It’s been an interesting year - I’ve learned a lot but not the sorts of things I was expecting to learn. I probably thought I’d learn about techniques but I’ve learned more about myself and the way I work. I’ve discovered that I default to projection work, that interactive art is the work […]

Sam Kass had the bright idea of using his own Quartz Compositions in iMovie. iMovie already has a number of Quartz Compositions linked into it that can be used as effects, but what if you could create your own effects, more complex ones?

He details the method here, not that it’s very complex. The […]

This is for the tutors really - but if anyone else is interested it might help make sense of the last few months worth of posts. Follow links to read evaluations for the Individual Research Project and the Identity unit.

I.R.P. evaluation
Identity evaluation

I’ve been thinking about my work recently and I’ve realised that most of the work I have done in the last two and a bit years have been projection work of different forms. I have used OHPs, slide projectors and data projectors. I never set out to use projection but it seems to […]

Well, this should be the final word in my series on the show formerly known as Temporary Assignment where I showed a piece of my work that also doubled up as the IRP unit for my BA.
Thinking about people’s feedback - It seems obvious that the piece had some difficulty in getting the ideas across. […]

Identity, I am a nurse with three years post-qualified experience. I read people day in and day out - to assess pain, check for tensions and worries, anticipate problems and to deflate difficult/violent situations. My training included psychology and sociology and looked at biological, neurological, sociological and environmental factors for the generation and […]

Mel and I went to the ICA (Institute for Contemporary Arts) over the Easter weekend and caught the Kami-Robo Expo that was linked to the Butterfly-Stroke retrospective that was also showing. Unfortunately we only got to spend five minutes looking at the Beck’s Futures Exhibition. Se la vie.

Mel and I love the ICA […]

The piece was two opposing projectors whose images were displayed on semi-transparent material (voil and clear plastic). in between these two sheets were various types of paper (irrideseant, translucent and tracing) suspended from the top of the frame. On these sheets of paper were printed some of the translation work that I’ve been […]

Going back a few weeks, something that was a huge influence on me in the preparation stage was going to see Andrew Carnie’s work displayed in winchester. In one piece four ‘walls’ were made up of three layers of thin white cloth - 12 large sheets in total. Each wall was then projected […]

A very good article by Banksy, the graf artist from London, about the role of graffiti in light of Melbourne’s decision to white-wash over one of the most diverse areas of ‘public art’ in the world - published in the Guardian on Fri (24/03/06)
Read the Article here.

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BA.dger struggles again

Well, it’s been a while but here’s my first blog entry in a while.
What’s happened:
Well, marriage is great - I heartily recommend it. I eat well, sleep better (sometimes ) and I feel like the house is finally becoming a home - albeit a rather messy one, I […]

I’ve been thinking about what ideas I’ve got and where I can take them. Going right back to the first day of the course where we were told to write a storyboard - a development from one point to another. Not necessarily a lateral progression from one point to the next, but a […]

Right, time for catch up. Things have been manic lately what with the Winchester induction rolling on and the exhibition coming up plus personal stuff. Right now I’m in the wee small hours of a night shift, keeping the pennys rolling in.
The project has taken a new turn as I’ve had to […]