Showing posts with label 19th April 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 19th April 2010. Show all posts

Spencer Tunick Everyday People Installation 2nd May 2010 (Research)

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2010

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I went to the Lowry art gallery this morning (Sunday 2nd May 2010) and waited in a que from 12:30am - 3:30am to go through the final registration for Spencer Tunicks 'Everyday People' installation. Me and my friend Bob off the graphics course both took part, and it was absolutely amazing! We went to 4 different locations around Manchester.

1st Location: Castlefield, next to the canal with barges in the background.
2nd Location: The Lowry Art Gallery, in front of the well known sculpture outside the gallery.
3rd Location: Conchord, at Manchester Airport.
4th Location: The Gasworks near Manchester City Stadium.
After the 4th shoot at the Gasworks, Spencer wanted all the women volunteers to get onto two double decker buses next to each other and press our bodies up against the windows! Once we had done that, we heard Spencer shout in the megaphone 'NOW.....TURN AROUND!' So we all then turned around and stood on the seats and pressed our bums up agains the windows of the busses! This last shoot was my favourite because it was all the girls, and we all had such a laugh doing it!
The whole experience was incredible, i did this to boost my confidence and to be part of an installation of this size. The whole installation is inspired by L.S Lowry and is a tribute to his art work, The Lowry Gallery invited Spencer over to do this shoot which he gladly accepted to do!
This particular shot was taken on the sunday at the Lowry Gallery location - I think I can see myself! But I can't be too sure!
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The press were at the Saturday shoot, bit not the Sunday one. I'm quite annoyed about that because one of the main reasons why I wanted to do an interview for the papers was to just briefly mention my End Of Year show. But no one was there, and we were told that they had come to the saturday one, but not the sunday one. So that was my idea out of the window! But I'm glad I still did it, just for the confidence boost and the experience!
Here are a couple of shots from the saturday shoot just to give the idea of the sense of community that everybody experienced, this is not the group that I was with, but it shows the same kind of poses that I went through the next day.




The exhibition for this installation will be shown from 12th June-26th September at The Lowry Art Gallery!

Carnovosky - RGB Wallpaper! (Research)

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Thursday, April 29, 2010

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I have never seen anything like this before, Carnovsky, an Italian studio created this wallpaper for the Milan design week. The wallpaper reacts to different coloured light! They feature overlapping illustrations, different elements of the images appear when each different light is directed at them, depending on wether its red, blue or green light.
They have done one focusing on the animal kingdom and one on the human body - these images are from the human body project:

Normal light:


Red Light:

Blue light:

Green light:

I can imagine this type of work in night clubs or bars, it would create a fantastic ever changing atmosphere!

Aesthetica Magazine (Research)

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Thursday, April 29, 2010

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I have just stumbled across a magazine called Aesthetica. This is how they describe themselves on their website:

Aesthetica engages with contemporary art, contextualising it within the larger cultural framework. Founded in 2002, Aesthetica Magazine is one of Britain's leading art publications.

Exploring the varied nature of the arts and recognising the dynamics of contemporary culture, Aesthetica pushes the boundaries and evokes debate around today's most important topics. Bringing a fresh perspective to the national forum, Aesthetica is at the forefront of contemporary arts by critically engaging with visual art, film, music, literature and theatre.

Aesthetica is widely distributed throughout the UK and is available from WH Smith, independent newsagents and select galleries. Aesthetica is also distributed internationally and is available in the following countries: USA, Canada, Brazil, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Click here to find a store near you.

Aesthetica is published six times per year with issues being released 1 February, 1 April, 1 June,
1 August, 1 October and 1 December.

They are running a 'Short Film Competition' which can include genres of films ranging from documentaries to Artist's films etc.
The deadline for this competition is this Friday, but I wouldn't have been able to enter it anyway just because I am focusing all my attention on my Final Major Project films. It is just encouraging to see that these types of competitions go on all the time throughout the year and it has given me the courage to try and enter one once I have some time on my hands and my degree work is all done and dusted!
I will definitely follow Aesthetics Blog now, and keep my eye out for their magazine next time I go into WHSmiths!

AntiVJ - Crea Composite: Nuit Blanche Bruxelles (Research)

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Thursday, April 29, 2010

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AntiVJ & Crea Composite: Nuit Blanche Bruxelles from AntiVJ / Joanie on Vimeo.

This live visual was shown in Brussels, Belgium in 2008 at Mont Des Arts. The visual artists involved were Yannick Jacquet, Jeremie Peeters and Joanie Lemercier. This music is by Thomas Vaquie.
I am drawn to this particular piece because of the type of visuals they have used in it. In the others I have posted up, everything looks straight edged and blocked, obviously 3D, Whereas this type of visual does look 3D, but more footage like, more abstract/experimental footage. This type of imagery that they have used is more my style and it is very encouraging for me to think that this type of abstract visuals could be projected onto canvas's such as buildings etc. I especially like the visuals at the very beginning of this piece - even though i am in awe of the 3D bricks etc, it isn't really the style that I am into.
I've included this video also just to show what goes on behind the scenes - you only get a little taster, but you can clearly tell how much effort and preparation goes into one of these events!

