ADAD Studio Gateway

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ADAD Sem 2 - Assessment 3

Group: Anna McLennan, Hamish Stewart Mcphie, Kye Barnes, Neha Ponnala

Reference List

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M. Almusaly, K, Painting our conflicts: A Thematic Analysis Study on The role of artists in peacemaking and conflict resolution. in , Florida, Nova Southeastern University, 2017.

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Unknown, “Accord With Air: Tjentiste — Kusum Normoyle”. in , , 2012, <https://kusumnormoyle.net/Accord-With-Air-Tjentiste> [accessed 23 October 2018].

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[anna-mclennan]

Finding inspiration...first steps

When we were initially deciding what event we wanted to do, we decided to start by choosing an interesting week topic and see if this gave us any inspiration. We initially chose the Glitch week, but we moved away from this pretty fast when we came together to brainstorm events.

We then initially chose a event that has kind of political inspiration. This would have had people coming together and writing on butchers paper, a jumble of words to do with politics to show the conflict between them. We would have created a video where people wrote on the paper (in red and blue), slowly coming together, to make a purple jumbled mess.

It was after this idea had already been technically settled, and we had planned the logistics together (when to meet, what materials to bring etc.), that we came up with a new one.

Here are some extracts from our group chat which details the idea that we had earlier overlooked:

We later came back to this idea and started thinking about how exploring the ‘group chat’ dynamic as an event could be really interesting- especially if we wound in ideas about politics or other aspects that interest us.

So, this was how our idea became loosely based around the collaboration week topic, but we also wanted to incorporation elements from other weeks (ie. glitch etc.)

[anna-mclennan]

Creating the event

To make our event come to life we all had to sit down together and record our drastic and satirical group chat. In it, we are sort of examining Politically Correct culture on the internet through a satirical lens. Alongside this, I though that it would be prudent to make the effect of this satire even more powerful, with the combined addition of glitch sounds and a bit of drastic editing (actually quite challenging when editing a group chat- which is naturally not highly awe-inspiring).

Here are some process shots showing how our video got down from 20 mins to 4 min 30sec, and then back up to 5:04min, and how glitch was incorporated to really make the event more powerful in a different way.

Because the video would otherwise we incredibly long, I had to edit out even tiny gaps where no one was speaking, and layer many layers of sound effects to create the right degree of noise pollution.

I created sounds on garageband, but also gather up some typing sounds. We wanted the video to almost accelerate and become even more bizarre to highlight the conversation happening within. I looped the gifs and sped them up to crazy levels to really make them stand out.

[anna-mclennan]

Link to completed work:

Youtube link:

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

[nehaponnala]

ADAD Sem 2 - Assessment 3

Name of Project: Conflict in Collaboration (Community and Collaboration/Interference)

Job Roles: Hamish - Research Anna - Screen Recording and Editing Neha - Reference List and Research Kye - Research

Materials Used: Computer screens Screen recording software (Quicktime Player)

Other Artists:

Emile Zile Emile is an performer, filmmaker and artist that specialises in creating art through digital mediums. He dabbles in many forms of digital creation, such as re-using and re-encoding media broadcasts, communication protocols and online platforms etc. Building on a background of live and single-channel video, his work utilises site-specific performance, portraiture and filmmaking to capture the traces of humanity within an accelerating digital culture. His work concentrates on a disturbed humanity within the modern transcendence of digital communication, a concept we wanted to adapt through conflict in communicating.

Work: Desktops (2015) Solo Performance For his exhibition Desktops at Fort Delta, Zile further explores our attraction to communications technology and their ability to translate and encode our lived experience through a series of collections. This work focuses on communication in particular through our screens, an aspect we adopted into our work through documenting a group project on social media.

An Xiao: The Artist Is Kinda Present (2010)

As a response to Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present, which was taking place at MoMA at the time, An Xiao developed a performance piece held at the New York Zen Meditation Center called The Artist Is Kinda Present.

Visitors received the following instructions upon arrival: “Sit down with the artist. Find a comfortable position. Be present with the artist in any of the following ways: A text message to a phone number  A tweet to @anxiaostudio. The artist will respond. When you have reached a satisfactory connection, or you simply grow bored, you may leave.”

This performance provided us inspiration through the piece simply being communication between individuals. The things that people say through texting provide an interesting glimpse into community and collaboration. All people have different ways of communicating to form connections and conclusions, and we wished to explore that in our assessment as well.

Tom Smith: The New Spirit of Capitalism 2015

https://vimeo.com/147025369

Tom Smith’s “The New Spirit of Capitalism” uses technologies such as sound and the internet to produce artwork and music. This performance piece consisted of Smith shopping online for costumes and fast cars, all while his voice is distorted by auto tune.  While he was shopping, he plays drum beats and music samples to make a song. The combination of auto tune, music samples and the visuals of Tom Smith shopping creates an entertaining sensory overload. Our video work utilises similar components such as layering of sound and a recording of a computer screen. As we layer sound bites throughout the video we too create a sensory overload.   

