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Seriously great work in assessment 3 by Peter, Carter, Dion and Josh. 🤘🏻

Assessment 3 - Experiment & Progress:

In continuing our experimentation process to further develop our assessment, this week, we booked a satellite room and proceeded to play with video feedback, projections and audio/music, by using two projectors, a camera and our laptops. We finally used proper cameras to experiment with video feedback in which we explored the impacts of zooming in, moving and tilting the camera, resulting in a very interesting effect. The process of zooming in and moving/tilting the camera also displayed some visual glitches on the projection, such as the random bursts of light and the appearance of colours (predominantly red, green and blue lights). Carter also created short video clips that utilised various techniques including video feedback to create colourful ‘glitch’ visuals, in which we toyed with the way these videos could be projected, including projecting onto the ceiling, as well as combining two projectors to create a really long panoramic video. Additionally, Peter experimented with audio/music in which he mixed glitch sound effects with samples from other music, thus creating this atmospheric but also foreign and futuristic kind of vibe and environment.

Set up of one of the projectors and camera.

Small movements and tilting the camera, with Peter experimenting with music in the background.

Zooming in and tilting the camera, with Peter experimenting with music in the background.

Zooming in with the camera, with Peter experimenting with music in the background.

Stills of Carter’s glitch video clips.

Group Members: @cartersutherland, @dionadad, @joshuaalipio & @senseintelligence

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Homework - week 11

- Make a way for your group to communicate, share files, ideas for assessment 3 (Google Drive, DropBox, Facebook is ok..)

- Decide on the theme/s you are working with as a group.

- Meet once to start brainstorming, everyone bring a material to their first meeting.

- Next week straight up, we will have group consultations about your assignment.

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Assess 3 - Moving, time, performance, engagement.

In assessment 3, we think about and make with movement, time, performance, kinetic sculpture and time based collaboration. I will continue to post examples over coming weeks for you to absorb, reference and share:

Anne Imhof: Angst II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjVGOLmWmRw

Anne Imhof: Faust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCF3buPU670

Fischli and Weiss: The Way Things Go

https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/fischli-and-weiss-way-things-go-excerpt

Liquid Architecture have a huge list of artists they have worked with in thei programs that work with sound literally and conceptually:

https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/

Tori Wranes: The Eccentrics Performance Program

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SKveGIUJWc

Clare Milledge: Strigiformes: Binocular, Binarual

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqFx6oF5DJc&t=36s

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A great work by Carter - Head to his blog to see process etc.

ADAD1002 Assessment 2 FINAL WORK

The relationship between humans and non-humans, specifically environments, is extremely complex and infinitely faceted. Yet, the relationship between humans and their environments, although externally observable, are extremely personal and rely almost entirely on the human consciousness’ sensory perceptions. It is for this reason that my video exists. The individual perception of environment is almost entirely reliant on visual, auditory, olfactory etc sensory experiences. Because of this, the memory of a environment as a whole or at a specific moment in time is the only way that a human/environmental relationship can last beyond the breakdown of this relationship. Connected to memory is the emotional element of the relationship between humans and non-human environments. Human emotion has a very strong influence in this relationship due to how emotion can overpower intellectual or perhaps rational thought, thus the memory of environments an individual has are subjective, as with all perception. In order to translate these ideas into my work, I sought to depict the environment in the video as a combination of my memory and the emotional tone that are associated with them, hence, atmosphere was my foremost concern.

The footage in the video was shot by myself during a hail storm on Friday the 7th of September recorded with a Sony F1 camcorder. As hail storms are quite rare, at least in Sydney, I thought that this environment would be a good subject for the work. As well as this, it is a very unique feeling to be both inside and outside during these types of weather events. The footage contains shots from inside my home looking out and footage from me walking the streets of my neighborhood during the end, and aftermath of the storm. After deciding on making the hail storm the subject of the work, I began editing and arranging the footage in After Effects and Premiere Pro. This included stabilization, colour correction, time stretching, crossfading and applying initial audio filtering. For the accompanying audio track, I took the heavily filtered audio from the camera footage and in an DAW, added stretched samples of wind chime audio clips from youtube videos from the years 2006 and 2007. I’ve always found wind chimes to be very atmospheric in an ominous or sinister way, an atmosphere which I aimed for in the production of the video.

