soooo the exercise in our informatics/elecro(nics?) class is like lab5: experiment 1,... experiment 7, how to(generalisation, in each lab different things, eg differentiating in matlab and whatnot):...; lab6: experiment1,..., experiment 4, working with virtual devices (which I THOUGHT WAS AND IT REALLY WAS A HOW TO BC IT DIDN'T HAVE DO THIS AND FYRTHER ANALISE THAT) but after I submitted everything I got 40% and the question "where's the working with virtual devices" and I'm like huh. What. WASN'T THIS A HOW TO SECTION????? IN ANY CASE I DID FUCKING INCLUDE THE VIRTUAL DEVICES IN THE EXPERIMENTS RIGHT LIKE THEY WERE NOT COMPLICATED THIS TIME???? WTFFFFF
Continuing on the ideas of my last post I have decided to look into ambiguous characters that can be perceived differently.
The Man in the Moon
The King of Thieves
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
These unidentifiable characters can be seen differently by different people and will be the focus of my investigation.
I have created the instruction:
“Meet ...” where one must meet these characters which is an intangible goal as they simply don't physically exist.
I experimented with how I can approach this self-set instruction, how can I meet these characters? So I decided I would walk around campus and ask a range of people if they were the man in the moon and those who said yes I would quickly sketch, documenting my meeting.
The Man in the Moon
I quite liked this experiment and the ambiguity and simplicity of these sketches that is similar to the ambiguity of the fictional characters. However, when experimenting with other characters I perhaps might take a different approach and instead of having the figures individually drawn, have them layered. Or maybe I will adopt someone else to follow the instruction.
In retrospect, a three dimensional box generally consists of 6 faces, 12 edges and 8 vertices. However this box has 4 faces, 16 edges and 16 vertices.
How?
I decided to start at the very basics and construct what I thought a box is in Microsoft Excel. Originally intending to use 6 individual rectangles I noticed 4 was enough to create the illusion of a closed box. The resizing tool allowed for further experimentation on the versatility of the four core rectangular shapes which form the illusory box.
I decide to experiment further on the idea of illusions and what constitutes a box.
Cleaned, clipping and sanded down...they look a lot better now! For the first round, we did pretty well...#clipped #cleaned #sanded #resin #experiment1 #totoro https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz2Jl6mBUmI/?igshid=1tthrvm6umjvb
I starting looking at my last assessment and thought about ways of changing and expanding it. this experiment is focusing at a different medium and material. I used lino to create an image derived from combining two images: the North Korea flag and a man from Pablo Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ to reflect the recent conflict between North Korea and America. The image is similar to one in assessment 2 as I liked combining a event from history and one current to explore how issues are still happening today. During this experiment I looked at the effect of ink and the pressure applied when creating the print. It was interesting to see the image disappearing as I wish the conflict would.
Above is the result of the experiment. They also remind me of stamps with its repetitive nature of the same image.