Inspired by the initial ideas behind the question ‘The contemporary self could be said to be quantitative. We produce a constant stream of data that is collected, projected, and stored which determines our daily existence. To what extent has this ‘quantitative turn’ changed our understanding of self? This piece titled #WIW explores and portrays varied ideas that were explored over the process of research and a poster developed.
#WIW expresses ultimately ‘WHAT I WANT’. This idea is something that we all seem to grapple with at one point or another in our lives. However, it is due to external factors and most likely societal influences that seem to differ us as human beings from what we really do enjoy.
As my poster initially focused on a bland and dry topic; being education and how this subsequently influences a persons ideas behind ‘a number’ defining most things in life… money, marks, items etc. I knew that this time around I was going to attempt to really engage with the question and explore what it is that I desire.
Practice lead research lead me to a peculiar thought process, which seemed oh so unfamiliar to me at first glance. This posed a question in itself, an Alien Method- as I have never thought this way before. I had always self taught myself that education came somewhat first in the order of where life is, and anything that you desire is a mere option.. just get through your education.
Week five’s topic Desire really kick started the practice lead research. I accepted the idea that desire doesn't always refer to a consumerist framework. Desire has the ability to drive and inspire us to deconstruct, obsess, and recreate. Desire has the ability to form us as creative entities, hence I stated to look at the work of Stefan Sagmeister. His ethos and beliefs behind work, education and life immediately took me by surprise and at first made me feel quite awkward. I questioned whether or not it is the right thing to take a sabbatical? Even though I may desire the freedom is explore and experiment my creative process - will this benefit my work?
So.. I took up the challenge. Practitioner Emile Zile was a driving force of motivation for this work. The piece OMG_Sisyphus which happens to be surrounded by an aurora of technology (ironic that I also found the piece on the internet) looks at turning the ambiguous apple product into a rock… to be worshipped. Moving on, his most influential work was “Springer Audiences”, from re runs, his own recordings and your tube Zile collected images of Jerry Springer audience members’. He then showed these images as a piece of silent art.
During this week I took part in practice lead research in which myself and others attempted to untangle a ball of yarn purely because thats what our human instincts desired.
It was through these two very opposed artists, and practice lead research that my final piece #WIW came to be. The piece combines both the idea of a very small sabbatical (that I took over the course of producing this assessment piece) as I choose a topic that I was interested in and just went with it: Glitch Art.
Glitch Art is intriguing, as it present the options of collecting, projecting and storing a stream of data, linking directly to the question posed. Glitch Art presented itself to me through mistake, as my MacBook was constantly freaking out (and producing beautiful glitch art) whilst I researched and experimented with this assessment. Over the course of the weeks I struggled with multiple other assessments and started using GIF generators as a form of ‘relaxation’ as it was something that was totally unpredictable and also extremely aesthetically pleasing.
CHROMAT and LYTRO presented their art on Tumblr, from there I was linked to Made Fashion Weeks page which presented a variety of amazing GIFS, enrapturing moments and models.
Lytro Living Pictures Studio inspired this piece significantly, their work is purely interactive imagery, its work that is draws you in and never lets you go.
Mr GIF - another tumblr site manned by two GIF loving dudes, is filled with GIFS of the some really random things. I followed a link and self taught on how to produce GIFS.
My piece then took form. Delving into my collection of badly shot film which I took at New York during varied Fall Fashion Week 2014 shows, I gathered the footage and decided to let my imagination run free, and GIF it I did.
#WIW through purely human desire became a body of work consisting of 6 GIFs which aim to collect, present, store and project the curators obsessive interaction with these clips.
Glitching and GIFS have become a form of ‘finished’ art in a way so ultimately the piece speaks lengths about the true value of ‘finished art’ and how this can affect a viewer.
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The work of Stefan Sagmesiter
http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com/answers/category/sabbaticals/
https://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_the_power_of_time_off
http://emilezile.com/selected-work/springer-audiences/
http://madefw.tumblr.com/post/96749296346/seeing-double-with-chromat-and-lytro
http://livingpicturesstudio.tumblr.com
http://snorpey.github.io/experiments/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj2JV9gZUNM
Pedestrian TV spin on GIFS
http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/arts-and-culture/hey-guys-your-iphone-will-soon-have-a-gif-keyboard/8f25cc5a-c65b-4f41-97b8-29e3caac148e.htm
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