Kat Claws

These photos were processed through Photoshop to show our distortion with attributes of our use after technology has become an extension of ourselves. Here you can see that technology has changed our perception of frienships (Facebook profiles, other media sources making us feel closer to strangers), our sense of time (time didn’t exist before technology and is made by man), our food sources (groceries instead of hunting and gathering), perception of what is natural (flowers are mostly planted unnaturally), entertainment sources (tech toys or fairs are new forms), objects (pales and other objects should be foriegn to us but from an early age humans have adapted to understand them), romance (texting, for examping, is now a way of going on dates, and last, self image (skewed by online profiles, it becomes a part of who we are). By processing these parts of our life with technology, we all are glitched.

This is a sculptural piece of a technology-based collage heart inside a jar with red string (that represent veins) sitting on shredded papers of different sorts. This links to Kelly’s video in his words of how “technology is the seventh kingdom of life,” which shows through in how our human hearts now are born to live amongst technology and understand it; it is to pump through our veins and to absorb many different meanings.

After discussing many net.artists in lecture and after giving the reading some thought, I realized Tumblr could be a piece in iteself. Above are paired photographs with some form of connection whether it is colour, the perspective angle, a quote that captures the quotes well, or a witty joke. 

After reading the article by Hito Steryerl and going to lecture to see the pieces by Lorna Mills, I was inspired to try and work with fashion, as a large trend rather than a niche, with the idea of a “low quality image”. The photos were taken off of various blogs (and are all captioned with their source) and can be analyzed as high fashion, low quality. 

Exercise 2 Update in text

After reading Wilson’s interview, I was curious of the photos that were posted in the article and decided I wanted to attempt to make a piece of art like this. I decided to try to do a take on his piece labeled “Ice Ice Baby” which can be viewed for comparison Here.

Reading the Feminist Frequency article, I was very sad to actually see how many male characters there are over female characters and even then, they are all very girly with lame super powers. This photo is a drawing of some of my favourite ones banding together to help break the stereo types of females by being the heroes of the game. 

A 3 canvas (each 16 x 22) art piece I designed. It’s medium consists of collage, sequence, and acrylic paint.

On the cover is Lauren Conrad who is a great design choice as she has a large following of loyal fans, is well known, and has a positive reputation in the media at this time. She appeals to the demographic purchasing the magazine (which is usually women 18-34) as being a successful entrepreneur. For this she could be called a symbol of feminism which the demographic accepts and appreciates. She is also placed in a visual hierarchy place, located large  in the centre, making it the first place the viewer’s eyes go. The outfit she wears creates a pallet for the other colours used on the fonts such as the purple and a complimenting colour of pink. The black text is also used throughout to create consistency.  Here they use sans-serif fonts in different sizes to show what is most important to their demographic. It is also a youthful, feminine font to catch the potential buyers’ attention. It is very minimalist and uses blank space as a positive feature to make it look neat and bright. Also the look of minimalism is very popular in the design world at this time making it seem trendier than other magazines. Compared to other magazines it is usually placed next to such as “people” it is much more visually attention grabbing for not having too much on the cover. This is why it stood out for me when deciding on a magazine to purchase as a form of entertainment.

I did some doodling in my notebook and was inspired to see what could come of it when using illustrator. I make bizarre face outlines (as you can see the inverted nose, outer lips, ear and wide chin). I have learned that duplicating can make interesting shapes. This image could be a cool logo.