Morgan Jones: capstone

Jones, Morgan, artist and filmmaker

Morgan Jones: capstone

dc.contributor.author	Jones, Morgan, artist and filmmaker
dc.date.accessioned	2018-05-08T14:11:48Z
dc.date.available	2018-05-08T14:11:48Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.description	Colorado State University Art and Art History Department capstone project.
dc.description	Capstone contains the artist's statement, a list of works, images of works and videos.
dc.description	Microcosm, Pulse, CLIMB playthrough sample videos have no spoken word.
dc.description	To request a transcript for [REDACTED], please contact library_digitaladmin@mail.colostate.edu or call (970) 491-1844.
dc.description.abstract	The artist's statement: Much of my work deals with the interaction and blending of opposite forms of media and concepts. For instance, a piece may combine digital and physical objects, or natural and mechanical forms. It is the societal and scientific relation of these seemingly opposed terms that interests me most. What makes something "real"? Is it merely your eyes perceiving it, or your hand touching it? Can something natural be made with a machine, or can natural things create a machine? Would something lose its former identity once reshaped into something else? Part of the answers to these questions can be found in biology and physics, where concepts of machines and reality are tested, respectively. Biological systems, such as the organelles in your cells, or the fractal nature of forest systems, display characteristics found in machinery and high-level mathematics. So, can our machinery be considered a natural creation? Quantum physics and the Theory of Relativity are currently two systems of thought which, while both explaining a great many things, are incompatible with one another. So, if both are right, but neither fully, is our reality "true" or only a partial fragment? Can something be interpreted in an infinite amount of ways? The use of time is also essential, not just due to the nature of video or interactive medium but because of its direct ties to how we perceive the flow of time. To take a scene and stretch it beyond our need for its information creates an over-saturation of sameness within the mind, letting the brain remove itself from all surrounding stimulus. This is not unlike concepts found in meditation, where the redundancy of a task or thought leads to a "white noise" of the mind, inner clarity. Conversely, to take a scene and have it speed by causes an assault on the senses, disrupting the natural calm one's mind might have. In this way, time in my work acts in the realm of metaphysics and psychology, where the physical components are in the realm of physics and biology.	en_US
dc.format.extent	2 minutes 48 seconds (Microcosm); 16 minutes 17 seconds (Pulse); 1 minute 58 seconds (CLIMB); 3 minutes 49 seconds ([REDACTED])
dc.format.medium	born digital
dc.format.medium	motion pictures (visual works)
dc.format.medium	digital moving image formats
dc.format.medium	Student works
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10217/187515
dc.language	English	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	Colorado State University. Libraries	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Electronic Art
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dc.subject	electronic art
dc.title	Morgan Jones: capstone	en_US
dc.type	Image
dc.type	MovingImage
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thesis.degree.discipline	Art and Art History
thesis.degree.grantor	Colorado State University
thesis.degree.level	Undergraduate
thesis.degree.name	Capstone