My instillation peace (Visual Studies)

This is my video and the images from when I put it up as an installation peace, I feel the video it’s self isn't as good as it could have been but I was still fairly happy with how it turned out after I stopped panicking, I do how ever feel that the audio could have been better but I ran out of time so it’s a little lacking. As for the installation I feel hanging the paper to break up the focus points of the video worked well if I could have brought them forward a bit though so the stuff in the back ground was completely out of focus it would have made the sections I highlighted have even more impact and drawn the eye more, as well as that making it large worked really well as well.

I think I will do more installation type works, in my personal work, with video and stills, this has also given me an idea for different ways to exhibit my own work, so I feel that these sessions have defiantly been helpful, and will hopefully help me when it comes to the site specific exhibition which these sessions have also given me an idea for.

Final installation work shop (Visual Studies)

These are the images from the final session of the installation workshops, where we got a chance to set up the works and show them off to the whole class, where as before we had been working in small groups of 4, I personally have enjoyed these's sessions and it’s been an interesting look and an eye opening look at how hard and how much stuff there is to think about when putting together and installation.

These are images from Savannah Needham's work, she used sheets to add layers to the work, I like this because it also makes it so you can walk though the projection and experience it from different angels, and perspectives, but also gives it levels of depth.

 These are a couple of images from Ole Nesset installation who had projected his video into the fish tank by bouncing it of a mirror, and had filled the tank with loads of pictures and pieces of paper. I found this one particularly interesting because just by placing all this stuff in an every day fish tank and projecting a video into it, it made it all most shrine like, it make it no longer a fish tank, but made it into something that held every one's attention.
memory serving the tank was also a way of representing holding in dreams, hope's and memory's from his transition from Norway to swansea, which is also a really interesting way of using something everyday and using it for something interesting.

This is the installation of Oline Gjerde Myklebust who created work around living in halls of residents, and the video it's self was really well done and created the feeling that living in halls gives people, but then that mixed with how close you get to the work when the cloth is placed over your head and the smell of the cigarette buts, all mixed together created the feeling of halls.

This is the work of Rayhannah Ali who's work was about the connection between man kind and nature, this is the only installation piece that was split between two projections, one which was nature and one with the human side on it creating the really nice split where what ever sense you would normally be using most was on the other projection next to the natural thing. I also really liked how the canvases were suspended in mid air, this to me gave the projections a delicate look because to much movement could have swayed them to much, but it also gave them importance because they'd been brought away from the wall. so it's an interesting way of displaying and is something I'm now considering for my personal work

 this is a side shot of Rhys Williams work who shot his projection though a couple of layers of cloth, his work is based around nature. I don't remember exactly why he projected though cloth, but to me it gives the work a natural feel because it's cloth it feels delicate, more so than if projected onto walls, as well as that again it gives you the ability to move though the work, as well as this holly experimented with placing the projector into different places, and making it so you had to look at it from different angels.

 This is the installation of Rachel Alderman whose work was based around ducks and creating a happy kind of tripy film for the installation, then to show it projected into a mirror onto black card, and placed a disco ball in the bottom right of it to though of light. I kind of liked this way of showing the work, especially with it being low down creating that scene of reality where the ducks would be, but with the light from the mirror and the disco ball creates a dream like feel to the work and would work even better blown up massive and in complete blackness.

 This is Sophie Louise Mccabe who projected into a picture frame, with other picture frames surrounding it, the work it's self was of a simple car journey, then with the layout of the installation with old dollies on the table give the installation quite and old fashion feel, but as well as that, with the work being projected into a picture frame it made me think of a modern moving picture, picture frame which changes over an amount of time. I liked this one because of this it had reflections of old and new to me.

This installation is Georgia Saskia Roach who's work is based on her personal work which I can't remember, but has projected moving images and still memory serving into the vases which is filled with water and a peace of paper, then projected into that, this created a interesting display that created a little ecosystem that you look into and want to get closer to. I liked this way of displaying it, it's different and interesting.

this is Ina Bjørke Dypvik work, she projected into the corridor and created an environment that you can walk into, creating a more interactive experience to the work, as well as that when you see it set up it create a really interesting, dreamy kind of look to it because of how it covers the walls with these bubbles, it makes it look like your walking into another dimension, and I feel the size of this is really good and works for this work.

