Art-75 artwork

Field Trip

Assignment

I made a vlog that follows my real route: I started at home, filmed around the city, then went to ICA San José for Data Trust. I wrote about what I took away from the trip and what AI means to me in art and video.

Artwork statement

Field Trip opens where I live, then moves with me through San José before I walk into the museum. I wanted the day to feel like one continuous thread, not only the gallery walls. Inside ICA I kept the edit light so my eye and pacing stay in front. Filming pushed me to slow down and notice small things: the street, the room, sound, what pulls me in. When I think about AI in my work, I care most about trust, how images get made, and who gets to shape the story. This piece is how I let those thoughts show up in something people can watch, not just read.

Midterm

Assignment

For my Art 75 midterm I made a video between 30 seconds and 2 minutes long. The brief asked us to use at least two tools or techniques from class, with room to draw on ideas like the Kuleshov effect, After Effects, Soviet-style editing, deep listening, and other methods we had studied. I decided to approach mine as a musical edit, where sound design and rhythm drive the structure.

Artwork statement

I was really stressed going into the midterm, and instead of hiding that, I decided to put those exact feelings into the video. Midterm became a musical edit where pressure, overload, and nerves come through the relationship between image cuts, sound layers, and beat. That choice felt more true to me than pretending I was calm.

Sound

Assignment

For Sound I went out, listened to my surroundings, and recorded short moments when noise pulled my attention: traffic, people, wind, birds, water, anything clearly making sound. The goal was to build a montage from that footage and treat the track as a composition, like a tiny music video or sound documentary of a walk.

Artwork statement

I edited the clips so rhythm comes first: hits in the environment become percussion, longer textures become pads, and cuts follow what I heard as much as what I saw. Sound is a musical edit where audio leads the structure and the picture follows. I wanted viewers to feel the walk as a sequence of listening, not only looking.

Technology Paradox

Assignment

For this Art 75 project I made a video about the technology paradox: how the same tools that connect us, speed us up, or promise ease can also isolate us, overwhelm us, or change how we see ourselves. The piece was my response to that idea in moving image, using what we practiced in class around editing, sound, and rhythm.

Artwork statement

With Technology Paradox I wanted the cut to feel a little uneven on purpose, like attention getting pulled in two directions at once. I used contrast between calm and noisy moments, and between screen life and real space, to show how tech can feel like a gift and a weight in the same week. If the viewer finishes the piece a little unsure whether to laugh or sigh, that is close to what I feel about the subject too.