combination of text and image

Scenic Review IV, 1997/2002

Simple combinations of text and image that compliment each other. It not only informs, but creates a new form of communication.

 

A New York Times Op-Ed page 

Text become images - and how little of it speaks so much.

Wednesday, 16 June 2010: Sir Richard Dearlove, p.18

Hamburger Bahnhof [2011] Philipp  Lachenmann. Some Scenic Views. [Online]

 http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de/exhibition.php?id=29033&lang=en [28/01/2011]
Iraq Inquiry [2011] Wednesday, 16 June 2010: Sir Richard Dearlove. [Online]

 http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/media/50694/20100616-Dearlove.pdf [28/01/2011]

Johnson, G. & Michaelov, A. [2011] A Brief History of the Art. [Online]
 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/09/25/opinion/opedat40-illustration.html
 [28/01/2011]
Norton-Taylor, R. (2011) OK, thank you – spy chief Dearlove's Iraq evidence revealed ... sort
 of [Online] http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/jan/25/richard-dearlove-chilcot-testimony-redacted [28/01/2011]

20 things by Christoph Niemann

Christoph Niemann illustrated 20 Things I learned About Browsers and the Web, by Google. Readers can turn the pages by clicking on the screen or with arrow keys.

The site also gives you the option of starting from the start, or the page you were reading beforehand, on new browsers.

20 Things I learned About Browsers & the Web. [Online]
 http://www.20thingsilearned.com/ [26/01/2011]

Street names in Berlin

Vincent Trasov focused on history and changes by highlighting the phenomenon of the numerous street name changes, squares and underground stations in Berlin. "A direct expression of the rapid development of a once divided city into a vibrant metropolis" was installed nearby the former Berlin Wall.

"STRASSENBILD names the more than 60 streets, underground stations and squares which have been renamed in East Berlin. In the painting there is no direct connection between the old and the new name. They are placed at random. The work is a metaphor for the dissolve of a political system and the collapse of ideologies." [Trasov, 2011]

Trasov, V. [2011] Word Paintings. [Online]
 http://vincenttrasov.ca/index.cfm?pg=menu&filter=word%20paintings [21/01/2011]

filmtext by Mark Amerika

Investigating the links between net art, hypermedia and digital narratives and interactive cinema, Mark Amerika's Filmtext is " a hybridized online/offline storyworld experience created as a net art site"

"The work traces the nomadic movement of an alien light form known only as “The Digital Thoughtographer,” loosely inspired by the life and work of Ted Serios. The Thoughtographer wanders through an eerily empty desert landscape that looks like a synthetic rendering but is actually the Haleakala Crater in the South Pacific and other far off destinations. Set in the language of computer games, FILMTEXT’s techno music, eerie alien lifeforms, space travel, and sound collages burdened with static and transmission noises, precariously negotiate the netherworlds between sound and noise, film and literature, human body and networked being." (Center for Art and Visual Culture (2005)

Center for Art and Visual Culture (2005) Mark Amerika. [Online]

 http://www.markamerika.com/filmtext/ [16/01/2011]
Amerika, M [2011] Filmtext. [Online]
 http://www.markamerika.com/filmtext/ [12/01/2011]
Thompson, S. (2010) Mark Amerika on Digital Narrative. [Online]
 http://www.seththompson.info/html/interviews/markamerika.htm [16/01/2011]

Wolfgang Staehle

Wolfgang Staehle has worked on numerous web-transmitted work, including Palast der Republik (2006) and other topography in Berlin closely associated with the Berlin Wall and East Berlin.

"In 1996, Staehle began to produce an ongoing series of live online video streams. The first of these works was Empire 24/7, a continuous recording of the top one-third of the Empire State Building that is broadcast live over the Internet. Staehle has followed Empire 24/7 with online streams of other buildings, landscapes and cityscapes such as Berlin's Fernsehturm, the Comburg Monastery in Germany, lower Manhattan before and after 9/11." (The Trustees of Princeton University, 2007-8) 

Trustees of Princeton University, The (2007-8) Wolfgang Staehle. [Online]
 http://webscript.princeton.edu/~slashart/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=50 [16/01/2011]

New Art TV (2009) Wolfgang Staehle. [Online]
 http://www.newarttv.com/Wolfgang+Staehle [16/01/2011]

