Project 5 – Self-Portraiture

Backlit, from the Front

While literally living in my parents basement, my father’s joke that the only light I get is from screens increasingly rings true. Inspired by this joke/complaint, I wanted to document my interaction with devices in a unique way.

LED screens have a uniform white backlight, with a color filter atop to create an image. In this series, I used the LED backlight of my 3 most used devices (Computer monitor, phone, and TV) as the sole source of illumination to capture my likeness while using the device.

 

 

 

Michelle Rogers Pritzl
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Project 4 – Narrative Storytelling

One Hours News

To say that we have collectively developed news exhaustion is something of an understatement. It’s a fire hose of information that is both constantly changing and endlessly repetitive. Inspired vaguely by the style of ‘La Jetée’, I wanted to capture how news consumption is making me feel at this moment. Below is a montage of exactly one hours news consumption, between 12:48 and 1:48 on 04/12.