3-D, the depthies, and a new direction

Hi All,

Over the Christmas period I began to rethink my project, the gloomy winter months had an effect on me and as a result I felt my ideas, directions and inspirations had begun to stagnate. Key to this realisation was completing my Presentation Commentary, this evaluation helped me realise that I had become too bogged down in theory. I felt my presentation wasn’t as clear as it could be, so I just wanted to share with you, and clarify, my intensions and new directions of experimentation.

In brief:

My project intends to look at contemporary life; analyzing key cultural products and their use and affectations and application as well the social idiosyncratic behavior that surrounds any cultural occurrence. From here I would then like to conceptualize an image of the future based on these actions, objects and ideologies. The project is basically an evaluation of the present day, and an investigation into the validity and relevance of our actions and investments.

My perspective is based on the theories of Situationism, and the idea of the Society of the Spectacle; the idea that contemporary society is little more than a shallow and continuously recycled version of itself and whose true meaning and direction has been lost in the complex semiology of contemporary culture and social values driven by Capitalist ideology and particularly it’s attitudes and inclinations of consumerism. The question is what type of world has this created and where will it lead?

I cringe myself at the adolescent angsty overtones this project implies, but hey, what can I do – I believe in it.

Diego Rivera’s work is still an influence, but perhaps as just a visual inspiration. I have recently been looking into 3-D stereo photography and the creation of anaglyphs. I am really excited about this direction, it allows me to hark back to the mid-1950s, the era of the consumerism boom, and all the while play with ideas of hyper-realities and the notions that something so heavily constructed can more accurately represent something that actually exists. The idea that 3-D adds more depth and reality to a fake image seems to link well with Situationist theory.

If your at all interested in how to make 3-D images check out this site.

http://www.the3drevolution.com/

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, joe

better later than never

Hey all below is something i attempted to post in the first few weeks but was unable to do because, as it happens I appear to be technically retarded. I figured that although somewhat behind the flow of everyone elses discussion I’d stick it up here just to add something for now:

 I am continuing with further post-graduate studies to improve my skills base in a range of area, but also because I love being a part of educational institutions, because of the constantly new experiences and knowledge that surrounds the individual.

 I am chiefly interested in social and cultural theory because it is the what, where, when and why of our existance, it is our past, our present and our future. I think another thing I love about theory is that it is always opinion based and thusly, up for debate. Peoples opinions on people, places and things within social and cultural theory also lend to our understand ing and interpritation. It is for these reason I love all forms of culture and the social groups, organizations  and ideologies from which they grow.

 

For my project I am looking into Mexican Muralist such as Diego Rivera and the ideals surrounding this type of public domain art. It is rapidly changing my opinion on the role of art and media, and where and how we view cultural products. From this new learning together with old research into Situationism (specifically notions of the society of the spectacle) I hope to create a picture of contemporary life, perhaps post-modern. This work intends to acertain where we have been, what we are doing, and what the future holds for a spieces ever moving  forward…..well ever moving somewhere and thats my point. Are we moving forward, are we progressing, is there any real point or merit to the activities and goals we set for ourselves and occupy our time with.

Inspirations

Bill Hicks, Twain, Diego Rivera, Marx, Lefebre, Debord, Futurism, Dada, Situationism, Post-modernism, etc.

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, joe

Cosmopolitan Lovescape

I’m researching and experimentalising with how people feel different emotions in travelling places, especially hotels.

When I stay in travelling places I get completely different emotion and feeling with other places. Consolation, sadness, and emptiness…these words are come in to my mind when I stay in the places. Oddly, people are in same space, but they have got absolutely no connectivity. They only want to use the space for their need and leave quickly. 

“When we’re feeling sad and bored at home, one of the better places to head to is the airport. Not in order to fly – there’s no quicker way to hate an airport than to have to use it, but, rather, to admire it.” – Alain de Botton

My work involves video, film, drawing, photography and installation. And my main medium is video.  Nowadays I’ve been looking at John Smith and Chris Marker’s video works.

La Jetee by Chris Marker at Youtube

You can see my profile and previous interactive works on the web.
   

