first 3D renders

'Virtual Sheffield' - learning 3D modelling

Artists Research: John Whitney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzniaKxMr2g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7h0ppnUQhE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB31mD4NmA

Artist Research: Ken Jacobs

Ken jacobs-
Exciting flickering loops that capture crumbs and snippets of time and space which combine into movement. Originally used magic lanterns & Projectors but then moved onto digital format. He lives in New York and is in his mid 80s. Greg is Mates with Ken and his wife... apparently!

They're like projected viewmaster slides combined using time rather than 3D anaglyph or polarisation.
They are also impressively easy to make- Just take two photos slightly spaced apart, using 1 or 2 cameras. I am considering using this technique in my project.

4D Human condition- Looking at camera shots

Enter the void
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoQ2jJgJImU
The main protagonist dies after 20 minutes. For the majority of that part it is filmed from his Point Of View. After he dies, the rest of the film is shot from his perspective once again. If I remember correctly, it is one single, fluid shot. Almost always looking down from above the ceiling. This gives a feeling of suspension and unease. It also means that things can be upside down or sideways.

Jan Svankmajer

'all my life' 1966 Bruce Baillie

'Necrology' 197something Standish Lawder
This is a very clever and very simple film which is a metaphor for birth, life and death like 'All my life' but packed into an even shorter timeframe. The film is very simple footage of people on an escalator in the New York Subway (or London?) but the film is reversed so that they are all facing the camera or down while they all ascend. This gives the effect that the people of the bottom are in the front always and the people at the top are mostly shrouded before they disappear off the top of the screen altogether.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dadi7mw5gCs

'The girl chewing gum' 1976 - John Smith








Bernard Herman- music composer

'In 1935, Marcel Duchamp published Rotoreliefs, a set of 6 double sided discs meant to be spun on a turntable at 40–60 rpm. Duchamp and Man Ray filmed early versions of the spinning discs for the short film Anémic Cinéma. A manifestation of Duchamp’s interest in optical illusions and mechanical art, the two-dimensional rotoreliefs create an illusion of depth when spun at the correct speed. These rotoreliefs were produced in an edition of 500, and were initially displayed and offered for sale at the Concours Lépine inventor’s fair.'
http://thebluelantern.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-marvelous-rotoreliefs-of-marcel_25.html

Artist Research: Chapman Brothers

Ok so I'm meant to be doing some research into Jake and Dinos chapman.

I'm very lucky to have a mum who takes me to art shows and events. I used to complain about it as a kid because every town or city or place we went to, mum would be sure to take us to at-least one art gallery of museum. Now I'm an art student I'm very grateful, haha!

Two years ago, mum took me to see the Chapman Bro's 'Hellscapes' in the Serpentine gallery pavillion in Hyde Park. These hellscapes consist of literally thousands of miniature Ronald McDonalds, Nazis, Zombies, Mutants and Mutated Zombie Nazis. These pieces become surreal due to the scale and gory, disgusting extremity taken to comedic levels.

I considered including other photographs of their work but I fancy just showing the photos I took two years ago because I feel a connection to these pieces since I've seen them in person and these pieces are definitely ones you need to experience. A photo doesn't do justice. These hellscapes are huge and highly detailed with many tiny scenes frozen in motion. I'm interested to know how all of the figures were produced. They looks custom and hand painted which must have taken a lot of time and patience. I'm guessing the Chapmans have a team of artists doing this work for them since the brothers are far too busy being controversial.

Above: Controversial art.

Refraction (Rainbows)

Refraction.
Refraction is when light bends!
Refraction causes ranbows,
Refraction can magnify and focus.
Refraction makes lenses work.

'Through the looking glass'
I got this huge lens that helps old people see their TV better. I use it for art.

The denser a transparent object is, the more it bends or refracts light.

Art Sheffield

Final Piece - Digital Ego

This is my final piece plus a few extra experiments. I'm happy with it but want to make it even better and more polished for the final show in Graves Gallery so I'll be making a few more tweaks over the next week.

In college assessing almost finished final piece 18th

I took my equipment in from home to see if I could get it all set up correctly and measure its dimensions. It was also a good opportunity to assess what needs to be finished on it and to show off what's been done so far to Carole!

Stickynote project map

Fran advised that I create a Project map to recall the sequence of events and thoughts that brought me to my final piece. In this video I recap an overview of my project and edited in videos and pictures to support what I'm saying.

