Transmedia Happenings

Hey Everyone,

This morning in class we watched Treasure Planet, in preparation for our guest speaker on Thursday afternoon. Rob Edwards is a screenplay writer, whose most popular movies are Treasure Planet and The Princess and the Frog. He's also written various television episodes, including a few for Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Full House and In Living Color. He's coming to talk to the Computer Art majors about writing and story-telling. It's helpful because the importance of screenplays gets lost in the technical jungle of animation. Students are given full creative control in Computer Art, and oftentimes although the lighting may be inspired, the plot is not. I'll give y'all a recap next week.

For my Transmedia senior project class, (separate from my thesis or from Computer Art senior project), I've been researching public art. I found some really cool artists and here are some links. I think public art gets overlooked as either place-holder sculpture (just there to take up space) or as architecture, and it's interesting to learn about the actual artists behind things that we may see everyday on the way to class/work. My goal as an artist is to get art into the everyday environment, and out of the white-wall gallery. Public art is the most exciting and apparent way to do this.

Leni Schwendinger does really interesting and massive lighting design projects:
http://www.lightprojectsltd.com/projects/art_artworks_lsc.php

Ela Lamblin is an instrument maker - he has a kinetic sculpture in front of the Yesler Community Center in Seattle, but he does these awesome performances with instruments he's invented. This is less computer and more music, but still fascinating!

Lelavision performing Longwave from ela lamblin on Vimeo.


And lastly if you want to see some of the awesome stuff that Computer Art can crank out, here's our resident code expert and the website for the game he's making for his senior project.
http://craigspaeth.com/mirror/