ellieartandtechnology

Hello Everyone! Welcome back to my blog (: For my next class assignment I had to choose 5 different music "movements" from a list my professor created and add one group/musician/preformer to that category, especially related to the usage of technology. Why did I choose this artist? Why did I consider their work fits with technology and electronic music in their context? ......Here goes nothing!! GIRL POWER- An artist that deserves to be in this category is Demi Lovato. For starters, her 'Sorry Not Sorry' album was pronounced "The Ultimate Girl Power Anthem" in 2017. Her fiery, uptempo lyrics inspired women to stand up for themselves and ignore anyone who tries to bring them down. She has been in the spotlight since she started her acting career on Disney and slowly transitioned to becoming a musician later in her teenage years. During this time period, she battled with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and an eating disorder. After taking time off she

Choose your favorite three performance artists and study how they are related. What do they have in common? My favorite three performance artists are The Guerrilla Girls, Banksy and Ana Mendieta. The Guerrilla Girls started in 1985 to fight for the underrepresentation of women artists. They used unorthodox tactics to force progress within the realm of feminism, all while wearing guerrilla masks and I love it. They made feminism seem like a glamorous club you want to be a part of. Banksy is another one of my favorite performance artists. He combines political activism, dark humor and graffiti to create works of art. He displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. He does not sell any of his art or photographs. My final favorite performance artist is Ana Mendieta. Ana was a performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist during the feminist movement. My favorite pieces by her were her Silueta Series , where she created female s

I am a creature of routine. Every day I eat the same breakfast, go to the same job and interact with the same people. I do not put myself “out there” and am not interested in meeting new people at this point in my life. Therefore, when I got the performance art piece project I was terrified. I tend to be the soft spoken, passive person in the back of the  classroom, so when I had to put on a performance in front of total strangers, I thought to myself absolutely not. However, it needed to be done so I did it. The Art of Conversation. In an increasingly digital world, we walk across a college campus and see absolutely no faces. Instead we are use to seeing the tops of heads, looking down at their increasing large phone screens, where everyone is in their own little digital world. The art of conversation is being lost. For my project I sought out strangers walking around The University of Tampa campus and simply introduced myself, asked how their day was and observed their physical and

Hello everyone!! This is my xerox art project. I have always been inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's art and took some of his elements and incorporated them into my latest art piece. I was required to make the entire piece out of xeroxes of my own body parts, which at first seemed to be impossible and extremely limiting. I was left feeling almost hopeless, having no idea what to create. When I was able to get a xerox machine at a friends apartment, I decided to just dive right in. Since my hair is dyed to be almost white, it came out extremely cool on the xerox and i ran with it. After seeing how my hair turned out I decided to go for a "The Starry Night" inspired piece. The dark parts of my hair I put together to form a full moon, which Van Gogh incorporates in his own piece. Then I placed other parts of my lighter colored hair throughout the sky to make a wavy night concept that Van Gogh is famous for. Next, I xeroxed my arms and fingers. The dark shadows that were casted

I choose to make my grid art out of 900 mini marshmellows! I glued them all together on cardboard and then painted a Tampa sunset on the marshmallows using acrylic paint. I am very happy how it turned out and admire the artists who chose to do grid art for a living because it was extremely time consuming. Hope you enjoy!

This is my flip-book of a different areas around the world. This was my first time ever making a flip-book. I enjoyed the process of trying to be creative in each frame, while trying to keep the movement realistic and consistent. Hope you enjoy :)