Sound and how it affects me.
How does sound affect me presently…
My experience of recording sounds.
Links to sounds recorded on Reaper…
Link to the piece I created with my sounds…
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Author: Jusdeep Pal
So this is a toilet!
Nowadays toilets are made from china clay, whereas i believe this particualr toilet was made from pressed clay, in the same way that tiles were made. This is why it has an off-white colour.
We are not sure when this artifact was produced but by looking at its features , it doesn’t have two holes at the back meaning it didnt have a seat or a cover connected. From this we can tell it was produced somewhere between 1895 and 1905. The toilet was found in a back garden and this was the usual location for toilets at this period in time.
The only text on this object tells you what it was called, ‘The Earl Washdown’. However it is beautifully printed with a blue flowery design which is unusual for a toilet.
I thought it was a good artifact to choose as it connects with the Ugly theme we spoke about last week and how something ugly can be changed into something much prettier.
The toilet has been cleaned but from digitalised versions of how it looked when it was found, it was cracked and very dirty.
So toilets are connected to sewers and we live by the river thames where sewage is a big problem. The Royal Commision reported that untreated sewage should no longer be pumped into the Thames. In the future solid waste would be moved into the North Sea by sludgeboats which transported this sewage.
Now in progress is the Thames Tideway tunnel, a tunnel to control or intercept sewage which currently discharges into the Thames via 34 sewage overflows. This tunnel will ensure the river is kept clean and healthy for future generations to come.
My extra research as an outcome of my visit
Sewage and sewers
The river thames and the tideway tunnel
My presentation
Connections to my work
The research I have done about the sewage system connects to my mixed media piece in Expanded art forms as my initial idea was to use physical rubbish as one of my mediums. I chose rubbish as a medium because it reflects the ‘rubbish’ things that have happened to me in the last few years. I envisage making something more beautiful out of it . (Maybe I could make a sea out of rubbish!)
Furher research on this subject.
A perfomance piece of my own
Ducks in a pond, just living.
I walk thorguh the park everyday on my short journey to my fitness group or my longer adverture to work. Animals do not normlly phase me, I never had a love for them, but the elgegant creatures that I see in the calm eaters of the Greenwich Park pond on a beautiful golden morning are somewhat pleasant to sit and admire for a short while.
I record the moents I have with a measley click of my camera phnoe capturing images of them splashing around freely. It is so different how I arrived there to relieve my stress, wheaeas they seem to be constantly living without a single care in the world.
Admiring the birds and their beauty makes me feel relaxed. They swim peacefully. Their chirps fill the air with sweet musical notes and these sounds stay with me throughout the rest of my day gving me memories that make me feel happy and chilled.
The atmoshpere is quite quiet apart from their chirping voices gving me a sense of space, making it eaiser to breathe (totally different from the cooped up third floor flat that I came out from).
Then the birds surprise me. They start flapping around quite dangerously splashing large amounts of water all over the place. This is when the other passers by seem to stop for a bit of a better glance. The ducks have livened up now and created a curious audience for thmeselves. The dogs that are with their morning walkers begin to bark. I’m not sure if the hounds are intrgiued bythe ducks in the water, or bothered by them. Most probably the latter.
So as the ducks play around more, the soothing ambience is completely gone. A few young children come along. They head to the barriers between themselves and the birds hoping to meet them and join in the fun! The connections between nature are now appreciable, and there is a realtionship forming between the animals, the humans and the environment in which they are engagng. It is now less relaxing but more amazing to spectate.
I dont have that long to sit and observe, although I wish I did. So the memories are recorded as i snap, snap, snap away on my mobile phone. The children’s attentions turn to me now, as they are aware more of my phone clicking than the natural events around me that were holding their attention before.
So with the morning’s memories in the palm of my hand, it is time for me to turn around and leave the cheery performance behind. I casually walk off smiling, preapred immensely for the day ahead.
Notes and refelctions on readings
Approaches, Presence in Absentia, Dionysus in ’69.
MY OWN NOTES AND RESEARCH…
Researching a little about AI
What is a text? What is a discourse?
etc…
Roland Barthes, ‘Death of the Author’.
Summary of what I learnt:
– Different elements make up a meaning
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Stuart Hall’s, ‘Race the Floating’.
My reflections from reading this…
My opinions on the Jimmy Choo man advert…
- At first glance i thought the man was influenced by the woman.
- Then i noticed he is carrying the woman which shows he has power. also he is holding her leg and keeping her up which indicates he has the control.
- The advert is not in black and white and because it is monochromatic it is given a cool touch. This reflects the coolness and slickness of the man.
