& now to update the 3 images for Project #2: Technoscape, or, in case of my take on this assignment -- a virtual landscape related to Hopkins Hall, the Art Building at OSU, a place very special to me & one I'd like to share:
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Proposal for Project #2: A Technoscape of Hopkins Hall

By what the artists focus upon and by the ways in which they see and express their vision, artists influence and shape the way we see things, the way we experience both inner and outer reality. The traditional landscape (or seascape or skyscape) is one of the classic forms of artistic expression whether the artist is focusing upon a particular subject within an environment or whether he or she is focusing on the landscape itself. An example here would be that of the Renaissance artist bringing iconographical subjects out of traditional backgrounds and placing them within increasingly realistic and recognizable landscapes. Later artists focused on the landscape itself. The "-scape" became a place in which events happened or a place in and of itself.

All of this has been affected by our changing social and cultural perspectives and by our technological developments. Developments in printing combined with discoveries and advances made in photography, film making, and television have increased not only the availability of images but also the speed with which they are produced, distributed, and received; the influences reverberate within the artistic community and throughout popular culture. And now, with the imaging capabilities of computers, we are beginning to create more than images, we are beginning to create a virtual space in which to experience them. Thus the landscape becomes a technoscape, a virtual environment created by artists and made possible through technology.

As an exploration of this space I plan to utilize photographs I have taken of the interior of Hopkins Hall. When I returned to OSU after years of being away and re-entered Hopkins Hall I once again found great enjoyment in the stained glass blocks placed in the stairways on the north side of the building. I was also amazed at the fact that I had forgotten them, had forgotten their presence and color and reflections and the way that all of that had affected me. Now I have the opportunity to re-enter that space of colored glass blocks and reflected light, to photographically record it, and, through the use of Photo Shop, to express it and transform the images, translate them so that I might share with others the effects of that light & color. At this point I intend to present a series of three works in which I combine, overlay, and transform images to create a technoscape of the interior of Hopkins Hall, a sort of virtual tour through my own perspective and experience of this building. I hope to convey something of the nature of Hopkins Hall, namely that it is a building established for the purpose of creating and sharing art. This may involve the inclusion of some of my own paintings created since I studied here. I also intend, through this, to contribute a viewpoint that will influence, even impact, how other people experience the building. The works will relate to Hopkins Hall as it is as well as create a series of images that will extend it to a virtual place to be enjoyed on its own terms.

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& a quote here from class re. creating a work of art:
"...[you are] building a world that has an inner syntactic logic to it, but you are also building a world for other people to see." (& this provides the opportunity for others to respond)
-- Joshua Penrose, Instructor, Art 350 --
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