Booth Structure

Here are some pictures of the frame for my booth. It will be 3 sided (they bolt together so they can be taken apart and put back together easily) and will be covered in cloth. The cloth will be just "loose" enough so that they will ripple like a curtain. The far (short) wall will be the screen onto which my presentation will be projected. I'm considering draping something over the top. Not sure yet what color fabric, going to ask Karen's advice as to what would look best in the gallery.

Also, the final measurements are 6' x 3' x 7'

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Website Screenshots

Here are some screenshots of the website thusfar. The first one is of the "Portal Page", where if you hover over the word "19 Tangents" it glows as shown. When you click it, it will take you to a page with two navigation options: Artists, or Info. The navigation page isn't finished yet so just pretend for a moment that it exists. If you click on "Artists", it will take you to the Artists page (sceenshots 2 and 3) which has a list of names. When you hover over any one name, it changes to that person's artist statement. When clicked, it takes you to their personal page with their artist statement and a small gallery of their work. A mock-up of Donna's is shown in the fourth screenshot.

Feedback on Postcard

Here's a few color choices for the postcard that I thought were most successful. Let me know what you guys think!

Sums it up rather nicely

I'm nearing the completion of the latest version of my animation. In my search for viable text, I found this little quote on some guy's blog that I believe sums up my project:

"A blog is a contradiction. It’s a private space for private thoughts that is also exposed to the universe. While we value our privacy, we love to see that visit counter go up."

I think I'm going to open the animation with that quote.

-Ethan Guillemette

It's about...

It's about what we put on the internet and why.

Updated Version and Questions Over Display

Here's an updated version of the animation. I took out the part that seemed to have negative reception across the board (the one with the Lord of the Rings reference).

Animation

I didn't get a good consensus among the faculty as to how best to display it. With my mentor critique, Susan suggested using interactive user-imput to control the animation (and have it projected). Bob and Susan thought that it was best to be lost without any control over the speed, and for the interaction to be passive. Robert thought it should be kept small and precious and hung on the wall so that it would draw people in. Karen thought that something small could be easily ignored, and it would be best projected.

I'm anxious to here your imput. For those of you who saw it projected, do you think it works better displayed on a nice computer screen? The colors do seem to be sharper. On the other hand, projected it has an unexpected but interesting interplay with the audience's shadows. Because the background of the animation is black, it creates some neat negative space (along with some form of interaction).

So yeah, I'm pretty much stumped.

Artist Statement

My digital series “Mass Communication” is an investigation into what people put onto the Internet and why they do it. Because of the possibility that anyone (or no one) will read what they write, we discover a massive, never-ending surplus of ranting, stream of consciousness, and the occasional soul-bearing coming from millions of Internet users. Through utilizing found text from blogs, social networking sites and online discussion forums, and by mimicking what others write, I hope to re-create the mesmerizing, distracting and awe-inspiring wealth of information available on the Internet. I use raw text, still compositions and animated text to lose my viewer within the narratives I’ve created, and the narratives of actual lives laid out publicly for the world to read. The viewer may leave cautioned to the perils of electronic communication, or encouraged at its possibilities, as was I.