Postmasters [2011] Wolfgang Staehle:  "A Matter of Time" [Online]
 http://www.postmastersart.com/ [16/01/2011]

Staehle, W. (2006) Berlin, October 29, 2006 [Online]
 http://www.wolfgangstaehle.info/pages.php?content=galleryBig.php&navGallID=1&navGallIDquer=1&imageID=35&view=big&activeType=gall
 [16/01/2011]

Staehle, W. (2006) Palast der Republik, November 29, 2006. [Online]
 http://www.wolfgangstaehle.info/pages.php?content=galleryBig.php&navGallID=1&navGallIDquer=1&imageID=34&view=big&activeType=gall
 [16/01/2011]

Staehle, W. (2005) Alexanderplatz [Online]
 http://www.wolfgangstaehle.info/pages.php?content=galleryBig.php&navGallID=1&navGallIDquer=1&imageID=31&view=big&activeType=gall
 [16/01/2011]

Staehle, W. (2001) Fernsehturm [Online]
 http://www.wolfgangstaehle.info/pages.php?content=galleryBig.php&navGallID=1&navGallIDquer=1&imageID=12&view=big&activeType=gall
 [16/01/2011]

web+concepts

Heath Bunting's web installation _readme links each word from a newspaper article to a .com website of the same name. In this project, where "everyday language becomes totally occupied by the owners of Internet domain names utilizing almost the entire vocabulary" , one of the characteristics of the web, "an endlessly linked information space" is highlighted [Medien Kunst Netz, 2011]. 

For the project BorderXing, Bunting travelled along inner European borders and created an online "documentation of walks that traverse national boundaries", with limited web page access, challenging "the supposed liberties that accompany the concept of the Internet as a borderless space" [Tate, 2011]. Bunting creates a situation where people "are being refused at the entrance and because they require a certain appreciation of how to preserve, develop and mutually share a precarious knowledge without compromising the project as a whole". In the project Schneider [2011] calls "an electronic antidote against any virtual or real border regime", audience visiting a website out of curiosity "find they have to prove their credentials".

Olia Lialina's My Boyfriend Came Back From the War splits the screen when a viewer clicks on a text or images, leading on to further dialogues and questions, and "into subdivisions of increasing complexity" (Paul, 2003) and provides the user to drive the narrative. 

Lialina, O. (1996) My Boyfriend Came Back From the War. [Online]
 http://www.teleportacia.org/war/war.html [16/01/2011]

Medien Kunst Netz [2011] Heath Bunting «_readme» [Online]
 http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/readme/ [16/01/2011]

Paul, C (2003) Digital Art. London: Thames & Hudson.

Tate [2011] BorderXing Guide  2002 - 2003: Heath Bunting. [Online]
 http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/borderxing.shtm [16/01/2011]

home pages

Various home pages. Some give you less choice - and information - than others. 

Brown, B. [2011] Splash [Online] http://www.brenebrown.com/ [13/01/2011]

http://www.shauntan.net/ [13/01/2011]

Gladwell, M. [2011] gladwell dot com [Online] http://gladwell.com/index.html [13/01/2011]

Kunst-Werke Berlin [2011] KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e.V. - INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART [Online] http://www.kw-berlin.de/ [13/01/2011]

Tan, S. [2011] home [Online] http://www.shauntan.net/ [13/01/2011]

Wenders, W. [2011] Welcom to the OFFICIAL SITE of WIM WENDERS [Online]

http://www.wim-wenders.com/ [13/01/2011]

The following plug-in has crashed

I seem to get this message "the following plug-in has crashed: Shockwave Flash" frequently on Google Chrome.

From wim-wenders.com

Wim-Wenders.com [2011] http://www.wim-wenders.com/ [12/01/2011]

a sitemap (partial)

From ArnoFischer.com

Fisher, A. [2011] http://www.arnofischer.com/ [12/01/2011]

web interfaces

One thing at a time. Small chunks of information.

Simplistic navigation, and a nice flow.

Cells: War on Weird and Four Derangements, web-comics by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, allow audience to interact with the comics. The entire comic is mapped out on Cells: War on Weird, which also works as a clear navigation where you can zoom in and out.

Drew Weing's "Pup" Ponders the Heat Death of the Universe, another web-comic, uses one giant page where visitors scroll instead. It feels more physical somehow.

