Samuel Aye-Gboyin - Student work

Project - Monument + Sensation

Project Concepts:

With social media and our contemporary news reporting individuals or groups can go viral for a moment and then disappear from notice, what does it take to make a lasting versus fleeting impact?

Consider how art can memorialize individuals/ groups/ moments in history and who decides what is memorialized and in what manner.

What are alternatives to statues and monuments as memorials? Who/what should be memorialized?

The primary means of creation for this project is a rudimentary animation technique: rotoscoping.

Anna M._ Black Swan _2024 _Dig2132C _00:37 sec

Gabriella C._ The Skater _2024 _Dig2132C _00:15 sec

Sarah M._One More Hill to Climb _2024 _Dig2132C _00:17 sec

Macy M._ The Karate Kid _2024 _Dig2132C _00:32 sec

Turner T.._ Swan Song _2024 _Dig2132C _00:21 sec

Rachel F._ Dream job sensation _2024 _Dig2132C _00:10 sec

Jake V._ Renaissance _2024 _Dig2132C _00:11 sec

Jasmine H.._ The Plunge _2024 _Dig2132C _00:11 sec

Project - Tropisms

Project Concepts:

Consider how desire and aversion function on personal, political, and cultural levels in your life.

Think about the differences between the three (personal, political, and cultural) and how they overlap.
For instance, a personal or cultural desire to “be thin” becomes political when we consider where beauty standards originate (ex: BMI was established using the sample data of only white Europeans). Cultural desires of productivity and profit might be supported by political desires but clash with personal desires for rest and sustainability.

When the personal or cultural becomes political - is it possible to trace common desires / aversions back to social constructions, mainstream norms, or human nature?

Project Objectives:

As artists we cultivate image power - for this project we produced a digital composite image exaggerating, challenging, and/or investigating desire and aversion through personal, political, and/or cultural tropes.