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Montserrat College of Art
Graphic Design Senior Seminar instructor: Maya Drozdz Spring 06
STUDENTS
Analogous Quantification: An Exploration of Numerical Analysis Using the Pixel-Based Image Documentary technology is everywhere. Cameras have expanded outside of the theaters and homes and into street corners and cell phones. We record our lives now so that we can look back upon them later. Our memories can now reside outside of the mind - we have a rectangular frame of pixels and dots that remind us of what has passed. We ourselves are a result of a series of interactions between our various experiences and the exchanges that occur between them. Each memory forms a different relationship with one another, causing a new composite memory made up of individual memories. Now, instead of having a compound understanding of our history, memories have become segregated into singular captions confined by the bounds of the frame. But these captures are nothing but an individualized series of interpreted color and ink, made by our own hands and ingenuity. If we break down these memories to get to the very core of its structure, we will find that it is nothing more than a series of numbers and tables. My interest lies in the numerical value of these memories. If I break down my own collection of memories into its numeric interpretations and use them as a basis for manually creating an interaction between them, can I design an experience that is analogous to the compound human memory? The GIF [Graphics Interchange Format] is a compression method for graphics and pictures mostly intended for web use. It analyzes the different occurrences of colors and indexes them by assigning a number to each one. Its significance lies in that I can take my collection of memories and control the amount of occurrences of color in each. This is not to be confused with them having the same colors - they have the same amount of colors in each capture. By lowering the dpi [dots per inch] of each image, I am left with a gridded mosaic of color; it becomes less about the specificity of the memory and more about its simplification. By doing so, I am left able to explore what happens when I use addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc. with the indexed colors to re-create a compound memory. Analogous Quantification: Secondary Proposal For the second semester of my seminar work, I am exploring a second theme in conjunction with my on-going thesis. Taking the titles of my two root images [The Lost Sweater and Love Thy Neighbor], I am searching through different mediums [video, print, interactive, 3-dimensional] to discover how each title can find its relation in each medium. This secondary exploration enables the more creative and freestyle side of my work that I think is not being represented in my current study. |
Liya Hoshi