Reflection on semester 2

M.A Final Show

Workshop_Flash:Week 4-5

I used the same theme of self-portrait throughout all the workshops. This was the final piece I presented on completion of the course.
I wanted to convey movement in the experiential experience of singing, and how the breath is a vehicle for my soul to be projected onto the world..

“I sow to the four winds” is an interactive installation that reacts to breath. I like the simplicity of this project but at the same time, it is very powerful.
It requires the elementary process of breath bringing to life the virtual dandelion.  In order to experience the process one must breathe on the screen and [...]

Reflection_Personal experience

Time.Motion.Space:Mouth

Time.Motion.Space:Timeline

I created a timeline to represent western cultures perception of “time”. I wanted to experiment by using the “space” in between lines to visualise that no matter how much we try to fight it, time takes on different forms and will eventually find its own from – we can’t control it, but there’s ways of [...]

I listen to you breathe..while you sleep….

I created this piece after I had an asthma attack. The work tries to recreate the peaceful and tranquil state I experienced after realising that I wasn’t alone in this period of illness. I had a wonderful person beside me who was listening to my shallow breathing to make sure [...]

Breathe in, scream out….

I wanted to convey the conscious process of breath within an asthmatic context, as shown through my personal experiences of having difficulty breathing and knowing how hard the process of breathing can be through having this respiratory illness. The visuals show the various breath patterns, from short gasps to deep fulfilling [...]

Digital and Video Art_Florence de MEREDIEU

I have used a botanists trerm to describe the rhizome…is a horizontal stem of a plant that is usually found underground, often sending out roots and shoots from its nodes.

M.A Final Show_Publication 13-3-08 “One Space”

During discussion in the publication organisation committee meeting, two fellow students came up with an idea for a theme that would incorporate every M.A student at the final year show - ”One Space”. The common denominator that we all have is the space in which we work, this is also the space our work will be completed and shown in.
The floor plans [...]

Final cut Pro 2 weeks

Sciria_Seminar 5th March

Sicria_5th March
Participative and Locative Media
Straitjacket Embrace!
Straitjacket Embrace! deals with experiences of the fear and desire of others in public spaces and the ways that we feel socially connected or disconnected. In our mediated society the public space is no longer a space we can leave or exclude. Through wireless technology – chat, mail, GSM, [...]

Pure Data_workshop 20th Feb 08

This software offers me an opportunity to create event driven 3D graphics. Eventually I would also like to integrate video as a way to further experiment with this software.

Ardunio boards for connecting external sensors…

Pure Data_Workshop 21st Feb 08

The above is a representation of a still in the pure data interface. I used the square for this example as it gave dimension to the visual…the colours morphed and the scale varied in response to user’s voice. The program offers striking and dynamic interaction between the user and the interface and creates a seamless [...]

Free Dive_Therapeutic power of games….

Free Dive is a virtual reality-based, 3D undersea exploration adventure that invites players to swim with sea turtles and tropical fish as they hunt for hidden treasure.
Designed to distract children who undergo frequent and often painful medical procedures. In conjunction with the medical researchers at University of Maryland Medical Center and the non-profit foundation Believe [...]

Breath_realtime: The Pretty Route

As a singer, I use myself as a part of my research. Breath control is something I had to learn in order to sing professionally and correct breathing techniques are paramount to every performance.
My focus is on my diaphragm which is a powerful muscles that can control the breath.As a [...]

Breath By Samuel Beckett

Through researching various artists who use breath within there work, one a the key figures who had inspired them was Samuel Beckett and his seminal piece by Breath.
“Breath is a 25 second play. The stage directions consist of a birth cry, inhaling and exhaling, and a stage covered with filth [...]

Ideas_visuals

notes and thoughts to come…..

Movement

I wanted to convey motion through my visual so I researched commercial artists who are using this style within their work. I have chosen a collection that I would like to explore further.
I will conduct some experiments trying to re-create in my own style some of the movement. I will begin by using simple sparklers [...]

Workshop_Illustrator:Week 3

Using Illustrator I designed and created my bands promotional flyer. It was a perfect opportunity to create a piece of work in which I could use my new knowledge in a commercial piece of work.The objective was create a visual that could make my band ambiguous and to give a bit of mystique to our [...]

Nam June Paik_Video Works 1963-88

The most important elements are the intergration of spectator and performer into a physical and psychological whole; creating an awareness of the passage of time; and the incorporation of reality into the work.
“Wulf Herzogenrath”
I went along to check out the digital Artist Nam June Paik exhibition at Korean Cultural Centre.
My first impression of viewing the [...]

Louise Bourgeois_Exhibition

Louise Bourgeois is one of the world’s most respected sculptors. Over a long career she has worked through most of the twentieth century’s avant-garde artistic movements from abstraction to realism, yet has always remained uniquely individual, powerfully inventive, and often at the forefront of contemporary art.

Duchamp_Manray_Picabia:The moment Art Changed Forever_Exhibition

In order to do more research about contemporary and conceptual art, I went to see the Duchamp Manray Picabia Exhibition at the Tate Modern. Duchamp has been an inspiration to many of the current digital artists I have been researching.
I am interested to find out who gets to decide what “art” is and also [...]

Nam June Paik:Mr Nam June PAIK_Exhibition

I went along to check out the digital Artist Nam June Paik exhibition at Korean Cultural Centre.
My first impression of viewing the artist work was of energy the
Through researching PAIK and his callobration, his work had a spirtual element of it and through working with Joseph Beuys
had used the ideaolgies in shamanism and how the [...]

Time.Motion.Space:Virtual Foreplay

I collaborated with Katrin Maria Escay on photographing sensual parts of my body that react when breath being blown upon them.
We took photographs of various parts of the body and wanted to show goose bumps as the reaction to the breath….
The idea was conceived through a discussion in relation to the [...]

Text and Image:Ideas

I photographed this image for the Scottish historical legacy it had with bygone battles that had taken place around it. The river had been documented to have been a bloody graveyard of many dead soldiers who had lost their lives.
What interested me was what was “unseen” to the naked eye. History had impregnated the surrounds [...]

Workshop_Flash:Week 3

Workshop_Flash:Week 2

I sketched some ideas using the techniques that I learned within the tutorial.
The motion and shape tween were useful and could give my idea a basic animation.
I experimented with both techniques with the context inhaling and exhaling. I used the self-portrait to imbue the process of my participating in this physical [...]

Abstraction_exhibition: Digital Print_XHLnoir (on wall)

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