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Semester One Folio Feedback

Last Friday was the final presentation of our folio work to date for semester one. Alongside my research, sample video work, and future plans for the project, I presented a small book dummy and 19 digital images.

The feedback received from the presentation was extremely helpful to the project, and gives me plenty to think about and work on over the break. The assessors agreed that the work contains multiple elements that would be suited to a central online platform, something that I’ve been considering and experimenting with since the beginning of the project. Now that I have some material to collate into one location I will begin to start testing ideas. The video work was also encouraged and is definitely something that I’ll be focusing on over the break. As well as the visual side of the video, the more physical installation aspects of the VHS work was also something that they suggested I push forward with.

Overall the feedback was good, and I was encouraged to start linking the different parts of the work into something more cohesive to enhance the outcome of the work.

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Video Work Progress

So far the video component of the work is progressing slowly, but I hope to get a lot more work done over the break. So far I’ve got the more installation based VHS tape loop work, alongside the motion graphic 3D work. I hope to merge the two of these as an experiment some time soon.

VHS Loop Experiment using archival footage of myself at age four. 

3D Motion Graphics work of a simulated archive corridor.

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WIP Week 8

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VHS loop experiment video

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VHS looping experiments 

This is something I began to explore last year but abandoned due to time restraints, and it’s something I want to keep going with this year. The source video is my own family tapes (dubbed onto a donor tape that I’ve cut and looped), along with a soundtrack made by me using the audio from the original tape. This type of installation initially was an exploration of decay within the medium of magnetic tape, again looking at ideas of transmission and reproduction. When I first made this loop last year the image was clear and ran fine, however after sitting for over 6 months and being roughly handled it’s already extremely degraded and beginning to be un recognisable.  Right now it’s still in the early stages but will hopefully be something I continue with.

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Work in Progress 

A very obvious start, but hopefully by starting obvious I can work towards a more refined way of working, these are by no means how I see the project looking, merely a starting point. These came about after playing with a cheap digital camera. As I’m interested in transmission and reproduction of the image in all of it’s stages I was ripping the camera apart and experimenting with modifying the image before it is produced. These shots were the result of simply removing the lens, effectively turning it into a extreme macro lens, which was then placed on top of prints. Although these were shot the day before reading about Zaatari and the idea of transactions, I feel this is in some ways investigating these transactions and reproduction traces.