Art and Technology Blog

https://youtu.be/4pnuypxdKNY This is my final video performance titled "Held Hostage by Technology". My roommate wearing the Apple logo sweatshirt represents all technology. I emerge from the trunk tangled in wires, and am guided by technology through the halls, ultimately to my final cell. The entire trip, I am too much focused on what is on the screen in front of me, and am unable to see all of the chaotic happenings behind me.

For my collage piece, it took me a while to decide what I wanted to create. After a while, the thought came to me to make my collage on top of my guitar, because music is one of my favorite things in the world. To make this collage, I used scanned pictures of my eyes at the top of the guitar neck to make it as if the guitar was alive. I used scans of my fingers all along the frets to indicate the actual playing of the guitar. The base of the guitar was filled with various scans of the sole of my foot, and my hands in different positions, one of them being in a heart in the center. This represents the heart and soul (sole), musicians pour into the work they create. 

Pixelated, 32x13 post-it-note NBA logo. I used about 200 red and blue post it notes on my bedroom wall in order to create an approximately 8 foot NBA logo

Dido and Aeneas Dido and Aeneas is an opera written by Henry Purcell in the late 1600’s. Composed of three acts, this dramatic performance depicts a lonely woman, Dido, whom attempts to cure her sadness with a marriage between herself and a Trojan man named Aeneas. However, a powerful sorceress whom is plotting to destroy the city of Carthage interferes with the wedding. The sorceress convinces Aeneas to sail to Italy instead of marrying Dido. Aeneas at the end of the opera changes his mind and claims to Dido that he will instead stay with her instead of departing, however Dido casts him away for even considering leaving. The ending results with Dido’s life slowly coming to an end. This opera was not filmed as a traditional opera from one point of view on a stage but was filmed as if it were a movie. Within the production itself, the scenery used was very elaborate, and really set the theme for the entire show. Set in an elegant building, with people gathered around in expensive lo

I created this stop motion animation using Stop Motion Studio on my Apply Iphone 8. Using a skateboard, I created the sense of motion throughout this short film using 174 frames. My phone was set up on a tripod, and photos were taken by my roommate. This film exhibits the idea that you can have fun anywhere, and with anything, with a little imagination.

The smartphone is one of the world's most innovative creations, and is predicted to reach 2.9 billion users in 2019. The first smartphone ever created is reported to be IBM's Simon Personal Communicator, released in 1994. On this device, one could write emails, text, send faxes, check one's calendar and even sketch on the screen with a stylus. In the years 2001, the next big breakthrough in smartphone technology was unveiled, the Blackberry handheld device, with calling capacity, calendar planning, texting, emailing etc. Blackberry continued to define the cellular industry by introducing the first handheld smartphone device to have a colored display, the Blackberry 7210. What happened following the the year of 2007 changed the way smartphones were viewed forever, with Steve Jobs' introduction of the very first Iphone. The Iphone was revolutionary in the sense that it had touch screen capabilities instead of conventional physical keypads, and the ability to surf the web