Synthesis

BFA THESIS EXHIBITION, PENSACOLA MUSUEM OF ART, PENSACOLA, FL

2022

The works created for this show were funded in part by Office of Undergraduate Research at the University of West Florida.

FOR GIGGLES HERE IS THE EXHIBTION PROPOSAL:

The videography projection is a product of an ongoing bio-art research project titled, "Exploring the Art of Composed Aquatic Ecosystems" in which I experiment with organically composing the structures of several living creatures, plants, and substrates in a freshwater aquarium with the intent of creating a visually appealing array of textures, shapes, and colors. The outcome, which will be presented at the Student Scholar Symposium this April, will be a still video collage of the front face of the aquarium.

In addition, I will be presenting the results from my ongoing research project, "Organically Composing Microbial Art." The focus of this research is to compose the growth structures of several molds and bacterias in a petri dish with the intent of creating a visually appealing array of living textures, shapes, and colors. The piece will be presented as a collage of varying-sized circular prints mounted on the wall.

The triptych is titled, Controlled Senescence (Dream), and will be presented as three 20"x16" images professionally printed onto glass panels. Through three-dimensional rendering applications, I created a realistic sci-fi-like environment that tricks the mind and hints at the biological connections between cultivating plant life within human-controlled environments.

My final work titled, Electronic Wind Chime, will be presented as an interactive sculpture piece. This physical computing project was created by programming an Arduino to intake the speed of the wind around it using an anemometer sensor. In exchange, the speed of the wind is coded to be paired with a specific MIDI pitch that is outputted through vibrating transducers that resonate with the wind chimes egg-like form. The chime will be suspended from a wall bracket, in which a power cord will run along with the bracket and be hidden with wire covers as it makes its way back down to an electrical outlet. Audience members will be invited to listen to the sounds of the wind-based tones while adjusting the intensity of wind using the oscillating fan.