This is Caitlin Davies who created work about her traveling between home and uni on the train, so when it came to displaying the work, she originally back lit it on the window to create the feeling of being on a train, but as well as that projected it onto the wall to see how that looks, it's an interesting concept to project it and try and create the setting it was originally shot in.

 this is Dafydd Williams work, which was quite bright so my camera didn't like it, but in it's self I liked the work, all thought the projector wouldn't be on a ladder so that wouldn't be in the way. his work was set on him traveling between uni and home, and also had some day to day stuff that he dose in uni.

and finally this is Jed Slade's work who created this amazing installation where you look into the box and it's like looking into another dimension, because there's foil inside which reflects all the light and colour, then the objects in the back ground create this little cityscape type effect, as well as that he blew vapor into it which added another layer to the work, and was a really interesting trippy type of effect that sucked you into the work.  

The Photograph as Document

This is my final edit of my video for my work for the photograph as document, This is the information I would put next to this work if displaying it so that people understood it. on a side note I do feel that the audio isn't that good, and jumped around to much and it would have been better to keep it the same as the start music.

Supporting Statement

To begin with I wanted to explore the area and root that I walked, but as the work developed over the short amount of time that we had, it turned more into a look at traveling, movement, those little things that are in some ways every day, but to the point that you no longer see them, that’s what I wanted to look at.

I wanted to explore the movement of walking, a process that we often don’t remember we put music on and drift from A to B without looking at what’s in-between the main goal to get to the destination, so we often miss the amazing views, and the little things a flower on the pavement or a leave blowing as cars drive past it on the side of the road, or the little grassy verges, or the flowing of water down a hill, all things which if you stop to look at for a second are naturally pretty. Mixed in with this is the movement aspect where I’ve used the camera moving quickly to create a fuzzy fast look to the video to make it hard to focuses, to create those parts of traveling that you don’t remember, but also angels looking forward which are also moving to create that sense of walking, a sense of movement and inevitably a sense of traveling, but as for the destination I kept that blank every one’s journey is individual and is up to them to decide where I’m going, or where they would be going. Finally The audio that I have on this is meant to make people think about what they listen to, how one day it could be jazz and the next or at least for me the next it’s rock or Reggie, how we listen to different music when we walk depending in what mood were in and that’s what I wanted to explore with my audio. 

Bas Jan Ader "I'm too sad to tell you" (Personal Work)

This is a really strange but powerful video peace’s, in it’s self, it’s very simple the camera angle never changes the lighting is constant, he stay’s just off to the right of the shot for the duration of the video, yet it’s still fascinating to watch, if not discomfiting at the same time, after all it is a man crying for 3:23, which in its self raises questions, why’s he crying along with the title I’m too sad to tell you, gives you an idea that something bad has happened but you can only ever speculate as to what, which is partly why I like it, it makes you have to think, but at the same time I don’t like it it’s a man crying that’s something that is hard to deal with, I for one don’t handle people crying very well I never know what to say, so to watch someone cry for three minutes, is a strange feeling, especial when you can’t even try to reach them, as well as that the fact that you can’t hear him crying is also strange, you can see him, but there’s no sound, it creates a strange sensation where your visually connected but there’s no sound to anchor you to the subject, yet when watching it, in my head I could almost hear crying, I could imagine what it would sound like, which is strange. Personally this is a really interesting piece of work, I like how simple it is, yet how much is can make you think, this work will also be going into my sketch book because it relates to my personal project as well as my video work for my installation, I plan on using similar framing for my video work when I re shoot it, because making it closer a more personal, I feel will improve my work.

Interesting processe (Independent Research)

These are pictures from two University students, who wanted to try something different for one of their projects, so the ate 35mm film which would the expose to very small amounts of light inside them, after finding it in the dark when it came out the other end they fixed it then use an electron microscope to scan the images.

This process has created some really interesting images, which I quite like they look futuristic, like some planet from space, or a strange alien life form, but as well as that I like the texture on the images, the look really  big like mountain ranges but are just really zoomed in pictures from inside the two people.

