User:Ducky

Personal FAQ for Developing a Buzz What experience do you have with HTML and the web? I have almost no experience with html and have dreamweaver on my laptop and look forward to being able to wok in this medium.

What experience do you have with programming and what kind? I have no experince with programming that I know about.

What do you know and how interested are you in Free Culture, Open Source, and Programming? I think paying for knowledge and tools for inquiring knowledge, belittles us as cognative beings.

What type of installations / performances have you done? I have done mostly Poetry Slams and open-mics (performing and hosting), I have also done quit a bit of Band related shows. The installations I have done have not been close to the scale I want to work in.

Have you done any public speaking? I Have done some public seminars for youth organizations and politically centered discussions.

What do you want to get out of this class? I want to be able to use all the computer programs I own.

What field trips would you like? I would like to go see alternative companies using these programs. Groups who are trying to rethink and reempliment the tools. Revise the intent of "Media".

What is your website? I have one now the link is: http://cabbage.ucsd.edu/~ducky/

What is your myspace account page? I don't have one.

The Brief Artist Bio Name: Daria A. Shelton

D.O.B. 04/18/87

Birth Place Chicago,IL

Current Res. San Francisco,Ca

Currunt Intent To find a way to centralize all the mediums I work in.

Current School San Francisco Art institute

Full Artist Bio

Back in Chicago, where I'm from, I attended an Arts high school for four years that was centered on Fine Arts and art fundamentals. The school was comprised of seven departments: Music, Media Arts (writing, film, and photography), Dance, Musical Theater, Theater, and Visual Arts (Print making, Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture). I was in the Visual Arts department and spent my days as followed: 8:30 am-1:30 pm I took academic classes, 1:30 pm to-6 pm I was in studio most days of the week. Even though the schedule was intense it kept a focus that I don’t think I would have acquired in any other environment. So while developing my artistic tool box at school I found myself after delving into the underground Poetry and Hip-Hop scene. Working with and for Young Chicago Authors I immersed in both the performing aspects of these art forms but also the business side (organizing artists, scouting and booking venues and artists, fundraising, managing the show, ECT.). It was also during this time I found myself finally interested in computer based music making tools. I had already been working with Adobe’s line of programs and some of the early 3-D programs like Poser Modeling but when I started using Pro-Tools, Cubase and Acid I realized I should rethink my focus and acquire computer based tools for art making. As of now I am in a severe transition in my art from completely tangible media to bits of information strewn across a monitor to be viewed and edited. My hopes and intentions are to simultaneously learn how to use programs such as After effect, Flash, Maya, and simpler things like Adobe Illustrator which I neglected focusing on Photoshop, Premier, image Ready. My work from last semester (my first semester) at the SFAI has been primarily sound pieces and multimedia performance work, none of which I have documented yet. But now that I am developing outlets for my work to be shown I am realizing the potential at more regimented documentation of my work. Through the creation of outlets to viewers beyond the SFAI community, I see myself being prompted to create even more work because I’ll be able to see my work growing in the context of previous pieces like a massive art project onto itself. This is something I feel has been lacking greatly in my art making process, a central venue for my work to exist at all times.

My name is Daria and I'm from Chicago and transplanted to San Francisco. I am trying to be something, what I don't know.

Physical and Metaphysical.

Neutrality.