Liz Tolson

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7 in 7: Day 6: Lips

This idea has be bubbling in my head for sometime now. I gave myself a two hour time constraint, sadly I did not finish the video due to renderings :-C BUT I think i’m off to a good start. In this video I’m exploring more of sex and technology. What it means to be a …

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7 in 7: Day 5: Robot Speakers

When I was at Maker Faire I found these awesome little speakers in one of their trash picking areas. I attached them to an old pair of headphones so I can use the AUX to hook them up to my computer.The body is made from an empty trader joe’s coffee can. My constraint was to …

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7 in 7: Day 4: bliss

I did the time constraint again with this piece, I gave myself 2 hours to complete it. I continued with the them of “purity”, this time exploring more of what it means to be innocent. This video would be displayed on a small monitor placed on a pedestal. Possibly having it be very delicate to …

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7 in 7: Day 3: Wash Away

For this piece I gave myself 2 hours to work on, I also wanted it to be related to the folk song “Down in the River to Pray”.   In some of my past pieces I have explored Appalachian folk music. The song “Down in the River to Pray”, is about washing away your sins. …

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7 in 7: Day 2: You Are Love

My constraint for this project was to finish it before my photoshop demo expired. :-C but my real constraint was to create an interactive piece that would provoke a happy emotion in people.   This piece is a website, “youarelove.com” , when you get to the page it would access the viewers computer camera. From …

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Readings Week Two

Until I now I didn’t realize how important it is to do mock ups of your work. My first realization of this was during bootcamp when I had to build a new website. When building my first artist portfolio I kind of just wingged it and went with the flow. It was so much easier …

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7 in 7: Day 1: Fancy Coffee

I had to pick a disposable object that I use everyday and turn it into something reusable.    

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Reading Week 1

Response To: Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us “It might be argued that the human race would never be foolish enough to hand over all the power to the machines.” After this statement the article goes into saying that we would not willing hand over our freedom or allow an uprise of artificial intelligence. Yet, …

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