Video- Projection tests on head

video- projections onto head

Video- Development of ideas and planning in sketchbook

video- final piece ideas & insp

from physical to digital- a little magic trick

'Photos of the Female Form Dressed Only in Light' By Dani Olivier

 In his striving to create a nude portrait “that has not been shot before,” Paris-based photographer Dani Olivier sets the female form aglow with lighted geometric patterns. Using a projector in a darkened studio, he takes the flesh as a canvas, alternately illuminating and concealing its contours.
Olivier began working with light projections some eight years ago, and he’s been refining the process ever since. He prefers to collaborate with dancers and other women who move to the beat of their own drums, whose bodies can ripple through space alongside the projected motif. The designs themselves, mostly abstract, are rarely repeated; each woman generally has her own markings, worn like a signature and constructed to suit the nuances of her silhouette.

 I like the creative usage of projections to emphasise and abstractify the 3D Human form.
This ties in with my ideas to project onto a head.

'Digitification'

The Matrix inspired me so much as a child. Even thought I haven't seen this scene in a few years I could imagine it perfectly.



Skip to 0:50.

Holly Herndon - Chorus

ffDirected by Akihiko Taniguchi (http://okikata.org/)

'Holly Herndon: "So much of Chorus was constructed by spying on my own online habits. It felt fitting to invite Akihiko, who I had been spying on online for a long time before my approach, to contribute the visual treatment of the piece." 

Akihiko Taniguchi: "I was interested in exploring the textures of daily necessities and the embodiment / physicality of the computer and Internet. One of the most striking contemporary images is that of the desktop capture, which is seen commonly on YouTube as part of software tutorials. I like the shots of desktops that are poorly organized and 'lived-in'. 

Referencing one of my earlier pieces "study of real-time 3D Internet", I considered how it corresponds to the personal environment outside of the screen and how particular it is to my identity and my friend's identities. I asked several friends to photograph their desktop environments and then rendered these images with custom 3D software, shooting video by moving throughout this virtual space. This video is a collection of records of life of friends and their Internet environments."

Herndon: "I love the idea of depicting the mundane and quotidian in high definition, and how evocative and individual each of these spaces are. Thinking about intimacy and the laptop is familiar territory for me. I've also been thinking a lot about privacy, particularly in light of the ongoing revelations regarding the NSA, which add a more sinister sub-narrative to Akihiko's piece.

The most crucial conversations happening in technology at the moment focus squarely on our work space, our email, our iSight and our smart phone, and how much we can honestly claim those spaces to be ours at all in an era of indiscriminate and imperceptible surveillance."

Thinking about an outcome.

Right, I've been feeling that my project is a bit unfocused. I was trying to make my project about what I'm really interested in but I've realised I'm interested in far too much. This is because we've always been given themes before and I feel this was my first opportunity to pursue exactly what I wanted, how I wanted but it seems I've set the net too wide. But I'd like to think of it as a healthy variety; I have enough ideas and research for three outcomes.
But the aim is to have a final piece!
And that is hard for someone who makes lots of video samples, looping gifs and snippets rather than finished things.

Ok so- what do I want to come out with?
I need to make this piece with the limitations of our college show in mind. If I want to outcome with a video, which I probably do, then it will be shown on a TV screen on rotation with other student's videos.
If I want images, I need to print them off nice and big.
My Sketchbook needs to be flick-throughable.

Quick digital collage. I am imagining a video of me swimming, green screened over facebook/internet footage.

Ok so my final outcome piece is going to be a video. Videos usually should be under 5 minutes in length, otherwise audiences get bored or distracted.

What do I want in my video? Will it be one fluid video with continuity that develops or will it be a bit of a patchwork of shorter videos together like my last project with the spaghetti.
 - I don't have an answer for this yet but a single video can be dull.
I have multiple elements in this project; all my 3D modelling stuff, stuff about facebook, stuff about sci fi. I don't want to force it all together if it's unnatural but I reckon I can definitely pull together real camera footage of myself and others (+projections) and the 3D models that I have been making.

So I suppose this is now my challenge: Make a video along the lines of what I've already been making, over 1 minute, under 3 about humans and the internet.

is that still too vague? Hahaha.

I want some layering of video, using green screen/chroma/luma key, blending modes, projection and transitions to put myself or others 'into' the internet, to involve my 3D renders and create a 'lost down the rabbit hole' feeling.

Head Gifs

http://phong.technology/