I like this work as well because it shows how thinking out side of the box can produce interesting results and images that are really good but are made in a different way and show different things.

http://petapixel.com/2012/06/01/art-students-become-human-cameras-by-eating-35mm-film/

Andre Cepeda (Visual Studies)

http://vimeo.com/23527275 (Video Like to Vimeo)

This is an interesting film piece by Cepeda that is incredibly simple yet delicate and amazing at the same time, the piece is only about two minutes long and are still frames that makes the piece incredibly soft and gentle because it’s slow it doesn’t jump about, the positions of the people only changes 4 time during the clip and all the possess are incredibly intermit and close, much like how two lovers would hold each other. And finally the whole thing is in black and white which combined with everything else just makes this a really nice piece of work, it’s something that watch is just nice to watch it made me feel a little bit happy, which a lot of videos are quite sad or depressing, but this is just peaceful, and I think that’s why I like it, people often focuses on the unhappy my self-included but I think after my next couple of video pieces are done I’m going to attempted to make something that’s happy, that makes people feel good.

Videos for Photography as document

These are the videos that I'll cut together with the still images to create my final peace, and there'll probably be some more videos to come.

Bruce Nauman (Visual Studies)

 Bruce Nauman is an American sculptor but his environments, films and videotapes have also been noted, he studied mathematics at university then whet on to study art, he had his first one man exhibition of sculptures in 1966, after that he moved city’s and started making work around the backs of objects but also moulded from parts of his body, as well as this he started creating works around many ideas, creating sculptures, films and performance pieces.

I like some of Naumans works, I think the sculptures have to be the pieces I like the most, particularly the one which is animals with legs sticking all over the place, it’s a really interesting pieces that I personally see as being about mankind’s treatment of animals and how were changing and altering them to for fill our needs though the process of breeding, but that’s just my opinion and I can’t be sure what it’s about. I also like the hand piece I again find it interesting, it looks like it could be the outside of a clock to me  or some sort of wheel, but I’m not sure what it’s about I just like the aesthetics of it.

Installation wise the two pieces I like the most are both hung which is an interesting thing, to suspend something in the air, that shouldn’t be there, it straight away puts you into a position of why is that there, as well as that he projects and uses screens, but I don’t know whether that just because there pictures but I don’t find that they look as good, I feel that videos and projects need a little something extra to make them more interesting, but again that could just be the pictures.

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bruce-nauman-1691 (information and image recourse)

Visual studies Installation work

In this session we started looking at people that work with installation pieces we looked at quite a lot of people some of them being, Bruce Nauman, Stan douglas, Francis Alys, Tacita Dean and Marina Abramovic just to name a few but one particular name that holly suggested that I look at was Christian Marclay and a work of his called The Clock.

This is a fascinating piece where Marclay has put together hundreds of film clips to make up a clock which goes all the way round exactly right, and even though I've only seen a small part of it, it’s interesting to see the transition and method that he’s used to put it together, I also find it interesting because it makes you think about time and the movement of time.

The reason Holly mentioned this work to me was because of an idea change that I had, where I still include my original video, purely because it fits in as well, but I also video a lot of other thing that are effected by time, which covers everything really but I’m more thinking things like the tide, cloud and how they move, traffic people walking, car, the steam rising of a cup of tea, as much stuff as I can think of really, then I’ll put it all together, I’m not sure how but it’ll be layered, weather I put it all together so you see it all at the same time or I might spread them out, I’ll have to work that out.

The idea is the look at time and existence, and how everything is happening at the same time despite the fact that we can’t see it, but I also hope on some level to put the idea of the One-electron universe, which is a hypothesis the suggests that there is only one electron in the universe, that move though space and time in a way which means it can be everywhere at the same time, meaning that everything is connected, what happened 3000 years ago, happened for this electron at the same time I’m righting this, which is an amazing and inspiring idea, but putting that in my work will be interesting.

Varvara stepanova (Artist from contextual studies)

 Varvara Stepanova was an influential avant-garde movement, and referred to herself as a constructivist, she was widely influenced by cubist art and futurist art movements, and spent most of her time dedicated to creating change in society thought her art. She work in several fields some of them being photography, painting and textiles to name a few, she worked on all sorts of things from book covers to posters and even costumes for theatre groups.

I’m looking at strpanovas work because it has been mentioned in my contextual studies, and is the person I will probably right my essay on because I find their work interesting, with having influences from cubism which is an art movement that I like, as well as that she is an interesting artist, who was part of a group of female artists in Russia who were called the amazons, and she also has ties with other influential artists of the time, so I feel it well be an interesting essay to right because of this, and because she has some grate work.

(image source)
http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A5643&page_number=8&template_id=1&sort_order=1
(information source)
http://www.designishistory.com/1920/varvara-stepanova/