Monday, 6 February 2012
Monday, 9 January 2012
Happy New Year, Happy New Project?
well well well well well well well. Iv had to propose a new project for the beginning of this year, having done exceedingly well (grades talking, not me) in my first section of the course I now feel the fear of a highly set bar. So what will my project be about, here's hoping that blogging will help.
Having had a fairly drastic lifestyle change, I have been forced to adapt and in doing so have had a few perspective changing considerations, though its hard to word them here, notably reading 'The Alchemist' by Paulo Cohelo, and seeing the films of Miranda July 'You,Me,And Everyone We Know' & 'The Future'. though in slightly varying ways, all three sources propose the power of immediacy, largely through confronting life and its plethora of challenges with an honest perspective; to be both honest with the situation and yourself.
I am interested in the profound ability that omens (complimented by the 'Law of Attraction') have, to reveal wisdom and understanding in the most bizarre and sometimes surreal of ways. Through my art I intend to highlight this mysterious nature within banality, taking the trivial and making it surreal. This is where Miranda July's films truly grasp me, being able to make interesting perceptions through a means of stark honesty which becomes both hilarious and ironic; Using more supernatural storytelling in her later film 'The Future'.
Humor as enjoyable as it is fascinating, is something that I thoroughly appreciate within work of artists such as:
Chris Ofili 'The Adoration of Captain Shit, and the legend of the Black Stars'
Paul McCarthy - Painter
Bruce Nauman - Clown Torture
Harrison & Wood
I'm going to sleep, more to come as i narrow in on what i actually want from this project!
Monday, 8 August 2011
Whilst the power is out!
Waiting to get hold of a generator i have decided to explore the Internet from a slightly different approach. A long time ago the best things to do whilst stuck in a computing lesson were to IM people using some sort of proxy to bypass the Schools firewall, or play the 'Wikipedia game'.
The 'Wikipedia game' plays as follows:
- Start by generating two random links from the English Wikipedia home page
- Write these down and then return to the first one
- From that point on the player has to use only the internal links of the article to progress from page to page to the second random page.
With this game fully remembered and the strange and sometimes wonderful things that you come across, I think the exercise exemplifies a sense of freedom that the internet offers. Wikipedia in itself is a great icon of the nets potential for knowledge, the process of the game means that the more you know about the articles you are reading and the more information that you take in, then the better you are equipped to finish in fewer links and therefore have a better score.
here is an example of two random articles that I have just generated:
1st - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Toyota_Tamaraws_season
2nd - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Kuprikov
soo after a large amount of linking from page to page I came to a dead end, it appears that the origonal random article was incorrect as the final article in my link would explain here: (cross reference the k 4 1000m winners) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_canoeing_(men)#K-4_1000_metres
so 26 links it would have taken me, it is my intention to use these 26 article as resources to create a mix media image, liek a documentation of a small journey through a very small tunnel in the internet.
The 'Wikipedia game' plays as follows:
- Start by generating two random links from the English Wikipedia home page
- Write these down and then return to the first one
- From that point on the player has to use only the internal links of the article to progress from page to page to the second random page.
With this game fully remembered and the strange and sometimes wonderful things that you come across, I think the exercise exemplifies a sense of freedom that the internet offers. Wikipedia in itself is a great icon of the nets potential for knowledge, the process of the game means that the more you know about the articles you are reading and the more information that you take in, then the better you are equipped to finish in fewer links and therefore have a better score.
here is an example of two random articles that I have just generated:
1st - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Toyota_Tamaraws_season
2nd - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Kuprikov
soo after a large amount of linking from page to page I came to a dead end, it appears that the origonal random article was incorrect as the final article in my link would explain here: (cross reference the k 4 1000m winners) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_canoeing_(men)#K-4_1000_metres
so 26 links it would have taken me, it is my intention to use these 26 article as resources to create a mix media image, liek a documentation of a small journey through a very small tunnel in the internet.
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Mark Bradford
Link to his page on the Saatchi Gallery in the Abstract America exhibition
The work that has most interested from Bradford is that which is shown below, The way that he has used a rectangular plastic sheeting taken from some form of black hair treatment is contextual and creates a captivating effect, one which reminds me of my 'Pixelation' and 'Data Moshing' work of the last year.
