804 research outputs found
Physical rendering with a digital airbrush
Airbrush painting is an expressive art form that allows for unrepeatable spray patterns and unique ink staining. Artists utilize these properties while painting, expressing subjective style and artistic intentions. We present an augmented airbrush device that acts both as a physical spraying device and an intelligent digital guiding tool, that maintains both manual and computerized control. We demonstrate our custom designed hardware and numerous algorithms that control it through hands-on usage examples of a human-computer collaborative of a physical painting effort
Empowering Airbrush Design for Social Innovation: Building a Micro-Community Based Creative Platform
Airbrush is a mechanical painting tool using compressed air to spray paint onto various surfaces. Since its introduction with the first patent in 1876, commercial artists and illustrators applied its seamless color blending effects in a wide range of creative areas, and the medium reached its peak in popularity between the 1950s and late 1980s. Now, the medium is facing the challenge of being marginalized in the mainstream design industry due to the advancement of digital technology. To begin a critical inquiry of this situation, French art critic Nicolas Bourriauds concept of Relational Aesthetics will be the main theoretical reference for this thesis. Viewing the medium as a relational art form, this thesis connects Italian design theorist Ezio Manzinis Bottom-to-Top design methodology to facilitate the delivery of a community-based Airbrush Design platform. This platform will act as a catalyst to empower people to use the medium for social recognition and to mediate between individual (private) and institutional (public) spaces
Suffolk University Academic Catalog, New England School of Art and Design (NESAD)--Fall evening adjunct program, 1985
This catalog contains information for the fall evening adjunct programhttps://dc.suffolk.edu/cassbs-catalogs/1105/thumbnail.jp
Suffolk University Academic Catalog, New England School of Art and Design (NESAD)--Fall evening adjunct program, 1984
This catalog contains information for the fall evening adjunct programhttps://dc.suffolk.edu/cassbs-catalogs/1103/thumbnail.jp
Suffolk University Academic Catalog, New England School of Art and Design (NESAD)--Spring evening adjunct program, 1985
This catalog contains information for the spring evening adjunct programhttps://dc.suffolk.edu/cassbs-catalogs/1100/thumbnail.jp
Negotiating Seamlessness in Gallery Spaces: Imagining Conflict as a Possibility in Social Participation
Seamlessness in traditional airbrush aesthetics reflects a desire to pursue technical excellence and perfection. The digital revolution has pushed airbrush practice from a popular art form to a niche discipline. Today, airbrushing survives in customization and subculture aesthetics. The retreat of airbrushing from the mainstream, poses questions of how to extend this art form into contemporary art practice: an important consideration given its potential to redefine the social and cultural meaning of seamlessness in our current digital age.
My research examines the meaning of seamlessness in our contemporary, social and technological contexts. By shifting traditional airbrush practice into an interactive and installation-based platform, I use participatory strategies to investigate the social implications of relational art forms to challenge the notion of seamlessness as an idealized pursuit of perfection. Inspired by the debate between Nicolas Bourriaud’s concept of relational art and Claire Bishop’s critique of Bourriaud’s micro-utopian concept of relational aesthetics, this paper investigates how participatory and interactive art functions within gallery spaces to gain a deeper understanding of Chantal Mouffe’s concept of radical democracy.
Using art galleries as an arena to engage theory and praxis, my thesis project employs a research-creation method with a participatory approach that intends to trigger conflicts and negotiations in the domain of galleries. It investigates the blurred boundaries between consensus and conflict, controllability and unpredictability, inclusion and exclusion. Lastly, through theorizing and redefining the meaning of seamlessness from an aesthetic concept towards social agency, this research questions the inclusivity of art institutions and their role in relation to social and cultural production
Suffolk University Academic Catalog, New England School of Art and Design (NESAD)--Spring evening division, 1984
This catalog contains information for the evening divisionhttps://dc.suffolk.edu/cassbs-catalogs/1097/thumbnail.jp
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