Julia1926.net starts off with a short text and sound, and I'm left confused and curious to what happens next. Visual work and structure to highlight fluid memories and unreliable information to show what - I'm guessing - is like to have

            Alzheimer's disease. 

I wonder what it's like to lose your job, and all familiar things in life. They all become memories irrelevant to others.

And you feel foreign to the place which is your home.

In East Germany.

Goodbrey, D.M. [2011] Cells: War on Weird. [Online] http://e-merl.com/cells.htm

[12/01/2011]

Goodbrey, D.M. [2011] Four Derangements. [Online] http://e-merl.com/derange.htm
[12/01/2011]

Julia 1926 [2011] http://www.julia1926.net/ [12/01/2011]

Yuxiyou.net [2011] So You Still Think the Internet is Free. [Online]
http://yuxiyou.net/open/ [12/01/2011]
Weing, D. [2011] "Pup" Ponders the Heat Death of the Universe. [Online]

http://www.drewweing.com/pup/13pup.html [12/01/2011]

Lichtgrenze / Border of Lights

Designed by WHITEvoid to mark the anniversaries of the Wall's opening. Each balloon contains an LED light. These balloons will be released after 28 minutes, 1 minute for each year that the Wall divided the city. The installation marks where the Wall once stood, and celebrates the joy of freedom by releasing the balloons.

Eva Meyer-Keller also used balloons in Volksballons und geklonte Krieger at Palast der Republik, an installation also connecting time and memory.

Eva Meyer-Keller: http://www.evamk.de/daten/volksde.php
WHITEvoid: http://www.whitevoid.com/
WHITEvoid's Photostream:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitevoid/

web structures

I have been mapping websites, looking into structures and design, but I don't know how the Graft's site works, in relation to what I've learnt at uni this week. Or Get the Glass. The image below is the home page of Homeostatic.

Graft (2009) http://www.graftlab.com/ [08/01/2011]
California Milk Processor Board (2007) http://www.gettheglass.com/ [08/01/2011]
Homeostatic [2011] http://www.homeostatic.net/ [08/01/2011]

hosting transitional space

Art Cloud, at Schlossplatz, Berlin

Graft proposed to construct a temporary gallery in Berlin, where Palast der Repblik once stood, as a location which "breathes the identities of yesterday" today [Graft, 2011]. The "seemingly floating and resting for a moment" design fills the transition between "'what was' to 'what will be'". 

Graft [2011] Art Cloud: Here Today - Gone Tomorrow. [Online] http://www.graftlab.com/ [08/01/2011]

Imagine again

I have previously explored the HBO Imagine site, and have just come across their 14×14ft projection cube. Similarly to the website, audience were to choose from which side to view each scenes from. These were shot from 4 different angles, projecting diverse perceptions and experiences. The story came together after watching these scenes from all angles. Their message claimed, "sometimes a change in perspective changes everything".

The website had an interactive navigation, which allowed visitors to select the path in which they viewed each clips and images.

Thetrendwatch (2010) HBO Imagine. [Online] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2m7JcD0dK0&feature=related [08/01/2011]
Virutic (2010) HBO Imagine Integrated Campaign / BBDO New York. [Online] http://vimeo.com/14029101 [08/01/2011]
FunnyAdsWorldCom (2009) HBO: Imagine. [Online] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko2tHPAPr74 [08/01/2011]

Down and out in London

During the heavy snowfall in London, I visited Serpentine, Haunch of Venison, Tate Britain, National Portrait galleries and BFI Southbank Centre in London. Here are some ideas I picked up.

June 8, 1968, 2009

Visitors were guided through four rooms/spaces at Philippe Parreno: Films 1987-2010, which included film/animation installations by the artist.

"In Invisibleboy (2010), the viewer is delved deep into a world of both fantasy and reality where the boundaries between fiction and documentary began to blur. The movie features the story of an illegal Chinese immigrant boy who sees imaginary monsters that are scratched onto the film stock. June 8, 1968 (2009) portrays the train voyage that transported the corpse of assassinated senator Robert Kennedy from New York to Washington D.C. Kennedy’s invisible body and the Invisibleboy are characters that float between several layers of reality." [The European Graduate School, 2010] 

Serpentine Gallery also was showing Tom Hunter's A Palace for Us, where the artist interviewed residents of Woodberry Down Estate. The film has a documentary style, but the artist re-enacts scenes to narrate their history.

