Digital Art - senior project - Spring 2024
The Elsewhere Studio, April 19, 2024
About the Exhibit
Gods and Ghosts is an exhibition made up of portraits. The subject’s face in each portrait is abstracted in some way: covered, partially covered, cropped out, or covered in shadow. Each shot is then resized to achieve pixelation and layered over itself repeatedly, to the point where the subject is nearly unrecognizable. This process creates what is essentially a modern-day Rorschach image: ready for value to be placed upon it only from context already inside the viewer’s mind.
In contrast to the glitchy qualities of each portrait is a process based in nature and a subject surrounded by it. Natural backgrounds and outdoor portraits are resized and pixelated in a process inspired by numbers in the Fibonacci Sequence, found in art, music, and nature as the ‘Golden Ratio’. Bringing in numbers from this sequence felt like the most natural progression for Gods and Ghosts to go through, being right on the line between math and science–technology and nature.
In addition to digitally altered image series, Gods and Ghosts also includes an auditory experience. Using the 18Hz infrasound frequency suspected to be behind both hauntings and spiritual awakenings, I put together an ambient sound environment. This ambience adds a level of experimentation to Gods and Ghosts: will viewers take information from the auditory environment and use that as context when interpreting art with minimal understood visual stimuli to draw from?
Gods and Ghosts is an exhibition made up of portraits. The subject’s face in each portrait is abstracted in some way: covered, partially covered, cropped out, or covered in shadow. Each shot is then resized to achieve pixelation and layered over itself repeatedly, to the point where the subject is nearly unrecognizable. This process creates what is essentially a modern-day Rorschach image: ready for value to be placed upon it only from context already inside the viewer’s mind.
In contrast to the glitchy qualities of each portrait is a process based in nature and a subject surrounded by it. Natural backgrounds and outdoor portraits are resized and pixelated in a process inspired by numbers in the Fibonacci Sequence, found in art, music, and nature as the ‘Golden Ratio’. Bringing in numbers from this sequence felt like the most natural progression for Gods and Ghosts to go through, being right on the line between math and science–technology and nature.
In addition to digitally altered image series, Gods and Ghosts also includes an auditory experience. Using the 18Hz infrasound frequency suspected to be behind both hauntings and spiritual awakenings, I put together an ambient sound environment. This ambience adds a level of experimentation to Gods and Ghosts: will viewers take information from the auditory environment and use that as context when interpreting art with minimal understood visual stimuli to draw from?
The Pieces
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Being Green
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Glance
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Ghost
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Hide
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Reflect
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Shadow
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Shy
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Small Wonders
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Smile
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Swamped
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Waterfall
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The Gallery
The Room Preparation
The prep work for this room and exhibit involved taking down some shelves and fixing holes in the walls. That meant patching, mudding, and sanding the walls and finally painting them. The window and door frames required touch-up; fill and retouching paint also. The closet was the perfect setup for the sound part of my exhibit. The shelves required buffering or they rattled. Below are videos from the setup process. A big shout out to my fellow Digital Art student Ayden for his assistance with hanging these larger prints.
The prep work for this room and exhibit involved taking down some shelves and fixing holes in the walls. That meant patching, mudding, and sanding the walls and finally painting them. The window and door frames required touch-up; fill and retouching paint also. The closet was the perfect setup for the sound part of my exhibit. The shelves required buffering or they rattled. Below are videos from the setup process. A big shout out to my fellow Digital Art student Ayden for his assistance with hanging these larger prints.
The Exhibit - Prep work - Walls work, door frame and getting the space ready to go.
The Exhibit - Prep work - Trimming the art work!
The Exhibit - Prep work - Hanging the exhibit!
Snapshot - Cas Bradley
- Coxswain for the Women's Rowing Team D1, all 4 years.
- Editor in Chief of the Hatter Network (Newspaper, Radio Station & Magazine), senior year
- Hatter Network, Volunteer Photographer, 3 years
- Double Major: Digital Arts & Psychology
- Minor: Marketing
- Boathouse Ambassador, 3 years
- J Ollie Edmunds Trustee Scholarship recipient
I leave campus this year knowing I am capable of juggling and managing many things. I have always been a person who does a lot. I am by nature a 'jump-in and go' kind of student. However, the older I get, the more I realize that sometimes you really have to assess how much time you have for all that you commit to. In the process of this spring semester, I realized conducting interviews for the Hatter Network EBoard next year and working with participants for my senior research in the lab involved way more hours than I had anticipated. Mix in all those commitments with my classes and my responsibility to my team, and it was truly a lot. I did it and I am grateful for the amazing people I have worked with and been surround by all year long.
As I write this I see the finish line and the hard work is paying off.
- Thanks for stopping by this page!
Cas
- Coxswain for the Women's Rowing Team D1, all 4 years.
- Editor in Chief of the Hatter Network (Newspaper, Radio Station & Magazine), senior year
- Hatter Network, Volunteer Photographer, 3 years
- Double Major: Digital Arts & Psychology
- Minor: Marketing
- Boathouse Ambassador, 3 years
- J Ollie Edmunds Trustee Scholarship recipient
I leave campus this year knowing I am capable of juggling and managing many things. I have always been a person who does a lot. I am by nature a 'jump-in and go' kind of student. However, the older I get, the more I realize that sometimes you really have to assess how much time you have for all that you commit to. In the process of this spring semester, I realized conducting interviews for the Hatter Network EBoard next year and working with participants for my senior research in the lab involved way more hours than I had anticipated. Mix in all those commitments with my classes and my responsibility to my team, and it was truly a lot. I did it and I am grateful for the amazing people I have worked with and been surround by all year long.
As I write this I see the finish line and the hard work is paying off.
- Thanks for stopping by this page!
Cas
PS. My full resume and personal statement can be found on the ABOUT CAS page.
