tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7366224175924284812024-02-06T20:17:18.256-08:00One door leads to another!We all travel down endless coridoors from time to time. We must realise that opportunity still exists in a society where doors are constantly slammed in our faces. There are millions of directions in life, we must dream of these as it is the paths we follow that define us.aydn loffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590658919203029749noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-736622417592428481.post-43078225133840336292011-06-22T08:57:00.000-07:002011-06-22T09:06:32.299-07:00To the Gallery.Both of my pieces are now completed and they are ready for the installation at the New Walsall Art Gallery. I am happy with the work that I have produced and I am looking forward to it being installed on the 27th June. Here are the final images of my work in my home. I will soon post more images of my work in the gallery as soon as its installed...<br />
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Because of the depth of my box the light behind the air vent doesn't spread as evenly as in the door does. To comprimise with this I have bought more lighting so that it doesn't look odd and it looks more complete. But like I explained earlier my theory of actually escaping through the vent seems impossible but now it is about what is behind the vent and and does the door lead to this other place? Where is the light coming from?<br />
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I am happy with this result, a little dissapointed that my air vent theory has had to slightly alter but im still pleased with it and all I have to do now is add another two lights to the upper section, as you can see its all painted and ready so once the lightingss complete its ready to be installed in the gallery.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is my door when it was first built. As you can see the lights have been fitted. I have used silver hinges because once painted I believe these will look better. The door itself was easy enough to fix to the frame and the lights were easily clip in however as you will see in the next images fitting the lights was slightly more tricky. Also by this stage before any lights were fixed I had sanded down the edges to create a nicer and smoother finish.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here you can see a clearer view of my lights, how they are fixed and what they look like turned on. The lights themselves are ideal as they swivel allowing me to reflect the LED lights to wherever I want. Also you can see what I mean when I say tricky. At the back of the door I have had to use a router to cut a path for the lights wires so that when my piece is fitted to the gallery wall the wires are not squashed. Also there is an image of once it has been painted but you may notice I have had to cut a large hole so that I can implement the LED transformer into my piece so it is hidden from the audience. All other wires will be hidden under the ground. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is the final image of my door. You can see that it is painted and also you may notice the vinyl sign. I am still pondering whether to keep this, change it or leave it off all together. </div>aydn loffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590658919203029749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-736622417592428481.post-70687603977636710252011-06-05T11:34:00.000-07:002011-06-05T11:43:01.924-07:00Fine Art Essay.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Doors - Our guardian, frame and front cover of our lives.<br />
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This essay will explore my interests and theories in relation to my studio practice. My work has naturally evolved from my previous study of architecture and psychogeography. Primarily looking at psycho geography opened up my work to a variety of avenues and interests. Offering me the possibility of using maps in an open ended way to explore urban spaces, after my exploratory work around local urban landscapes and cities, I decided it would be of my best interest to continue in a way where I could dig deeper into my original discoveries about my local society, how it works and more importantly how people work.<br />
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The front covers of our existence.<br />
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Sometimes it’s hard to find an escape or somewhere to hide, so in my practice, particularly my final submission for the art gallery I will point out the fine line between an opportunity begging and staring you in the face and another where it doesn’t’ necessary stand out. I will have done this discretely not allowing the obvious to stand out but never taking the objects purpose away. My pieces need to capture the audience’s imagination so they can relive their childhood obsessions and dreams. Audiences must feel the need to understand the purpose of my practice and where it may lead. I began term one exploring many different theories and practises such as architecture and Psychogeography. Finally these lead me to my Final Major Project “Front covers of our existence”. I will explain my journey throughout many different themes starting from urban exploration and explaining how I got to the stage where I am now.<br />
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Psycho geographic practices<br />
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One of the basic situationist practices is the dérive [literally: “drifting”], a technique<br />
of rapid passage through varied ambiances. Dérives involve playful-constructive behavior<br />
and awareness of psycho geographical effects, and are thus quite different from<br />
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Psychogeography holds many different meanings, I’ve practiced the exploration of urban landscapes and cities also in my own work. Psychogeography is a process where anyone can get involved with through the internet. It originated from human curiosity and tendency to drift away and explore environments. It involves many playful and inventive strategies to find answers. Being very experimental and letting yourself become encapsulated by mystery is the aim, as it was my own aim when I followed the maps on my circuit boards. I allowed myself to ignore my surroundings and followed these trails across Birmingham recording my discoveries. These became my inspiration for this practice. Unexpectedly I concluded my findings in places I would not have guessed, places I would not normally stray. Hypothetically It was to see if these directions had any place in real life? Or do they just work electronically? Interestingly enough it was not the destination where I was to find my answers but the journey, the derive held the importance. <br />