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, video, zi

spoof video

My project is using film clips to create a new film, the film clips will be collected in a wide range which include the films in different cultures and in different ares, so it will be a film combines modern and past, east and west. I always think this work will not be created in a serious way, I want it to be interesting and funny and entertaining enough.

Something inspires me recently is that spoof and spoof culture have been very popular on the internet, the object could be from video to text, from network to television, from classical masterpiece to heroic figure.there are various ways that people spoof things, for example, the classical dialogue in the film is dubed with varied accents, people using real film clips to create mocking send ups. some of them is the irony of the hypocrisy, some of them is the subversion of the authority,but most of them is just for fun. It’s quite controversial that people keep different point of views to the spoof works,but for me thay are just jokes, It’s a way for people to play out their own imagination and ideas. and I think it could work on my project, I will find the links between the different clips ,combine them in sequence to form a logical ,smoothly running story. the contrast of different culture and different time between the connected clips could produce a lot of fun.

The images I link are some visual works and fashion illustrations I did last year.

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‘Pilgrim’

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, sousan

Concept For Project One (e-tivity 01)

Yes, my Project One is very pretentious… but its a challenge!!!

Practices Of Man & Media Superposition’s Part One:
A Film/Video Superposition
Quantum superposition is about the chance of what shall happen in a situation, yet it is unknown to us until the conclusion is placed before us. There is a math behind it. Removing ourselves from the maths of the quantum superposition we are left with ‘reality’ of it. Thus when this position is imposed, or forced upon us it becomes unknown. We have not recognized the situation we where in until it has passed. Or we are too involved in the moment to find out a conclusion, or we are too busy partaking in the moment within a choice to resolve a final conclusion. The conclusion is never known until it has happened. If a moment was to be created without a final conclusion, a fifty/fifty percent chance of resolution, what metaphysical and existential questions are we left with within our own existence?
In order to display this function on a mass level one must display its usability within a public domain, for example a scientific exhibition using the quantum superposition within quantum theory, but in this case a work of art.

‘Practices Of Man & Media Superposition Part One’ shall come under the medium of film and video. Covering simple metaphysical, and existential questions of what is ‘being alive’, or ‘how one is alive’ and ‘what is it to die?’ Simple questions, but with immensely complicated, and still unknown, answers. Also the major aspect of ‘what is the effect of man – media immersion?’ shall occur, as an analysis of how one is within a superposition – media connection.
The reason behind this is within the fiction of the video artwork itself – a superposition of being alive and dead coherently.

A filmed subject person shall be projected upon a wall, inside a darkened room, which in turn shall be recorded with a video camera. He or she, appearing in the projection, just head and shoulders, shall be the Reactionary. The reason the Reactionary shall appear with just head and shoulders is to guaranty the audience viewing the work realize this subject is within a media form. Whilst this projection upon the wall is being filmed the same subject person shall be interacting with the projection of themselves in the same room. The subject person outside of the projection, although the same person within the projection, shall be called the Initiator. This interaction will be in the form of a violent montage upon the Reactionary, by the Initiator, pushing the Initiator into the act of murder upon the projected film of the Reactionary. Although this work shall be a gruesome experience for a viewer, the content is not as extreme as one may think. Remember both characters within the work are the same person/actor. This, within a fictional content, induces the audiences into a question of who his dead?

The subject person, both Reactionary and Initiator are converged onto the same person, making the subject within the film alive and dead at the same time when the conclusion is delivered. This manufactures the audience into a superposition quandary, which in theory shall continue till the inevitable conclusion of the audience leaving their view of the work or, in the grand scale, to the end of their lives. The end of the work constitutes each viewer to the point of never knowing the conclusion of the fiction. Thus forever living in a superposition of this subject person being, in the fictional piece, alive or dead. The conclusion could only be one or the other, making it both at the same time, but only within the film.

Here is an example of the Quantum Superposition

McEvoy, J. P. & Zarate O., (1999). Introducing Quantum Theory. Cambridge, UK: Icon Books Ltd (p.146-q47).

McEvoy, J. P. & Zarate O., (1999). Introducing Quantum Theory. Cambridge, UK: Icon Books Ltd (p.106).

