It is what it is.
Welcome!
So this is it. My senior exhibition. There are probably questions…several questions, particularly from the faculty grading this monstrosity. I will try my damndest to address them, but for a brief overview you can head on over to the about page to see some design rationale and other background information. After that you can view the work section.
Okay, so why did I choose an online site instead of exhibiting in the Tweed? As I was gathering ideas from student exhibitions over the last few semesters I noticed that digital pieces displayed on TVs, projectors, laptops, etc. were often skimmed over. That’s not what I wanted for this show as a decent part of my work is animated, interactive, or generally digital in nature. Also, at best there would probably be a few hundred people viewing my work in the Tweed, while there will potentially be several thousand viewing the work here, and eventually/hopefully tens of thousands as both it and I grow and change.
There have been a couple of issues with this online format, however. For one, it’s difficult to convey a sense of scale without making some work indecipherably small to create contrast with larger pieces. Second, deciding on the amount of work to show was difficult. There is really a ton of stuff here compared to what would be shown in the Tweed, but I consulted some faculty and other artists and the consensus seemed to be that that navigating this amount of work is not that difficult since everything is pretty clean in terms of layout. The last issue I had was in designing the space. I’ve rationalized the design on the about page, but the gist is that it gels with my experiment on branding, the details of which can be found on that same page.
Lastly, feel free to comment…if the comments haven’t been shut off due to the spam filter mechanism thingy. Hurray for technology!
July 22nd, 2007 at 4:53 am
Steve…
No! You shouldn’t do that!…