Video
Thursday, 6 July 2017
Convergence
Convergence is a project exploring the way our various digital realities and personalities permeate into our immediate, actual reality. The final piece is a projection onto paintings which I think illustrates translation of the digital world to the physical world well. I have become increasingly aware of the way we manipulate images and use filters to cover and conceal aspects of the original, which we then use to curate and display our lives in the digital sphere. I wanted to convey this ‘beautification’ of images through initial collages, by combining and layering images together so that they’re rendered unrecognisable and incomplete –a completely new image, their original form hidden and at the same time being revealed beneath veils of concealment which in this case is geometric coloured paper cut outs and structured vertical strips of differing imagery.
The collages then developed into a very experimental video I created of my documentation of various imagery being manipulated and edited in a similar fashion each time, changing a specific aspect of the image in a specific order such as changing the exposure first then the brightness then the tone of the image, then ultimately documenting the erratic way I used the ‘heal’ tool which copied and pasted a circular area of the image that I chose to select. I used this as a way of layering and concealing parts of the image as well as to create a completely different version of the image that I began with - just like how our online personas are created and curated; parts of our lives selectively chosen to be exhibited or otherwise hidden. The paintings are tilted, the projection layer not aligned, intended to create this effect of a filter, like the ones used on Snapchat, which in this case is the painting sliding off of or away from the images being projected, as if it’s been ‘swiped’ off (referring to the action of adding or removing filters). It’s also a testament to going beyond pictorial space and the conventional straight edge.
Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Inspiration: Pipilotti Rist
Highly accomplished technically and employing dazzling colour, Rist's practice fuses sensual images, music and text to create mesmerising installations. She creates a total sensory experience for her audience by showing her works within architectural installations, conceived specifically for particular spaces. At first glance her work looks incredibly ethereal and captivating, the audience encompassed by colourful, psychedelic imagery such as that in her installation Eyeball Massage. The audience's experiences are akin to those of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland due to the fact that Rist is constantly attentive to scale and of creating situations in which the viewer feels as though they have shrunk or grown. Her filming techniques reinforces a hallucinatory quality: looping and churning with relentless, uncontrollable movement. Large, voile-like panels appear throughout her Eyeball Massage installation, serving as a projection screen or to veil the imagery from the immediate gaze. The result is something very soft on the senses, imagery that envelops the spectator into the displays.
Rist creates films—playful, psychedelic, sensuous, and often provocative—exploring themes and imagery of birth and death; family and love; the body and the natural world. By exploring size and scale, high and low technology, the natural world and the urban environment, Rist invites her audience to question ways of seeing and experiencing art, and to constantly change their perspectives.
Friday, 9 June 2017
One Minute Epics: Flow
Submission for the one week set project of 'One Minute Epics' using low quality equipment which in this case is my iPhone where I showcase the aesthetics of flowing water whilst maintaining a narrative, a definitive beginning - middle - end.
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