Final Projects

For the last couple weeks I shifted my attention to the honors project I'm working on. So far, the concept is evolving steadily, but the actual work could best be described as stop and burst. Some weekends I'll be able to work full time on it and then not be able to touch it for a week. Realities of college life.. and life in general.

This next couple of weeks I'm shifting gears to execute my final project which has an experimental take:

I have come to realize that my work regarding my architectural interests does not make other people really connect to it. As a disclaimer, I do not really wish my art to be generalist. I am looking to make art that speaks to the architectural community, which is small but highly participatory.

That being said, there is no architecture community at the UR. Therefore, I want to adjust my final project to the circumstances and literally engage people who have no second thought on architecture whatsoever.

I designed an experiment that gradually de-familiarizes the most intimate space of a college student--his room/studio.

This will be done by asking them to talk about their room in general terms but under different conditions. First, students will talk about their room inside their room, and will be video recorded. Next, they will talk about their room in reference to a photo of their room I took during our last session. Finally, I will produce a 3D photorealistic render of a perspective of their room and ask them once more to talk about it.

I will record the audio of the last two interviews and present them as audio background to the images I produced, which will loop with the first video.

I want to identify the human aspect of the environment with audio, while the architecture is presented as images. By splitting them up and looking at them through different senses, I hope the viewers of the final show will see the split but also the connections, evident and not evident, that arise between what students say about their room, and the way this room affects their perceptions and perhaps brings them to a new awareness of its architecture.