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Online publication

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Our groups finalised publication. 

After creating our initial text, we used Google’s dictation app, speaking the text aloud and allowing the computer to decipher the contents. Our vision was to create a publication that is not fully legible, corresponding to our feelings and conversations surrounding the idea that the collaborative project would never culminate in a resounding final piece; certain aspects would be misunderstood, disagreed with, lost, contradicted etc. As our final piece failed to achieve ‘zen’ (perfection, clarity, conformity), our publication fails in an equal sense. 

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An image created by myself as an additional piece to expand our online publication. As well as presenting our physical work through documentation and submitting our publication to the ‘post-zen’ tumblr, we have each created an individual submission that we feel to be relevant and reminiscent of the process. 

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Through careful curation, allocated tasks and a strong team ethic, our group was able to produce a show that seemed to soundly convey our thoughts and concepts surrounding ‘post-zen’. 

Reception was extremely positive and each piece seemed to relate well to the rest of the works, concluding in a cohesive and fluid final, collaborative outcome. Although there could have been subtle improvements in regards to various technical issues and limitations, we were successful in resolving these problems as a unit, working around them and helping with each other’s individual situations. 

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Images of final piece: 

The piece was finalised after creating a makeshift structure out of scrap materials to separate the two elements of the sculpture and adding a perspex table for the fiji bottle and bluetooth speaker to be placed on. 

The piece received positive feedback and seemed to convey my perceived concepts and ideas clearly. If we were to re-install this piece and gain more time, I would perhaps think about extending this work through exploring further forms of reproduction, constructing both virtual and physical versions of the original virtual image that further distance themselves from the original product.

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Artist Statement

My art is a process.

Process is key,

And the key to a final piece is not to create one,

As a final piece is not a finite creation.

Remember: there is no final product,

And therefore the product is the produce.

When I produce, I establish a journey to complete,

Yet a complete work ceases to exist.

Work must develop,

And to develop it must advance.

To advance, it requires a significant familiarity,

Yet also commands a significant shift;

One that may shift the work’s form,

Form a new perspective,

Provide a new sense of clarification,

Record a noted sense of deterioration,

Or perhaps we can record all of these transformations;

Transformations that may be coupled, or wholly united within each stage of the evolution.

This evolution throughout constructs room for progression,

And in turn, this progression allows the work to transit between forms.

2D forms may converge into 3D,

3D stages may filter into sound.

Attributes from the prior creation dissolve into and embrace the forthcoming stages,

Generating an infinite embrace of production,

Which in hand constructs relationships between infinite forms and spaces.

 Screens allow us to shift between spaces,

Meaning screens allow us to exist in duality to ourselves.

As we engage with them, we allow ourselves to enter separate locations:

Locations both physical and virtual.

As the virtual encompasses our mind,

The physical encompasses our body.

As the body occupies stability, our minds inhabit activity,

And so we inhabit a curious state of coexistence;

A newly found coexistence; in which we are both absorbed and divided between parallel landscapes.

These distinctly disparate landscapes we occupy,

All of a sudden become distinctly comparable,

And these sudden simultaneous actions form a peculiar correlation,

Which results in the simultaneous erasing of definitions,

Definitions between boundaries,

Boundaries of worlds,

Worlds we each frequent and occur within,

Each exploring the online and the real;

Realising within the online, whilst situated physically in the real.

Situated still, yet back and forth we occur.

 Significant alterations occur when something passes through technology,

Alterations that can apply to either object or self.

When either is transported through a range of media,

The weight of it is also transported,

To a new- found weight, be it poorer or enhanced.

Our generation has new- found urges to document reality,

Reality of the everyday, the mundane, the ordinary.  

Through this, ordinary begins to outweigh the extraordinary,

And the mass of ordinary now becomes the extraordinary,

Extraordinary in the sense of its continual mass,

Ands so society sinks into a continual record of itself.

We yearn to acquire as a collective, as a society, as a generation.

Our generation documents the past, present and future intensely;

Records of reality, saved as virtual documents,

Framed within a screen, a window, saved as a file.

When a file is uploaded to the net,

Its journey continues, uploaded into immortality.

A journey of hopes, of a higher status, of a lower resolution,

Of something much greater than reality; the hopes and fortune of viral.

Originally an archive of something specific,

It now becomes an archive of our time.

 Time creates technology,

Technology fuels process,

Process produces documentation,

Documentation manifests process.

My art is an infinite process,

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Final screen recording video of Sketchup model which is then projected back into the real studio space as part of the installation. Exploring the similarities and differences between online and offline spaces, their differing advantages and limitations.