- The composition shows importance, as everything is central on the page including the text.
- You can see the man looking at you but you can’t see the woman’s face. He is looking directly at the audience. All this information shows that the man is dominant in the advert.
MY NOTES AND RESEARCH
What is Media Archaeology?
Notes from Paprika J…
Post-structuralism
Hennessy Youngman’s link and my thoughts and reflections on what he has to say.
MY OWN EXTRA RESEARCH…
Mieke Bal’s ‘Working with Concepts’
Discussion of Bal’s text and interdiscipliary methodology she proposes.
Elizabeth Price
Reflection on her lecture and interview
Notes and research
A bit about Oliver Gingrich
Link to my initial experimentation on Touch Designer…
RESEARCH….
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Fabrication
What is fabrication…
MY OWN RESEARCH ON FABRICATION…
Are fabricators the most important people in the art world?
Ghislaine Boddington
About the artist
Reflection on the Internet of Bodies
Having a Digital Double…
Whether or not I would like one. Pros and cons.
Fabrication of my Bio-twin.
Oliver Gingrich on Fabrication
A bit more about Oliver Gingrich
My reflections from my readings…
Idea for participatory installations within my group
How I would further this idea?
Experimentation
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Observation
Are artists observers of the world?
I believe that artists are not only observers of the world but also they see what lies beyond. Because everything we make in world has to be seen/ imagined at one point!
Part of John Berger’s quite says, “We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and oursleves.”
I think that every person in the world observes it, however artists use their observations to prorduce something new in the world. They are the fabricators of the things they observe and use their knolwedge of the world to come up wiht innovative ieas, and then produce them.
Art is part of the real world but it can expand to areas beyond our belief. Artists are also human, but the ways in which they see the world and portray their thoughts and feelings in extreme ways is what makes them different to ‘ordinary’ people.
Oservation is a key part to creativity and all artists need this skill. Art requires context and this is done by observing. I believe all artists are observers as the work they make is rodyced from intiaslly seeing something else first.
Christian Marclay
- Visual artist and composer
- Explores connections between sound, music, photography video and film.
- Contemporary art who makes visual art using alot of musical influences.
- Work takes form of collages, sculptures and most recently photgrams.
- Marclay’s collages are a result of the way he works. He says, “The process of editing is what I enjoy most – putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.”I think this is how a collage shows information in a great, descriptive and creative way.
Rebecca Solnit’s quote
Frances Stark’s essay
Sarah MacDonald
MY OWN RESEARCH AFTER LOOKING AT THESE ARTISTS
Describing just enough of one thing
John Bridle’s New Ways of Seeing
Summary
Reflection on Bridle’s Podcasts
Artist Presentation
Using mediums and approaches of my chosen artist
Constance Dejong
More of my own reflections
‘Five Eyes, Citzien Four, John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, Treasure Trove, CULTUS’
A found ‘Ugly’ object
Significance of a slipper.
This torn battered and lacerated ugly slipper holds heartbreaking memories for my depressed mother who missed me immensely when i walked out of home.
She willingly kept the slipper i used to trot about in , by the small wooden shoe rack by her bright butter yellow front door. it reminded her of me being with her and she noticed it everytime she took her shoes off when she arrived safely home.
The slipper is a reflection of the person that i am. It is grey and white (as most of my belongings are) as these are my fvourite colours. It describes my whole look down to my clothes, my home decor and even my car! I prefer to sketch in grey tones rather than colour and i love taking monotone photographs as i appreciate the subtleness and coolness of these.
The slipper is glittery showing my sparkling personality. I always try to be cheery. it is also furry and soft which shows my warmness and kindness . he slipper is somewhat torn and broken and looks like it cant be fixed. These characteristics prove how i feel inside. Torn and broken by the fact that my whole life fell apart and somehow i didn’t feel i could fix it.
It is only one slipprer showing loneliness from its other half which is like the loneliness me and and my mother felt being pulled apart from one another. Even though i would describe the slipper as ‘ugly’, it once held beauty and this could portray the lovely relationship that i had with my mother once before.
The slipper is worn out just like my mother form the stress she went through. It looks like it is about to fall to pieces and this could symbolise the breakdown that my mother unfortunately had. It smells rotten of my stinky feet which gives it an even uglier effect. however, it is still smooth to touch and feels warm and comforting which shows the loving feelings of my mother towards me.
When i decided to visit my mother after a year of not seeing her, i noticed the slipper as soon as i first walked in and pulled my trainers off. I was surprised to notice that she had kept such an unimportant thing for so long, but the importance it had for her, I now see.
