Digital Language Art

Final Project Link: Eulogy for My Spanish Artist Statement: "Eulogy for My Spanish" is an animated poem that presents itself like an old heart monitor, exploring themes of death and individual loss of language. I was influenced by Young Hae Chang Heavy Industry's work and their use of simple but effective animation for narration and poetry. Like them, I wanted to have a minimalist feel to my work. However, I experimented with more animation on individual words, as well as used heartbeat and heart monitor sound effects instead of music to go along with the theme of death in the poem. I also used a dark background with white font to give it a more foreboding feeling. The poem is meant to reflect the experience of being Latinx-American and dealing with backlash from Americans for speaking Spanish. Documentation: When I first had the idea for the video, I decided to use a poem inspired by another work I had written. Originally, the poem read: You were ever...

I have decided to make the medium more like an old monitor and include beeping or heartbeat sounds like a heart monitor to go with the theme of life/death. I edited my poem because I do not think I would have been able to finish the project if I had not. Thus far I have finished a few sentences. I think I am going to go with less iconicity with the words and their movement and more pick out the words that I think should be stressed more and make them have whatever emotional movement I think it fits the most while adhereing to a sort of wave-like or sporaticness of a heart monitor. Currently I have been working on the computers in the multimedia lab because my computer cannot handle processing the program and cannot Adobe files to video files. So I cannot upload the video or gif or screenshots as of right now, but I will do that once I am able to go back to the multimedia lab. Edit: I have been to the multimedia lab and here is my progress on the animation.