New Media New Forms MK

For this video project I used a combination of footage I took of the Hudson River this winter, videos I already had of the Adriatic, and drawings I made over the course of the winter. I also used AI generated video from Google Flow to animate my drawings, and edited everything together in CapCut. I thought of the piece as a kind of moving collage, where different places, memories, and textures could sit on top of each other. I referenced the underwater scene from the 1984 movie  Splash, which  was a big part of my childhood. I remember a period when mermaids felt really present in culture and in the female imagination, with many mermaid tv shows and movies. Mermaids felt very present in both external and internal worlds as a child. Living by the Hudson, I'm really fascinated by the river. The barges, the marine traffic, and especially the underwater world feel mysterious and unknowable. Using my drawings made during this winter as backgrounds and animating them with AI, I...

 Scanography sets:                                                                       Set 1: Scan set 2: Reflection: Recently, I have been thinking a lot about the idea of panpsychism, the theory that consciousness exists in all living matter. This feels connected to what I am learning in Processes and Structures and New Media, New Forms, especially the idea of being in conversation and in concert with materials rather than acting as their master. While layering objects, and myself, onto the scanner, I found myself thinking about the ephemeral nature of beautiful things, and about the way forms can feel like they trap what they hold. I thought about objects being confined to their shapes, and about my own body as something I am both inside of and limited by. Scanography, with i...

Mila K · winter melt  I have been feeling pretty exhausted by the winter so I decided to create a piece that echoed the drama of the weather on Riverside Drive. My main instrument in this piece was the sound of cold wind coming through my old windows. This was supported by the Riverside Church bells I heard on Sunday morning. The bells and wind together to create a hollow drone-like sound that to me, make sense as a sound track to the feeling of a lasting cold weather snap. I used logic for this piece and put the church bells and wind sounds into samplers and then added some other sounds that I found in my voice memos to remind us of the coming of spring. I enjoy working with sound on logic because it feels very much like collage to me. The layering of textures of sound feels physical to me in the same way traditional art materials do.

 As someone who has a background in traditional art mediums, but not very much digital art experience, my goal for this course is to use digital formats to expand my own practice. I'm a bit of a luddite and have been resistant to integrating technology into my art and teaching in the past. 1) I would like to learn technology that I can integrate into my daily art practice to enhance my experience with traditonal materials 2) I would like to become less resistant to technology and get over my prejudice  3) I would like to learn a way to teach art technology in a way that is accessible to those who might not have access to phones or computers. Looking forward to my learning in the course!

For this collage, I experimented with the app Pixelcut, combining photos of my sketchbook with two older photographs I had on hand. The central image is a postcard I bought at a flea market in Belgrade, and the image on the right is a photograph my grandmother took while traveling in India. I enjoyed using the app to layer my drawings onto these landscapes, playing with scale and composition. I found this process to feel very free and uninhibited, which speaks to the potential of digital collage. Unlike traditional mediums, digital planes and objects are easily adjustable. In painting, composition is often where I feel most stuck, as decisions can be difficult to undo once they are made. By layering different forms such as photographs and paintings, I believe each medium gains new life through the other. This process has made me curious about other combinations that could be explored through digital collage and how they might change the way we think about different mediums, for instanc...