Lindsey Mc

An epiphany, finally!

I have really been struggling with coming up with a capstone projects. Flimsy ideas have been flying in and out of my head for the past several months but nothing that remotely excited me. But tonight, September 16th, I had an epiphany! I went to see a movie "The Last Kiss" more or less to get my mind off of school work for a while. I had somewhat of a connection with this film, and it is the basis for the inspiration of what I want to pursue as my capstone project.

For a while, I thought I wanted to do a project that would help me in the "real world" as a graphic designer. But the career I want to pursue as a graphic designer does not relate to what I have learned in the New Media program. To be honest, these two paths (my future career path and my journey through New Media) I am keeping separate. For my capstone, I want to create something that pulls together what I have learned in my classes. So enough jibber jabber, I will get to the point:

Being in the design track of New Media, I have taken my fundamental classes with Raphael DiLuzio (204, 206, 304), in 204 and 304, we learned time based design on many levels. I want to take what I learned in these classes to create my capstone. I am not a programmer, web developer, etc. I am an artist; therefore I wish to create a time based piece. This piece will explore the choices a person makes in one's life...the viewer will be immersed into the piece so to interact on a level that is unexpected.

So basically the viewer will be looking at multiple panels (whether they are in a cube or just more than one panel) displaying video. The content of the video will be exploring different "paths" or "choices" people make by exposing the viewer to the lives of others.

I am not sure that this will make complete sense at to others at the moment, but it makes perfect sense in my head at the moment! For now, I plan to research other video installation artists, such as Graham Nicholls and start thinking about filming and editing and other logistics of putting this project together.

posted by LindseyMcMorrow @ 8:00 PM