
This semester, I took the Advanced Drawing class in the Landscape Architecture department at the Harvard Graduate School of Design taught by Anne McGhee.Today was the review and I presented my assignments, class exercices and my final project in front of a jury including oil painting artist Marian Dioguardi, visual historian Camila Chaves Cortes, architect Katherine G. Stifel and professors from the Design School. The general comment is that I can take anything banal and make it beautiful, expressive and attractive… What a compliment! But does it mean I don’t master the technical skill to reproduce reality? Well I am still working on it…
What a surprise when, after reviewing my work, the artist Marian Dioguardi asked me to buy one of my hetching, an exercice on Piranesi.
More pictures of my drawing are coming soon …
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This community of artist-researchers is amazing! After Portait of Cati by Stefan Agamanolis, my friend Orit Zuckerman made Portrait of Cati II to differenciate her art work from Stefan’s. I helped her in being the same person in both installations, but in hers I pretend to be a femme fatale (which I cannot be) and myself (which is easier).
Her idea is that if the viewer is male, he would see in me the femme fatale, and if the viewer is a female, she would see the real Cati. She uses her photographic skills and by only using a web cam and a set of dramatic lights she succeeds in rendering this portrait.
Portrait of Cati II is a portrait that reacts with a different aspect of Cati’s personality if the viewer is a man or a woman. She is more of a representation of a woman for men and more intimate and natural for women. When a viewer stands and looks at the portrait the system will detect if it is a man or a woman and trigger the right gesture.
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I have just been notified of my award in the form of a John F. Kennedy Irish grant 2005-2006 for my studies in architecture and product design at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design.A little history on my three years of research in Ireland …
From 2002-2004 I worked at the Media Lab Europe, the European Research Partner of the MIT Media Lab . In 2005, I joined Crite a research group from the department of computer science at Trinity College University in Ireland. I was also technology director for a robot exhibition at the Ark, a cultural center for children.

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This semester, I took the Harvard Animation class, a VES course at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, taught by Ruth Lingford.
After a series of exercices, I decided for my final animation, une histoire pour voir, to use sand as main medium. Even though I find sand much harder to animate than pencil drawing animation, I find it much easier to express with.Screenshots from my animation



Watch the animation here (38 mb)
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