Nicolas Provost also works with moving image, and in his solo show at Haunch of Venison includes Stardust and Storyteller.  

And Winter's Bone at BFI Southbank. A daughter searches for her father to avoid the house, where she lives with her younger siblings, from being seized by the court. It's her experience, struggles and interactions with her neighbours and relatives the audience observe. 

I've been unable to shoot the ideas I've had, since my checked-in bag has not yet been delivered from Munich airport. My battery charger, a remore timer and my tripod for my camera are all in the bag, and my work continues to be disrupted days after airports managed to clear their runways.

The European Graduate School [2010] Philippe Parreno - Biography. [Online]
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/philippe-parreno/biography/ [26/12/2010]

Haunch of Venison [2010] Nicolas Provost: Stardust. [Online]
http://www.haunchofvenison.com/en/#page=london.current.nicolas_provost [26/12/2010]

National Portrait Gallery [2010] Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. [Online]
http://www.npg.org.uk:8080/photoprize/site10/index.php [26/12/2010]

Provost, N. [2010] Work. [Online] http://www.nicolasprovost.com/#/workThumbs
[26/12/2010]

RoadsideFlix [2010] Winter's Bone - Official US Theatrical Trailer in HD. [Online]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE_X2pDRXyY [26/12/2010]

Serpentine Gallery  [2010] Exhibitions: Philippe Parreno: 25 November - 13 February. [Online]

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2010/11/philippe_parreno_25_november_1_1.html
[26/12/2010] 

Serpentine Gallery  [2010] Tom Hunter: A Palace For Us: 8 December - 20 January. [Online]
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2009/01/the_skills_exchange_project.html [26/12/2010]

Tate Britain [2010] Eadweard Muybridge. [Online] 

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/eadweardmuybridge/default.shtm [26/12/2010]

Reflections on MSN4

My deadline has passed. I now have the time to reflect.

I have been generating ideas about still/moving images. I have thought about how I could develop the concept of memory and recollection on absence. One of the ideas I have used for MSN4 was to combine a video and a photograph in the same frame, to contrast motion and stillness - one represents present, and the other past. 

It also crosses the boundary of my photographic practices.

The idea to juxtapose present and past has been used by Amie Siegel in Berlin Remake. Sophie Calle combined interviews of people's memories in text and photographs of locations where monuments once occupied the space, displaying the absence.

I feel that my test images are too subtle and need stories, and more engaging elements. I have considered using sound and have been discussing this issue with people. I have intentions of creating an experience, rather than just an exhibit of my work, and looked at Jannis Kounellis' and Douglas Gordon's works, suggested by Shaun.

I want cues and excitement. 

My tests of the images, as well as projection, have worked out to an extent. I do feel that these need reinventing, to better project/reflect the concept of loss/past. I will investigate the relation of still and moving images, explore with time, and play/combine it with past and present. Neither slide show nor video.

I also want to further develop the projections, of smoke machine and frosted plastic sheets, with something vague and impermanent...

Bradley, F., Lingwood, J. & Gordon, D. [2010] Arts: Douglas Gordon, what have i done. [Online] http://arts.guardian.co.uk/pictures/0,,818576,00.html [14/12/2010]

Tate Online [2010] Jannis Kounellis. [Online] http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1438&page=1 [14/12/2010]

Tate Britain [2010] Douglas Gordon. [Online] http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/douglasgordon/default.shtm
[14/12/2010]

Presentation

Masters Project Proposal

Masters Project Proposal

Learning Agreement

Leaning Agreement

still movie tests

This clip is a test of an idea I had about the present/ongoing and the past. I used a Nikon DSLR to shoot both still and video images, and combined the two in to one frame. I still need to work on the quality of the clip, but the idea is there, and I think it works.

Half/half

I also want to try dividing the screen horizontally, or for the frame to be vertical...

as well as adding an image which covers only a small section of the frame.

I have also created two clips from a same set of still photographs, to be played at different speeds. Shots with less frames/sec appears more like individual images, like a slide show, whereas when more shots are squeezed in, it flows more like a clip.

Other experimental clips I made: http://vimeo.com/user5371109