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Project
Elemental Embodiment
Process
• Design Research
• Drawing
• Creative Coding
• Image Making
• Animation
Location
Kyiv, Ukraine
Year
2023
Special Thanks
Olivia Jack
Description
Classical elements of nature (earth, air, water and fire) aren’t sentient. But what if they were? How would they see themselves?
These animations were built using scientific imagery from NASA and Hydra, a live coding tool.
My framework of thinking and creating cites the works of anthropologist Eduardo Kohn (“How Forests Think”), philosopher Michel Serres (“Biogée”) and researchers Pia Spangenberger, Sonja Maria Geiger & Sarah-Christin Freytag (“Becoming nature: effects of embodying a tree in immersive virtual reality on nature relatedness”).
Press
•https://uart-fest.com/eng/
• https://www.fhnw.ch/de/die-fhnw/hochschulen/hgk/aktuelles/news-archiv-2024/gil-andrei-fontimayor-am-uart-media-fest-2024-in-kyjiw
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Project
Strange Fruit
Process
• Design Research
• Drawing/Sketching
• 3D Rendering
• AI Image Generation
• Experimental Typography
• Printmaking
• Postcard Design
Dimensions
DIN A6 (105 x 148 mm/4.2 x 5.8 in)
Typeface
Orbitron by Matt NcInerney
Year
2022
Project
Strange Fruit
Process
• Design Research
• Drawing/Sketching
• 3D Rendering
• AI Image Generation
• Experimental Typography
• Printmaking
• Postcard Design
Dimensions
DIN A6 (105 x 148 mm/4.2 x 5.8 in)
Typeface
Orbitron by Matt NcInerney
Year
2022
Description
Each card contains the lyrics of Billie Holiday’s song, “Strange Fruit” and visual interpretations of fallen tree leaves that usher in the autumnal season.
Methods of making included charcoal reduction drawing, cyanotype, paper marbling, crushed foliage, AI image generation and 3D rendering.
Each card contains the lyrics of Billie Holiday’s song, “Strange Fruit” and visual interpretations of fallen tree leaves that usher in the autumnal season.
Methods of making included charcoal reduction drawing, cyanotype, paper marbling, crushed foliage, AI image generation and 3D rendering.
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Project
Tree Bark Studies
Process
• Acrylic Paint
• Screen Printing Ink
• Paper
• Nutella Hazelnut Spread
• Painter’s Tape
• Elmer’s Glue
Locations
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Basel, Switzerland
Years
2022-ongoing
Project
Tree Bark Studies
Process
• Acrylic Paint
• Screen Printing Ink
• Paper
• Nutella Hazelnut Spread
• Painter’s Tape
• Elmer’s Glue
Locations
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Basel, Switzerland
Years
2022-ongoing
Description
A visual representation of flora without the engagement of a computer...a pause from automation and circuitry.
A visual representation of flora without the engagement of a computer...a pause from automation and circuitry.
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Project
Think
Process
• Drawing/Sketching
• Design Research
• Photography
• Printmaking
• Poster Design
Dimensions/Format
A3 Poster
(297 x 420 mm/11.7 x 16.5 in)
Location
Basel, Switzerland
Year
2023
Project
Think
Process
• Drawing/Sketching
• Design Research
• Photography
• Printmaking
• Poster Design
Dimensions/Format
A3 Poster
(297 x 420 mm/11.7 x 16.5 in)
Location
Basel, Switzerland
Year
2023
Description
Upon reading “Nanoplastics travel long distances to the Alps”, I began to think of the nearly invisible (and harmful) objects we do not consciously see nor think about in our day-to-day lives.
After applying actual microplastics onto the monoprint surface, I cut pieces of paper to create curvaceous letterforms of the word, “think,” alluding to the speculatively turbulent wind currents atop the Swiss Alps possibly altered by these toxic particles.
Upon reading “Nanoplastics travel long distances to the Alps”, I began to think of the nearly invisible (and harmful) objects we do not consciously see nor think about in our day-to-day lives.
After applying actual microplastics onto the monoprint surface, I cut pieces of paper to create curvaceous letterforms of the word, “think,” alluding to the speculatively turbulent wind currents atop the Swiss Alps possibly altered by these toxic particles.