Samantha Spritzer-350S

Samantha Spreitzer ART 245 Professor Miller 5 May 2016 Final Essay Augmenting Reality with Light             In the search for digital artists, one comes across a myriad of different ideas propelling works forward. Personally I have always found work with light to be interesting, how manipulating it can change your whole perception of something. So in my search I managed to come across two artists who both use light in their works to transform whatever is being projected on. Pablo Valbuena’s website will tell anyone that his projects are focused on space, time, and perception, and I could easily see the truth in these words as I looked through his selected works. His Augmented Sculpture piece caught my eye, using light projected onto a physical sculpture to change the way it looks. While the second artist, Hiro Yamagata, has some more traditional physical works on canvases, he is also known for his laser light exhibitio...

I've been working on bird-related stuff in other classes so such was my inspiration for this project. I sculpted a sort of simple bird form in Sculptris and then printed it in plastic. Renderings: Final Product:

Photoshop files Pictures (Off) Pictures (On) Statement I chose to focus on the problem of pollution with my lamp, both how we normally think of it as well as light pollution. Having grown up in cities all my life, I've never really seen a sky completely full of stars and haze was a fairly frequent problem. My lamp shows the disparity between huge industrialization and the pollution it causes as well as a more natural sky full only of stars. 

(without bloopers below) Bjørn Melhus' "Captain" My film was inspired by "Captain" though I didn't use anything directly from his film. I used the first almost two minutes of audio from the original unaired pilot of Star Trek "The Cage". The idea was to evoke the same sense of humor from the original, with the static actors and blank expressions.