Tim Gregory COFA1001-2015

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This video is about test1

Memories...

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Next I began to consider how I could further my concept by recording during different times of day. By recording early in the morning, I was able to document the sky and shadows created by the sun

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This is beautiful

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Ways of seeing: Summer Hill on a Saturday Afternoon

Experimenting with an animation based on photos I took in the piazza in Summer Hill, sitting on a bench watching people and watching pigeons. Even though I sit here often, I get this strange feeling of intruding on the space of the old men who sit for hours every day, and the pigeons who seem to loiter in a peaceful way, pecking the ground and, uh… courting other pigeons.

I was here for 45 minutes just sitting and noticed the details which contributed to the sense of stillness and movement in this neighbourhood. It’s busy but quiet, and nobody rushes around but everyone’s walking with some purpose.

I ended up choosing photographs of pigeons showing affection towards each other and collated them into this .GIF, which summarised much of my experience of watching these pigeons. I looked down from above as they danced at my feet.

I then edited and mashed a series of photographs I took of people’s legs as they walked back to their cars in the car park. I took these photos from a pigeons-eye-view (i.e. ground level – it’s hard to engage in courtship procedure while flying) without a tripod. I think the agitated movement of the animation mimics the peculiar rate that time passes when you sit and watching the world, so it’s kind of like what pigeons experience of people when they’re taking a break from pecking invisible crumbs and having sex. 

Once you overcome the feeling that by sitting on a park bench you’re doing nothing (I think it took me 10 minutes), you may begin to notice the small changes happening around you – different shoes on the feet of passers-by, the different layers of colour on a flaking painted wall, the movement of the dappled shadows at your feet. And then you realise that watching the world is not an idle act: you’re engaged in a conversation with colour, energy, movement. These images are fragments of my visual experience as time slowed down and my senses tuned in to the small but important details of my environment.

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great description of the process of experimentation here

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Ways of seeing continued: For this experiment I used 3 layers of paper where a hole is ripped in the first one to provide a window for the face.

I wanted to explore and reflect on identity/racial blurs in humanity, blurring our ways of categorising and classifying our identity via different means, e.g. Things we like/how we ‘accessorise ourselves etc.

It would iterate a way of seeing our identity embedded into one: simply humans - our identity that is stripped bare from all materialism and culture, often culture that is romanticised I think?

For the experiment I only iterated one but edited it to visualise what the final thing would possibly look like if I chose to further this experiment.

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This is great work, Louise. Interested to see how you develop it further

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looking fantastic!

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great example of analogue glitch, images sourced from mirrors sold on craigslist.

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WEEK 11- CHANCE

randomness procedure complexity constraint indeterminacy contingency salad aleatory unexpectedness Fluxus Oulipo Situationist International Dada probability surprise predestiny serendipity RAM accident involuntary forms

Aims for Week Eleven: • Consider the role of chance in the experimental process; • Discuss chance-based or ‘aleatory’ art and design works; • Strategise how chance can be used in practice as a means for developing projects; • Discuss the relationship between control and chance in creative practice; • Consider the role that chance can or does play in your Assessment 3 work(s).

Studio Exercise

This weeks studio exercise for our class directly involved the notion of chance; especially the randomness and unpredictability factor.

Each of us had to put our mobile number into a raffle, each person pulled out a random number each. The task, was to text this person for the week. Overall, we had 2 conversations in action at once.

This task was really interesting, with 2 different tones to each conversation. My conversations were with, Aidan and Sylvia. With Sylvia, I played a game of 20 questions for the 7 days, asking weird and wacky questions to each other, without revealing our identities. The conversation with Aidan, focused on our projects, sharing our ideas and improvements we could make, and also general conversation.

Note: In regards to assessment 3, I found this class experiment quite relevant to my assessment. The idea, that the information we are provided with, effects our perception, the opinion we form. Without knowing who these people were in initial conversation, my only information is what they supplied.

Examples of conversation with Sylvia above.

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great reflection and documentation of class activities!

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Universal Declaration on Human Rights - 1948

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, P...

Full 30 articles of Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is interesting to listen to, as you are “covered” by these. Do you feel that they all apply to you? If not, whose responsibility is it to ensure they do?

Also if you are interested look at the other videos and representations of these rights and importantly which ones they leave out, or change to wording of. Why do you think they do this?

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Class Experiment Log

This is Clare’s log of class activities during the experiment conducted by Tim’s class and ours.

11:27 Ten students leave for pub/food 

11:30 One student begins drawing on a whiteboard 

11:32 Class integration between two students observed 

11:35 Five students integrating, others talking/working on assessments 

11:35 Three students approach the lectern. Giggling. 

11:37 Student closes door 

11:39 Students put the Lion King on 11:39 Heckling 

11:40 A student issues an ultimatum to the class whilst waving a metal rod, denies reentry to other students 

11:41 Lights turned off 11:42 Inter-class flirting at lectern 

11:43 Man mans the mouse at lectern. Group of women oversee. 

11:44 Man leaves lectern. Women rule the lectern 

11:45 Cats on internet. 

11:48 Declaration of Independence played 

11:48 Students unable to reenter classroom 

11:51 Students break in using force 

11:54 Student reenters, dons dress from Vinnies with tags. 

11:58 Debrief. Students complain that pub was closed.

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Images to match Clare’s awesome notes. 

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Responsibility

“Don’t have sex. Because you will get pregnant, and die. Don’t have sex in the missionary position, don’t have sex standing up, just… don’t do it. Promise?” - Mean Girls

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responsibility

Mark Greif’s Seeing Through Police 

Pablo and the Art Workers’ Coalition

A public is never found: it is always built

Interview with Bernard E. Harcourt

Love of trash

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EDITING EXPERIMENT ONE

Changing image formate and visual perception.

2D → 3D

With adding two white lines on the image.

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Fantastic simple experiment with remarkable effect

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Cosmopolitan The Block, 2012

Tim Gregory and Oliver Watts make a Cosmopolitan cocktail in Redfern’s “The Block”. It examines the artist role in adding value and gentrifying spaces, despite their often anti-capitalist aims. The Block underwent this process a few years ago, and the artist make the space “cosmopolitan” while surrounded by the now not enforced “alcohol is prohibited” signs.

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Edward Snowden: a right to privacy is the same as freedom of speech – video interview

NSA whistleblower questions the reach governments should be able to exercise into people's lives

Thinking about rights and responsibilities this week, Snowden is an interesting case to discuss.

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More results from Experiment 3

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Some great random text conversations coming out of last week’s studio exercise. It is interesting how confronting a statement which is slightly unusual makes us feel. Here the “hahhaha” is the nervous laugh, unsure how to respond. How quickly the social contract is broken. 

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Cofa1001 experimentation

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A mission statement for COFA1001! Good luck everyone with your experiments and keep gluing those cheetos, no matter what!

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Every Icon by John Simon, 1997. The live work can be viewed here. It will cycle through every possibility of a 32 by 32 square. It will take thousands of years to complete, but at some point your face will appear by “chance”

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The Library of Babel is a short story by Borges it explores the idea of a total library, where every combination of letters is produced. Does “chance” produce works of art? Works of genius?