Hello my name is Gin and I am an Interactive Multimedia major at The College of New Jersey. I am a visual and conceptual artist who enjoys working with many mediums such as, water color, coding, digital graphics, photography, and sculpture. I try to create work which fosters a sense of positive energy and expression for the viewer. I especially enjoy using bright colors and repetitive patterns in my pieces to elicit a sense of natural passion and environmental beauty. My art pieces have been featured in MUCY [Micro Museum for Union County Youth], and in the 2017 fall issue of the Lions Eye. During my time at TCNJ I have focused most of my efforts on learning more about the intersections of technology and art. I have learned various coding languages and programs which allow for a dynamic artistic juxtaposition which integrates technology and physical art with one another.
Thesis Project: Little Life
Little life is a project which I could not even have conceived having pursued at the start of my senior year of college. I started off my senior thesis hoping to do something less digital, but gradually moved my focus to what the project has become today. Ultimately this shift has taught me a lot about the way technology helps us achieve our goals and make our dreams a reality. Little life is a visual installation made of pixel art. The idea of the pixel continues an original miniature theme I had for the project at its conception many months ago. Focusing on themes such as nature, mystery, magic, and different viewpoints, Little Life allows the viewer to experience pixel systems in the form of Gifs acting and interacting together to form one whole cohesive world. Although one specific story is not intended to be followed with this piece, I do like to think that the various images are set in the same sleepy town by the Sea and maintain this as their story. Allow the images presented to lull you to a place of your child hood, not so far away from the imagination, with a backdrop of ocean air.