the object and audio to be in one piece, not separate.

There are five plastic drums with pager motor attached to it inside the box. When a key is pressed, the drum makes noise from a motor hitting against it. However, It was done in a last minute panic, and a lot of things went wrong (only three keys out of five are working.)

I guess this piece represents my laziness, leaving everything until the last minute, and always working under tremendous amount of stress. The sound that it makes resembles the snoring noise, because I'm a very sleepy person, and I always have trouble waking up in the morning.

Making Sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBW0u5rAMGg

Documentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDrFb707bcc

Diane S's Audio & Object (Self Portrait Remix)

Concept: To represent my self portrait, I decided to recreate my bed and specifically use my pillow as my readymade. I spend most of my time in my room and especially my bed, it is where I can relax, do my best work for school, sleep and just my "best friend". Out of all the objects in my life, it is an object that is constant and where all my major thinking takes place so I thought it was a perfect fit to represent myself. The Audio was more of an aid to the object and then to just develop a sound that would really show what it is I hear and what noises allow me to work and relax at the same time. While, at the same time making the experience a relaxing soothing interaction for the users.

Object: Pillow as readymade, I filled up the pillow with various materials that were precious to my childhood and placed them so that there would be a dent of where a head "should" be.

Audio: Abstract sound, I used various recordings of audio that I would hear in my room. This includes; noises from my window/outside, the shower running, footsteps, sheets moving and my cellphone vibrations etc. All blended together as different layers, meant to cause a subtle yet relaxing sound.

Materials: Pillow case, bed sheets, towels & various sheets as pillow filler, Ipod & Audio

Gallery: If I were to develop this idea further and bring it into a Gallery setting, I would like to recreate not just a bed, but an interactive bedroom with each object inside having its own interactive function., whether, it be threw audio or motors.

Documentation:

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRRRCWO5tMI

Audio/Object Portrait

I SHALL CALL IT.......KITTY-ME!!!


Here are photos of my progress in chronological order:



(the video will be posted shortly)

How it is a self portrait:

1) A cat represents my solitary nature( enjoys company but not necessarily talking all the time), my fear of most things and my enjoyment for little things(ability to watch a small ball roll back and forth for hours aka. patience i suppose)
2) The apron represents my love for baking
3)The recording of me singing represents my love for singing and my tendency to sing random songs at random times, despite those around me
4)The chinese symbol around the neck represents my love for anime and eastern culture
5) It's body colour(black) I chose because I am always wearing black and the green represents my favourite colour and also the colour of my eyes
6) The medium(material and thread) represents my love for sewing
7) The object( a stuffed animal) represents my love for cuddly cute things, especially fluffy stuffed animals, and my cuddly, cute and huggable nature


Thanks for viewing!

Jessie C's Audio and Object Self Portrait

Nicole Glassman's Audio and Object as Self Portrait

We are suppose to know who we are. But to me, the more important question is who I will become and what I will be capable of. I, like everyone else, continue growing, learning and I am still finding myself and trying to discover who I am.

The tin can phone represents the child that is in all of us. The innocence of uncertainty of our abilities, and just being in the moment of what we do know. To the child, the moment of knowing is the imagination that the tin can phone is a walkie talkie in a combat zone, where he must rescue the princess.

As children grow they learn from their experiences, as we all continue to do. The sounds that comes from the can are things that have shaped me: quotes that I like, my favorite movies, food, travel to school and hopes for the future. Im still figuring out who I am.

Audio/Object Portrait

For this project I create a character that represents both the 'happy' and 'sad' sides of my personality. I believe that everyone has several layers to their personality and cannot be described as only one of the other.

The character was made of paper mache and was painted with black and white acrylic paint. The audio on on the 'happy' side of the character was a composition of myself laughing (to a comedy number) and the 'sad' side was a composition and layers sounds that I make when I am frustrated. For the background audio I used two suitable segments from my favourite Disney movie, Beauty & the Beast. This helped with setting the of the mood. The audio was played on either side of the character by pressing the fuzzy belly.

I felt this strange character showed the crafty side of myself and also the 'odd' side of myself through the object. And the audio projects the two extreme feelings that I find within myself often.

- Nadja Cada

Tamara Pokrupa's Audio Project

Here is the URL to my project. This is a recording of the learning stages of the piece indicated in the title by Michael Nyman. At the moments where I falter I superimposed a heartbeat to communicate to the audience my anxiety at the parts I mess-up.

Paper & Motor

Mr. Robot head


Constructed mostly with cardboard/paper
2 motors
2 switches controlling those motors

Pressing the left button will turn on the motor behind the eye and rotating it ever so slowly.
Pressing the right button will rotate the rainbow ear disk.





(short video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLz-IWu4dHc

Rola's Paper & Motor

For this project I used carton, thread and a drawing paper. Using pulleys and a servo to manage the thread's direction and speed.

I am interested in pop ups and I wanted to use them in this assignment. Taking the assignment one step further made me try to make a rotating object in my pop up.

The project's concept is to present life as it has its ups and downs for each person. Therefore, when the page is folded, the person is in a stage where life is hard and all the doors for hope are closed. However, when the paper is open it shows that a new opportunity was given to that person. The rotating object in the middle of the page, represents the difficult situations in life that any person has to go through to succeed or accomplish his/her dreams. Moreover, you can see the concept clearly by the lights and shadows created in the piece. Whenever you see a window of light created on the wall (a sign for hope), the person tries to pull him/her self up again.

You can see the video on this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7udYxDwt-ao

Kayla/Oscar Paper and Motors

Our bird reacts to it's surroundings via a light sensor in it's eyes that causes it's tail to open or close depending on the amount of light in a room

Computerless Algorithm

How to make a dramatic exit

Get angry and/or indignant

Glare at the subject of your anger

Turn around in a quick jerky motion

Stomp quickly towards the nearest door

Once at the door turn, glare and huff at the subject once again

Walk through door and slam it behind you as hard as you can

Stomp away from door

-Video still to come-