Sydney Keller

Project Overview
Final project

Duration
3 weeks

Solo Project

Introduction
Throughout the course my classmates and I were exposed to many digital artists, one of them was U-ram Choe. I was taken by Choe’s imagination and use of fantasy in his piece Echo Navigo. In this piece he built the most elegant kinetic mechanical fish sculpture and created a profile for it, saying “The Echo Navigo lives near huge antenna in the city, and eats a variety of electric waves. Therefore, these electronic-beings have fins enabling them to fly through the flow of electric waves…These creatures were first found by a telephone engineer, who was trying to find the reason for the echo caused by the creature’s fast flight around radio antennae.”

His project inspired me to want to stretch my imagination and see what worlds I could come up with. Presenting my project as a research study, I created a galaxy and imagined what it might look like using Rhino/Grasshopper, adding a storyline along the way.

References
Choe, U-ram. “U-Ram Choe: Echo Navigo (Adult), (Scientific Name: Anmorome Istiophorus Platypterus Uram) (2004): Available for Sale.” Artsy, 2004. https://www.artsy.net/artwork/u-ram-choe-echo-navigo-adult-scientific-name-anmorome-istiophorus-platypterus-uram.