I used the derive as an action in which I could let myself go to where ever I was taken in the moment and make discoveries. I got used to this, finding many new walks of life and desire lines. This concept of psychogeography has lead me to understand the human way of travel. Our tendencies to cut corners and treasure time. I began unravelling informal paths that have been created. These paths are more formally known as desire lines. This concept also connects with the journey’s of life and the many variations of doors we may or may not pass. <br />
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Desire Lines<br />
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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” <br />
Ralph Waldo Emerson.<br />
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Psychogeography taught me about exploration and how you must ignore everything else that is happening around you to discover the full potential of new spaces. Also if I had not researched this theory I would have not fully appreciated exploration techniques, resulting in me not being able to present my findings about society with as much belief and detail. Psychogeography has helped link together all of my ideas and assist me in moving through all of the themes in my work.<br />
I have a strong interest in redundancy and abandonment issues, I’ve worked on these themes for a while progressing from neglection in people, electronics and more recently architecture. After my original research and exploration I early on determined an area of work I would like to pursue. I knew I wanted my practice to link with property and architecture so I took this direction. Urban exploration has been my general driving point, exploring and documenting my discoveries. My expeditions lead me to many redundant buildings. I was spurred on at the time by a national study in the Daily Mail newspaper where it claimed Walsall was listed number two in the section for large centre shop closures. It had a percentage of 26%. I wanted to see this, so I decided to discover it for myself.<br />
Architecture in the 1900’s had a huge influence on my practice. Architects in this time period began developing new architectural solutions with new technological possibilities. It was after the second world war when sky scrapers began arising. They were made from new, fresh and exciting materials. I learnt more about post war architecture and found two integral sites for my study. Trellick Tower (London) and D’Habitation (Marseilles). I became increasingly interested in most architects visions of the future, the concept of streets in the sky. <br />
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Le Corbusier described buildings as “machines for living”.<br />
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This is the idea of automatically producing communities within high rise flats, just like Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower and Corbusier’s Unit De’ Habitation. These two examples were the first of their kind and promised great things. Unlike many other examples today these two now have a famous part in history and now are relatively successful. Many other post war tower blocks have been demolished or now sit abandoned. The worlds utopian vision of living experience has merely happened and has become quite the opposite. This downfall in property and redundancy is shown in my practice. <br />
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In the 1960’s modern architecture received criticism, architecture critic Siegfried Giedion said “It seemed universal, elitist and lacked meaning” and “At the moment a certain confusion exists in contemporary architecture as in painting, a kind of pause, even a kind of exhaustion”<br />
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D’Habitation.<br />
Goldfinger saw his role very much as an artist, bringing a view of the social future a21s well as the functional present:<br />
Whenever space is enclosed a spatial sensation will automatically result for persons who happen to be within it... it is the artist who comprehends the social requirements of his time and is able to integrate the technical potentialities in order to shape the spaces of the future.<br />
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Potentially I can see a vision of the future where we all get what we desire. We already have the ability to drift away in our imagination. I believe that the day will come when our dreams can easily become reality. Leading on from my architectural study I continued my practice with the vision of a utopian escape. After influence from urban exploration and studies I pinpointed a common feature. A front door. I thought about what these doors represented and what they have experienced? Our Psyche takes us down different paths and through many doors. A door is the metaphor for our lives they represent new beginnings and endings. I’ve focused my priority on the heritage and history of doors. I’m interested in the life that a door has lived. Mostly I’ve been visiting and documenting doors of my particular interest and analysing their value. There is no definition for a door because they all represent a different way of life, and everybody owns a door. Doors live with us through our lives and memory expressing our personalities. A door is not simply a plank of wood or a cut of PVC but a guardian, frame and front cover for our lives. <br />
My current practice involves me creating the illusions of both a door and air vent leading to alternate realities. The aim is to represent a whole world to be discovered, a lifeline and guide to many corridors in life and theoretically the idea of a more utopian reality. Most human being’s find themselves running around in circles, desperate to break the trend. Often life in general accustoms to a strict daily routine where everything is planned and superstitions are created which can dictate our routine. The practice I pursue is to offer assurance that you might find yourself travelling down endless corridors but you will never know what‘s right around the corner. Also I aim for people to realise that its not the appearance but what’s inside which matters. It is for my audience to determine what lies behind my door and vent, I hope for it to ask questions of people and also offer them a mental escape. In my work I want people to believe in what they see; I want people to have faith in the images and instillations that I present.<br />
Michael Landy’s practice creates questions about value, usefulness and employment. Similarly I expect my work to question such issues.<br />
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Landy explains “The installation questions the way in which we value and identify ourselves through labour” <br />
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Landy often uses his work to make his audience address their own personal issues. He feels “Semi-detached” his large scale installation of his fathers house defines him, he was raised here and his family still remain there. I admire the realism and sentiment of Landy’s Semi-detached, I hope that my practice can similarly emulate the standard Landy has set in this piece of work. I hope people also sincerely see my work to be realistic as this element holds the key to my work being successful. I always aim for my work to have the element of feeling real if not actually being real. This is vital for my practice when gathering material and the method of gathering it. I agree with how journalist Kirsten Bailey describes Semi-detached;<br />
