While on Eyebeam.org, I found a working project that is most interesting. Aaron Meyers and Kyle McDonald create this particular project during October of this year. Meyers and McDonald are other wise unknown and there was not much information to be found. The work of art is called “People.Points” and is a real time 3D scanning installation. “People.Points” uses a technique called structured light to transform a live webcam feed into an animated, morphing and transforming 3D point cloud. This technique called structured light is the process of projecting a known pattern of pixels on to a scene. The way that these images deform when striking surfaces allows vision systems to calculate the depth and surface information of the objects in the scene, such as used in structured light 3D scanners. Meyer and McDonald but also a number of police forces use structured light for the purpose of photographing fingerprints in a 3D scene. In other words, the camera is used to digitally flatten out a fingerprint, rather than having to use tape. Meyer and McDonald are using this technology as an installation idea, taking a person’s features and digitally making them flat. I found this to be a very interesting project however once I started reading into it I noticed it seemed a bit unguided. There doesn’t seem to be a purpose other than to view the human body in a digitally flattened manor. However, there are many pieces of art that seem to not have a purpose or reason for being created but that does not make them art. I enjoyed reading about this art project even though its purpose seemed a tad lost.

Self-Portrait

Alberto Seveso is a graphic designer and illustrator born in Milan in 1976. Along with graphic design, he also dabbles in freelancing, private art commissions, and long-term contracts. He lived in Italy for more than twenty years, until he moved to Rome where he currently works as a freelance illustrator. Seveso never studied or took any classes for graphic design, his passion for graphics started around fifteen years ago when he started self-teaching.

Alberto Seveso’s digital illustrations often feature human forms made up of a layered technique creating a 3D look. Seveso takes the original photos of the people and faces and changes them somewhat, most of the people are still recognizable once the digital piece is complete. From piece to piece he is constantly playing with ideas on what to show and what to hide, involving both the original photo and the background.

After looking at his different techniques and works of art I have really come to like his style. I was already interested in the “patched” look; however, he takes it to a whole new level, by keeping significant parts of the original photo in the digitally created image. The images shown here are examples of Alberto Seveso’s work the first is called “The Three Graces” and the second is an ad created for Google. These are my two favorite pieces that Seveso has done so far but I keep discovering more and more of his work that I like so it’s hard to tell.

http://www.burdu976.com/

http://veerle-v2.duoh.com/art/comments/alberto_seveso/

http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/web/110-artworks-from-the-top-20-digital-artists-in-europe/