Art with Computers

3D Render of "A Cog in the Body", captured in Autodesk Maya.

A layman misconception in outside circles about art is that every piece has to be some kind of painting or sculpture. But what about the digital realm? If we stretch the definition of art, then nearly everything can be a work of art! This section covers previous works made with the aid of a computer, and devices that could be connected to one.

3D Resin Printing

3D Model of "A Cog in the Body" sculpted in Autodesk Maya.

Simulated final product of "A Cog in the Body"

"A Cog in the Body", 3 x 1-1/2 x 1/4", resin with oil acrylic coat

This small pendant was printed in a 3D Resin printer which took roughly three hours to print and cure. It was made using the 3D Resin Printers inside UNT's CVAD Fabrication Lab. In hindsight I should have used colored ink pens with fine tips rather than a brush and acrylic for fine details. At the time, I was fascinated with the Steampunk aesthetic for video games that use such a setting. One such game is "They Are Billions" which is a real-time strategy, zombie survival game featuring an in-depth campaign and an adjustable free-play mode.

Laser-Cut Sculpture

"Network", 8 x 7 x 9", matte acrylic laser-cut

"Network" is a sculpture made by using a laser-cutter in the UNT CVAD Fabrication Lab with two 10 x 10" matte acrylic plates, which would slot in perpendicular to each other creating a free-standing mock-up of a bust. The assignment behind this project is to create a "self-portrait" of yourself in the loosest definition of the term in a sculpture format using digital fabrication methods. I designed this abstract sculpture to mimic the human neural system in the head with nodes, circuits, and computer components typically found on motherboards as built-in or attachments mimicking roughly contemporary parts of the brain that governs our senses, memory, processing, and other functions. After all the human brain is essentially a marvelous computer, and the nerves and nodes are our circuits to our bodies.

Photographs

"Hiki Komori" Photograph #1, DSLR Manual F-stop 3.5, February 21, 2021

"Hiki Komori" Photograph #2, DSLR Manual F-stop 3.5, February 21, 2021

"Hiki Homori" which is translated in English as "Shut-in" are a series of photographs taken for my photography class. This was a point in my life that was. . . "less-than-stellar", and the state of my room reflected that. I wanted capture the stereotype of a shut-in that had given up on the world which was an alarmingly growing trend in Japan at the time these shots were taken. I used a Nikon DSLR camera shot at manual setting, and the F-stop was set to 3.5.