Idris Khan (The Photograph as Document)

 This is the work of Idris Khan, who works with reappropriated works from other people, the example I’m using is of Berndt and Hilla Becher who create typologies of old water towers, Kahn took these and layered them to create one image that changes the original work and create it into something different, and a completely new piece of work, he also done this with several other works and is he main way of working, I kind of like this style it’s interesting the idea of making someone else’s work into your own by changing it, it also creates some interesting concepts, which is something I’m going to have to research more for a current project.

Caravaggio (Independent Research)

This is a fascinating documentary about Caravaggio, which when I first watched it introduced me to so many ideas about art and particularly classical styles of painting, with covering the live of the artist and what drove him to create the work he was producing, but it also covers some of the contextual and symbolical methods used in the paintings. It’s well worth a watch if you have any interest in painters like this because it explains all these things really well, and without doing it in a way which is so academic that it gets confusing.  

Annette Messager (Visual Studies)

 This is another installation artist that was introduced to use in our visual studies session, as usual I’m putting her work in because it interests me, and in the case I feel it has some relevance to me work and ideas I have about how to best display it.

I’ve put up several examples of her work, but I’ll just talk about a couple of them, I particularly picked some of these because of how she’s hung them from the sealing, it’s something that I like and that interests me as a way of exhibiting, one of the works which is what looks like stuffed toy type things is to do with mad cow disease, so I imagine the ones that are suspended are to represent the cows that were kills the either lifted or scooped up to be dumped and burned in pits, and then the ones on the floor are the dead ones. Then as well as that there all contorted and burned so you can still make out parts which look like there from a cow but you not really sure. It’s an interesting work, and I like how you would be able to move though the space and move around the objects, meaning you can get closer to them making slightly more personal.

Like I said it’s this idea of suspending something that has grabbed my attention combined with being able to move through it, and these are the things I’m considering for my personal work at the moment for when it comes to thinking of displaying it, hanging them in the middle of a room, there’s going to seven of them so I’m thinking hang them to create a circle that you walk into, and have the audio I’m planning on using in the back ground, so that you’re in the middle of the work and surrounded by it.

(image and information source)
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2009/mar/05/annette-messager-hayward-retrospective#/?picture=344185267&index=9

A Good Resource (Visual Studies)

I thought considering the videos I've been making recently I’d put up a quick post about where I get the audio from, the website I use offers free to use and allow you to use it on anything you want as long as it’s part of some other work and isn't just the music, as for example putting it as a backing track is fine, the site also has a link to a form that’s already signed so if you do need to send it off to someone like YouTube you can prove that it’s from a free to use and is in compliance with the wishes of the copyright holder.

And along with all of that the website has a really good range of music types, with everything from jazz to rock, to electronic, with the ability to refine your search down to different moods and tempos, making find music to use fairly easy if you already have an idea of the kind of music you want.

http://audionautix.com/index.php

Bill Viola (Visual Studies)

 These are some stills from an artist called bill Viola, who has creates some amazing installation works this particular one is called ascension and grabbed my eye after being shown it in a visual studies session, I think the reason they got my attention so much is just because of how dramatic the images look, the motion in them with the water being displaced, creating amazing shapes and pockets from where the person has hit, creating the shield like effect of air around them, and how you have the deep blues around the subject then it quickly fades to pitch black creating this void look to the rest of the images, or even a space feel to them, but as well as that they feel a little bit religious to me with the isolation of the floating figure, and the name itself, so I’ll be putting a more detailed look at Viola into my personal work because of thinking of doing an installation type thing with my personal work, and I feel I can rework some good ideas from him.

http://www.billviola.com/

Rene Magritt (Contextual Studies)

 This is some work of Rene Magritte, who is a very influential surrealist and conceptual artist whose work I have been looking at for an essay I’m righting, I chose his work because I found it the most interesting out of all the people I had to choose from, because some of the concepts and ideas he uses, as well as that I’ve all way’s been a fan of surreal art so it seemed like a good idea to go with something I already enjoy, as well as that the little I did know about his life interested me so looking into it more was interesting again, as well as that I felt that with his work being divers it would aid me when it comes to analysing it using the theoretical concepts that were introduced in the first semester.

http://www.interiors.intendo.net/magritte.html

Progression of video work (Visual Studies)

Sadly due to some bad file handling and trying to use things from mac to windows and visor verse most of my original footage and edits have corrupted and I could use them, which is why I shot a new video for Holly’s final session for installation because the clips I wanted to use didn't work and I felt that shooting again was the best way to do it than to try and recreate something close to the original clips, as well as that the sound quality wasn't as good on the first footage but second time round I managed to improve it a bit, I also changed the typography that I used after showing the video in Ryan’s video workshop, because it didn't work very well, but I didn't keep any records of the original so sadly evidencing this is hard to do. Again the same things happened with my work for Eva, my original edit wouldn't load in Premier because of originally editing it on a mac then trying to open it on windows I lost it all and couldn't make it so it could find the clips, so I had to re edit it all, which in the end didn't matter to much because with an idea from what I did first time made It so I had a better idea of what I was doing the second time and it made it better, bud again I can’t evidence this because my videos kept going crazy because of crossing over operating systems.

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.