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Conversation-Time-Based Media. 2004. Tate. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.tate.org.uk/about/our-work/conservation/time-based-media#art. [Accessed 01 April 16].

This link is a website, a conversation page including all artistic techniques which relate to the notion of time. The link is from the Tate gallery website, the conversation I was looking at is called “time-based media” which talks about different practices that can affect the sense of time and how we experience it. I used this link in my ‘Drawing Transformations’ project, where I was researching into time and our relationship with it. This link was useful because the processes I read about can all relate to time and each one has a different effect on time and how we encounter it, for example an audio based piece, can still give a sense of time through sounds that we associate with it and space. Similarly to film based art, using only images we associate with a certain period in time to change the way we think about time and how we encounter it.

I found this source useful because it made me think about using duration as an element in my art. This made me think about what “duration” could mean and what effect it could have on the viewer, for instance if an installation had to be taken down and then created again, the repeated action would almost create a cycle, giving a sense of infinity which relates to time. Therefore, this would play with the concept of time, beginning and ending. Overall this source has made me think about using different practices to relate to the context of my work, I thought about using film and sound to give a surreal, timeless experience to the viewer.

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Quentin Carnialle. 2015. M.A.DGallery. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.mbandf.com/mad-gallery/creators/quentin-carnaille/. [Accessed 31 March 16].

My next source is a website link, this website has helped me throughout my studio practice and contemporary practice in context work. The website is an article about an artist called Quentin Carnialle, he is a French artist deeply fascinated with the notion of time, questioning theories of infinity and relativity. I researched this artist during my project “Drawing Transformations” when I was looking into the concept of time and our relationship with it.

This article helped me research into Quentin Carnialle to gain a better understanding, but it also helped me with my studio practice. I liked Carnaille’s style of mixing sculpture with architecture, his work is made from parts of watches including metal cogs, rubber and glass. This gives his work a solid and timeless look. His love for materials also comes through in his presentation, one piece I love appears to be hovering in mid-air mysteriously, Carnialle never explains how he has made his work but I think this is created using repelling magnets. The floating piece of art fascinated me, I liked the dream like feel it gave to the piece which linked to time, it really inspired me to try something different in my creative practice. Therefore, my current work is based on my new found interest for materials, which gives an architectural look to my work. My work is now a constant experimentation with different materials and processes like resin, which is like a liquid glass, and Perspex. Therefore, this source has been very useful in my practical work, I now have a new style and interest for sculpture which has made my work much more interesting and contemporary.

In addition, this source has been used in my contemporary practice in context work. Quentin Carnialle has a strong understanding of time and the theories around it, I found it interesting to read some of his comments in interviews that are mentioned in this article. I used one of Quentin’s comments in my useful quotes, he believes there is no such thing as time, he says it is simply “the constant human motivation to materialize it”. I found this quote quite inspiring and thought provoking, to consider time does not exist at all, it is something man made we have completely made up. I loved how this quote made the reader question time and existence itself, I got completely lost in the idea of time and what it might be. I now use this thought process in my work, rethinking my relationship with time, somehow made me appreciate it more and therefore manage it better, which I can apply to my work ethic.

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Simmel G. (2000) ‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’ In. Miles, M., Hall, T., Borden, I., The City Cultures Reader. London: Routledge

This is a piece of writing I have been looking at called the “Metropolis and Mental Life” by Georg Simmel, whom is a German sociologist, philosopher and critic. Georg Simmel analysis and documents urban life and seems to ask “what is society?” throughout his writing. Simmel has wrote a number of essays that still apply to modern life today even though Simmel’s description of city life was wrote in 1903.

I chose this source because it linked to my recent project “Documentation and Interpretation” where I was looking into modern life and the overwhelming effect it has on us that make us want to escape. Simmel gave me a better understanding of urban life, and why it forces us to want to escape to another world, which therefore helped me with my studio project. Moreover, because this source is a piece of writing, it has broadened my research, which I learnt I needed to do in my formative assessment, this research helped my creative practice to be more varied and developed.

Furthermore, this source will help me with my short essay, as I am writing about “the everyday” and what I believe it to mean. This piece of writing has given me an understanding into everyday life in the urban city, how it is repetitive and boring which forces us to have what Simmel describes as a “blasé” attitude towards life, so I can expand and write about in my essay.

In conclusion, this is a very useful source that I can use in future work because it still relates to urban life today, which is an interesting concept to think about, how urban living has not changed since 1903.