Art Made of Storms

Nathalie Miebach creates sculptures using weather data from massive storms and then turns them into musical scores for a string quartet to play. Her work ties into our Data Portrait Project and gives a beautiful example of how data visualization is art. Check it out the Ted Talk here! You can find more of her…

Interactive, Digital Art Museum Opens in Tokyo

A two summers ago I had the opportunity to go to Japan and visit a museum that combines technology, science, and art through interactive art exhibits. They use over 520 computers to create natural digital landscapes that change and evolve with your movements. Created by TeamLab Borderless, the group of artists and technologists aim to…

Who made your clothes?

When I came across this cartoon from sustainably illustrated by Alex Magnin, I instantly thought of our project, combining art and storyboarding for a public service announcement. In this cartoon, there is a powerful parallel between the women buying cheap clothing and factories underpaying workers to achieve those prices that serves to illuminate the disconnection…

Photographer Spotlight: Erli Grünzweil

These photographs by Erli Grünzweil create awareness for the small everyday objects in our lives and more broadly human consumption and throw away culture. This plastic bag on the street reminded me of my idea for my animated public service announcement on consumerism, in particular fast fashion. It served as inspiration for how to turn…

My Life Story Through Google Search

Ammar Kandil, one of the members of a YouTube channel named Yes Theory, posted a video of his life through animated google searches about his journey leaving Egypt and going against his family to purse a creative career. The film was created in collaboration with a production company in Copenhagen, Burning Boat, and Google. Yes…

Invisible Cities Illustrated: Artist Illustrates Each and Every City in Italo Calvino’s Classic Novel

As I was finishing up the invisible cities this week, it was interesting to come across another artist’s interpretation of the same city “Isaura,” which is the city of a thousand wells. Karina Puente  illustrated the fictional city by drawing different types of paper and cutting out images with exacto knives, so the final product…

Transient Sculptures 2020

These sculptures were pieces of fabric blowing in the wind, and existed for only a short period before becoming lost and unable to be recreated. This really seemed to embody how people are feeling in 2020 will the impossible desire for clarity and tangibility among an ever-changing narrative. As I looked at these forms and…

“Negative Space” by Artist Huntz Liu

Liu’s work reminded me of our discussions about abstraction and how to play with negative space. He uses a variety of thicknesses and depths to create his art, which brought to mind our own experimentations with line thicknesses and layers in Illustrator. I though this was really interesting example of how to use different shades…

“Balancing Act” by Artist Martine Johanna

Johanna’s work really reminded me of our discussion of communication models and the way artists convey messages through art. In these pieces, she places females in atypical situations and positions often blurring reality and fantasy with levitating objects to show how women deal with the weight of societal expectations. The use of potential motion with…

Patrick Strzelec Shows Us One Way to Cut the Mustard

Patrick Strzelec’s work “stuck” was part of his larger work of “60 sculptures in 60 days,” which he started during the pandemic with the purpose of simply continuing to work. Reminding me of Koren’s idea of arrangements as “visual communication,” Strzelec’s use of different materials and objects illuminated the uncertain sentiments of the times. The…