Thursday, November 8, 2007
The final project... What can I say about it? Well the whole thing was good in theory but the final product. I really like the idea of using figurine instead of the disc I found, but that’s a matter of budget. The website I really enjoyed making, its looks great and I’m really proud of how far I have come this semester! The final installation itself ran into a few difficulties, finds one hundred unique spaces wasn’t easy! I wanted people to find them, but make sure they looked placed, so viewers could think, what is this? Why here? I'm hoping someone will post something on the discussion board I've set up. Google is pretty simple to use. One thing I have with this project is the size of it, I guess it was meant to be an example, but it took allot of work and the full installation would be on a massive scale over months. If only I was a thousandaire...
Third Artist
Time indefinite: interesting project where there was a timeline and people added text and photographs from there lives and the time. It was very starange the type of things chose to put on there, anyone in the public could add to it!
http://www.timeindefinite.net/
The project works in most ways, the conceptual element to the work it very interesting. Exploring alomost the multiple momments that can exist in a single conscious moment. I found my self asking where was I when this person died? When these people got a job etc.
I think this element is missed a little, hopefully more people will add to it so multiple recorded events can be shown in the same momment.
http://www.timeindefinite.net/
The project works in most ways, the conceptual element to the work it very interesting. Exploring alomost the multiple momments that can exist in a single conscious moment. I found my self asking where was I when this person died? When these people got a job etc.
I think this element is missed a little, hopefully more people will add to it so multiple recorded events can be shown in the same momment.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Second Artist Review
http://www.noanimalswerehurt.com
This artwork reminds me of what I want to do with my own final project. It is a film that with each new unique computer IP address a new frame is opened. Originally there were 5000 frames, my viewing was number 27444, and unlocked this image:
The next new person will unlock the next frame, eventually resulting in the final complete film.
This is the type of thing my project is developing into. I want to continue my first project, except have more of a spacial context to the non-linear narrative to engage people who collect items that give more meaning and reason to the viewer to explore the physical and online space.
I see strange items and photographs that connect the space, objects and text of the physical and online space, connecting any people involved with it.
The point of this, is to challenge peoples perception of the environment as stable and connections with each other, bringing alight these connections and discussing them.
This artwork reminds me of what I want to do with my own final project. It is a film that with each new unique computer IP address a new frame is opened. Originally there were 5000 frames, my viewing was number 27444, and unlocked this image:
The next new person will unlock the next frame, eventually resulting in the final complete film.
This is the type of thing my project is developing into. I want to continue my first project, except have more of a spacial context to the non-linear narrative to engage people who collect items that give more meaning and reason to the viewer to explore the physical and online space.
I see strange items and photographs that connect the space, objects and text of the physical and online space, connecting any people involved with it.
The point of this, is to challenge peoples perception of the environment as stable and connections with each other, bringing alight these connections and discussing them.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Next post!
http://www.turbulence.org/
First artwork I looked at:
"The Essential Guide to PerformingMichael Mandiberg by Michael Mandibergwith funds from the Jerome Foundation andthe National Endowment for the ArtsPart user's manual, part experimental self-portrait, The Guide is an on-line tutorial that teaches the user the details of performing Michael Mandiberg's persona. It is part of The Exchange Program, a series of exchanges in which Michael and nine others switch lives with one another for ten days. The guide-as-user-manual turns personality into procedures, situations, and props. "
This project was interesting, to be honest I’m not sure it really happened, that these people changed their lives with another person. The site had collected diary’s and photo’s and questionarres from the people who experienced the ‘swap’. I liked the site, the pieces of the event that had already happened. I got the feel that I was interacting with the complex narrative that was taking place by searching through the evidence of the event. The mysterious nature of the person who took over the others life, both I and the friends and family will never know who they really are. One of the elements I most enjoyed was the response from friends and family involved, some got into it, others seemed quite disturbed. Amazing the amount of individualism can come across in a simple questionnaire. Overall it was an interesting interactive art piece slash social experiment, challenging the familiar and exploring the boundaries of identity.
First artwork I looked at:
"The Essential Guide to PerformingMichael Mandiberg by Michael Mandibergwith funds from the Jerome Foundation andthe National Endowment for the ArtsPart user's manual, part experimental self-portrait, The Guide is an on-line tutorial that teaches the user the details of performing Michael Mandiberg's persona. It is part of The Exchange Program, a series of exchanges in which Michael and nine others switch lives with one another for ten days. The guide-as-user-manual turns personality into procedures, situations, and props. "
This project was interesting, to be honest I’m not sure it really happened, that these people changed their lives with another person. The site had collected diary’s and photo’s and questionarres from the people who experienced the ‘swap’. I liked the site, the pieces of the event that had already happened. I got the feel that I was interacting with the complex narrative that was taking place by searching through the evidence of the event. The mysterious nature of the person who took over the others life, both I and the friends and family will never know who they really are. One of the elements I most enjoyed was the response from friends and family involved, some got into it, others seemed quite disturbed. Amazing the amount of individualism can come across in a simple questionnaire. Overall it was an interesting interactive art piece slash social experiment, challenging the familiar and exploring the boundaries of identity.
Whoops
I nearly forgot about my little blogger. I shall post some more!
Okay, The first project.
Things that didn't work so well;
A lot of people became frustrated, particularly on the third or fourth page where there was little direction, you had to click around to find a way out of there. Most people gave up.
I was aiming to keep this problem to a minimum by having both a visual and a textual type narrative. The images from clicking around were meant to be aesthetically pleasing, so the viewer felt rewarded rather than hard done by. You could also read the different texts throughout the project and appreciate the visual nature of the concepts created in the text. If you were super smart you could connect how the images manipulate the content of the text, and as you go 'deeper' into the narrative, the text takes on image like qualities. I felt that the project did challenge these boundaries, both with creative writing in a slipstream sense and the relationship between the text and image. I also aimed to challenge the interactivity of the user, the writing style incorporated addressing the reader directly to hopefully force them to reflect on their role as a reader.
Perhaps this was a little to confronting and therefore why people gave up.
Okay, The first project.
Things that didn't work so well;
A lot of people became frustrated, particularly on the third or fourth page where there was little direction, you had to click around to find a way out of there. Most people gave up.
I was aiming to keep this problem to a minimum by having both a visual and a textual type narrative. The images from clicking around were meant to be aesthetically pleasing, so the viewer felt rewarded rather than hard done by. You could also read the different texts throughout the project and appreciate the visual nature of the concepts created in the text. If you were super smart you could connect how the images manipulate the content of the text, and as you go 'deeper' into the narrative, the text takes on image like qualities. I felt that the project did challenge these boundaries, both with creative writing in a slipstream sense and the relationship between the text and image. I also aimed to challenge the interactivity of the user, the writing style incorporated addressing the reader directly to hopefully force them to reflect on their role as a reader.
Perhaps this was a little to confronting and therefore why people gave up.
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