Kusum Normoyle

Kusum Normoyle is a creative practitioner who works with her voice and sound. Her works typically involve her screaming into a microphone which is plugged into an amplifier. She works with the feedback that comes from the amplifier and uses it to her advantage which creates distortion within her voice and performance. In this artwork she edits in glitch effects which distorts the background as her voice changes. Similar to Kusum Normoyle our work explores noise and the glitch. We do this by layering sounds on top of each other to create a somewhat overwhelming experience. We also play a certain sound bite when a gif of a person appears on the screen and this acts like a glitch.

Rachel Maclean Rachel Maclean is a multi media artist from Scotland that word in the fields of photography and film, using various characters and artistic creations to explore and pose social commentary on politics, society and identity. Maclean uses herself in her work and plays every role in her films herself. She often constructs narratives that have comedic undertone, or touch.

After seeing her work at the Artspace Public body exhibition, we took inspiration from her work and used it to influence the way in which we approached creating our event. Her use of imagery surrounding social media and the emojis brought us into the sphere of using a social media platform to address our event and underline an element of social/political commentary and its conflict with identity.

https://www.artspace.org.au/program/exhibitions/2018/the-public-body-03/

[anna-mclennan]

Desire- Excursion activity

The object of desire as we discussed together was the gold, the wealth and prosperity in Australia.

Here, the object of desire seems to be the more English landscape. The desire is home, and the familiar. Beauty in natural landscape is what is desired, but it’s not a purely Australian landscape that is depicted.

Is this work of art, beauty and the myth of Pan is depicted. There seems to be a desire for the magic of myth as well as a desire for freedom of sensuality.

Artspace Works (I kind of forgot to take pictures)- also sorry for the quality of this one, I didn’t realise it was so bad at the time.

In the modern works at Artspace, the human body was distorted and depicted in many different ways by may different artists. The human body in relation to desire is explored- sometimes in more unappealing ways than others. Thus, the idea of the human body as an object of desire is changed, and allowed to be seen as more than that in many cases.

[kye-barnes]

Signal interruption part 2

Hamish and Anna

[kye-barnes]

Signal interruption part 1

Anna and Hamish

[kye-barnes]

ASSESSMENT 2 STATEMENT

Beginning this project, I had no clue of what I wanted to do or any topic I wanted to focus on. I did a few experiments with collage, altering text and codes but I still did not know what I wanted to explore, I even made a quick text graphic expressing this and I posted it to Tumblr. As I was sitting in my chair racking my brain for some ideas, I thought of my essay that I had to write for another class. The essay is about surveillance and I thought that would be an interesting topic to explore, but more specifically hacking.

Hacking, or just the term ‘hack’, is defined as to gain unauthorised access to data in a system or computer. I find hacking really interesting as people of all ages hack and for different reasons. There are three types of hackers, black hat hackers, white hat hackers and grey hat hackers. Black hat hackers are the bad guys. They are the people who are responsible for writing malware and viruses which are used to gain access into computer systems. Black hat hackers have malicious intent hand usually do it for financial gain or to destroy the data they have gained access to. White hat hackers are the good guys. These hackers work for companies to try and find security flaws in their systems. They will ask permission to hack into their systems which makes it completely legal, then they will see k to find security faults and if they find any they will report it and the company will fix it. Finally, there are grey hat hackers who are a combination of the two previous types. Grey hat hackers will hack into a companies’ system and seek to find faults without their permission. If they have found faults they will let the company know an will ask for a fee to fix the issue. If the company does not comply, sometimes the hacker will post the exploit online.

My artwork consists of screenshots of the log in page of the Uber website and the Linkedin website. I pasted them up in a three by four orientation. I chose these two websites because they have been subjected to some very big hacks and data breaches.

In 2016, Uber was subjected to a massive data breach and the way they handled it was not good for them at all. Two hackers were able to hack into Uber’s systems and get the names, phone numbers and email addresses of 57 million customers and they were also able to obtain the drivers licences of 600,000 drivers working for the company. Uber then kept this a secret for a whole year and payed the hackers that were responsible for the breach $100,000 to destroy the data and keep it a secret. As a result of this, Uber fired its CEO because of this massive breach and making it seem like it was his fault.

In 2012, Linkedin suffered the one of the biggest data breaches in the 21st century. Hackers broke into Linkedn’s database and stole the emails and passwords of over 160 million users and were posted on a Russian hacker forum. The hacker responsible for this breach was selling this personal information for around $2000 dollars which was able to be paid in bitcoin. It took four years for Linkedin to realise that this had happened as they made it public in 2016. The reason it went on for so long was the fact that the decoding of the passwords was done very slowly and discreetly.

