The Goth: Post-Modernity |
Here is the original art
in case you care to take a closer motionless look. |
| For the final project I have created a short animation
in After Effects using all original materials created by myself at some
point in time. I took several drawings, paintings and sketches which I
have accumulated over the past four years as an undergrad at UT, scanned
them each into Photoshop at resolutions no less than 600 dpi, cropped
and removed the excess white from the background in order to get translucent
alpha channels and then used After Effects to animate and transition between
each of them. For the fast paced, colorful background, I used 16mm
film leader painted with India Inks and Acrylic paints, and then captured
magically through the process of Steinbeck projection. The musical score
is also an original arrangement, but nothing special. I simply took several
synthesizer samples into Pro Tools, altered pitch and speed, and then
overlapped them to get a smooth, yet eerie atmospheric tone. The ideas which I tried to exemplify within the work were based primarily on the Haraway reading from class: The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriated Others, in which she touches on the topic of artifactual reproduction and the artifactualist mapping of elsewhere. In our society, we use optical instruments as subject shifters, and technology tends to de-nature in a haste for productionism in which artifacts are reproduced and mass replicated in a process of digital copying. In Elsewhere, I took original works of art from my collection which I related to the image envoked by the slunks of Gothic, then digitally reproduced them in order to use technology to shift their meaning into something with motion and variable value. The original artwork is taken out of the context in which it was created, and given a whole new meaning in the world of intermedia and motion graphics. Obviously, since the works are my own, this montage of images will have significantly different importance to me than you, and similarly the meaning will vary in different cultural settings & circumstances. |