The majority of the choices that I made in making this video were stylistic, however, these stylistic choices were made on an emotional basis. The way the video looked and sounded were more instinctual rather than methodical. This allowed for the way that my memory and sensory information transferred to the video to be reflective of how I feel about it, rather than how it happened in reality. As well as this, my choice to project the video onto the walls of a dark room and play the audio throughout the room allowed for the recreation of the event on a purely subjective basis. The audience in the room have, in a sense, a window into my memory, specifically that memory of that environment, but instead of being a part of the relationship between me and that place they are in the relationship as a spectator. Even if the viewer watches the video elsewhere, they are still experiencing and interpreting the sensory information of the work.

As for inspiration for the work, much of the inspiration from my last project, the poster, carries over. Contemporary film photographers who capture urban and suburban landscapes like Mia Novakova, Thomas Jordan, Patrick Joust and Steven Siegel to name few, have a very dreamy and emotionally charged nature to their work. As well as these artists, several filmmakers formed basis for how I approached shooting and editing the work, namely Béla Tarr, Scott Barley, Terrence Malick, Leighton Pierce and Terence Davies to also name a few. All of these artists in some way or another depict environment with abstract and subjective style. There are also several musical inspirations in how I approached the audio component of the work. Artists like William Basinski, The Caretaker, Grouper, Tim Hecker, Boards Of Canada and Bohren & der Club of Gore are a few of the many musicians who informed my stylistic choices through the nature of their atmospheric and emotionally charged music.

Sources

Playing the World’s Largest Wind Chime [Online Video], 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mucgV7U2Tdc - Uploaded by user ‘aerocar’

Wind Chimes [Online Video], 2006, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsZH9QM7Dr4 - Uploaded by user ‘scub0y’

Japanese wind chimes [Online Video], 2006, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wA_hdCGw4E - Uploaded by user ‘photojpn’

Huge Wind Chimes in SLO [Online Video], 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzTs2akpUUI - Uploaded by user ‘Don Miller’

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A really great work by Cynthia - head to her blog to see her process.

Documentation of final work

Channel 1: https://soundcloud.com/cynthia-loh-76299221/channel-1/s-0BtWg

Channel 2: https://soundcloud.com/cynthia-loh-76299221/channel-2/s-8oiPY

Channel 3: https://soundcloud.com/cynthia-loh-76299221/channel-3/s-uKZnX

Channel 4: https://soundcloud.com/cynthia-loh-76299221/channel-4/s-s5cwp

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Context and Time Exercise

30 mins in class:

Think about and make a mind map/brain storm about materials and methodologies you have in mind for assignment two thinking specifically about context. What is the historical context for the material? What is its fabrication context? Who made it (labour/industrial contexts)? Then do the same for your ideas around methodology (photography, game culture etc etc).

From doing this brainstorm/mind map, you will have collated new information about what your work might be about, how to approach the materials going forward and how to to discuss your ideas more. 

In the last 5 minutes, share this with someone else in the class, we will discuss some of the results as a class.

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Assessment 1 Final work

Dildo Wonderland

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Research references.

Some research sources

Here are some web sources that I regularly use for reference material and just to check out what other people are thinking/ doing. 

http://www.ubu.com/ Gold mine of highly curated, experimental art. Spend all your procrastination time on here. 

https://www.e-flux.com/ Super influential online journal. They also have a range of creative web based projects that you can browse. 

https://www.dezeen.com/ Architecture and design magazine. 

https://www.designboom.com/ Another massive archive of creative projects. 

https://maas.museum/powerhouse-museum/ Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences is a super fun place to go visit for inspiration. They have a pretty incredible collection. They have a good digitised collection too that you can browse online. 

http://runway.org.au/ Local journal based around promoting and commissioning experimental art. They produce issues based on particular concepts. In the past they produced printed magazines but are now web based which allows them to publish content in a variety of media. They have also digitised all of their printed editions. It’s now an amazing archive of creative work and ideas. 

http://www.discipline.net.au/ Melbourne based contemporary art journal. Very meaty content. 

http://unprojects.org.au/ Excellent publication out of Melbourne. 

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/ Cabinet Magazine publishes articles on all kinds of amazing things that you might find inspiring. 

Remember to visit the library. Go in and browse new books and journals. 

Follow every possible gallery, museum, artists you like, designers you like on Instagram. Turn your scrolling into research. This is a great way to keep up with what is going on. You never know where inspiration is going to come from. 

