Ideas_construction of Installation

Some ruff ideas ive had on displaying my work…ive took a ruff picture of where it will be situtaed in
the basement….

Final Prototypes_examples

Fish & Microchips….

Quartz Composer

Quartz Composer_Feather

I have been experimenting with quartz composer. i decided to use a simple feather as texting the “Replicate in Time” patch in the programme

Colloquium_M.A Digital Arts

Magic Tree_Experiment-time lapse

Research_Place of worship

Chinese “Magic” Garden

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 [...]

Five Angels for the Millennium, Bill Viola

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 [...]

Quote by Lao Tse

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 [...]

Optical Art_Examples

Reflection on semester 2

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..

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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_Dreamweaver:Week 3

Proposed design for website…
I wanted a combination of asymmetric pattern and dot-matrix contrast. which balances the compostion. Having vibrant cyan, yellow and magenta with the strong frame of black gives it a dynamic border.

Art Heals_How Creativity Cures The Soul: Shaun Mcniff

One author who shares my ethos on the possibilities of using new technology to promote well being is Shaun McNiff, a xxxx
Mcniff writes about therapeutic adaptations of the art theory. Within this he begins to explore the advancement of art therapy into a digital environment.
The video player was the first exploration into this felid, it [...]

Sound sculptures_Ros Bandt

I was interested in the sound installation and the impression it has on its environment. Some of the installations involved interactive part caption. One piece in particular by Graeme Davis required the participant to “play a game” where the outcome had to be thought through by the user in order to gain the optimum experience [...]

Workshop_Flash:Week 1

Abstraction_Studies:Jan 08

I have began to experiment with forms and shapes of how i would visualise the breath onto the enviroment…

1W14 Collaboration

I am callobrating with Nikos and Tim on a digital idenity project for the house gallery exhibition.
Our project is based on interactivity and facialisation of the digital persona.