Final Project

In this project, I collaborated with Marie Wilcox. Marie and I both did the coding. My part is to edit using one of the useful technology called gimp. I edited the human-cat character and text font.  Gimp is an image editing and retouching tool free and open source software and are tailored for most operating system like Microsoft windows, OS x and linux. It has tools used for free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting image formats, transparent and more specialized task. This like Photoshop software but the only different is this one is free! This is very helpful technology in creating our final project.

              Our final project is entitled "Tornado Cats", which came to us while looking at the product of what we have created. Our original project was based on cats playing pong with a baseball. It required a user's input to play the game and did not really envision art as a whole. So we decided to keep with the theme of cats and baseball and created our final project. Ana had photoshopped the baseball players to have large cat heads instead of their normal, human ones. We randomized small circles on the screen to bounce back and forth to create a sort of disco scene for the baseball players. When we had put a baseball background in it, it looked out of place, so we replaced it with a space background to tie the whole thing together. Looking at the finalized product we realized that something was missing, and that thing was a title. These "disco" balls made the baseball players look like they were in a tornado, which gave us the name "Tornado Cats". To tie the whole piece together I created a disco theme song and played it in the background. 

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Final Project

Ideas for Art Show

1. Visual Music 

         The idea is to visualize any kind of music of what a user chooses and you can see the visual projected into the wall of the gallery.

     2. Visualizing Poetry
        There will be select famous Poetry that a user can choose. Each significant word in the poetry will create a piece of art. There will be an animated pen to draw the word that represents something and makes the whole poetry into a new canvas of  a visualization poetry.

    3. Installation
      Using the Kinect game system, a person can play a certain character using there movement.

   4. Using  the game system Wii, I would like to be able to create a game that involves you as the player becoming a Maestro in your own orchestra. Being able to create your own music by controlling what the orchestra is playing, and what order each instrument can be heard. Using the Wii controller as your wand to select each group in the orchestra to play at your command.

   5. Visualizing Image
I will load image and when the mouse is pressed it will paint colors until the image is reload.

6. Paint Tools
 4 to 6 different kind of shapes will be able to make a paint canvas using keypressed and mousepressed.

7. image depiction

an image is will be reveal when pressing the  mouse... colors are files up the entire canvas until the image is shown into sketch




   





 

Future Project Ideas

1. Interactive Virtual Word

I will create an interactive installation where you feel like you are actually in that even or place that you would like to go. This somehow can relieve stress or any emotion. I will use the entire gallery's wall and possible use of projectors. Each wall has different concept of a fantasy world. Somehow a person can control of where he want to be. I also think of using a kinect to control, somehow would look like a touch screen wall. 

    2. Dance/Music/Art

I will create some kind of virtual studio for dance where people control a place where they can dance and play music. This is easy for them because they will not set up things physical way. They can just choose the theme, or how the studio would look like and they can choose what kind of lightning and also there will be option of a visualizer in the background and music play. You can dance by yourself or multiply your self dancing like an image mirror or you can choose people in the computer will dance with you around the world.

Artist Statement

Ana Bantasan is a new media artist who creates expansive virtual worlds for the audience to interact with. Her work acts as a psychological tool to improve emotional well-self. Her playful aesthetic uses new technologies to make the world a better place.

Visual Poetry

I chose the poem of  Maya Angelou called

Phenomenal Woman

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Here is the link of my work:
https://docs.google.com/a/email.arizona.edu/file/d/0B0U2UePh5-OJRElhc2pteEhZeFE/edit

Mimicking Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Works

I chose the work of Sophie Taeuber-Arp because I found simplicity in her work but at the same time it was constructive because she made the design that was interesting and all she used was shapes to create it. The piece was made 1918, composed with square, rectangles, triangle and circle. 

It was chosen to be in the MOMA exhibition because of the obscured distinction between  fine and applied art by creating a number of needlepoints that they framed and hung on the wall like paintings.

I like this piece because it looks easy to work but in programming it was challenging  for me. The challenging part was putting the shape in the location it supposed to be. And in filling color of each shapes, I used the RGB codes online and trying to match or as close as possible to the original color of the piece.

Here's the link to where you can download my work:

https://sites.google.com/site/ista401/AnaBantasanSketch.zip?attredirects=0&d=1

Untitled(Composition with Squares, Circle, Rectangles,Triangles) -1918

First Version:

For extra credit, I made each shapes randomized the colors and to make more interesting I made the background color change each time with the mouse click. I used "random()" to randomized color of each shape and i used the  "void mousePress()" to use for changing the background each click. 

Second Version: Randomize the color of each shapes and background color change with mouse click

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ISTA 401: Introduction

My experience in programming has taught me to be very patient and understanding. I took CSC 127A in spring  and CSC 227 in fall and that was two years ago. I was very patient until i got tired and so stress of it and so I ended up withdrawing CSC 227.  Programming and I have a love and hate relationship. I love the part when my code works and I hate the part where i have to figure out what i did wrong and going back and fort looking for what's missing. I can say I'm not really good in programming that's why i shift to IST major. I took ISTA 301 last semester  and I like it the fact that it associate arts. I like the combination of art and computer and I want to learn more. 

3 Artists:

I really like to learn how to be really good in web-designing. One of my favorite artist is Olia Lialina. She is a pioneer internet artist. She founded Art Teleportacia, a web gallery of her work. One of her famose work is called "My boyfriend came back from the war"  (http://www.teleportacia.org/war/war.html) a site where there are many frames consisting of sentences and pictures. She tells a story with gif about a couple and what occurred when the male came back from war. Her works provoked emotional responses and its a very unique and an artistic way to tell a story. 

The second favorite artist that i find very good in interactive installation are Theo Watson and Emily Gobeille aka Design I/0. They are the creative director of Design I/O, a creative studio specializing in design and development of cutting edge, immersive, interactive installations. One of the work that I really like is called Puppet Parade (http://vimeo.com/16985224). The work is an interactive installations that allows children to use their arms to puppeteer larger than life creatures projected on the wall in front of them. I found it very entertaining since I love playing xbox kinect. The anyone would love and enjoy this.

The third artist to complete the list is Jenova Chen. His works looks fancy and neat. The game design is about using the input and output to generate emotional response in the user or the audience.  In his works I can see the personal connection between their work and the players. I'm not really into games, I don't play a lot of times because i don't have any time for it. When I watch my friend's playing i get interested of the graphics and the surrounding environments of the games. This artist did a really good job in providing good graphic which i really like.