I worked with Adriano and Katrina on creating the MADA Catalogue,
we wanted a simple design. I used my design skills and created the FLUID LOGO and
MADA 08 Logo. This was an opportunity to team project . I corrospodenent to my fellow
peers on collating infomation that was to be included. (I included an [...]
June 23, 2008
Categories: Assessment:KEY POINTS, Presentation and Reflection_MADA3 . . Author: Sharon Ferris . Comments: Leave a Comment
Some ruff ideas ive had on displaying my work…ive took a ruff picture of where it will be situtaed in
the basement….
June 12, 2008
Categories: Assessment:KEY POINTS, Ideas and Thoughts..., Presentation and Reflection_MADA3, Studies & Experiments . . Author: Sharon Ferris . Comments: Leave a Comment
My final year project will visually be in homage to a work by Nam June Paik, «TV-Buddha», 1974.
I will create simply modern day shrine/installation for the particapant to come and experince my work when in a meditative posture (the user will have to sit before my work e.g on a rug,as the shrine (the apple [...]
June 6, 2008
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I have been experimenting with quartz composer. i decided to use a simple feather as texting the “Replicate in Time” patch in the programme
May 19, 2008
Categories: Presentation and Reflection_MADA3, Quartz Composer, Studies & Experiments . . Author: Sharon Ferris . Comments: Leave a Comment
Memory is one of the fundamentals of human capacity that differentiate it from computers.
The book dystopian outlook of future human/cyborg existence living in a homogeneous A-sexual society where life and memory can be downloaded and experiences and encounters can be programmed in a world that is based on simulacra.
May 13, 2008
Categories: Books, Presentation and Reflection_MADA3 . . Author: Sharon Ferris . Comments: Leave a Comment
Making an animatic:
I enrolled on the Flash_Character development & animation 3 week tutorials in order to animate a self
created character.
May 13, 2008
Categories: Presentation and Reflection_MADA3, Software_training & workshops . . Author: Sharon Ferris . Comments: Leave a Comment
The first realm encountered in Osmose is a three-dimensional Cartesian grid, but with the immersant’s first breaths, this gives way to a clearing, surrounded by a forest. One can, through breath, endlessly float through this forest; or enter the clearing’s lone tree and the interior of its leaves; or sink into a pond and its [...]
April 19, 2008
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The contemporary style -growing novelty garden is made of paper and plastic and is impregnated with fungi. When the cardboard is immersed in water the
Chemical balance water and air make the fungi’s emerge from the cardboard cut-outs. They come alive and begin to grow into bright bold colours.
The scene of fast growing fungi, reflecting westerns [...]
April 14, 2008
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The Sanskrit term yoga has a wide range of different meanings. It is derived from the Sanskrit root you, “to control”, “to yoke”, or “to unite”
Several seals discovered at Indus Valley Civilization (c. 3300–1700 BC) sites depict figures in a yoga or meditation like posture Should look at posture for ideas [...]
April 14, 2008
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I am referencing two artists who have pioneered there way in digital art. Bill Viola has created a piece of work called Five Angels for the Millennium, I have chosen this work as it was a reflection on a life changing moment that happened to him as a child of near death experience through drowning.
Viola [...]
April 14, 2008
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This quote by Lao Tse, Simplifies what I have been trying to grasp within my work…
What I’m trying to capture is the essence of breathe the point where its acts as a vehicle to clear and de mystify the mind.Through researching Prana this technique in breathing where the user find the peace when the have [...]
April 14, 2008
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I choosen this example to illustrate the process of decay. My reserach has taken me on a route of wanting to explore a cycle of life and death. I have choosen the flower for this example as show through camera time lapse the death of something
April 9, 2008
Categories: Assessment:KEY POINTS, Ideas and Thoughts..., M.A Final Show, Presentation and Reflection_MADA3, Symposium . . Author: Sharon Ferris . Comments: Leave a Comment
Watching the breath
Breath is life the basic and most fundamental expression of our life…
In the teaching of Buddha, the breath, or prana in Sanskrit, it said to be “the vehicle of the mind”, because it is prana that makes our mind move.
“Imagine your breath dissolving into the all-pervading expanse of truth.”
Each [...]
April 7, 2008
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I visited the china design exhibition as I thought I would be good research into various contemporary eastern styles. My own project will now focus on eastern ideologies that surround meditation, One artist has used this context within his work and created a poster which style was optical art, the idea [...]
April 7, 2008
Categories: Artists, Exhibtions_I have visited, Presentation and Reflection_MADA3 . Tags: chinese, graphic design, sharon ferris . Author: Sharon Ferris . Comments: Leave a Comment