Ivette Torres FMX 211

With the exception of Nero, all of these are actually artist that I've listened to before prior to the assignment. Although a few of the artists incorporate the use of technology more than the others in their music, all of the artist were chosen on the baseline that within the rhythm/ beat of their music you can tell that  they incorporate sounds made through the use of machines like sound synthesizers, music sequencers, sampler and etc. Electronic/ DJ: Porter Robinson Porter Robinson is an American DJ / producer. All of his music is produced through the use of technology which is one of the reasons why I choose him for this category. The second is that the type of music he produces is strangely calming - there is  this melodious sound to it. Which I find super cool especially since a lot of the sounds he uses to construct his music are very robotic and technical sounding. In some of his music it is literally made in a way where it sounds like a robot is singing. But his

For my performance art piece I dressed up in my Spryo the dragon onesie and walked around the park, picking up "treasure" while I played music from the original game through a small speaker attached to my bag. I wanted to do something a bit more fun and humorous and given that Spyro is a pretty iconic/ recognizable character I thought I would be able to get better reactions from other people. Both the music and my actions of picking up gems/treasures were from the original game Spyro the Dragon . Not that many people gave noticeable reactions to my performance, most would smile but then look away very quickly or they would simply ignore me. The best reactions I got came from children and people who seemed to recognize who I was dressed up as. The entire experience was not that much fun for me, I got hot very quickly inside the onesie walking around the park, my view was blocked because of the way the hoodie was designed,  and needless to say it was pretty embarrassing. I

Battle of the Birds For my xerox art I decided to style it after Andre Masson's sand art. I tried to follow the same kind of process of trying to draw with my subconscious by involving chance. I cut out the general outline for the xerox images and then I randomly ripped and threw them onto the canvas. From there I started to rearrange them to try and form some sort of monster and I ended up getting the two bird like creatures. After I had those formed I took a bottle of glue and I started to randomly spread it around the canvas and then I flung sand onto it and waited until I thought the glue had dried before tipping it over to get rid of the excess. I added some red charcoal masks to distinguish the eyes and then more or less at random everywhere else. I titles it battle of the Birds as a play on Andre Masson's sand art Battle of the Fishes. 

Diabetes Symbol For my grid art I created the diabetes symbol using expired and or used diabetic supplies that I had. I thought that it was be cool to create the symbol out of supplies used for the disease it is advocating for. My reference image was used as more or less a general guideline and so the final product looks pretty different. I started off by making an actual grid on a poster board using yellow sticky notes that were about 2 x 1.5 inches - and after creating the grid I ended up cutting it to a size where it fit snugly inside a flat box (for safety and movability reasons). The art itself was constructed outside of the box. The first three rows were made by glueing down lancets; the next row is a combination of lancets and transfer guards; the row after that are all needle housings; and the final rows area all pen needles. I painted the lancets that make up the blood drop in the center red, although it dried into a sort of magenta. And I painted the second and t

Hamsters Hamsters is a short flip book animation about, as the title obviously states, two hamsters. I wanted characters that were simple in design and would be easy enough to draw repetitively. There was not really much inspiration or thought to the original idea. I had just decided I wanted to draw something cute and this was how it started off. I have a habit of trying to involve some sort of story into my art so as I continued to draw each frame the story developed a bit more. Originally it was just going to be the first hamster being attacked by cherries, but I got bored with the idea after after drawing the third cherry and drew in the second hamster so that is could have some sort of interaction with the first one to make the story more interesting. 

It is pretty cool the amount of detail and complexity people are able to create with ASCII art using just a set number of characters. From a distance the more complicated ASCII art even looks like pointillism art. There are others as well where the image itself only becomes clearer the further away or smaller the image is from your view.  Browsing through some of the images the first thing that really comes to mind is the amount of thought that had to go behind each image - having to plan out which characters to combine together to create not just the general outlines of the images but the depth and lighting as well. It's difficult enough drawing something like this but to create it through the use of pre-determined characters is pretty wild.