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“Because your in an art gallery, and programmed to observe, you notice the little things which would normally pass you by - the odd rusty nail poking out of the brickwork, bits of wire, the broken-off washing line…”<br />
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My project “Front covers of our existence” emphasises my desire is to help people learn the value of opportunity and chance, many elements of life are overlooked and often as humans we underestimate the chances we are given. Everybody takes chances some work out and others don’t, It’s the realisation that another will come along that I stress in my practice. The idea I follow is that one door leads to another. There are always options and various avenues. My practice hopefully spells out opportunity, development and chance. Every fantasy takes you somewhere new; we do not know where we may end up. “Hitchcock Hallway” by Danish artists Aslak Vibaek and Peter Dossing, is another installation I admire. I can relate to the installations sense of mystery and the meaning behind it. Ikon Eastside’s exhibition advert reads, <br />
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“The entrance to the gallery is replaced by a door - what lies beyond is for the visitor to discover”<br />
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AVPD draw inspiration from literature, film and science and they look at how our bodies react to certain spaces. This co-insides with my previous video experimentation “Between these four walls” (8). I also looked into the science of a human and our tendencies in today’s society. Also similarly I took inspiration from literature, Gaston Bachelard’s “Poetics Of Space”. <br />
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“For the moment I should like to point out the original fullness of the house’s being. Our daydreams carry us back to it. And the poet well knows that the house holds childhood motionless, in its arms.”<br />
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“The house we were born in is more than an embodiment of home, it is also an embodiment of dreams.”<br />
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As you know my practice revolves around doors, so firstly for my final piece a door will be made. After strenuous planning I have drew up a design which seemed viable. (11) “Final design of proposal”. The design is integral to my concept so I had to keep between the lines of my concepts and the practicality of the work so that the power of my final piece is not affected. Many factors that I have to think about, size and shape are integral, not just visibly but structurally the piece needs to meet health and safety requirements. Also it’s important to realize my piece won’t just be in any space but specifically in the gallery. This often requires me to visit my area regularly so I can visualize the show. I’ve often learnt how work can change in its environment so this is something that I have had to play with; due to the great and huge wall space I’ve been granted. It’s my aim to make my work fit comfortably in its surroundings; my door needs to feel like it belongs there. (12) “How my door final piece may look”<br />
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My planning has stumbled on many occasions, this due to the struggle with keeping its meaning in-tact. In many ways I can see great idea’s which are really not feasible. For instance I concluded at one point that I could create the ultimate experience by constructing an exterior wall along the original; however after speaking with technicians I found that due to many constrictions it was not realistically possible. Similarly to my door creation I will make another object. This is another brain-teaser for the audience. The idea to create another escape route is so that there is a theme and some continuality in my work. The other idea is to construct an air vent. This shall be made with the same high standards of the door and will have more or less the same requirements. Both pieces will be made from wood and then coated with the same paint the gallery uses on their walls. This is so that when my pieces are secured in the gallery there is not a difference in the shade of colour. This will smoothly blend my contributions into the wall giving them a feel of value and belonging. Equally as important as the structure is the lighting that my work requires. This is to generate a sense of mystery and provoke reactions. I believe that a ray of light both peeping through the door and through the vent offers an insight to another place and proves existence. Also at the same time opens up viewers imaginations and reinforces their own personal beliefs. <br />
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I believe that once completed my final piece will match the requirements needed in order for it to be successful. I think that my final piece will tie together any loose ends in my sketchbook and will clarify the under lying meaning throughout my practice. Many opportunity’s still exist in this world, where most recently it has been doubted. My recent work is all about highlighting opportunity and supporting belief. Hope is what gets many people through every day life. Once I believe that my message is understood more widely I see my work moving towards celebrating where hope can lead. What is behind my door? This will be something I will work towards in the future. Even if my recent practice only reaches one person, that will be an achievement for me to have influenced somebody. My work is aimed to influence people and that is the purpose of creating it , so I hope my recent work reaches out to someone.<br />
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(Figure 1). <a href="http://www.tbook.constantvzw.org/wp-content/derivedebord.pdf">http://www.tbook.constantvzw.org/wp-content/derivedebord.pdf</a><br />
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(Figure 2). <a href="http://37days.typepad.com/37days/2005/12/follow_your_des.html">http://37days.typepad.com/37days/2005/12/follow_your_des.html</a> and image below.<br />
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(Figure 3). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_architecture">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_architecture</a> <br />
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(Figure 4). <a href="http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/trellick/index.htm">http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/trellick/index.htm</a> and image below.<br />
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(Figure 6).<br />
<a href="http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage/time/georgian+and+victorian/art23026">http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage/time/georgian+and+victorian/art23026</a> and image below.<br />
