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For this installation our group decided focused on dogs and how they help us deal with emotional pain such as stress, depression, and anxiety.  We set up our installation in a separate room to push this sense of an enclosed space to the viewers, and used two projectors to make the most of the room. The installation begins by projecting videos that cause the viewer to feel negative emotions such as stress or discomfort, then the videos are slowly swapped out with videos of dogs until all the videos are of just of dogs completely. The installation ends when actual dogs are brought into the room to interact with the viewers.  The   purpose of the installation is  to show how the  involvement of dogs will change and control the space that they are introduced too. More  specifically  how much  influence  the dogs have over the individuals whose own emotional state is what is creating this space.   Dogs are commonly...

Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Nivel de Confianza (Level of Confidence) , 2015 Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born and raised in Mexico City, and emigrated to Canada in pursuit of a degree in physical chemistry from Concordia University in Montréal. He is an electronic artist whose work focuses a lot on interactive art that often requires public interaction. Hemmer uses technology to create an environment through his installations that become a platform which encourages public participation from the viewers. I particularly liked Hemmer's work Nivel de Confianza.  In remembrance of 43 male students who were kidnapped from their school in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico and were presumably killed, Hemmer created this piece using facial recognition technology. The viewer stands in front of the camera and the system matches them up to the picture of one of the students that looks the most like them.  While Hemmer acknowledge that the students are most likely all dead, the idea behin...

Proposal    Version 1  For this project, Ivette, Morgan, and I are going to do a project about stress. To do this project we are going to show videos of thing, signs, and symptoms of stress. We want to be able to show how stress affects everyone’s lives regardless of how you live. Stress is also something that some people are considering a disease because of how badly it is affecting everyone. It is also taking away time from the important things in our lives because we are so stressed. To show stress we are going to record videos of ourselves in stressful situations, but then to juxtapose the stress we are going to bring in our dogs. We’re going to bring in our dogs as a way to invite interaction into our piece. It is also going to be a way to show that even though all these stressful things are going on if you’re petting a dog you feel more relaxed because dogs have been proven to help people cope with stress. It is also a way to ...

Documentation Artists Statement The purpose of my installation project was to bring more attention to the 'feral' cats that live at the University of Tampa since very few people seem to be aware of them despite the fact many of these cats have lived here for years. I took the best videos I could of the feral cats, which wasn't the easiest given how skittish they can be. I then brought the videos in after-affects and rotoscoped them. As a stylistic choice for the older cats, given how dark their fur was against the background, I ended  rotoscoping their bodies and the general area around them to try and create a sort of painted mural look. Since the Feral cats live around the Cass building I projected four rotoscoped videos on the outside and inside of the Cass Building as on a commentary on how they've essentially established themselves here. Original Source Video

Bill Viola, Tristan's Ascension,  2014 Bill Viola's creates a lot of immersive installation art through the use of videos and sound that focus a lot on themes like birth, life, death, grief, and love. There are a few articles that have referred to him as being a pioneer for video art. I really like his piece Tristan's Ascension, I find the piece to be so visually striking. I also find it so interesting how even though the water is moving in reverse the physical person does not and it confuses me about how this piece was created. Sources https://www.theartstory.org/artist-viola-bill.htm http://www.billviola.com/biograph.htm https://www.artsy.net/artist/bill-viola