I wrote about the slipper because it is a true projection of me, my looks my friendly personality and my tender emotions, and the way it has been looked after, helps you visualise the bent up relationship between me and my mother.
The slipper was genuinely important to my mother and its significance after analysing it, is now much more clearer to me.
So we may see the slipper as ‘ugly’ and destroyed, but the beauty within is the bond between my miother and I, which is still holding all these maimed pieces together.
My experimentation
Research on ugly objects/feelings.
Looking at others pereceptions of ‘ugly’ objects
Consequence of looking at ‘ugly’ objects.
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From Analogue to Digital
16mm scratch films and loops.
Experimental Film and Video.
Stan Brakhage
Michael Mclaren
Amy Granat
How can I use this and why would I?
Why and how I’d use this process…
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What is Digital Art?
The History of Expanded Art Forms.
“Expanded art is about emerging forms and orientations, including performance, installation, 3d fabrication, digital sculpture, public and place based art and experimental and documentary video”.
“Artists over time have turned away from classical traditions, embracing new media and aesthetic ideals and focus was urned from the analysis of arts formal beauty to the interpretation of its cultural meaning”.
Why is it important?
- Art communicates niformation, shaes oureveyday lives and ameks a social statement . It is enjoyed for aesthetic bsuty.
- Every piece of visual art contains at least 2 elements. Value is the most imoortant because it is the foundation of our visual preception.
- At for mthe past holds clues to life inthe past. Art for mthe past constitues to who we are as people. By looking a symbolism ofart, it’s colours and maerials, we can learn more about the culture that produced it.
- It means we can understand our human past and its relationship to thr present.
- Iconography involves analysing the sympbolism of works of art. It shows an interest in art representatino attht time it was created. eg.) identifying the visual elments of a painting and interpreting its meaning.
- The act of making art is one of humanity’s most ubiquious (present, fonud everyewhere) activities.
The history of art:
- Focuses on objects made by humans for a number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative and functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetic visual form.
The definition of form in Art.
Lascaux cave paintings
Thomas Wilfred
https://images.app.goo.gl/aNMRwKZoe84D8qro8
Daniel Buren
- 1st one is more graphic
- 2nd one is more light
- 3rd one is sound effecive
Initial idea using 2 media.
My idea:
I have a lot of memories of my mental health journey, both good and bad. I am thinking of taking pictures, not to show the memories in particular but to but rather to portray the thoughts and felins I was having during these moments.
I have been through a number of ups and downs but this has made me into the person I am toda. My idea is to initially collect rubbish to symbolise the ‘crap’ times I’ve had and to mould this rubbish into something more beautiful, such as a growing plant or a blooming flower, perhaps.
Artists who worked with rubbish
Tom Deininger
– Trash artist.
– German sculptor, relies on others discarded junk to create art.
– Collects unwanted objects and creates something fresh and beautiful.
– Inspires others to be mindful of how much waste they are throwinG
away.
– Not only is his work fascinating and original, it contains an important
message about waste, recycling and surtainability.
This image interests me because i can relate it to my on ideas.
Yuken Teruya
– Recycled art.
– Japanese artist who transformed the biggest names in capitalism into
mystical forests.
– Inspired by the history of his life in Okenowa, he creates mixed media
installations and sculptures exploring themses of the immeasurable
impact history, politics and consumerism have.
The above image is very warm…
The image to the left is very cold…
Guerra de la Paz
– A group of artists based in Miami.
– Create colourful scultptures from conventional materials such as recycled clothing.
– Pieces are usually interpretations of classic artworks and frequently convey deeply political messages.
– The art questions modern consumer society and the way we use and discard objects that are still in good condtion, eg) clothes.
The work seems to overlap….
Artists who produced photographs to do
with memories.
Edvard Munch
“I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of a man’s urge to open his heart.”
– A troubled artist preoccupied with matters of humsn mortality such as chronic illness sexual liberation and religious aspiration.
– Munch came to treat the visible as thoguh it were a window into a not fully formed, if not fundamentally disturbing human psychology.
– Expressionist and symbolistic artist.
Fabio Interra
– Itlaian artist who defines his style as dramatic, gloomy and emotionally charged.
– Inspired by nature, music, cinema and illustrations.
“I am not a bubbly peron, neither and extrovert, but when i have t oswitch , I do because I need to support adn sustain certian situations around me. I think this can be percieved through my pictures.”
“It’s a littlre hard for me to talk about myself so, the only way is through my photographs.”
– Like myself, Interra says, “I build my pictures before the actual shooting. Very often I have already the mood and the the final look in my head.”
Why i like these images:
Intertwining the two to make my work…
Experimentation
Documentation and analysis
of my work
what i realised