

#COLLAGERATOR ONLINE PDF#
you can read the whole paper in pdf (Finnish only).Quickly create collages using your own images. University of Art and Design Helsinki Medialab, Helena Sederholm, Milla Moilanen, Yves BernandĬollagerator is my final thesis work. NOV 2000 and Rencontres Internationales Henri Langlois (RIHL), international festival and competition for film and new media schools, Poitiers, France, 5 - 11 MAR, 2001.ĭesign, image manipulation & coding: Tomi Knuutila ( cv) So far collagerator has been exhibited in continent, Brussels-Helsinki, Belgium-Finland, 8 SEP -, festival in Pärnu, Estonia 24.-25. The Internet address is also written on top of the printed collage. After that the user has the choice to print it, export it to the Internet or go back. Pressing Return or clicking on the collage with a mouse makes the collage.

The current image is chosen randomly out of its image bank. Playing around with the work for a while also produces collage of continuity - or montage of images appearing after each other as in the classic theory by Sergei Eisenstein. Her own opinions, attitudes and experiences affect the way the combined layers produce meaning.

The user takes an active role as she becomes the one making the collage. This new depth allows users to sink in to the work more deeply. Mixing everyday sounds with musical loops, the soundscape is also built as musique-concrete-collages. This would make the work a collaborator (future project).Īudio adds a fourth layer to the collage. New imagebanks can be added to the work easily later, even by other people. The third layer crops or frames the image or adds effects to it, distorting and colorizing it. motives, together with abstract 2-d objects. On top of the first selected image, two layers of commenting imagery can be pasted: on the second layer are mostly line art drawings depicting scientific, biological, anatomical, art historical etc. The first layer of imagery consists of media images from advertisements, tv, fashion magazines, net porn, kitschy postcards, art. Each image-bank has its own charasteristics that are common to all its images. Each letter (a-z) corresponds to a certain image-bank which contains 20-60 images or animations. Choose images with the keyboard to the different layers. (2.3 Mb, printable)Ĭollages can have two or three layers. See the imagebanks and explanations on a pdf document. Collages made in various exhibitions and festivals around the world can be also seen in the Internet at The work plays with high and low culture, combines media imagery with scientific mappings, asks who is the author, flirts with trendy design, wonders about the stereotypical roles of males and females in media, pays respect to, begs, steels and borrows from many sources - offering possibilities for over 25 million collages but still manages to stay coherent. There is also possibility to print the collages from the application. You can make your own collages on the screen out of image material that is carefully chosen for you. Collagerator is a multimedia artwork on a mac/PC hybrid cd-rom.ĭo-It-Yourself-Art! Collagerator blends Art'O'Matically the boundaries of an art piece, a toy, and a multimediainstrument.
