Projects 1 & 2 Digital Landscapes

SPRING 2011

Welcome to our Wichita State University Spring Semester Digital Media Blog.

Our new student blog members are:
Aaron Rivera
Joyce Adcock
Melissa Doll
Lee Jones
Cheryl Lewis &
Jose Alvarado

July Final Friday Exhibition

Hi All-- We will be exhibiting work at the

Donut Whole
1720 E. Douglas, Wichita KS.

Show will open Friday 7/30 @ 7pm.

We will install work Thursday 7/29 @ 2pm.

more info about Donut Whole can be found @
http://www.wichitavortex.com/donutwhole/

Last Project

These images are composed of all the 6 x 6 and 6 x 4.5 negatives I shot last semester in Black and White Studio. They were scanned and then stacked into multiple layers in a single Photoshop file with the opacity of each layer set at anywhere from 5 to 15 percent. A color filled layer was then added to the bottom of the stack. The green image is composed of the negative images reversed into "positive" form while the red/violet image is made up of the negatives without reversal. I added a quote from the T.S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" to the green image. I have always found Eliot's poetry to be sort of dreamy and swimmy (for lack of better terms) as well as a creepy. I thought the quote fit the piece. I feel the green image is more successful than the other, as the negative images produce a much less coherent effect.

Splash Susie and MGMT Concert Jun 2010 videos

Splash Susie Video:
Where do I begin..... Well I love swimming and having fun with my son which he and I like to swim and ride bikes and such, so for me the video represents the bond between my son and I, just enjoying each-others company on a hot summer afternoon. The idea of splashing is me relating back to my childhood and just having a child like sense of adventure. The owl on my foot is also special to me, because it is one that I created myself so the meaning becomes much deeper. I wanted to play with motion and sound because I find it real interesting. The movement of your feet in water is fascinating to me so this video became vividly about my feet. A different way of looking at an image and altering it.

-Susie McHugh





MGMT Concert Jun 2010
This video is about my trip that I took with my boyfriend and good friend Zach. We all share a passion for MGMT and when we heard they were playing in KC,MO we were like " man we got to go see them"! So the video portrays a time line of our experience we had at the concert before while and after. It clips all the important aspects of our trip. I wanted it to be short but great and I really wanted it to include all the different songs MGMT played and my friends having a good time. Which we ended up having a blast so it was well worth it to do this project. And I have always wanted to do a video of a concert I went to because concerts are suppose to be fun and your suppose to get crazy and let loose. So I love the fact that I was able to do this! It was hard but well worth the frustrations. Thank you Lisa for being so open to me doing this video, you rock!

-Susie McHugh

Corporate Heartbeat

Untitled from Chris Yates on Vimeo.

Fifa has imposed a 2 diameter boundary around all the soccer stadiums in South Africa. All of the locals haven't been able to enter these areas and sell local products and cuisine. Many of the people visiting have also complained that they aren't being allowed to see the real South Africa. In this project i made a map of all of the stadiums in the United States and animated them to a rhythm of a heartbeat. This was to show that these corporations have taken ahold of the system that we know and continue to grow.

My Map

My final project this is my human head map I wanted to incorporate human veins and the human system as a map. How the body is set up as a map of information. I used different maps to create this land and water. Just a playful map show relationships of information