Shengli Wen

I am a multidisciplinary visual artist passionate about design, community care, and environmental stewardship. I recently graduated with a B.S. in Interactive Media Arts from NYU’s Shanghai campus. I’ve worked across film, translation, computational design, movement practices and installation, and my current fixation is risograph printing. 

I am a multidisciplinary visual artist passionate about design, community care, and environmental stewardship.

Print
    1. sounds of september
    2. breathe out, tune in
    3. indigo gift
    4. everyone poops

breathe out, tune in

呼氣 吸氣 (breathe out, tune in) is an exploration of movement and experimental typography, inspired by the moody feeling of late-night drives in suburban California. Made with photoshop and p5.js, printed on risograph. 







Process


The original gif is a background video I took of my friend in Oakland in 2020. The text is generated with WebGL in p5.js, see a similar iteration here.

To prepare the gif for print, I exported the gif layers as files in photoshop and then used the function to generate contact sheets. This step caused me a lot of issues, as the contact sheets would render blank and I couldn’t figure out why. I ended up realizing the contact sheet would only render if the source files were .psd, rather than .jpg.

I then split the contact sheets into separate CMYK channels.  Since my source footage is has lots of yellow and black, I wanted to keep the contrast up – so my final files were 1) cyan and black channels layered on top of each other, which was printed as black, and 2) the yellow channel, which was printed as pink.



 
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