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(Figure 7). <a href="http://www.weareeastside.com/2010/09/opening-this-friday-hitchcock-hallway-%20%20at-ikon-eastside/">http://www.weareeastside.com/2010/09/opening-this-friday-hitchcock-hallway- at-ikon-eastside/</a> and image below.<br />
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(Figure 8). “Between these four walls”, image below.<br />
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(Figure 9).<br />
The Poetics Of Space - Gaston Bachelard, Beacon Press Books. Page 7/8.<br />
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The Poetics Of Space - Gaston Bachelard, Beacon Press Books. Page 15.<br />
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(Figure 11). “Final design of proposal”, image below.<br />
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(Figure 12). “How my door final piece may look”, image below.<br />
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This photograph gave me an idea of how it may look along a wall. I am also aware that the gallery wall is alot bigger so I had to seriously consider the size of the door.<br />
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In my first build I made a few minor mistakes but I want my final piece to look top quality so I decided to build it again. I screwed all of the frame together and then the next stage was to attatch the door using hinges. Once I had done this I need to find the correct source of light to do the required job.<br />
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As already explained I need a strong ray of light coming from behind the door. I managed to get a set of three LED lights powerful enough to give of the right amount of light and also longer lasting. I had previously experienced that battery operated lights were not appropriate for many reasons.<br />
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This is my door with the mains powered lights, they are actually cabinet lights. This looks much alot better and more believable. I am very happy with how this has resulted, this is how I aimed it to look. I am aware that the gallery won't be as dark as this but I have tested these light in other conditions and they work well. This is the stage I am now at. Obviously this still has to be sanded down and painted then it will be complete. After this is complete I will begin building the air vent piece. I still have three weeks left and so far I believe my work is on target.aydn loffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590658919203029749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-736622417592428481.post-37327542499162832042011-04-19T12:47:00.000-07:002011-04-19T12:51:28.727-07:00Escape!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6GLPWgBKrL7vY07Cd2Z_dkcA-R9biL32dzNIl1xMVsRjDNQOIWLbG7vbeVn5TmwEh_mv5bYeySoOnMe2BnQbJ_wM3WveXeS44aloag_x2uzxTnz9n2Z4Sy49wfTK0GHp4q_ZzY_y-nBM/s1600/DSC00899.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6GLPWgBKrL7vY07Cd2Z_dkcA-R9biL32dzNIl1xMVsRjDNQOIWLbG7vbeVn5TmwEh_mv5bYeySoOnMe2BnQbJ_wM3WveXeS44aloag_x2uzxTnz9n2Z4Sy49wfTK0GHp4q_ZzY_y-nBM/s320/DSC00899.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>My current practice involves me creating a door, the aim is to represent a whole<br />
world to be discovered, a lifeline and guide to many corridors in life and theoretically the idea of a more utopian reality. The practice I pursue is to offer assurance that you might find yourself travelling down endless corridors but you‘ll never know what‘s right around the corner. Also I aim for people to realise that its not the appearance but what’s inside which matters. It is for my audience to determine what lies behind my door, I hope for it to ask questions of people and also offer them a mental escape. In my work I want people to believe in what they see; I want people to have faith in the images and instillations that I present.<br />
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My desire is to help people learn the value of opportunity and chance, many elements of life are overlooked and often as humans we underestimate the chances we are given. Everybody takes chances some work out and others don’t, It’s the realisation that another will come along that I stress in my practice. The idea I follow is that one door leads to another. There are always options and various avenues. My practice hopefully spells out opportunity, development and chance. Every fantasy takes you somewhere new, we do not know where we may end up.aydn loffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590658919203029749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-736622417592428481.post-54975828996480610102011-04-19T12:05:00.000-07:002011-04-19T12:05:51.295-07:00Red Tape...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil89EQ5w5pwrNBYwmSLSIMyDKkmytlVWy-ZH6viZEDlSOF3TmHevvsXWV0p__BkDGw6PiEvPOWIQiwYGpuoqus7D_rjPLL_FdiC_kljgy4rb8UGU90nL7QDOi3scKFCGHlI-caq-u3QlQ/s1600/DSC00883.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil89EQ5w5pwrNBYwmSLSIMyDKkmytlVWy-ZH6viZEDlSOF3TmHevvsXWV0p__BkDGw6PiEvPOWIQiwYGpuoqus7D_rjPLL_FdiC_kljgy4rb8UGU90nL7QDOi3scKFCGHlI-caq-u3QlQ/s200/DSC00883.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>HND/HNC show at the New Walsall Art Gallery comes up at the end of June through to the beginning of July. Red Tape is the title for our show. The title defines issue's of all our work. I've started to plan my contribution. As you already know I have a strong interest in redundancy and abandonment issues, I’ve worked on these themes for a while progressing from neglection in people, electronics and more recently architecture. After my original research and exploration I early on determined an area of work I would like to pursue. I knew I wanted my practice to link with property and architecture so I took this direction. Urban exploration has been my general driving point, exploring and documenting my discoveries. My expeditions lead me to many redundant buildings. I was spurred on at the time by a national study in the Daily Mail newspaper where it claimed Walsall was listed number two in the section for large centre shop closures. It had a percentage of 26%. I wanted to see this, so I decided to discover it for myself.aydn loffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590658919203029749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-736622417592428481.post-55855052594377594192011-01-25T13:35:00.000-08:002011-01-25T13:35:43.541-08:00Influencing Direction- Conclusion.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx9G4olZZy4DvVaU6biN_fcnoVRBtxn8dpZXFWvEHBw6aWfu3ofg621PZM3EZqm6sYbM3DGqcnRXSEDzvRVqUem6gtSAGub44CA_6Xi_DLO_h5WXCprYGXfrC8rTGQ5FUpYXtNUNwy9TA/s1600/DSC00607.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx9G4olZZy4DvVaU6biN_fcnoVRBtxn8dpZXFWvEHBw6aWfu3ofg621PZM3EZqm6sYbM3DGqcnRXSEDzvRVqUem6gtSAGub44CA_6Xi_DLO_h5WXCprYGXfrC8rTGQ5FUpYXtNUNwy9TA/s320/DSC00607.JPG" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-rmRGY2vXslIgwHi_qMzOuFscXkMWWlJg2bf2HB3hS3cuteJ8A8Ov4tTqsiMWWrXCskpyGn8oAgMsMxJDPv_ZbUIqSAu5B2rbmbMa42UAxyjyxQdx_d08s2dn_ZrLT55urMo55MQkCAQ/s1600/DSC00579.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>Once I had designed my sign and had it made, all I had to do was to display it somewhere to see if it worked, too see if it would influence people's direction. Firstly with my cardboard designs I experimented and put them in various places to have an idea of what may work and what wouldn't. Once I had experimented for a while I got the real sign and started to use that instead.<br />