Some galleries and museums to keep up with: 

https://artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries (exhibitions that are currently on might be useful to you for references for your assessments)  

https://artdesign.unsw.edu.au/campus/student-galleries/kudos-gallery

http://firstdraft.org.au/

http://carriageworks.com.au/

http://art.uts.edu.au/

http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/

https://thecommercialgallery.com/

http://www.sarahcottiergallery.com/

http://home.alaskaprojects.com/

https://www.nas.edu.au/place/gallery/

https://www.artspace.org.au/

http://www.knulps.org/past/ (tiny artist run space, best visual identity, check out their exhibition posters)

https://www.airspaceprojects.com.au/

http://c-a-c.com.au/

http://www.penrithregionalgallery.org/exhibitions/

http://www.casulapowerhouse.com/

http://www.whiterabbitcollection.org/

http://www.galeriepompom.com/

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Some really great work presented for assessment 1 posters folks. I really enjoyed getting to know our class more through discussing your work.

Poster: Informal Vote

For this assessment I responded to the second research topic, regarding the canonisation of rebellion in art history. The prompt suggests that rebellion must be an original action, but because rebellion has become a canonical technique, that, in contemporary practice, rebellion is impossible. The work serves as a proposition for what a contemporary rebellion would look like.

Initially, my research began with analysis of a Calvin and Hobbes strip, ‘Metal’. From this, I determined the key to genuine rebellion was the sincerity of the action. In art, wherever sincerity appears in excess, camp often appears alongside it. This led me to Sontag’s Notes on “Camp” which informed the remainder of my assessment.

My work serves as a metaphor for a rebellious action, specifically rebellion against mandatory voting. The ability to vote is often regarded as a privilege, however, when made mandatory not only do you disregard this privilege, you also eliminate the option of abstinence. Under this system, if someone wishes to abstain from voting they must submit an informal vote.

I see intentional submission of an informal vote to be an ideal way to rebel in contemporary society. The action’s ethos borrows heavily from that of 70s and 80s punk culture (that of antiauthoritarianism and individual liberty), yet subverts these attitudes to be more appropriate for a modern person. It assumes the guise of civility and keeps the actor safe from repercussion, yet down the line wastes the time of vote counters and contributes to the ever-growing statistics indicating public frustration and dissatisfaction with our current mode of government.

Sontag’s defines camp as “love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.” I tried to harness this with the poster, utilizing the exaggerated and the absurd in order to project onto (and therefore reveal) the ridiculousness of the AEC. It is often said that it is not the lawmaker who incites social change but the artist. My ambition is not that great, but hopefully I have done enough to breed doubt in an individual who might not have felt so otherwise.

References:

Sontag, S ‘Notes on “Camp”’ Camp: queer aesthetics and the performing subject: a reader (1964): 53-65.

Watterson, B ‘Calvin and Hobbes’, March 18 1992

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Some really great work presented for assessment 1 posters folks. I really enjoyed getting to know our class more through discussing your work.

ADAD1002 Assessment Task 1 - Poster | FINAL WORK

1. Art and design often explore relationships between humans and non-humans, the environment and ecology. How can contemporary art and design propose new possibilities for imagining the ‘human’ and the environment?

Concept Statement:

With my poster I sought to explore the connections between humans and their environment or the nature of ecologies. Specifically, my poster aims to capture how human emotions is a key factor in the interpretation of environment. In my case, the poster was an attempt to visually, and in some textural aspects, capture the feelings that I associate with my early childhood homes.

All the images featured on the poster are things which I associate with my early childhood and are mostly taken by me, either on film or digital cameras. The images range from pictures of my house, photos of my neighborhood, photos of my parents and house pets, screenshots from my computer, textures scanned using a flatbed scanner, and so on. In the poster, the edges of all the images are feathered allowing for the photos to bleed into one another in order to create a single image that can be seen less as separate, individual memories and perceptions, but rather a collective feeling of my relationship to that environment.

The inspiration for the work comes from several photographers, like Thomas Jordan, Mia Novakova, and Patrick Joust who often photograph urban or domestic landscapes at night or in the late afternoon and capture the emotional weight of these landscapes. The visual softness of many of the images from these photographers inspired me to allow my images in the poster to bleed into one another creating a continuous image.  Australian artist, Elena Paponikolas’ works in the series “WANDERLUST” were also important in how I sought to employ the multiple elements of a collage. The medium of video also played a role in informing my decisions in creating my poster as in the past I had primarily been working in the audio/video format, but with this poster, I aimed to create the feeling of experiencing something visually and sonically, only using visual techniques.

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Some really great work presented for assessment 1 posters folks. I really enjoyed getting to know our class more through discussing your work.

