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  Theme: Justice Traditional Media: Performance Art New Media: Video/Editing For my final project, I am tempted to do a continuation of my Blank Assignment—integrating performance, video, as well as elements of the stop-motion project. I am excited for the theme of Justice, as social justice and education is something I am passionate about, as well as the fact that I can integrate what I have been learning in our Diversity and Equity class. I’d like to make commentary on issues affecting Latinx communities in the US, particularly those of deportation, displacement, and/or environmentalism.  I’d like to also utilize the stop-motion format, but do it in color and with more frames than I did in the Blank Assignment so that it reads as less stop motion, and more video. I’d like to challenge myself to sync up audio including music and voiceover/song to the video, rather than just using music and sound effects like I did in my previous video/stop-motion assignments.  I have a l...

For my 3D design assignment, I utilized Tinkercad's range of basic shapes to create a Puerto Rican vejigante  mask. I chose to create thus mask because I have been exploring my own heritage a great deal this semester in several of my classes. I created a vejigante  mask design for Processes and Structures, and I wanted to create a 3D model version of it so that it could possibly be replicated in the future with a 3D printer. In creating this piece, I got to experiment more with Tinkercad's features beyond what I did in class. As opposed to what I did in class: picking from pre-created characters and figurines, I created my own figurine out of the simple shapes. Also during class, I used my iPad and Apple Pencil to create the piece, which I thought was easier than using a computer, but for this homework assignment, I used the computer and was able to have better control over the placement of my elements and the entire piece as a whole. Tinkercad was very easy to use, and much o...

For this project, Mila and I were both inspired by artists who play with light in 2D Fabrication. Mila’s presentation reminded me of an artist whose work I had seen several years ago at the Asia Society. As a result, we decided to create a lantern for our project. We still need to cut out two more panels with engravings and cutouts on them, but this is what we’ve completed so far: We utilized designs that we’ve created in last classes, including Processes and Structures, as well as Conversations across cultures. These experimental and textured drawings further the experimental nature of this project as well.