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After about two minutes I first saw interaction with my sign. A man seemingly stared at my sign confused as to what it meant. About Five minutes later a woman approached the pay meter. She also stood and looked at the sign bemusingly, and another woman followed after with the same response. I had noticed their confusement but all three still continued to buy tickets. Prehaps because of the proposed fine for not having a ticket. I had interesting results but to my annoyance my experiment was cut short because of a ticket inspector. I had to quickly retrieve my sign as I did not want it to be conviscated. I was also aware of the possibility that what I was doing was illegal. A lot of people had passed through the car park but didn't get close enough to it to see. From the three people who viewed my sign I learnt that from an order point of view it did not work but it did have a physcological affect on its viewers and did slightly affect their movement, all be it by a few yards. It did not go ignored. I was hoping as a bonus it would affect their desision but it was always ambitious considering the fine they would have to deal with. Im happy with this experiment and I achieved what I wanted, I will be looking to extend this work futher in the future because I think it can become bigger.aydn loffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590658919203029749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-736622417592428481.post-26283263282059577162011-01-02T09:33:00.000-08:002011-01-02T11:54:40.429-08:00Presentation.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>This presentation will be about my current influences in the world of art and what inspires me and my own personal practice. I will be looking at whose work has been pivital and inspirational towards me creating my own project and the work that's influenced them. I shall explain the concepts driving my work forward and who's also explored these conceptural areas. I like to understand the concepts and theories behind things, how things have been done and why? I would like to focus a large part of my presentation on a few particular works by certain practitioners who i've taken an interest towards. I will also evaluate how art has evolved throughout the recent times and how we view art as a whole today.<br />
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</div>At the moment i'm interested in the work of MTAA (M.River and T.Whid Art associates.) MTAA was founded in 1996. It's their '1 year performance video' that im particualarly interested in. The performance video is portraying a the process of a simple net diagram (1997).<br />
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</a></div>I see MTAA's performance work as an ironic link to the work I have been making on my previous project. I've been trying to find uses for humans wastage however MTAA are moving in the other direction creating and exploring new ways to create art. They are using the modern technology available to create a new medium of work in today's age. "1 year performance video" caught my eye whilst researching but what also interests me is the idea that this evolved from. Hsieh's "one year performance" (1978-1979) also known as "The Cage Piece." MTAA replicate Hsieh's performance, adapting it to the internet age.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Alike with my performance, Hsieh spent a period of time confined in a space, however he spent an entire year living within a cage. He documented himself throughout this time with photographs. My performance was alot shorter but both in-fact were psychological tests of the human's strength and state of mind. I think I achieved similar findings to Hsieh but Hsieh pushed the boundaries alot futher than I did.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8oYxQr7WsRX86RJw9ZQynjqhAgbkX-d-WSzXTAF9Ic9Eg4SDJHp2gQjKEYSf3iRzjHW6kAUyntd7bq4aVJgehochQujYhIzyovCebqE6vbLLOcAfSBNINk0H2PJlO1G-Lu-cO2Z25bwo/s1600/19146.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8oYxQr7WsRX86RJw9ZQynjqhAgbkX-d-WSzXTAF9Ic9Eg4SDJHp2gQjKEYSf3iRzjHW6kAUyntd7bq4aVJgehochQujYhIzyovCebqE6vbLLOcAfSBNINk0H2PJlO1G-Lu-cO2Z25bwo/s320/19146.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsjAH9-5OKo0F3aYXEnsIvXMpIGfMjnz7G_lzfTLl933ZcTFkHRlaPMn8X1VCoWM5qlN-EeS304YfSTKq0oXjaLnMo8qYp89BtQTlEdhBkR62XQ6wn-x1u1j8clNiyLtxWfViO5TI7eX0/s320/800px-TehchingHsiehExhibitMOMA.jpg" width="320" /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>The performance is a statement about how human activity and life experiences are being replaced by computer's. Similar to my "Between these four walls" it defines new media's ability to manipulate our perceptions of time, make us believe that what we see is always the truth and more so relevant with my work, how modern technology has a huge amount of interference with our private lives.<br />
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I came across these signs a while ago. They are created by hundreds of artists from all around the world. They are scattered all around the city of Lyon in France. I like the irony that some of them portray. They are almost the voices of people that otherwise cannot be heard. Similar to my sign they look real enough to make people notice them. I can imagine the reactions these signs have provoked, there's a good sense of humour about the project and I would have loved to have been involved. I drew inspiration from this huge project whilst practising my own work. <br />
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These signs give off all sorts of different signals, it would have been interesting to see peoples responses. I think art has definately become more public, you see art everywhere now and alot more people are involved with it. I think this project in Lyon is a great example of people joining forces to create something brillia<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I find the use of text interesting, pictures and images speak a hundred words so people can make up their own beliefs of what it means, but when text is involved it really makes people think because you feel the need to know what it means. This is the reason I put text on my sign. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Personally I think that it’s to do with how in the cold war so many people were forgotten and how many people died. And the fact that nobody even cared to notice. The word FORGOTTEN is very important because it means no memory, which is why I think he chose the gallery to be empty. I believe it’s a huge metaphor towards the cold war, with irony but also Wallinger’s personal hurt. I understand the importance of the polital issues in his works; they are very important and influential to him.<br />
