Foundations of Art, Design, + Digital Culture

He creates art using programming language, mainly in Processing.

He and Ben Fry initiated Processing.

Nathalie Miebach is a Boston-based artist dedicated to bringing physical form to abstract data. Using rope, paper, wood, reed, miscellaneous fibers, and various other arts and crafts tools, Miebach transforms seemingly mundane data regarding cycles of biology, currents, temperature variations, tidal patterns, and the like to create huge sculptures. Some sculptures even represent the “music” of storms around the world, and others can, in a sense, be carried/worn, as seen in the gallery above. Her works do not completely erase the data; on the contrary, they often have a significant resemblance with the data itself, and each piece is labeled to signify what they represent, as can also be seen above.

Micaël Reynaud is a freelance designer and stop motion animator. He created animated GIFs through a process which involves the use of video techniques like slit-scanning, time-lapse, and various forms of masking to create what he refers to as “hypnotic very short films.” 

Carl Burton is known for combining his skills as an illustrator, animator and 3D artist, to create gifs with captivating atmospheres.

https://www.carlburton.io/

Zack Dougherty, a.k.a. Hateplow is a digital artist known for his surrealist approach to GIFs while at the same time spending hours in perfecting the compositions to look real.

https://youtu.be/yzSm6paq4aI

Frequently rated by critics as one of the greatest films ever created, Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove satirizes the fears of nuclear conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. The movie follows the disastrous attempts by the President and his advisors to recall a squadron of bombers sent to drop nuclear weapons on the Soviet Union. Although initially based after the book Red Alert, Kubrick transformed the screenplay from a morose examination of nuclear apocalypse to a black comedy.

(Spoilers) The movie satirizes a multitude of ideas, chief among them being mutually assured destruction, fallout shelters, and doomsday devices. A number of iconic moments from the film have been parodied across various media. Perhaps the most famous scene is when the nuclear bomb is dropped with the bomber pilot still on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snTaSJk0n_Y . (Also, a Simpson’s parody of it: https://youtu.be/Eu-i_9c3PJE?t=33)

Also, mentioned in class, the war room scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeqVGP-GPM

Please write a caption for your animation, citing text source and any production details that will accompany your project on a class playlist.

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Kaitin Tarte
Inspired by J.D. Salinger’s “The Heart of a Broken Story”, a short story in which Salinger attempts to write a boy-meets-girl story but he cannot figure out how to get the boy to actually meet the girl.

John Karel is a Philadelphia-based animator with a penchant for low-poly, short GIFs. In 2014, he created a quirky neon skeleton that quickly became the star of many of his GIFs. He previously used Autodesk Maya before switching to Blender for his 3D animations.

Donald Baechler is best known for his child-like depictions of iconic subjects such as flowers and ice cream cones.