Brittany Art and Technology

This is a tribute to travel. When I decided to come to school in Florida, one of the draws of moving from New Hampshire was the amount of time I would get to spend in the airport. Unlike many people, I love airports -- the way they represent a separate world of sorts. Over four years, I have gotten very used to these alternate worlds. I have accrued nearly 60,000 miles on my Southwest account. I have memorized the typical flights from my home airport (BDL) to TPA and everywhere in between. BWI has become as familiar as either of these and I certainly have preferences and biases when it comes to layovers and connecting airports. The trips, though, can become mundane. This is a compilation of a few videos I have taken while flying. The song in the background reverses and speeds up about halfway through, representing the trip home - this flight is consistently faster because of wind patterns. However, it is difficult to tell where the song changes, as these flights can become rout

My flip book, a time-based project, is fittingly based on the concept of impermanence. It walks through the life of a flower, which is cut short by a girl who picks it. The now-dead flower, though, drops a petal that turns into a drop of water and helps five other flowers. Some of them flourish and others do not. Under the same conditions, one breaks, one refuses to grow, and only one reaches its full potential. This project ended up making more of a statement than I'd anticipated. It was supposed to start as a study of a growing flower, something I draw on a regular basis. Eventually, though, I became interested in animating text and the final project ensued. Song featured is "As it Seems" by Lily Kershaw

This assignment was to create a 30x30 grid of...something. I was reminded of a coloring app I have on my phone that does just this - invites the user to color-by-number an image, but a pixelated one. I chose an image of a Coke cup and, for my objects, double-sided tape squares. On one side, I kept the paper on the tape so that I could color each square individually and I cut them apart and stuck them to the poster board. My grid ended up being 35x35 tape squares. This amounts to 1,225 squares total. The overall finished product took about fourteen hours, not including when I cut the poster board too small and had to start over again towards the beginning.

Ascii art is nearly as old as online communities themselves. The most widely known of these types of art are commonly known emoticons [i.e. :-), B-), O.o]. The most complex are difficult to accurately duplicate, but are impressive nevertheless. In their origins, they were often done manually by users but they can, and often are, automatically computer-generated today. Algorithms can use a typical image and generate ascii, or text-based, art as an output.

Growing up, theatre was a large part of my life. It started in middle school when I was in my first musical: The Best Little Theatre in Town . This love of theatre continued into high school, when I saw Wicked during its national tour with my mom and younger sister. This was the first time I'd seen a professional theatre company and I fell in love. For this reason, Wicked  has always been an important show for me. Not only was it the first show I saw in a venue such as this, but the message spoke to me, too. The friendship between Elphaba and Glinda despite their stark differences was inspirational to me as a small-town girl who had always felt a bit left out. As I got more involved in theatre and choral music, other musicals began to be more important to me. One such show was Next to Normal.  I love the tight harmonies, the way the story is told by only four main characters, and the interwoven melodies among different songs. The show flows in a unique way for its time, telling