Author Archives: LSullivan

I have a reminder set on my phone to do something that scares me every day. It started out as a way for me to get out of my comfort zone, to speak up for myself and others even when I felt uncomfortable doing so. As small as it seems, it’s changed my life. For […]

For my final project, I really want to dive more into masking and layering. For Project 3, I think I showed that I know how to use the mask/layer function, but the background scene I used kept moving which made it very difficult to mask the object without being extremely meticulous/have it look off of […]

“Yet the hybridized solutions that visual art is currently pursuing—analog in appearance, digital in structure—seem always biased toward the former, so favored by the market. ” This quote stands out to me because although we have found more mediums of art, we are still attracted to a simpler beauty. This intrigues me because in another […]

For my final project, I want to document the genesis of a street art fan who becomes an intrepid graffiti writer by filming her visiting, photographing, and interacting with various famous street art locales in the city and then eventually creating her own tag and street art. The plot will be loosely based on a true […]

For my final project, I would like to do a video work comparing women to elements of nature. I think video is the best medium to convey this because video will be able to catch the fluidity and subtle movement of the natural world. Some scenes I would like to capture are flowers, trees, a sunrise […]

I want to comment in general on Hito Steyerl’s usage of Tumblr in her work Liquidity Inc.  I admire Hito for choosing the path of digital landscape to dwell on in her work. Having lived in Berlin for half a year, I can say that the city is into traditional and street arts, and techno music […]

“While many artists use digital technology, how many really confront the question of what it means to think, see, and filter affect through the digital? How many thematize this, or reflect deeply on how we experience, and are altered by, the digitization of our existence?” I think that undertaking this task about considering digital effects […]

“Dematerialization is not an oppressive suffocation of art but a possibility for art to flourish in disparate and progressive discourses. The web offers infinite room for expansion and participation unlimited by the more severe constraints of space and finance.” This is one of the last paragraphs of the reading and in the paragraphs before this […]

“In the digital era, a different set of concerns prevails. The act of repurposing aligns with procedures of reformatting and transcoding—the perpetual modulation of preexisting files. Faced with the infinite resources of the Internet, selection has emerged as a key operation: We build new files from existing components, rather than creating from scratch. Artists whose […]