Title
Power in Numbers
Artist (Student Name)
Sofia Michaels
Instructor
Scott Lang
School
Bergen County Academies
Hackensack, NJ, USA
Artist’s Statement
This poster is a representation of individual agency and collective power in the digital age. Once we plug into an online space, we are able to connect with our community in new ways and collaborate to bring attention to issues we care about and build entire organizations that uplift the arts, such as ACM Siggraph! In my poster, the Siggraph logo is constructed entirely from images of charger blocks being plugged into electrical outlets, which I did to convey how every person’s small contributions to online communities are important building blocks. I imagine each little outlet as one person who helps uplift their community by donating to causes, educating themselves on policy so they can make informed votes, and signing online petitions. Power is in our hands, literally… It is in the devices we hold in our hands, hence the hand in the poster lifting up the wires that trail out from “SIGGRAPH.”
Technical Statement
I created this whole poster on Procreate. First, I took pictures of a few different types of chargers that I plugged into an outlet in my room. I then copied and pasted many rows of the image with the most white space, which I intended to use for the negative background space, and then, with the Siggraph logo overlayed for reference, I pasted the images with bigger chargers plugged in and therefore more black space on top, and I used images with medium black space around the edges of the logo for more variation. From there, I experimented with different ways to make the text stand out, mixing blurriness and sharpness to help it pop. To relate the technological part of the poster to humanity, I added a hand that connected with wires coming from the charging port I used as the “i” in “Siggraph.”