If anyone has any thoughts on this let me know, because I always seem to miss out an important factor somewhere.

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, fergie

experimenting with abstraction on film narrative in real space and real time

The aim of this project is experimenting with abstraction on Film narrative in Real space and Real time, as well as, experimenting with film techniques.  The final project to be exhibited in a public domain will be A video installation deconstructing, therefore abstracting, the timeline of a storyline to be developed during the first term of the course, creating a narrative journey through Real Space and Real Time.

It seems to me that the best definition of time I have ever heard is the one coined by Nietzsche, who stated that “time is the difference between the after and the before”. Therefore, the audience at their own pace, at their own timing, by walking through the space, from one projection to another, contrasting the sequences and sewing all the clues given, such as characters, actions, objects, colours and textures, will actively construct and create the narrative thread of the film, which is open to free interpretation depending on the set of connotations underlying the images.

The project will be shot on 16mm and DV which will allow me to develop a more personal methodology and style handling and processing film stock, exploring and learning new lab hand processing techniques.

At the moment I have been exploring the phenomenon of interpretation through the exercise of “Exquisite Corpses”, a very playful approach, in which with the collaboration of a group of friends, we have created at random collages out of cut-outs of magazines, to contrast afterwards the several interpretations that have arisen out of them, depending on the experience and backgrounds of the different participants of the game. Also, I am entangled between the lines of Rudolph Arheim’s “Visual Thinking”, as well as, “Music, Text and Music” by Roland Barthes.

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, iceberg

e-tivity01-continuation

Hi again, I really enjoyed our meeting and having the opportunity to go over some of the editing possibilities available when you write a post using firefox as your browser. You may download it from here, both for mac and pc

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

So now that you are familiar with the way one can link to images and to text, i leave you here e-tivity 01 again.

purpose: to finalise your introductions to this blog, by adding images and links to your work.

task: search your images repository (in a folder in your computer’s hard drive) and/ or the internet for images that represent your work and follow the instructions in this tutorial to add them to your post.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/26911/wordpress_adding_images_to_your_post.html

If you haven’t introduced yourself yet, this is the time to do it, both through text and images. Please revisit e-tivity 01 for the full brief.

Use the categories:  e-tivity01 + your first name (noncapitalised)

respond: In this blog, follow your classmates posts and choose one to leave a comment about what they said. Be constructive and leave some proactive feedback about what has been said , discussing any similarities or differences between your practices.

Timeline:
Friday, October 27th (task),
Tuesday, October 30th (respond).

Filed under: blogging, e-tivity 01-07/08, paula

e-tivity01

practice and project e-tivity01

My concept is based on memories that are absorbed by places and space over time. The timeline can be finite or infinite and the process involves the dissemination of the history of the site and its people and the relationship to the present. Although site specific I am currently looking at three strands and that choice will define the audience. My previous work has informed my choice of media which will be photographic and digital video based. one work was based on decision making and dream sequences using CGI animation of stills and projected onto the ceiling, the second investigated the excavation of memory over time and was a newsreel narrated timeline projected onto a floor installation (attached images). My current challenge is learning and experimenting with technology, Final cut and Motion and Mac, a huge learning curve that ensures I control the creati

ve direction. Also an evaluation of possible sites. Finally, I love new technology and processes, hate blogging ( I have a view) so this is a huge challenge. glenda e-tivity01

Hi I have finally set up my new Mac so now hopefully able to do the e-tivities

This is an addendum to my post in which I would like to download an image from the work of an artist and film maker that I am currently researching who is very relevant to my project, her name is Tacita Dean and her work looks for conections between past and present, fact and fiction. She also looks at connections between our private worlds and the objective word. This is a theme I have worked on in my own work when excavating found objects in my cellar.

 

this is the link, I hope it works. yes yes, finall, this is a still from her latest exhibition Wandermude.

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, glenda

Donald Judd

An artist i have been researching for my project is Donald Judd. I have found similarities in his attitudes to space to my own. Whereas my focus is the interaction between art and design through space and surface he was concerned with how art and space interact as a part of his practice.

