Alan A. - Another Video
Posted in 292/392 on June 1st, 2010
Electronic Art 3rd year
Facebook and art?
Posted in Electronic Art 3rd year on May 27th, 2010TODAY, TOO, I EXPERIENCED SOMETHING I HOPE TO UNDERSTAND IN A FEW DAYS
James Coupe
A site-specific artwork that auto-generates films based upon narrative data collected from Facebook profiles. Using a combination of status updates, YouTube uploads and video portraits, the work looks at people in Barrow-in-Furness from a range of different perspectives, each one a form of surveillance.
Amy
Posted in 292/392 on May 23rd, 2010Argh I’ve been trying for days to post some videos i made with my microscope camera, but I don’t think my computer can handle it, so I will share this link with you all instead. I think these videos are the best thing ever.
http://www.symphonyofscience.com/
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos, that makes me want to grab people on the street and say “Have you heard this?!”
Ling’s stuff :)
Posted in 292/392 on May 18th, 2010my idea of my work is playing around with beauty, cups and the feeling of touch…
Georgia’s Progress
Posted in 292/392 on May 18th, 2010These are just some shots i’ve taken over the past few weeks. I’m working with projection onto the body and also onto the environment/buildings/objects. I find projection is quite a unique form of visual art. The simple form of light being painted onto ordinary surfaces can transform a space into something extraordinary, beautiful, shocking and unique. It is not only an artform within itself but encompasses the surrounding environment and objects within it to become a part of the art. It seems to combine performance and installation into an ephemeral body of work. The images I have used are specifically ones taken from my Dad’s very old photo album, when he first arrived in Australia. As a sequence they map out his adventure from Sydney, across the Nullarbor, to Perth where he met my mum…and the rest is history.
Art by Amy
Posted in 292/392 on May 16th, 2010I find myself particularly drawn to science and philosophy in art; I enjoy questioning, discovering, and trying to get a sense of the ‘bigger picture’. I hope my art will encourage people to feel more of a connection to their instincts, nature, and to one another.
I like to use symbols in my photos/videos that represent the cosmos to me; patterns and shapes that appear at all scales and lie at the core of life, nature, thought, and flow of energy… from stars to dustmotes, spiral galaxies to snail shells, rivers to capillaries.
I use my camera as a tool to observe, process, and question the relationship between that which I think of as pure (ie untouched by man, merely observed in a natural state of flow) and the artificial, disconnected world which I find myself immersed in. I like to play with time and scale, to show people things in ways they don’t usually see them.
In response to the question of a hypothetical artwork, I would love to use a virtual reality headset to create an interactive world in which viewers would feel disoriented and enlightened by the play of scale. I would immerse them in a wonderland in which they could make themselves as big or small as they wanted. By varying their size, viewers would be free to explore a number of environments and observe their feelings toward those environments in relation to themselves.
Maybe they would start inside an atom, sitting on the nucleus and watching electrons whizzing through the sky. maybe the next size up would allow viewers to explore the inside of the body; the size of a blood cell, and see what it’s like to travel through their own veins. Then maybe they could be in a bug sized world, looking up at a blade of grass and dodging a massive human foot as they stomp clumsily through the garden. They could experience the world through the eyes of a pet cat. Then maybe a regular sized human, looking up at the trees. Then a Godzilla sized human, looking down on buildings and up at the stars. From there they would be free to grow bigger and bigger, exploring the galaxy, other galaxies, the entire universe.
I hope this would be an enjoyable, humbling experience and give people some perspective.
Alan A. - Art Studio Research
Posted in 292/392 on May 11th, 2010When I chose Media Art as my first preference for my Major, I had anticipated that we had the choice of doing either Photography or purely digital work such as interfacing, working in Blender etc. I wasn’t aware that it was split into six weeks of doing photography and the next six week block doing electronic arts. Also, with the confusion of the Art Studio Project and Art Studio Research work - it made things seem a bit more challenging. These are some of the works I have done for ASP and ASR.