Performance Art Piece

Title: The Pressure on Women- Unrealistic Beauty Standards
Performer: Tracey Carrasco
Camera Person: Mariette Amici
Extras: University of Tampa student body


A special thanks to My professor of Art and Technology honors, Santiago Echeverry, for assigning the performance art piece. It made me think of an out-of-the-ordinary way to make people think, and not just think, but to think about something that needs awareness. The social issue that I decided was worthy of the assignment was the pressure on women in a mass media society society that advocates unrealistic beauty standards. The overarching insecurity that one will never reach a weight, a height, or a color for example, is pervasive.

Click the link below to view. Thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1LCAeneSoI

Reviewing Pandora

Pandora became as successful as it did because it was clever. They played upon our emotions, as Socrates would say. People like and will constantly use things that make life as easy and convenient as possible. Not only does Pandora do the music research for the listener, it allows you to further customize the playlist at the simple touch of a 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down'. Pandora also makes it easy to discover other music groups or artists you might enjoy by suggesting them on the page. I personally prefer Pandora over any other music app because it's user friendly and because I have discovered a cheat to defeat the pesky commercials. When a commercial comes on, quickly double tap the home button, swipe up on the Pandora page, then reopen the app and your next song should play. Disclaimer: the cheat only works on an iPhone. All in all, it seems to me that Pandora mastered the art of convenience and long term customer relationship strategy.

Flip Book Animation Project

A 500 frame flip book animation on sticky notes.

Title: The Heart Tree
Illustrations by: Tracey Carrasco

The video was presented in class and received an A. It is too large of a file to upload to this website.

Corpse Project

The wine bottles in this project are decontextualized by various objects which symbolize the degeneration and demise of a young woman, or a of an entire young female generation if you choose to interpret that way. The tape measure around the neck of a bottle represents the pressure felt by young women as a result of unrealistic beauty standards set by mass media. The jewels and other female accouterments stand for the struggle and strife to meet a societal standard of beauty. And lastly yet most importantly, alcoholism becomes the young woman's coping mechanism until she consequently meets a bittersweet death. 

Compilation by: Tracey Carrasco 

Grid Art Project

A 900 square unit acrylic representation of a 10x13 ft tapestry.

Title: Emoji 

Painted by: Tracey Carrasco