TITLE: Xerox Project
MEDIA: Printer Ink and Paper
SOFTWARE: N/A
SPECIFICATIONS: 3ft 6in x 3ft
CLASS: ART 211 Art and Technology
PROFESSOR: Blanka Roundtree
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 17
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
LINK: https://jessartandtechnology.blogspot.com/2017/11/xerox-project.html
The Xerox Project was definitely new territory for me in my Art and Technology class, besides my scanned face for Beginning Drawing. I chose to make my project based off of body image ideals and Expressionism. I constantly heard from both my friends and my surroundings various comments girls made about themselves concerning their weight. Listening to these issues as well as experiencing them myself made me want to use this project to convey a message about the pressures of keeping a small frame. My main challenge with this project was creating something that I both enjoyed and had meaning, as well as making sure I conserved ink and created something that was larger than 2ft x 3ft.
TITLE: Grid Art
MEDIA: Vanilla Frosting, Dyed on Canvas
SOFTWARE: N/A
SPECIFICATIONS: 40 dots x 40 dots
CLASS: ART 211 Art and Technology
PROFESSOR: Blanka Roundtree
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 17
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
LINK: https://jessartandtechnology.blogspot.com/2017/11/grid-art-project.html
The Grid Art piece was created for my Art and Technology class. Since I love the Pop Art genre, I chose a picture that was Pop Art-inspired to use as a reference. Choosing my object was difficult because I do not own 900 pieces of anything or had the money to buy that many items. So, I made my grid using frosting dots rather than the colored Benday dots that are often found in Pop Art to recreate the image. The main difficulty was making sure each dot was precise, correct, and representing the correct part of the image.
TITLE: Video Deconstruction
MEDIA: Video/Film
SOFTWARE: Adobe Premiere Pro
SPECIFICATIONS: 16:9; 1080p
CLASS: ART 211 Art and Technology
PROFESSOR: Blanka Roundtree
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 17
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
LINK: https://jessartandtechnology.blogspot.com/2017/12/video-deconstruction-final-project.html
For this project, I had a hard time figuring out what I wanted to focus on. I have always been interested in 1940s-50s advertisements and the misogynist views that are often found within them. I wanted to juxtapose these advertisements by using the audio from them to recreate a new sound, with video of hard-working women, showing that we are capable of holding our own outside of the kitchen. The hardest and frustrating part of this project was figuring out what the actual desired outcome that the professor wanted us to achieve. It was hard to understand what the requirements were for the project, and if that was clearer it would have aided me in the process of creating the work.
TITLE: Is There Justice Now?
MEDIA: Installation Art
SOFTWARE: Mad Mapper
SPECIFICATIONS: 16:9; 1080p
CLASS: FMX 463 Multimedia Installation Art
PROFESSOR: Erica Isringhaus
SEMESTER / TERM: FA 18
INSTITUTION: University of Tampa
LINK: https://jessartandtechnology.blogspot.com/2017/12/video-deconstruction-final-project.html
This project, Is There Justice Now? is based off of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy who was brutally beaten, shot, and thrown into a river for allegedly flirting with a woman in a convenience store. His murder sparked the Civil Rights movement and is still in circulation as the case reopened last summer in June. I chose to take the way he was murdered and compare it to the numerous amount of murders of black men who’s killers are acquitted due to a badge on one’s chest. I wanted to relay to the viewer that there are very few differences and changes between the realities now and the realities of racial violence seventy years ago.