ATEC 6389 Week 15 Final Presentation (Vic Simon)

Week 15 Final Presentation

Weeks 15 Blog                                                                 

Task: Present serial-slice (Serial Armature Studies) and pepakura (Planar Armature Studies) of SwappO character

Process: Serial Slice & Pepakura, StoryTelling!

Tools: Blog



One of the big themes of this wonderful survey course into ScottWorld (ATEC 6389) has been "material performativity" and the ProfScott-offered 'MaterialProcessMeaning' (MPM) trinity.

I have struggled (but learned a lot) about Materials & Processes of Digital Fabrication this semester.

I feel more @home with my StoryTeller talent of dealing with "Meaning"!


With those babyArtist insights in mindheart,

my "AlienArtist" character from MidTerm gave way to a better Story ~

SwappO - The shadowZeroMuse !

Every CreATEC shown be familiar with the Nine Muses of Greek Mythology.

What were the names of the Nine Muses?

The Nine Muses were named:

• Clio was the Muse of history
• Thalia was the Muse of comedy
• Erato was the Muse of lyric poetry
• Euterpe was the Muse music, melancholic poetry
• Polyhymnia was the Muse of sacred hymns and agriculture
• Calliope was the Muse of epic poetry
• Terpsichore was the Muse of dance
• Urania was the Muse of astronomy
• Melpomene was the Muse of tragedy

How about the Tenth Muse ~ Sappho?

Sappho (săf`ō), fl. early 6th cent. B.C., greatest of the early Greek lyric poets (Plato calls her "the tenth Muse"), b. Mytilene on Lesbos. Facts about her life are scant. She was an aristocrat, who wrote poetry for her circle of friends, mostly but not exclusively women, and like other poets of her era, she was most likely a musician and a performer. She may have had a daughter. The term lesbian (see homosexuality), her presumed sexual orientation, is derived from the name of her island home, Lesbos. The ancients had seven or nine books of her poetry (the first book originally consisted of 330 Sapphic stanzas; named for her, it consists of three long lines followed by one short line). Only fragments of her verse survive; the longest (seven stanzas) is an invocation to Aphrodite asking her to help the poet in her relation with a beloved woman. The most recently discovered, the five-stanza "Brothers Poem," was found in 2012. She wrote in Aeolic dialect in a great many meters. Her verse is a classic example of the love lyric, and is characterized by her passionate love of women, a love of nature, a direct simplicity, and perfect control of meter. She influenced many later poets, e.g., Catullus, Ovid, and Swinburne. 




I suggest Sappho might have had a ShadowYangBrother, the ZeroMuse, SwapphO !!

SwapphO is the Muse of sucking in 'neg-energy' (FEAR) through his 'black hole'/'pie-hole', transforming it, and transmitting positive creative energy out his dark eyes and gloom black luminous star field skin !!!! 

Kinda like the imagined cosmological cycle of Black Hole / Star 'nursery' model!

Here is the material performativity of SwappO expressed through serial slicing!
(Inspired by the StarField essence of my MidTerm Jungian Quadrivium composition).

SwapphO ~ "StarBoy"!




Here is the material performativity of SwappO expressed through volume pepakura!
(Ugh - A twelve hour 'all-nighter' construction project!)






Deep Gratitude to

ProfScott, Amanda, Denise, Mo, Papa(Spray)Ron! and my newest Hero, Yung'Un Michael Bradley,

for their patience, compassion, and assistance, this semester!

And thanks to all my other fellow DigiFab 'journeyors'!

Blessings & Gratitude,
Old'Un VicTricSter




Onward to SPR2017 !!