there is also a handout on the basic information for the programme on Moodle (Wimbledon technical resources, moving image pink button)
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Seeing the possibilities of projection mapping made me think of all these ideas I can play with, using moving image. I've always been very interested in digital media, and from recent collages I was doing for the language project made me even more interested in the manipulation of images/memory/ etc... I want to look at more artists that use this kind of thing in their work, like Richard Hamilton and Hito Steyerl, I saw their work at the Tate a few years ago and it really made an impression on me. I must re watch the work 'How Not to be Seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File' I think it's genius. there's something so curious about the digital space how it is not exactly tangible yet it immerses you to be so.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/steyerl-how-not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov-file-t14506
(more on this on another post) (I also need to have a closer look at bill viola's video works, I have the book of his 'Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House' and it is probably the most inspiring 'art' book I've ever had in my possession)
This reminds me of lilah fowler's work at first site we saw a few weeks ago, turning data into something tangible? (textiles) (Code Clay, Data Dirt)
https://www.artfund.org/whats-on/exhibitions/2019/07/20/lilah-fowler-exhibition
The Roman history of Colchester is the inspiration for this exhibition by artist Lilah Fowler.
London-based Lilah Fowler's work examines the effect and consequence of technology on our contemporary landscape, revealing how the ‘natural’ and the ‘man-made’ are interwoven in a state that she refers to as 'nth nature'.
For her first solo exhibition in a major public art gallery, Fowler presents an innovative display that combines her own sculptures with museum objects from the collections of Colchester and Ipswich Museums.
Taking Roman pots as an example of ancient technology, Fowler looks at how both analogue and digital technologies are shaped by the natural environment – the clay pot being literally built out of it, and digital technologies relying on rare earth minerals and data centres that pump out huge quantities of heat and power. These relationships will be explored in an intricate and colourful installation that combines sculpture, video and sound.
But anyway, in my group tutorial with Alicia, somebody suggested that I could try projection mapping from seeing the boxes/with the images edited in the painting, and it felt like a natural leeway into doing just that - a transition into the digital, moving image maybe... Feels like this needs a lot of planning but actually just playing around with the programme and equipment you are able to accomplish visuals that are already fascinating. that's the beauty of technology, it's fluid and always changing but it can also be the opposite, you have the power in your hands. you also rely on it a lot. I'll have to explore more in this realm of media. In the painting, the images of the landscape I took from the plane are placed over the boxes, insinuating travel and the sense of place. I know this is sort of a clear, explicit, even boring way to emote this but, I liked how it looked. Perhaps in moving image I could do something even with narration, I liked how in works that use, computer generated voices, it feels like an anonymous entity addressing these things, if I used my own voice, it would immediately become personal I think, like a poem. I felt this when I went to the Joan Jonas exhibition at the end of first year, she had a piece where she narrates over the footage she took herself, and the result seemed more like poetry than anything, perhaps its also the content. Anyway, I'll have to plan ahead about exactly what I want to achieve in moving image that painting cannot - and how this exploration of our construction of nature links to this - perhaps in the nature through screens thing, how we perceive a lot of nature through documentation from other people, and the concept that the camera can never capture reality...
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Seeing the possibilities of projection mapping made me think of all these ideas I can play with, using moving image. I've always been very interested in digital media, and from recent collages I was doing for the language project made me even more interested in the manipulation of images/memory/ etc... I want to look at more artists that use this kind of thing in their work, like Richard Hamilton and Hito Steyerl, I saw their work at the Tate a few years ago and it really made an impression on me. I must re watch the work 'How Not to be Seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File' I think it's genius. there's something so curious about the digital space how it is not exactly tangible yet it immerses you to be so.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/steyerl-how-not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov-file-t14506
(more on this on another post) (I also need to have a closer look at bill viola's video works, I have the book of his 'Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House' and it is probably the most inspiring 'art' book I've ever had in my possession)
This reminds me of lilah fowler's work at first site we saw a few weeks ago, turning data into something tangible? (textiles) (Code Clay, Data Dirt)
https://www.artfund.org/whats-on/exhibitions/2019/07/20/lilah-fowler-exhibition
The Roman history of Colchester is the inspiration for this exhibition by artist Lilah Fowler.
London-based Lilah Fowler's work examines the effect and consequence of technology on our contemporary landscape, revealing how the ‘natural’ and the ‘man-made’ are interwoven in a state that she refers to as 'nth nature'.
For her first solo exhibition in a major public art gallery, Fowler presents an innovative display that combines her own sculptures with museum objects from the collections of Colchester and Ipswich Museums.
Taking Roman pots as an example of ancient technology, Fowler looks at how both analogue and digital technologies are shaped by the natural environment – the clay pot being literally built out of it, and digital technologies relying on rare earth minerals and data centres that pump out huge quantities of heat and power. These relationships will be explored in an intricate and colourful installation that combines sculpture, video and sound.
But anyway, in my group tutorial with Alicia, somebody suggested that I could try projection mapping from seeing the boxes/with the images edited in the painting, and it felt like a natural leeway into doing just that - a transition into the digital, moving image maybe... Feels like this needs a lot of planning but actually just playing around with the programme and equipment you are able to accomplish visuals that are already fascinating. that's the beauty of technology, it's fluid and always changing but it can also be the opposite, you have the power in your hands. you also rely on it a lot. I'll have to explore more in this realm of media. In the painting, the images of the landscape I took from the plane are placed over the boxes, insinuating travel and the sense of place. I know this is sort of a clear, explicit, even boring way to emote this but, I liked how it looked. Perhaps in moving image I could do something even with narration, I liked how in works that use, computer generated voices, it feels like an anonymous entity addressing these things, if I used my own voice, it would immediately become personal I think, like a poem. I felt this when I went to the Joan Jonas exhibition at the end of first year, she had a piece where she narrates over the footage she took herself, and the result seemed more like poetry than anything, perhaps its also the content. Anyway, I'll have to plan ahead about exactly what I want to achieve in moving image that painting cannot - and how this exploration of our construction of nature links to this - perhaps in the nature through screens thing, how we perceive a lot of nature through documentation from other people, and the concept that the camera can never capture reality...