The Devil Beating His Wife - Mark Bradford
detail from same piece below:
The work that has most interested from Bradford is that which is shown below, The way that he has used a rectangular plastic sheeting taken from some form of black hair treatment is contextual and creates a captivating effect, one which reminds me of my 'Pixelation' and 'Data Moshing' work of the last year.
The Devil Beating His Wife - Mark Bradford
detail from same piece below:
Jean Francois Lepage
http://two-eyes.com/ (Lepage's Website)
These images are inspiring the Work that I am developing, The vast landscape contrasted with a dominant figure accentuation by a remote light source. My personal favourite is the low key image on the pier by the lake, the contrast create by the harsh light is the bold imagery that I am looking for in my work.
These images are inspiring the Work that I am developing, The vast landscape contrasted with a dominant figure accentuation by a remote light source. My personal favourite is the low key image on the pier by the lake, the contrast create by the harsh light is the bold imagery that I am looking for in my work.
NEW PROJECT: Subject, Object, Space
Having received a letter from my degree course briefing me on an 'Introductory Project' titled above, I am now in the process of beginning the project.
Having been advised to begin with a space, and from there explore this space in order to find influences for the work. I have decided upon the global non physical space of the internet. Considering I access it like almost everyone else I know on a daily basis, it has to be one of the more dominant spaces in my life.
That settled i headed to a friends for a night of pizza and Xbox, during this i noticed how certain games use a map as a real time geographic of all the players who are currently on the said game at that moment in time. examples can be seen below (lights indicating where the players are in the world):
Looking at the map there are the obvious heavy traffic areas of America and Europe, though it was not these florescent blocks that attracted me, it was the sparse and dim singular entities which can be seen dotted around seemingly unique locations such as Niger and Ethiopia, Alaska and Bolivia.
When looking at the people accessing the internet in this way I have an image of such remote landscapes and and such beautiful landscapes within which is being overcrowded by the vast space of the internet, accessed literally through portal like windows of LED screens. I find the contrast quite powerful and it is this that I want to explore in my work.
The image I had of these distant internet users was one which reminded me a lot of the painting above which I first saw on the cover of Mary Shelly's novel 'The Last Man'. His large series of Romantic landscapes contain many figures which stair into the distance, conversely I feel making a series of landscapes in which the viewer or potentially a protagonistic figure is drawn to ignore the landscape and focus on an LED screen would suit my interests well.
The images would be asking the viewer questions of how they see the internet in terms of a 'Space' and whether or not that fact that it is pulling us away from nature is a good thing.
Having been advised to begin with a space, and from there explore this space in order to find influences for the work. I have decided upon the global non physical space of the internet. Considering I access it like almost everyone else I know on a daily basis, it has to be one of the more dominant spaces in my life.
That settled i headed to a friends for a night of pizza and Xbox, during this i noticed how certain games use a map as a real time geographic of all the players who are currently on the said game at that moment in time. examples can be seen below (lights indicating where the players are in the world):
a better quality version of the map can be seen below
Looking at the map there are the obvious heavy traffic areas of America and Europe, though it was not these florescent blocks that attracted me, it was the sparse and dim singular entities which can be seen dotted around seemingly unique locations such as Niger and Ethiopia, Alaska and Bolivia.
When looking at the people accessing the internet in this way I have an image of such remote landscapes and and such beautiful landscapes within which is being overcrowded by the vast space of the internet, accessed literally through portal like windows of LED screens. I find the contrast quite powerful and it is this that I want to explore in my work.
Wanderer above a sea of fog - Caspar David Friedrich
The image I had of these distant internet users was one which reminded me a lot of the painting above which I first saw on the cover of Mary Shelly's novel 'The Last Man'. His large series of Romantic landscapes contain many figures which stair into the distance, conversely I feel making a series of landscapes in which the viewer or potentially a protagonistic figure is drawn to ignore the landscape and focus on an LED screen would suit my interests well.
The images would be asking the viewer questions of how they see the internet in terms of a 'Space' and whether or not that fact that it is pulling us away from nature is a good thing.
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