Photo from his New York Gallery www.pacewildenstein.com

Filed under: anna, artist of note, e-tivity 01-07/08

Art is Healing made Visible

Hi fellow artists

I have just discovered that my previous introduction doesn’t appear to have loaded. Sigh! and I think it was a lot simpler – sorry folks.

Art has been a powerful ally and tool for self reflection throughout much of my adult life. At times it has taken me into another space where I felt galvanised by life. The process of creation has appeared to me to have been truly magical and a blessing. I have been able to reach out and invite something new and wondrous into the piece – something bigger and more life affirming than me. The same with music – through singing or drumming with others I can access and receive life in exciting, beautiful formations. For me, making art must be about my own journey of healing – moving in a process of transformation from powerlessness and fear to love and wholeness. Moving away from ‘not being good enough’ to ‘being’ and accepting the grace of life as it is in this moment. Along that creative journey I hope to share with and inspire others to a more expansive, loving and potent vision of themselves.

Thus it is that I have chosen the theme of Mandala or sacred circles as my focus and catalyst for my art over the next two years. A Mandala is seen as a vehicle and map for the unification and healing of consciousness, used historically as a spiritual teaching tool for realising a sacred space and guiding meditation. I aim to explore some of the ways that the rhythmic and patterned use of colour, sound and form can have to transport us. Historically it has been used for thousands of years in many cultures across the world

To date I have created a number of mandalas using digital montage and painted two large mandalas with enamel paints on the bonnets of my two art cars. Creating them I experienced something intensely ancient and yet new – of this time with contemporary materials. This is why I am interested in experimenting with ways of bringing the sacred circle / mandala into a contemporary context. I plan to explore video, some form of digital animation and sound as additional methods in my practice. I am also interested in researching mechanical mechanisms and motors for the rotation of pieces and attempting some form of sculptural or installation work. I would also love to incorporate two further passions of mine – dancing and music making – particularly singing and drumming. At this point my head is bursting with ideas and I feel both very inspired and overwhelmed by my research on this theme so far. I had originally intended that my project use as a framework, the system of the chakras or energy centres of the body. This is a map of the movement of consciousness developed in India over two thousand years ago. I have been working with it, teaching Chakra Yoga and developing a new dance practise, Chakra Dance for the past seven years. So I would like to address some aspect relating to wealth, sexuality, power, love, creatvity, purpose and spirit.

I also work with NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and hypnotherapy and I have no doubt that these disciplines will influence my art. Guess what I am seeing mandalas and circles everywhere I look …….

Blessings esther

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, esther

Jim-open spaces open places

Here is the url for Open Spaces Open Places in Northampton.

And here is the full website for osop.

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, jim

jim

o.s.o.p.
http://www.osop.org/osop06/index.html

I forgot before!

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, jim

jim biddulph

I’m Jim Biddulph.
My Practice is involved in researching and questioning the relationship between time, space and memory through the lens and time based media of video, film and photography. I am interested in the reationship between concept and medium and the notion of editing and selecting sections of time which mirrors the act of sculpting. Most recently I have been looking at communication and conversation and I am concerned with the space between us as humans. My work usually involves installation, multi screens and sometimes site-specifity. During project 1 I hope to experiment further with these mediums and explore sound further in the next few weeks.

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, jim

Project proposal

My project centres on the notion of word manipulation. I have been concentrating on embedding words, sentences and paragraphs that are evocative, philosophical or political, into word puzzles. I’m attempting to get into the mind of the audience. You might be seeing the word ‘youth’ but in fact it is part of a sentence pertaining to truth or lies. Indulging in word puzzles is an activity we choose to conduct while we are at rest, whiling away the time until a doctor’s appointment or as a distraction on a long journey. Advertising Corporations, especially in the USA have been using subliminal messages in tv ads for decades, it is illegal in the UK. In the 2000 presidential elections in the US the Republican National Committee flashed the word ‘RATS’ over Democratic candidtates Al Gore’s prescription drug proposal, being aired on tv. Bush denied any wrong doing. Did it work in persuading some voters to vote Republican?

Anyway the project is still in it embryonic phase. Check out my attachment.
belief.doc

My initial title is ‘Disturbing the Peace’ but I’m sure this might change.