I decided to paste up the posters to bring the digital world to the physical world. In the digital world, thing fly under the radar very often but when it is brought into the physical world, it gets noticed a lot more as the posters look out of place and are eye catching. I chose to repeat the poster to represent on a smaller scale how many people got effected and how many people use these websites. I also decided to make the posters a screenshot of my computer to play on the paranoia people have with their web camera. Many people put tape over their web camera because they fear that someone has hacked into their computer and is watching their every move though the camera.

 Bibliography

Taylor Armerding, 2018, CSO, accessed 13/9/18, <https://www.csoonline.com/article/2130877/data-breach/the-biggest-data-breaches-of-the-21st-century.html>

 Steve Morgan, 2017, CSO, accessed 13/9/18, <https://www.csoonline.com/article/3213568/hacking/john-mcafee-ranks-the-10-biggest-hacks-ever.html>

 Norton, 2018, Norton Symatec, accessed 16/9/18, <https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-emerging-threats-what-is-the-difference-between-black-white-and-grey-hat-hackers.html>

 Julia Carrie Wong, 2017, The Guardian, accessed 16/9/18, <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/21/uber-data-hack-cyber-attack>

 Jose Pagliery, 2016, CNN Tech, accessed 16/9/18, <https://money.cnn.com/2016/05/19/technology/linkedin-hack/index.html>

 Sarah Perez, 2016, TechCrunch, accessed 16/9/18, <https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/18/117-million-linkedin-emails-and-passwords-from-a-2012-hack-just-got-posted-online/>

[kye-barnes]

ASSESSMENT 2 FINAL SUBMISSION

[kye-barnes]

Not an Experiment but its to do With Assignment 2

I think the picture explains itself

(If you don’t understand I am simply saying that I am struggling to come up with an idea for assignment 2)

[kye-barnes]

Experiment 3

For this experiment I wanted to play with the thought of being in control. This is a sentence in binary code which is a code that is used in computers. Although we use computers every day, the majority of the people seeing this will not know what it means. So it sparks a question; are you really in control of what you see and consume?

[kye-barnes]

Experiment 2

This is a collage I made in photoshop. I was interested in the idea of child innocence and how people want to preserve that for as long as possible. Part of child innocence is looking up to fictional characters such as superheroes. I wanted to brake child innocence with this collage by saying that believing that spider-man will come and save the day is false hope.

Writing this out makes me sound like a person who wants to see the world burn but oh well. It was a fun collage to make. 

[kye-barnes]

Experimentation

I’m not really sure what direction I want to move in for my next assessment but I think I want to play with confusion and control.  

Below I have mixed up a photo of a Pokemon game, attempting to leave people with a sense of confusion. 

Original

Altered 

[teresaadad1002]

WEEKLY ACTIVITY: SENSIBLE BODIES

For our collaborative activity, we dressed our male member @kye-barnes in female gendered stereotypes and expectations from our brainstorm. This choice highlights that these expectations come from the male gaze.

The box is an item of limitation similar the shoe, and everything is applied to the box which is applied to the body.

These were: gendered clothing,body piercing, bodily shape, fake pockets(unutilitarian), shaved legs?, unshaved?, tattoos(trampstamp).

[teresaadad1002]

Week5 Activity

GENDER BODIES:WEARABLES

Brainstorm::

-Gender arguments have a tendency to lean towards a gender

-Hair

-crossing legs

-makeup/face

-idea of wearing jewellery

-heels and history of

-shape of body: triangle and hourglass

-acceptance of body hair

-stereotypical jobs for gender

-connotations for same qualities in gender

-movement: walking patterns, bodily positions

-men exposed/control

[anna-mclennan]

We have adorned Kye with gender bizarre qualities, features and stereotypes for women.

[kye-barnes]

ADAD 1002 Assessment 1 Final Submission

I was given the brief to create a poster based on one of four questions of my choosing. The question I chose was “Can creative acts be rebellious when rebellion has become canonised in art, design and media histories? What would a contemporary creative rebellion look like?” because it was the one that interested me the most. First, I started to look at street artists who predominately use posters and the two artists I looked at were KAWS and Shepard Fairey. In his early days of street art KAWS used to take advertisement out of bus stops, paint on them and then put them back. He added a graphic quality to the advertisements which made them very eye catching. Shepard Fairey pasted up posters of his illustrations which eventually lead to the famous Obama poster. After doing the research, I decided to look at advertisements and wanted to comment on the repetitious nature of them. I took ads out of magazines I had around the house and collaged them. This was a small experiment that didn’t really go anywhere. Next I looked at the obsolesce of technology, specifically the fact that we still have old technology around when tech is so advanced these days. I did a small digital collage for that idea with Nokia phones but that gave me the idea for my final design. I decided to make a fake phone ad using a picture of my phone and putting them up on phone boxes. I added text reading “The Future is Now” to emphasise the advance technology we have today. I like the idea and the way I executed it but I think the quality of the poster could be better. I wish I had put up all A2 posters but I didn’t know how big the phone box actually was.