Reframe explores themes of formation and transformation through video, photography, animation, and performance.

Mid-Pacific School of the Arts presents the first annual Media Arts Festival, which will include student-lead digital imaging workshops; photo and digital art exhibitions; an opening night screening with outdoor A/V projections and performances; and will culminate with a gallery show at Ong King Art Center. Submissions will be accepted from MPI elementary, middle, high school and alumni through February 20, 2012.

Diptychs have a long history dating in popularity back to the ancient world. Today the term can be used figuratively to refer to two thematically-linked works – never actually connected, but in conversation as a pair. Encouraging students to contemplate potential symbolism within a frame, we began to analyze the diptych as a building block to enhanced meaning. By adding another layer of communication/interaction between two images, the viewer is able to make connections. The idea of creating relationships and dialogue between two Images became the focus of this investigation. Images can be linked through similarity and dissimilarity, through visual and architectural tone, subject matter and mood.

Sense is a collaborative art piece that examines the role symbols play in communicating ideas.  Through the depiction of human senses–sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste are depicted through individual prints designed by students in MPSA Digital Media Design.  Students were asked how could they capture the true essence of these Sense(s) with a singular shape.  They began experimenting with geometric and irregular shapes; the literal and conceptual; and finally by exploring ideas behind symbols and icons.

*MPSA Digital Media Certificate Students