Assessment Task 1 - Final Work:

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Some really great work presented for assessment 1 posters folks. I really enjoyed getting to know our class more through discussing your work.

http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/02/tiny-rebellions/Final work.

Rebellion is the act of going against the rules to try to invoke change. Since rebellion has now become a norm, nobody really is inspired by simple rebellion art because it has now been demoted to purely just art. The question of whether rebellions have any power to rally the society since they have been canonised in art is a complex issue that has many layers behind it. Rebellion is still very present in our modern day society, however as united protests and demands have become ineffective and less popular, individual rebellions are slowly increasing. People have begun to rebel for the way that they feel unhappy with how their lives are- this may include negative forms of release like drinking or smoking, or personal protests for change such as breaking female stereotypes. I communicated this by photoshopping such personal forms of rebellion onto the fragile petals of a floral background to suggest that in our everyday world, there are always secrets and individual problems that people face. The quote in the rose petals is by Kaveh Sharooz, former senior policy adviser to global affairs Canada, commenting on the Iranian uprising currently fighting for better food and pay conditions. I decided to use a play on words to create my poster, by producing a false quote from an authoritative government figure. The quote, “What I’ll conclude with is; we are proud to tell you that rebelling no longer exists from this day forward.” is supposed to invoke a sense of oppression and loss of hope for those who want change. However, as you shine a torch across the grey words, certain words become highlighted, revealing the secret message “what are you rebelling for?” This is meant to suggest that although creative rebellions have been canonised into art, individuals are still fighting for what they want for every single day, as well as provoke the responder to try to answer the question as a final impression of the work.

references:

B. Fishel., Morpheus, [website], 2015,  https://www.thisismorpheus.com/2015/12/the-art-of-rebellion-in-the-21st-century/, (accessed on 15 Aug 2018)

T. Glavin., The uprising in Iran: ‘This is what revolution looks like’, [website], 2018, https://www.macleans.ca/news/world/the-uprising-in-iran-this-is-what-revolution-looks-like/, (accessed on 15 Aug 2018)

B. Valentino., Tiny rebellions, [wesite], 2015, http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/02/tiny-rebellions/, (accessed on 16 Aug 2018)

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Some really great work presented for assessment 1 posters folks. I really enjoyed getting to know our class more through discussing your work.

FINAL POSTER

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Some really great work presented for assessment 1 posters folks. I really enjoyed getting to know our class more through discussing your work.

“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard”.

This quote taken from Arundhati Roy is an important part of the creation of this poster. That not every person has the choice or freedom to express what is going on in their lives due to conflicts, the media or systems in place in order to silence them.

With today’s technology and ever increasing social networks I wanted to explore what it would be like to destroy these foundations, to live in an analog world and not having to live up to the expectations/control of social media.

What if everybody had decided to disconnect, what kind of place would we live in? Are countries/places without technology benefiting?

The smashed iphone is a symbolic interpretation and rebellious act of the detachment from the emotional struggles, overload of news and constant stimulation of keeping up with the world. That at any moment a person has come to a realisation that this device has potentially taken over their life and dealing with a loss of identity. 

The iphone displaying a damaged iphone is a metaphor for a broken heart, this sense of being totally disconnected to the outside world.

During my research I found artists that were using different mediums to express their feelings in countries that did not allow any creative expression. In particular Shirin Neshats work of oppression against Muslim women. Thesubject of protecting your culture and being proud of your identity. even when people are blind to whats happening.

This poster explores the possibilities that an individual has the opportunity to creatively rebel against todays world of social media and the information highway.. As well a symbol for the people who are kept under a system of control and limited freedom of expressions.

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Some really great work presented for assessment 1 posters folks. I really enjoyed getting to know our class more through discussing your work.

Final presentation of the poster

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Concept statements:

In your concept statement, you could consider writing about:

What interested you about your chosen topic and what questions did you have when you started working and researching your topic? What are the key words and what did they make you reflect on?

What did you discover when you began to research the area and what art works, designers, posters, reference’s influenced the way you made your poster?

What experiments did you try in the lead up to producing the poster and what materials/processes did you explore?

What were you aiming to achieve in producing the poster the way that you have? How have you explored the poster in context and how does the way that you have presented the poster effect the way we understand it?

What questions do you have about the topic after you have made the poster or, has making this assignment helped you to arrive at a new place on the topic.

List of references.

Please consider how you present and contextualise your poster as important!