FMX 463

The materials are all set up and ready to be presented.

     I like to produce music in my spare time. For this project, I will document the process of creating a song or a beat. I will screen-capture the production software on my laptop, record my face via webcam, and set up two cameras to cover two different angles in my bedroom. I will then project the final edited videos onto my Launchpad. A Launchpad is an instrument that allows you to play audio and MIDI clips. It is essentially a square with 64 square buttons. I will divide the Launchpad into 4 quadrants and project each video onto a quadrant.      I want to tell the story of the proverbial bedroom producer. There are a countless number of people who produce music that dream of being discovered. Some end up becoming famous while the majority do not. But they persevere, practice their craft, and improve their skills. While others sleep, they are still working into the late hours of the night creating a potential hit. I believe that this would be an interesting story to tell. Mate

     Everyone lives somewhere. Whether it is a house, an apartment, a dorm room, or a cardboard box, everyone has some place to go to at the end of the day. This place is familiar. It is reassuring and comforting. This space is so familiar, we often take it for granted.      How aware of your surroundings are you? Can you describe your home in detail to someone who has never been there? Would you be able to tell if something in your home was missing or altered? If you could, how would you react? I want to explore these questions with this project. I want to alter the everyday events that occur in a house in order to make people appreciate and be more aware of what they have. 

I finished filming on the 24th and I just finished editing the videos.

     Peter Burr was born in 1980 in Brooklyn, NY. He specializes in computer animation and creates abstract environments that draw inspiration from the immersive quality of video games. In the past, Burr produced art under the name Hooliganship and created a video label called Cartune Xprez. He has received many grants and awards such as a Guggenheim Fellowship (2018), a Creative Capital Grant (2016), and a Sundance New Frontier Fellowship (2016). He is currently a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for the Arts in Society.      Burr's work Cave Exits premiered at Images Festival in 2015. This work plays on the idea of retro dungeon crawler video games. The viewer is surrounded by four screens with constantly changing abstract images and videos. This is a reference to the procedural generation of the levels of those video games. This work has been shown at Fenway Park in Boston, MA; 3-Legged Dog Art & Technology Center in New York, NY; and The Bank Hil

I'm Bobby Mairone, and I'm a Senior studying Digital Arts. I'm from South Jersey, specifically Linwood, New Jersey, which is 15 minutes from Atlantic City. I like to produce music in my spare time, and I hope to incorporate that somehow into my installations. I didn't know art was something that I could do until I started doing it which is why I'm excited to see what I can create in this class.

I want to tell the story of an average lazy day in a stereotypical dirty, crappy fraternity house with a surreal, caricatured spin. The characters will be searching the fridge for something to eat, playing videos, attempting to do homework, etc. I'll project the videos onto cardboard panels to create a low-budget, poor college student aesthetic.