A Series of Terms: Exercise 2

wiggle gram: Animated images (typically gifs) that simulate a 3D effect by looping a few frames of an object shot from the vantage points of the viewer’s right and left eyes. Due to parallax, the differing wiggle speeds of the objects in the image trick the eyes into perceiving "depth" — for example, objects closer to the viewer wiggle at different speeds and transition different distances than objects farther away from the viewer. (Source)

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I found that this wiggle gram was appealing by the simplicity of the movement and the easy shape of the image. This image was found on Giphy by the artist Cheezburger.

datamoshing: is the practice of intentionally using compression artifacts in digital video and animated GIFs that is sometimes to referred to as “glitch art.” Source

It is intentionally manipulating the image to distort the gif.

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Cinemagraph: Cinemagraphs are still photographs in which a minor and repeated movement occurs. Cinemagraphs, which are published in either animated GIF format or as video, can give the illusion that the viewer is watching a video. (Source)  Cinemagraphs are usually taken to give the impression of real life. Cinemagraphs are usually landscaped images. Visually real and appealing

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stereoscopic photos: is a technique used to enable a three-dimensional effect, adding an illusion of depth to a flat image. Stereopsis, commonly (if imprecisely) known as depth perception, is the visual perception of differential distances among objects in one’s line of sight. (Source)

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autostereogram: A stereogram is a picture within a picture. Hidden inside each image is an object which appears in 3D when viewed correctly. (source)

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stereogram: a diagram or picture representing objects in a way to give the impression of   solidity. (Source)

I chose this image from 3Dimka called environmental Stereogram due to its bright colours and simplicity of shapes. 

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LightBox- Artist Statment

Masks, by Jessica Barch. November 2015

The trigger and starting point for this piece were the articles printed in the 2014 Contact Photo Festival catalogue: Material Self: Performing the Other Within and In Character:
Self-Portrait of the Artist.  Both articles explain how photography is a way to capture the "expanding of identity into the realm of role-playing through self-portraiture"(In Character) and the "social and cultural construction of identity" (Material Self).  When I think of self identity I think of how in social situations we put on a facade that fits that specific situation, and how in each situation that facade changes.  When constructing the image above I wanted to try and capture the idea of picking and putting on a mask and how by picking a specific mask we are choosing how we want to be perceived. 

Functioning as a self portrait I have taken a series of images of different facial expressions and edited them to look like masks. By placing them in the background of the image it works as a wall that represents the facade we put up when we interact in a social situation. The central image has a face in order to emphasize the idea of the constructed identity, public and private personas. By being the central image its focuses on the the real me and the masks I choose to portray on a daily basis.