AntiVJ Visual Projects (Research)

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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I have done a previous post quite a while ago now about AntiVJ which is a visual label.
This visual label production did an AudioVisual in June 2009 in France. The music is by Thomas Vaquie and the visual artists involved are all artists who participate in the AntiVJ label: Yannick Jacquet, Joanie Lemercier, Olivier Ratsi and Romain Tardy.

I really do think that this kind of visual is absolutely amazing and even considered basing my Final Major Project on projecting onto buildings just because it really interests me how you can completely transform a structure. You have that control of completely manipulating the structure of a building.
It isn't just buildings that I have seen them do this brilliant visual technique on, in this particular video they project onto a ship - It was taken place at the Mutek Festival in Montreal, Canada in 2009. The installation is called 'Tour Des Convoyeurs' and was created by Olivier Ratsi, Joanie Lemercier and Thomas Vaquie.

I am absolutely blown away by this type of work, I am just in awe of it all I really am. The structure of the visuals linked with the audio that they use is very dramatic and extremely atmospheric - I will definitely be doing a lot more research into this kind of work, wether or not I would pursue anything of it, I'm not sure yet, but I will definitely look into it, even just for my own interest!

I Am Not An Artist (Research)

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Friday, April 23, 2010

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http://iamnotanartist.org/index.php
I Am Not An Artist - An animated GIF paranoia about nonstop design workers! This is a 'Working in progress' project commissioned by Elisava School Of Design located in Barcelona in collaboration with 'Soon In Tokyo' (http://soonintokyo.com/index/) which is made up of previous Elisava students and teachers.
The first 56 GIFS are directed by Johnny Kelly(http://nexusproductions.com/) and Matthew Cooper (http://matthewcooperfilm.com/Matthew_Cooper_Film/Matthew_Cooper_Film.html) and aims to grow and be a platform for young designers all over the world!
I think it is a fantastic idea, each time i go on the website i see something different that i hadn't noticed before! I will definitely be keeping my eye on this website in the future to check out the new GIFS that are added everyday!

DRIVE (FMP Research)

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2010

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Drive (2009) from Mike Celona on Vimeo.



I have applied to an Experimental Film Discussion List, where they have weekly listings of Avant Garde Cinema films where they mention particular films that may be an interest or they feel deserves mentioning in some way.
The Film maker, Mike Celona describes this piece on his website as:
Dreamlike ride through Rochester, NY during a heavy rain storm as seen through the passenger side window of a car in which the water streaking across the glass causes the landscape to seemingly melt into another world. Features an original soundtrack consisting of multiple layers of electric bass and keyboards fed through tremolo and stereo delay pedals and recorded to analog tape.
I am really interested in the visuals that Celona has produced here - I like the idea of just capturing things that already look distorted - It reminded me of the way I was capturing footage for my Final Major Project. i was mainly focusing on the reflections in water barrels and at ponds etc These are just a few images of them here:


Decode - Victoria and Albert Museum. (Research)

Posted by Jenn | Posted in | Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2010

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When I went to visit London at the beginning of March this year, I went to an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum called 'Decode: Digital Design Sensations' which was set up in collaboration with 'onedotzero'. The exhibition showed the most recent developments in digital and interactive design. I really enjoyed wondering around the exhibition, especially as i was by myself and could concentrate on certain sections on my own and could be mesmerised by a piece of work without anybody interrupting my thoughts etc!
Designers involved with this exhibition were people such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin and Daniel Rozin as well as emerging designers such as Troika and Simon Heijdens.
This is a section off the V&A website describing what the Themes involved were:
'The exhibition explores three themes: Code presents pieces that use computer code to create new works and looks at how code can be programmed to create constantly fluid and ever-changing works. Interactivity looks at works that are directly influenced by the viewer. Visitors will be invited to interact with and contribute to the development of the exhibits. Network focuses on works that comment on and utilise the digital traces left behind by everyday communications and looks at how advanced technologies and the internet have enabled new types of social interaction and mediums of self-expression.'
The 'Code' theme didn't really interest me, I wasn't drawn in by it, but then again I dont suppose I ever have been interested in the codes behind things - fair enough this exhibition represents it as art work and I think that is extremely respectable. But for me personally, I did not like that style.
The 'Network' theme I did think was quite interesting. They were the pieces of works that were sat in between the screen based code works and the big playground of interactivity works!!
The 'Interactivity' theme was absolutely fantastic - It was a bit annoying that there were big crowds around so I couldnt really have a proper go on anything! But just by observing other people and what they were creating by just waving their hands in the air was very inspiring!

One piece of work I didn't really like though, was 'Videogrid' by Ross Phillips.

I did like the idea behind it, but I just think with it done in the right way and with people giving it the respect it deserved it would have been a beautiful experimentation. At the time when I went to see it however, people were being in my opinion, silly and immature with the piece! I know it had no rules or anything like that, and it is a piece of work to give people, anyone that sense of freedom to do whatever you want! But at the same time i just felt like people were just being immature with the piece. It was a shame just for my own personal experience really.

This piece of work I just stared at for absolutely ages, I really did like it, the morphing shapes and colours was truely mesmerising and the way it was set out was good, different colours and shapes going on within these different circles. For me, it reminds me of mould being grown in those little pots when you were in your science lessons at school!
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