Tutorial 5

Resume of the tutorial with Jonathan Kearney
Date: February 2. 2017
Topic: What is going on now and what next.

I explained that I’m on my way coming back to the project, after a period with family problems. My way into the project is to start working with practice; painting, After Effect, sound recording. The last thing I did was experimenting with voice replacement.

I told Jonathan about my plan testing Argumented Reality, and my upcoming meeting with Nikolai Stausbøl, one of my former students who know a lot about AR.
My expectations of using AR are on a really simple level, and will not stand alone in my final show. I see a kind of mixed media; video projection, still images and AR. I want to make an experience where the elements (video, AR and stills) not dependent on each other. Therefore, I will experiment with video projection, AR and multiple screens. Testing what is the best expression form for my project.
Jonathan mentioned what I talked about last time; the idea of having a divided space with a fixed element, where the audiences see the space and then the extra layer from AR.
Hololenses has a narrow point of view, it is like having too small screens in front of your eyes. But AR is much more than Hololens.
Jonathan recomanded me to participate in the AR and VR workshop at the Low Residency.
I talked about AR project which has inspired me. Particularly one project, focusing on Syrian refugees through a kind of Pokémon Go concept. Two-dimensional figures in the real environment. My idea is having flat elements in a real world.
Jonathan thinks it is a great idea and it is consistent with my style. The subtle animation in the last blog post worked very well.

I reflect over the duration of the sequence. I expired that I have to give more time / longer duration. It is the big difference between art and motion graphic design.
Jonathan recomanded me to keep it simple, not let me go with the wauw-effect of the technology, but focusing on the dreamish mood.
I can make something around AR, prints, and video, I can make a straight video as well. As more, I make a body of work I can decide what to show. At the final show, I don’t have to show everything I did.

About a month ago I said: Keep it simple – do it fast. Make something and then reflect on it.

Jonathan: All your previous skills and ideas are just waiting – ready to explode. The last two posts are interesting and done really well, it is just the start of it.

We talked about the exhibition of Hans Op de Beeck
Hans Op de Beeck does not work with a narrative in his video installation, it is a space where you can put in any stories. The human hands change the illusion.
I want to make a space where people can make there own narrative/stories. Jonathan said that is the difference between a straight filmmaker (not all) and an artist. A filmmaker is trying to communicate a story. You are using moving images as your language not to communicate but to create space – to create a potential connection for other people to make the connection them self.

I talked about anit-interaction and that I want to find out if Hololens can read the eyes of the viewer, like eye tracking. If that’s possible, moving things away from the focusing eye, could be interesting. Like dreams, they are hard to capture, they easily disappear, but you have the feeling of the dream in your body.
Jonathan thinks that conceptually it’s a good idea but he doesn’t think the technology is not there yet. Maybe in combination with the technology behind eye-tracking.

I explained that I on my way setting up a meeting with an anthropologist who had worked with dreams – made dream sessions.

What next:
Looking forward to Low Residency

And still the same 🙂 :
My statement for Unit 2:
· More practice
· Take risks
· Make documentation on my blog.

What to do now:
· Investigating AR in theory and praxis
· Continue making dream images
· Stil researching the subject dreams in art and as a human experience.

 

Dream image: Status v.2

I have now made 20 dream images. Images which is my source of motives, words, mood, tension, stories etc. Images I made in order to remember dreams.

Dream image 20: Squatter hairdresser, Sayer

Words, system and Christina

My plan is to make one more session transforming dream images into words like I did one year ago (From images to words). The words became poems and then voices. Now the voices are an important part of my art project.
I will extract more words from the new dream images, expand the list of words. Work with the length of each poem; repetitions, rhythm and tone. Probably still with only 10 words.
Working with words is not my comfort zone, but I like having strong restrictions like the number of words. And I do like, that the source of the words cames from my dream images.

But I still feel insecure about it, therefore I yesterday met Christina Reedz Funder. She is a rhetoric, we have been working together before and now she is at Rhetoric and Design at KADK, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She’s a good friend, a really good coach and she is familiar with my project.

Christina explained that you have always used systems, ever since the start of writing. Not having a system was low status.
A system could be a specific number of lines or chapters, the words rhymed endings, words accentuation, verses, etc.
In Shakespeare, the morale, the good and the rich talks in a system (verse). The poor, lower class talks without a system.
Not having a system was first seen with the modern.
We talked about that from a creative perspective is a system something that links the intellectual- and bodily language. Several senses are activated.
By using a system you can be lead to coincidence; it’s out of my control, the system takes over. I set the work, myself and the viewer free.
I have to think that a system sets the process free. The system helps me to stop communicating (we talked about graphic design vs. art).
The system gives a voice to the project/artwork.
I can continue to make dogmas/obstructions, make a pool of opportunities, and then using its outcome. My role will be as an editor; contribute to meaning via serendipity.

Our conversation reminded me of my research paper “Chance as a trigger”. The difference was that I had not thought about the subject serendipity in relation to a text.
Christiana encouraged me to put my self into a situation in order to achieve the benefit of serendipity.
She mentioned a Danish poet, Inger Christensen, who wrote with a 2000-year-old system. The sentence does not make sense, it leads the thoughts to a room of sens.
Make a room of sens and mood is the way I want to go, including words written or spoken.

We gonna meet again in 14 days. Thanks, Christina.