Project 3

For my Pepakura object, I scanned my boot using iSense and then reduced the polygon count in Maya. I use booleans to cut the shape of the sole of the boot out. I made my boot 35 inches tall with white paper.

Images of Pepakura boot:

Images of Maya file before reducing (reduced file was corrupted):

Lecture by Mwangi Hutter

Lecture One:

            For one of my lectures, I went to the lecture by Mwangi Hutter on April 26 at the Scugham Engineering and Mining building. Mwangi Hutter is the name of an artist couple from Africa with one artistic personality. In their work, they like to touch upon ideas of interconnectivity between people with an idea of a “social body, working together and continentally” (Mwangi Hutter). This idea is also shared in the way the couple have joined their identity to form Mwangi Hutter.

            During the lecture, she (husband wasn’t there) talked about their work, showing several images and brief videos of some of their work. One incuded was a series of images called “Burning Desire to be Touched”. The artist pair work with a variety of media from paint to video. They use sound in most of their works, which is made using the voice of the wife. She also touched upon an art exhibit they are currently working on called “Not a Single Story” that is made in a field in Africa using metal boxes, rope and sound. Overall they have over 300 works collectively.

            I found their work interesting, though I did not particularly like all of their works that they displayed at the lecture.

Project 2: 40 Years in the Future

This project goal was to show us 40 years in the future. I imagined a post-apocalyptic western themed future.

Overconsumption and bad environmental practices have made human survival on the planet hard. In 2026, a lab specializing in genetic manipulation had a containment breach and a viral agent that accelerates genetic evolution is released into the environment. This agent started to effect animal and plant life around the world, forcing evolutionary change in unpredictable ways. The environment changed and dangerous toxic storms now ravaged the land. Remaining humans now live in small atmospheric and environmental habitats of varying design. Outside of these habitats are the Wildlands, where dangerous mutated life is prevalent and the environment is mostly toxic to past natural life, but survivable if an individual is adaptable and hardy. The year is 2058, I am an outcast, named for those choosing to live outside the protective habitats, transporting materials and other commodities between the habitat settlements, surviving in this harsh world by scavenging old world resources and avoiding the dangerous creatures.

To survive the Wildlands, I use my wits and wear a scavenged gas mask from old environments suit that helps me survive this trying future. I dream of the day where I find or afford a cutting edge environmental armor suit from the early days of the catastrophe.

Project 2: Proposal

Idea 1: The year is 2058, overpopulation and overconsumption has brought the world to its knees. It is hard to get food and it is being rationed. I work the land with others trying to make fertile land for farming. I am leaving the rationing building with my shovel from a day of work and food for my family.

Idea 2: Overconsumption and bad environmental practices have made human survival on the planet hard. In 2026, a lab specializing in genetic manipulation has a containment breach and a viral agent that accelerates genetic evolution is released into the environment. This agent started to effect animal and plant life around the world cause evolutionary change in unpredictable ways. The environment changed and became toxic to us. Remaining humans now live in small atmospheric and environmental habitats of varying design. Outside of these habitats are the Wildlands, where dangerous mutated life is prevalent and the environment is mostly toxic to past natural life, but survivable if an individual is adaptable and hardy. The year is 2058, I am a caravaner transporting materials and other commodities between the habitat settlements, surviving in this harsh world by scavenging old world resources and avoiding these creatures.

I wear a scavenged and modified environments armor suit that help me survive in the Wildlands.

The theme would be a western post apocalyptic.

Project 1 Assemblage

This assemblage represents the idea of how first world countries like the US send their waste to third world countries; meanwhile, claiming that they are causing less environmental harm when in reality they are sending their waste elsewhere and still causing the same degree of harm. This tries to bring this reality to the forefront and shows how there are two different paths before us: change our methods and save the environment or continue along the same path and eventually suffer the outcome. You can interpret this work in several ways. To do this assignment we took 3D models from the internet and then combined them to form an image or assemblage in Maya.