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My project has been very rewarding so far, i,ve learned many things I did not know and discovered some great artists who have inspired me along the way with my work. Also i've learnt more about myself and the way I work, performance art has been a challege for me but i've enjoyed it.aydn loffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590658919203029749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-736622417592428481.post-51014240306673929332010-12-31T09:15:00.000-08:002010-12-31T09:15:24.362-08:00"Ignore."<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdiHAcZVww8OMBA8xdwlMMIOAPK4Q3FrJgjRY4YbQqZA8mLawHfYgvLhDlFpAQiZai6aKTjyfrzHFn6ARVaaNS8i_3rfjcH6hHS7_U87-wig7y9kg6AslCmNzVJiWPC6btH6uvLMadFag/s1600/DSC00377.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdiHAcZVww8OMBA8xdwlMMIOAPK4Q3FrJgjRY4YbQqZA8mLawHfYgvLhDlFpAQiZai6aKTjyfrzHFn6ARVaaNS8i_3rfjcH6hHS7_U87-wig7y9kg6AslCmNzVJiWPC6btH6uvLMadFag/s200/DSC00377.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><br />
For my second performance piece I wanted to involve my audience more. My audience being the general public. My original idea was to create some kind or directions or orders that people will see and think, what does that mean? or what does that represent? I wanted to create something that would provoke a reaction, whether it be positive or negative and ultimately I wanted to see if I could influence people's direction of movement. I began to experiment when I realised a great opportunity, winter had just begun and there was a thin sheet of ice/snow on the ground. Local to my house there is a valley where I thought would be a great place to test out some of my ideas. So one day I walked down there and began to scribe directions in the ice discreetly, but not just on the floor but also on walls, benches and any where I could do really. These signs were just spontaneous drawings which I got from the top of my head as it was only really an experiment to test the strength of the idea. The valley was a fairly busy walkway so I could watch peoples reactions secretly from the tree's. A couple of people seen the designs and ignored them, but some people reacted in a happy manner. They were smiling but didn't take the sign's seriously.<br />
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I took this on board and realised that my experiment wasn't a failure it just helped me understand what I needed to do so that people took my idea seriously. My original designs didn't look official so I can see why people wasn't following them. I came up with a better more official looking sign design and with help from college I was able to get it made professionally for me. I drew up my design on illustrator and then Green Lane Campus drew it up on CAD and had it cut out from red plastic. I chose the colour red because it catches the eye more than most colours and also as the road sign rule, red represents danger. I went down to Green Lane and was taught how to transfer text stickers onto material. It was at this stage I had my text "ignore." transfered onto my sign. My official looking sign was now complete, all I had to do was to see if it work. My design was intended for pedestrians so I had to be careful in where it would be placed so that it doesn't cause any real danger. My sign was designed for no other purpose than to almost trick pedestrians so that their movement is influenced.<br />
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Check my blog later for the results of this test. aydn loffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590658919203029749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-736622417592428481.post-2683084505768767722010-12-31T05:16:00.000-08:002010-12-31T05:28:59.897-08:00Between these four walls - Analysis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7Q_IcRjexf-RCnzRzpegF4Yk6f_WJAtxTkTY6tUnEc2HQeQ7eNfdSowoRKiDT69V9mYR5e01h1xaZL89WxibluPXgYFNW_e2D_BD2Blm0Hq-gTZUb9EdXTC6SCIof3414xgYDRSStx8/s1600/Untitled2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif7Q_IcRjexf-RCnzRzpegF4Yk6f_WJAtxTkTY6tUnEc2HQeQ7eNfdSowoRKiDT69V9mYR5e01h1xaZL89WxibluPXgYFNW_e2D_BD2Blm0Hq-gTZUb9EdXTC6SCIof3414xgYDRSStx8/s200/Untitled2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>I was seperated from society for my performance. However my equipment only allowed me to record twenty four and a half minutes of my performance piece. Although I must admit it did not take much longer before my peace was intercepted by a number of things. My performance took place in my living room, a space private to me. Also because of the time of day (10:00am), I knew I would be alone. I cleared the area where I would be recording for the purpose of the performance, set up the scene and I was ready to film. All that I would have in there with me would be a book, Gaston Bachelard's "Potics Of Space". I hadn't prepared for the performance as I wanted it to feel as natural as it could be, I didn't take a toilet break before or even have food or drink. I left my mobile turned on and the house phone on the hook. I began to film and after about 10 minutes I began to feel alone. I felt very compressed, I could hardly move and I couldn't get comfortable. I started to think about how valuable space is and how much space I need to be happy. I thought about costrophobia and how people with this phobia feel, because I felt strangled inside these four invisible walls. Prison cells came to my mind. Its obvious why they are deigned the way they are, the psychological aspect of the size is a punishment in its own right. This test made me appreciate my freedom.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJk3L6Luo-QF9O2pTBsEa3j4OXVjHLV4518R4Z6OrfuLkV3O3njJj_uQSj2S1a_KnMV2XES66UcQztFttm3v3G1Il5aRKMBDKkPbXv-XlQxZsRhs-CudRkTyrwb5tyPcA84PJHS9fIchc/s1600/Untitled1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJk3L6Luo-QF9O2pTBsEa3j4OXVjHLV4518R4Z6OrfuLkV3O3njJj_uQSj2S1a_KnMV2XES66UcQztFttm3v3G1Il5aRKMBDKkPbXv-XlQxZsRhs-CudRkTyrwb5tyPcA84PJHS9fIchc/s200/Untitled1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>About fithteen minutes into my performance my mobile phone rang, prooving to me that there is actually very little privacy in your own home. My phone rang again about five minutes later. I could have turned the phone off but the whole point of the project was to see if I could seperate myself from the outside world. It was very hard because in one aspect I wanted to look at my phone, I wanted to answer it but I couldn't and in another way I was fustrated that I couldn't relax without interferance. If my performance was longer it could have been disrupted by a post man or gas man, there's so many possibilities. I got the answers I needed to back up my point. Were in an age today where privacy is almost impossible find, partly to do with the internet and technology. I've been brought up using computers and the net, its genius and I don't know any difference. However through its great means it brings some not so great one's.<br />
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If you take away freedom what do we have?, physically and mentally. Freedom to move and controll is human's greatest power! <br />
