My name is Max Levine. I am a 3rd year student working on my BS/MS in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB). My major is very interdisciplinary so I work on many different types of projects from biology to math to computer science.
I haven’t worked on much art making out of art classes because I’m not a very good at drawing and have trouble finding time to work with more elaborate media. However, I really enjoy more digital forms of art and find working on computer modeling relaxing. I have worked with many different modeling/animations software including Cinema4D, Maya, 3dsMax, and Zbrush. Below is a model of my hand that I made.
I have worked with many programming languages for my major such as Java, Python, Matlab, and R. However I have not worked with programming electronics, although I would like to. My experience with electronics is small, I have only done soldering of simple circuits and putting light strips in my room.
The types of art that I enjoy most are fun and visually stimulating. Light art falls right into this category. I am also a big fan of interactive/changing art which tempts you stay and enjoy for a little bit of time. I find most of this art on the internet which is also where I draw much of my inspiration.
A recent project that I am proud of is the 3D modeling project that I worked on for an art class last year. I made a buff humanoid chameleon. It was a lot of fun to make the model, texture it, paint it, add clothing, and finally pose it.
In this class I would like to make something that is whimsical and fun. I hope I can add element of interactivity so that it isn’t just a static piece.