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Digital Artist Post: K3

K3 is an abstract digital media artist. He manages to juggle his occupation as a physics engineer and his love of digital media. Most of his artwork comes from when he sleeps. Being of scientific and artistic mind his dreams meld the two together to create dreams lush with the two. Now he puts those dreams into reality with his art.
His art was a wide variety of colors and is 3D. He takes a typical scientific setting and turns it artistic by adding fantastic objects and lines to it. The abstraction comes in with the fact that one can tell that it is obviously scientific material but he takes out any possible clues as to what it might be. Instead having just the various rainbow colored tubes and lines connecting to one another.
Being one of the top 20 digital artists in China there is little room for critique on many of his works. My only thought would be that he stays in his comfort zone. All his works look interchangeable. While they are perfect for what they are I would love to see him go outside and make some darker images.

Line Drawing!

It was a line drawing, but then I filled it in.

Final Project!

Hallowgreens!

Since Halloween and Hallowgreens are not the most beautiful of traditions I am not worried about the overall beauty of the sight. I will display the horrors of halloween combined with the craziness of drunk college students. This shall be done by having large gory images pop up unexpectedly while the text on the slight moves around slightly making it hard to read and concentrate as if you were drunk. Trying to concentrate on reading about Hallowgreens will only help to scare them more when the horrifying images pop up.

Digital Remix "The Incident"

Artist: Jillian McDonald

Jillian McDonald is the curator and co-director of the Pace Digital Gallery. This Canadian artist, who currently lives in New York, focuses on intertwining performance and audience participation into film and video works portraying the horror and romance of today’s popular movies and their relation to the viewers. She takes unexpected approaches towards the movies with more of a focus on the narrative instead of the gore or sexuality of the movies. She tries to highlight the familiar characters and archetypes displayed by these popular movies and how the audience expects them to act or effect the movie. Because of the nature of her work she is adept at film theory and fan culture. Her earlier works focused more towards the celebrity and the unrealistic world they lived in trying to be found by average people.

            Her work, such as The Screaming, takes direct clips from horror movies and alters the plots making the screaming woman, the powerful hero, instead of the victim. The screams she makes when the monsters come towards her immediately destroy them. She is taking the archetype of the screaming scared woman, who usually gets killed early on as being, instead, a powerful force against the evil creatures. This goes directly against what the audience thinks will happen causing confusion and wonder. Jillian is trying to get out of the Hollywood stereotypes and allow audiences a chance to think about what is going to happen instead of feeling calm that they already do know what will happen. It puts them back on the edge of their seats in some ways making horror movies much deeper and less predictable.

            The concept of her work is wonderful. Taking audiences and flipping their minds upside down, making them have to work to figure out what is going on. My one criticism is that she takes shots directly from other films and doesn’t try to match her added in sections with her stolen shots. It is annoyingly obvious which she has added in and which are from Hollywood. If she changed this, the audience would be sucked in much more to her films being able to seamlessly watch an actual film instead of two separate ones spliced together. 

Here is a link to a clip of one of her videos- http://jillianmcdonald.net/projects/thescreaming.html

Halfway done!

Before and After!

Scans!

New Blog!

Hello all!

My name is Morgan Bailey and this is my Digital Media blog.

This is my real blog though: http://mrgnstarr.tumblr.com/

Hope you all enjoy!