Endnotes¹


Maya Boateng
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    Untitled
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    3:43 Minutes

    Statement i can't dance, but i've always been a lover of dance films. this piece can be understood as my way of living vicariously through all of the ballet dancers that i so love to watch in an a portable, immersive, mutable medium. none of this is random. everything on the screen is constructed, built, scripted to be there, whether directed by a python algorithm that i've written or based on the analysis data that the spotify api has fed to me. it's a performance. in this world, music and shape and color and light appear to be suspended in space. all digital spaces are connected to physical ones.

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    “I started out when I was in middle school. I was very lonely. So I used Tumblr a lot and HTML themes and stuff like that. That's kind of where I started out doing this.
    “I think it would be nice to be able to work on passion projects and not have it be my job and my livelihood as well.”
    "I have a real appreciation for film as a media forum, especially animated film, film that is constructed a certain way, not just the way that things are, like happening in front of the camera. Now I feel animation, kind of like pervades our lives, but in ways that we don't really even notice, like, things that are technically live action films are really heavily, heavily animated and constructed.”
    “The interdisciplinary approach appeals to me. I wanted to do something that wasn't just like, “Oh, you're looking at something”. I wanted it to be more like an immersive experience, something that connects to different art forms, but like, kind of meld them into like, well, like, where do these things kind of overlap and what types of associations might we have are made based off of like these two things kind of coming together in one specific form?"
    “It’s kind of interesting because both my parents work in tech stuff, but they never pushed me to do coding or anything like that. I think that I ended up finding it on my own, and then continued to do that, in high school, and then came to Yale. Very handy that Yale has the computing and the arts major. Both things make my parents proud by getting a STEM degree but also getting to do art stuff.”
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    Maya Boateng
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    3:43 Minutes

    Statement i can't dance, but i've always been a lover of dance films. this piece can be understood as my way of living vicariously through all of the ballet dancers that i so love to watch in an a portable, immersive, mutable medium. none of this is random. everything on the screen is constructed, built, scripted to be there, whether directed by a python algorithm that i've written or based on the analysis data that the spotify api has fed to me. it's a performance. in this world, music and shape and color and light appear to be suspended in space. all digital spaces are connected to physical ones.

    Student