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I will perform an imprisonment, an invasion of my private space to see how I can cope with being restricted and seperated from everything else. If you stop for just a second the world still goes by, personal space and time is so important. We need our own time to breath alone sometimes. I thought it would be interesting to see how long I could go without being interupted by the outside life and society. The doorbell, postman, visitors, the phone etc. "Outside of the walls" Many other things could also get in the way of this experiment, like my need for the toilet, food and drink. There are so many possible interuptions its unreal. This I was sure I would find out after carrying out several tests. So from this performance I would learn many things, most importantly Human needs, Spatial awareness and how we rarely get time to ourselves and how hard it is to seperate from the outside world.<br />
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A private space to me is somewhere where I can go and reflect on life and its also somewhere where I should be guarenteed peace and concentration. I feel this place is very rare and hard to find. I will be trying to re-create this space using four simple markers which distinctly hold my privacy. I will be bound between these markers seperating me from the outside and holding me in my own space and society. The aim of the performance is to reflect the importance of space, how we need it and how we underestimate it. I won't make my performance a specific length of time; it will take as long as it takes to before my human needs kick in. Eventually I will feel isolated and alone, how long until I feel this I cannot guess. The answer is to be discovered.<br />
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I will record my performance using a digital camera suspended from the ceiling, so that you will see the perimeter of the square with me inside it. I believe that this will emphasise the barrier and feeling of suffication. Also its the best camera angle for actually seeing my movement around the four corners of my square. The suspension of the camera prooved tricky as I only had string to hold it but it held out. I used a wooden block with a circle inside to hold the camera lense which added a circular border to the video and also added a proffesional touch to the finished video. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9GQLW2xqO8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9GQLW2xqO8</a><br />
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail"<br />
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At this stage of my work the most important thing to me is how my movement and direction has been affected and what has influenced me. How have I took advantage of space? <br />
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What intereted me was how over the last four or five months my movement and direction had been affected and influenced. How i've taken advantage of space but more importantly how all humans take space and freedom for granted. I think sometimes we underestimate the freedom to roam almost anywhere on the planet. The only places we cannot go to we are told by other humans! I've noticed our common, regular useage of shortcuts. By foot or any type of transport. On foot there is hardly no limits on possibilities of where you can go, yet its not our feet which do the talking its our brains. Our heads see and create solutions under influence.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgei8bx47fVlm1V7UH-isv6QkGsBqS8G6-lpVobpZgPxVj6En9wt-J_BN91P3mJg0SGn5kJj4x12YnGO-m_BDpanXILiRTNgNgLN2AX35NNxdS3rcz0J1cyZKsCBDNnxnHHdy18YHcxwKo/s1600/DSC00362.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgei8bx47fVlm1V7UH-isv6QkGsBqS8G6-lpVobpZgPxVj6En9wt-J_BN91P3mJg0SGn5kJj4x12YnGO-m_BDpanXILiRTNgNgLN2AX35NNxdS3rcz0J1cyZKsCBDNnxnHHdy18YHcxwKo/s200/DSC00362.JPG" width="200" /></a>The aim of travel or movement is to get from A to B and a human tendancy is to do anything to make this easier and quicker. One of the most valuable things in life is time. I've looked at some un-noticable spacial direction, things we do all the time and don't even notice. Do we walk in straight lines or do we swerve? Do we move to avoid things? How big are our steps? These are just some questions. There are so many elements to do with movement and i'm just talking about small movements. I will look at how we use space as a world. When I walk down the street I see lots of things which could influence my direction, road signs, directions and advertisements. These are several techniques such as imagery, (signs,posters,markings etc.) and sounds that organisations use to influence our desisions. We are aware of certain sounds such as HGV reversing or an ambulance both warning signals revealing danger. So these are technical instructions to protect us. Im interested in how these signals influence people's movement and why they influence them. My aim is to create something with a purpose to influence people's minds and penultamately direction.<br />
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To begin I had to allocate some sort of scale to my maps other wise the journey wouldn't be accurate at all. I needed consistency. I determined a common start point then I followed the lines to discover where I would end up. I always began on a type of corner. What did the silver blobs on the chip mean, and what do the numbers represent? I ended up in lots of places, one memorable place was the shop I ended up in. My findings were never going to be 100% accurate but that was not the only aim. I have learnt the importance of direction and space and how we underestimate space. Also I have learned to be more spatially aware, of where I am and what's going on around me. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4RQpuam74Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4RQpuam74Q</a><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">My project began first and for most with experimentation,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">I explored the concept of space and spatial awareness,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Isolation, Disconnection and separation.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">My work portrays exploration,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">with the wonderful discovery of the unknown.</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many of my ideas stalled, and others excelled. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">I began looking at technology which ceased to exist,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">What can it still offer us.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">What can I actually create from it,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">I looked at Sarah Farmer, and her sound and performance work.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">This gave me confidence and further belief in my ideas.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also the work of the Toy Orchestra organisation helped.