Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
4/9 the irony
Over this year, the computer and internet has played a critical role in my practice, research, and online communication with other classmates & leaders. Used for assignments, filing and storage of documentation and photographs, minor image editing (cropping, levels, layout), communication -including analysis with peers, online contextual research including other artists, poets, writers, philosophers, and theory linked to my central aims and objectives of a disconnection to nature. I am on the computer at least 3 times every day. However, as the year has progressed, and more time is spent trudging through a flat screen, reading, hunting, ordering, getting lost, finding, opening, closing, saving, filing, staring at a flat -senseless screen, the less I want to open the flat sideways lying, cursor blinking, plastic buttoned, overheating, texture-less, senseless 'book'.
I want reality. I want dry paper between my fingers, an isle of real books, I want a pencil and a rubber (eraser thank you very much;), a highlighter, a walk, the wind, the scents, the glare, objects and their potential for allegory.
My research into a disconnection with nature, has lead me from once being a regular Gen Y computer/internet user, into a
Computer crashed. How appropriate.
I want reality. I want dry paper between my fingers, an isle of real books, I want a pencil and a rubber (eraser thank you very much;), a highlighter, a walk, the wind, the scents, the glare, objects and their potential for allegory.
My research into a disconnection with nature, has lead me from once being a regular Gen Y computer/internet user, into a
Computer crashed. How appropriate.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
25/8 Fantastic feedback from online class forum
Summary:
My challenge with this exploration has been with the weather and issue of borrowing tiles from Mitre 10.
Weather is something I should have experimented with, what would this portray? A fight between nature and sterility/protection against it? Ephemerality?
The umbrella poses a question, it makes the work less literal.
Arial views would be very useful to explore, - as they’d give a greater perspective – I don’t know how I could achieve this though!
The dichotomy is that I am looking to incorporate nature in a wild natural state, however usually this is where there are no people, therefore the work will not be viewed unless someone stumbles upon it in a nature walk – (not my target audience!). I feel I need to express the wild and disconnection to it in a public place... Similar to Germaine Koh http://www.germainekoh.com/ma/projects_detail.cfm?PageNum_rsDetail=3&pg=projects&projectID=13
An element of human interaction would be effective in portraying humans as an integral element of this installation, -this is not apparent as it stands. Human experience of nature is what I am exploring, so a human experience of the disconnection to nature is just as important. Suggestion of a lollie wrapping was a given example of human interaction within this piece.
My challenge with this exploration has been with the weather and issue of borrowing tiles from Mitre 10.
Weather is something I should have experimented with, what would this portray? A fight between nature and sterility/protection against it? Ephemerality?
The umbrella poses a question, it makes the work less literal.
Arial views would be very useful to explore, - as they’d give a greater perspective – I don’t know how I could achieve this though!
The dichotomy is that I am looking to incorporate nature in a wild natural state, however usually this is where there are no people, therefore the work will not be viewed unless someone stumbles upon it in a nature walk – (not my target audience!). I feel I need to express the wild and disconnection to it in a public place... Similar to Germaine Koh http://www.germainekoh.com/ma/projects_detail.cfm?PageNum_rsDetail=3&pg=projects&projectID=13
An element of human interaction would be effective in portraying humans as an integral element of this installation, -this is not apparent as it stands. Human experience of nature is what I am exploring, so a human experience of the disconnection to nature is just as important. Suggestion of a lollie wrapping was a given example of human interaction within this piece.
Monday, August 23, 2010
24/8 New work! A lot to explore?
Exploring a disconnection to nature through the use of symbols, relating it to the theory of 'symbolic interactionism'. “Symbolic Interactionism, or SI, is an approach to the study of nonverbal communication that enjoys a long history, its use continuing to this day.” (Canfield, A., n.d.)
This installation was 'up' for 30 minutes only as weather turned bad, I could only make the most of it for documentation purposes. It was on a farm about 50m off a main highway, visible, but not apparent/clear. It was approx 50m below the main path of the Napier airport.
23/8 All set
Ready to go with new environment installation, props/objects on hand, weather & location permitting though- fingers crossed!
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
18/8 Questions to consider
Carlson, A. (2008). "Environmental Aesthetics." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Retrieved April 28, 2010, from http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/environmental-aesthetics/.
What is more effective -to portray an engagement with nature (a connection), or a disconnection?
- How can an engagement with nature be portrayed? -Representation through photography, video and/or drawing in installation? What kind of representation am I dealing with, mimesis, or a social constructivist approach? Is representation necessary?
- How can a disconnection to nature be portrayed? -Allegory through the use of multiple symbols (utilising a range of diverse objects) in installation?
What am I dealing with:
- The positive (natures benefits), or negative (what is lost and what is becoming)?
- Nostalgia or shock, or references to past and present portraying a contrast between both?
- What is nature, or what is not?
If "The meaning of a life is not to be found in anything other than that life itself" (Lefebvre, 1991, p. 145), what is more effective:
- Portraying my subjective experience of nature, or a more general/universal experience of nature (what is the universal view or experience of nature and what means can I find this out?)?
- Or is it to simply evoke an experience through installation?
- Which of these will evoke the participant to go outside and engage in nature in reality?
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
18/8 The BEGINNING of blogmadblog (1st blog ever)
Starting a blog, its seems like a good way of making me journal my thoughts/ideas/processes/questions etc for documentation purposes of my MAD (Masters in Art & Design), I have been very slack in terms of this thus far :/
I most definitely welcome discussion, comments, or suggestions, -however know this will be somewhat boring for an outsider to view! I won't blame you for getting confused (as I am), lost (as I am), going crazy along the way (if you stay that long) as I will be (and am) also.
Its already started...
I most definitely welcome discussion, comments, or suggestions, -however know this will be somewhat boring for an outsider to view! I won't blame you for getting confused (as I am), lost (as I am), going crazy along the way (if you stay that long) as I will be (and am) also.
Its already started...
Abstract:
Not enough nature
This visual arts project explores nature and a present day disconnection to it. It investigates the effects that technology, fear, and urbanisation has had on people’s connection to nature -asking why people have digressed from it and how can art encourage people to become more aware of it?
Multidisciplinary mediums within installation are explored in order to express this disconnection and create an awareness of the widening gap between humans and nature. Final works are aimed to present an allegorical image that encourages the viewer to step outside and experience the real thing; as "The meaning of a life is not to be found in anything other than that life itself" (Lefebvre, 1991, p. 145).
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