Final with sound

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Uuupps....I don´t think you can hear the sound of my video....I need to fix this...I´ll uploaded this afternoon...Sorry guys.

FINAL PROJECT.

While thinking about what can a stroke tell us, what can a drawing suggest, I came up with the concept for my piece. I created a drawing tool to make one drawing that shows a part of itself and hides another one depending on the music. The drawer makes a picture. The picture, the drawing, is always the same. However, it reveals itself in different ways depending on the music that is playing.

My idea was to put five different songs, four of them done by singers from the countries that represent the biggest groups of immigrants in Spain. The last one, is flamenco music, the music that most represents Spain.  The fact that the line, the drawing appears and looks different depending on the music played even though it is always the same allows me to create a metaphor about tolerance and respect in the Spànish comunity. It is a way to embrace multiculturality while drawing. We are all the same people, we are always represented by the same stroke, even though we might look different.

 

The different songs I used are from the first to the last, South African, Eastern Europe, Central American, North African and the last one is Spanish.

 

I did the drawing tool combining examples from Zach (gesture examples), improving drawing tools that I created for previous assignments (like Draw With Emotion and Tempt Project). Also, I used the class perlin that Ruiz Madeira uses in his Reactive Scketches. In his case, it gives the drawing a more organic feeling. I don´t really think I took full advantage from his class –I ended up not using most of his code because I couldn´t really understand it- . From his code, I also used the  variable fttList (that has 512 values for the music) to make the line be changed by the music. What I basically did, was adapting my Draw With Emotion, in which I created a line that could have its alpha, red, green, blue and thickness  modified depending the velocity, the amount of space and other properties that the drawing made had. In this case, I related the alpha, red, green, blue and thickness to the variable that takes values from the music, the fttList.

 

I tried to incorporate music in Zach’s gesture-pitch but there was no way I could make it so that the drawing tool took music that I already had in my computer…

 

Hope you guys enjoy it!

Have an awesome summer

 

annita  

EVERYTHING I PROMISED FOR LONG AND I FINALLY MADE

The Spiral

EVERYTHING I PROMISED FOR LONG AND I FINALLY MADE

Well, I've spent a semester promising I would make videos. Finally I did! I couldn´t make, (I don´t really know why) for the video for "Drawing Tool for Collective Thoughts" and I am having troubles uploading The Spiral i made....So I don´t know if I´ll be able to uploaded. If not, I´ll show it in class.

Tempt Project

Draw With Emotion

Some crazy stuff I made at the beginning. I could call it Untitled....hehe

HWXX: DRAWING WITH A STRANGER

After proving what we all suspected, that the public space is the playground where our intimacy is revealed to the big brother, "el ojo que todo lo ve", like we say in spanish, I decided to draw my experience with a stranger. I got inspired in the design of the, so loved, American flag. How the flag is used inspired me to make this project. I thought about the symbols behind the flag and how national pride is used as a way to create the society of the fear. -If you want to be a good patriot, show me what you have in your bag- kind of thing. How the fear of terrorism is perpetuated using the flag as a symbol of protection.

So, I created a design with the stars and strokes of the flag, using its colors. I tried to see if the stranger could recognize the flag. So i asked them to make a drawing using the shapes in the design I made. I just tried it with two people. the first one, Fabio, who was an italian citizen visiting my friend. the second was Pati, the woman who works at the Deli across the street. I´d like to do it with american people.

My design

Fabio´s

Pati's

HWX. WALKING ASSIGNMENT

Well, after promising during two weeks that I would upload all the work I have been doing for TaeYoon, i finally got the strength and the time to really do it. As you guys knew, I decided I would create a set of rules to critique the notions of control and surveillance that define society now. We live in a society that functions around the concept of fear. It is the reason under which governmental control uses different techniques of alarm and propaganda.   

RULES:

1. Initialization: Start walking, from Union Square, to Ground 0.

2. If subject sees policemen or firemen, subject walks on opposite direction.

2. If subject sees suspicious bag/container, subject follows object 2 streets. Then subject walks direction Ground 0.

3. if subject sees or hears "terrorism", "protect/protection", "alert/alarm", police/policemen", "save/safety", subject turns and walks opposite direction.

4. If subject sees American flag, subjects turns left, 

5. If subject doesn´t see/hear anything for during three streets, subject walks Ground 0 direction

6. Program lasts 120 minutes. 

The first image illustrates the path were the rules brought me. I find interesting the shapes of the drawing that is created on the map. The squares represents any symbols of nationalism founded or symbols of controls. Most of them were flags (I never, never in my whole life I had seen such amount of flags. We know they are out there, but once you pay attention to them, they appear everywhere)...Not to talk about the policemen and firemen...

The blue line, pictures the shortest walk to my objective, Ground 0.   

These next images are some of the documentation done during the process. 

Union Square

This two next images. In them, me, getting certainly pissed while not being able to get out from drawing squares in the city.

One wasn´t enough...two, just to make sure nobody missed it...

Next image, Relocated ad, a reality show about the witness protection program.

A sign between the Lower East Side and Chine Town...And in the other corner, a surveillance camera...They must be pretty safety hanging out in the corner...

After, two hours of walking ...my prize: A wall reminding me that even thought some governments might have forgotten it, we do have rights. We have the right of intimacy, and freedom.