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">I began to look closely at these “useless” findings,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Realising there was an architectural connection with them.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">This spring boarded my ideas.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here my work took a photographic stance.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tweaking with scale and space exploring the inner-clockwork.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">My photographs replicated set-designs from 70’s and 80’s sci-fi.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove designed by Ken Adams was just one.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also, THX:1138, 2001: Space odyssey, Solaris and Metropolis. </span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">I found a massive similarity,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">the circuit boards replicated maps.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">So I started to follow the maps on the circuit boards.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">What’s the life-size meaning of them,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">What should I discover,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Are they there to be followed?</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">I followed them in city environments. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">And in tower blocks portrayed like in my circuit.</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Post war tower blocks define isolation from society,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The opposite to their design purpose.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Constructions to be cities in the sky,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">have become just rooms out of reach from social activity.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">London’s Trellick Tower designed by Enzo Goldfinger had high hopes,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">But the tower has merely become the over-rated prototype for the future.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">It has to be rated as a failure from a design standpoint, however</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">It still stands and has served a purpose.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Space is under-rated,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">We do not use all of what is given to us and most is wasted.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The exploration of these maps,</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">highlighted the importance of space and direction.</span></div>aydn loffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590658919203029749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-736622417592428481.post-17381086548729876472010-10-21T12:40:00.000-07:002010-10-21T12:54:47.610-07:00What Is NOT Art?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji7ps3VwZsQYs8h9oXZcDDmZGV6JEGMoTnY5QlyLvJGwcZZCoNrRG6aNRTtuxgspx4Ww_iGKp0Esxm5nPUH5NsC2Qk4DXKQMySOSq2k7bMzK3c5ZpQAsXYpIkqN8MJZZvQZ0uLY-JhXXg/s1600/grass_flower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji7ps3VwZsQYs8h9oXZcDDmZGV6JEGMoTnY5QlyLvJGwcZZCoNrRG6aNRTtuxgspx4Ww_iGKp0Esxm5nPUH5NsC2Qk4DXKQMySOSq2k7bMzK3c5ZpQAsXYpIkqN8MJZZvQZ0uLY-JhXXg/s320/grass_flower.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>What Is not art? what's classed as art, is it merely something which is created or designed or does this cross the border into craft. Are craft and Art the same thing?. There's many types of art; you have fine art, graphics, illustration etc. In my opinion nearly everything is art, you could argue the fact that everything is art, most things in life have to be designed. Its a matter of pure opinion and personal beliefs.<br />
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I found this question very challenging, I went away and searched for an answer. I came up with very few ideas which, after debating and thinking about all became art in the end. One idea i thought of was grass, i thought of it as its a natural resource. It isn't man made and it progressively grows by itself, however the other side to the argument is that even though natual, its growth is still a process. Natural resources were quite popular choices in disscussion. At college we discussed flowers, rocks, and fruit, all being natural, but similar to grass they were all created by something for instance flowers and fruits are grown from seeds. There was also other good examples one being a credit card and the other being a reciept.<br />
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Is Art a process or can something untouched be classed as art. Does something become art when you argue the fact it is? When you touch something does its status change. If you pick some grass, does this become art because you've selected it and almost in a way edited it. The jury's out! I believe that something that raises an opinion and creates a reaction, either positive or negative has to be a form of art...aydn loffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590658919203029749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-736622417592428481.post-81918653783331457282010-10-16T11:20:00.000-07:002010-10-21T12:58:42.184-07:00Dilapidated Cities...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmMzAOfc5Ef8WjnTt0Y6qPIbaT0ZXOvm_GnY-yMAIGlssVj8bDX644LQcj59MW_MWUvEgsoqMxn0BvpCYo5LJQmjTz1Qm7FRi2a9Hypo69B7hYH60JNmGAUstYmLkWgIB6gAKbWKKGFhs/s1600/DSC01889.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmMzAOfc5Ef8WjnTt0Y6qPIbaT0ZXOvm_GnY-yMAIGlssVj8bDX644LQcj59MW_MWUvEgsoqMxn0BvpCYo5LJQmjTz1Qm7FRi2a9Hypo69B7hYH60JNmGAUstYmLkWgIB6gAKbWKKGFhs/s320/DSC01889.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After reading 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep' I produced a sound piece based on the beliefs of Phillip.K.Dick. I decided that in reply to Dick's dreams of what the future would be like in 1992, I should use the sounds of electrical items from around my household today in 2010. So I went around with a Dictaphone recording technology in use, such as CD-Players, DVD Players, Games Consoles etc.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Dick believed we would have flying cars and electric animals in today's age and I thought it would be interesting to record the actual sounds from the future. After the recording I wanted to take my idea of using technology further. I came up with the idea of looking at how quickly new tech is produced and how quickly older things become pointless debris.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I began destroying old tech and photographing it and I thought that the fact I created beauty from old motherboards was great, they began to look like run down cities almost like I imagined in the book. From here after experimenting with different ideas I came across non-Newtonian fluids and that's where I find myself now... </span></span>aydn loffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12590658919203029749noreply@blogger.com1