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, sousan

Isabella Hargrave

My project proposal revolves around the idea of an archaeological dig in reverse, where artifacts or fragments of artifacts are made and buried, recovered and displayed. This has arisen out of my interest in object and narrative and the links between us and the past -the time line that preoccupies us so much; acting as reaffirmation, as validation, that in turn makes us more secure in our future? The project aims to generate dialogue and narrative around objects/artifacts created/found. The objects created will focus on a common thread of things often found in digs. For example, tools, pots, seeds, jewellery, shoes, figures, as well as things important in my perception of the world for example, button boxes, typed letters, fragments of precious and beautiful things – leading to speculation, the food of narrative.

In my research thus far I have looked at the role of the museum/gallery and the role of the curator and the changes there have been. There is still a strong sense of time and history within these roles and the object still has a significance that seems strangely important to the individual whatever the interpretation accompanying it. Nostalgia and memory as a measure of understanding? a forming of identity? So far my research is raising more questions than it is answering and providing even more avenues to explore. At the moment I am engrossed in Susan Stewart’s wonderful book, ”On Longing” which explores narrative and its role in perceptions.

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, isabella

First

I am a painter but to make ends meet work in architecture. I came to painting while earning my Bachelor of Architecture graduating in the class of 1997 from the University of Arkansas. That educational journey opened my mind to the world and the richness of culture.

My painting has developed as my confidence in my abilities has grown. I’ve made a lot of paintings that explore identity through colour and i am still finding ways of exploring this subject in this way. I use the primaries mostly, using blue to represent masculine, red for feminine and yellow as the balance between them.

I completed a series of what i’ve come to call Dot paintings that … well, i’m reticent about describing my work in any detail before the reader has seen some pieces. I have put a lot of thought into how i articulated the elements of the paintings and into associating those elements with ideas based on experience, investigation and observation but i don’t believe it is necessary to be aware of those ideas in order to enjoy one of my paintings as an image.

www.anna-id.co.uk

If the reader wants to know more about a specific paintings or the themes that link some of them do ask and i will share how i’ve committed my innermost musings to canvas.

My work in architecture has been much less fulfilling. I’ve come to specialise in housing and currently work for one of the larger firms in this specialism. Although my job hasn’t been particularly fulfilling i have had the opportunity to use and hone the design skills i developed at the UofA. My project at UoW seeks to explore how these skills and my painting can come together.

I’m a part time student so i get to spend two years exploring how art and design can work together, specifically through space and surface. I paint with acrylic on canvas and i draw with graphite and ink. At the moment i’m researching different ways of using these materials and will soon, finally, get the chance to actually make some work.

I’m a creative person so i’ve been feeling a little frustrated that a month into this MA course and i’ve really not made anything of note.

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Filed under: anna, e-tivity 01-07/08

e-tivity 01

Hi everyone, hope it was nice and easy to become a member of wordpress. That means you are now an official contributor to tiip’s blog:)

For this module, there s a mix of online learning with face to face weekly sessions. There is however a notable difference between learning online and in the classroom. Online learning happens through what is know as e-tivities, a term coined by gilly salmon (in her 2002 book), to distinguish its electronic component from the regular classroom activities.

So, this will be your first e-tivity, but from now on, we will have a weekly e-tivity that offers a space for reflection and feedback on the issues we explore as part of our syllabus.
Have fun!

e-tivity 01

Purpose:
To become familiar with the wordpress blogging tools and start using it to express one self.

Task:

After you become a tiip’s member, make a post in tiip’s blog to introduce yourself to the group.

Tell us a little bit about your art work and how your thinking practice informs it, how it appears in it, when and how.
Include a link to a blog or website where we can see your work. If you don’t have one, but there is a photo of your work online, make a link to it. You can also upload a photo from your computer.

Respond
In this blog, follow your classmates posts and choose one to leave a comment about what they said.

Timeline:
Friday, October 26th (task),
Tuesday, October 30th (respond).

If you need help start blogging please follow my post http://thinkingpractices.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/how-to-start-blogging/

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, paula