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update

blogging has been slow lately, I dont know if its an indication of how un-productive i've been or whether i've been too productive with other stuff to even think about blogging.


This week;

Install my new prints in gallery space,
Shoot a new take of Jumbo for mothra,
read and research heaps on google maps API,

I wouldnt mind doing more research on art and artists who make work that I can think about to create more depth to my work, i'm feeling a bit flat.

aw and talk to my lovely lecturers about my films and projects.

small embeded films and stuff

I cant wait to get my shit sorted and start shooting mini movies. My current goal is to produce 25 short films for my website which I am also building currently... grah. I almost feel I need the website to be finished in order for these films to begin for the exhibition space is important, very much so site specific electronic art installation.

Another question which I have been puzzling over a lot is how and what style of film should I be creating. Drama, fictions, arty/ abstract, remoscope-ish, narrative, dococumentary (doco and narrative are two words which i'm thinking very differently following from our guest speaker Stephen Downes from the natural history doco gig in town) .

I also intend on making films with audio only, no picture, and screening the film in a cinematic space.




"Film is advanced art, not science, not education, nor box office - but utopia."

a bus in paris

google street view- copyright

working with dreamweaver

for the last few days i've been fluffing about learning the very basics of dreamweaver. learning how to code and add other elements like pictures and stuff.

The screenshot on the right are my efforts for today (so far). It is a similar fundamnetal take on the soundseeker page, very basic for now.


The image on the left is the page i was working with on tuesday.- it was a tutorial process.

Blue Oyster

Martyn Reynolds: Samuel Georgia Oscar / Turning back and forth

Centering on a video shot on Banks Peninsula with three actors, Reynolds explores ideas of landscape painting by mixing its tropes with those used in adverting media, fashion and car advertising.

The words 'landscape painting' in relation to this video came together nicely. Each scene in the video was very still like a painting but kept it time/ movement properties of a video. I saw the ideas of documentary landscape in the work with a new form of cinema seating in a gallery space.

web maps

My artist models are firstly google and sound seeker. These are two web-based projects involving extensive documentation tools. For my project I intend on creating a documentary tool based on the google map with my own video-films embedded and scattered though the map located on their particular sites like the google image below.

What I am struggling with is differentiating my work to that of google, (sound seeker follows similar ideas I am interested in). I am exploring ideas of documentary of the city, narrative cinema- art cinema- video art, websites being a form of experience from foriegn locations.

video channel

pretty groovy website with a massive range of 1min video/films. Nice form of research in relation to thinking how I can write my short videos for the work. This site hosts a huge range of multi-cultural directors.

videocahnnel link

blog dog

i havnt blogged like a harry hard out in a while so thought i'd better fill some space with blah that i've been doing.

Um...

Well I spose more flash/ dreamweaver learning with Edwina, freaky learning new software. its such a media tool so I getting a good buzz off that side of it, and good to push my brain heh heh.

So just plodding along with that, learning and working tutorials so I am able to build my high and mighty "artwork". A dunedin map featuring videos/arty films/ documentary visuals/audio/ still image/ object to be posted (maybe)/......concept pending.

This idea was formed through my obsession with art as a dcoumentary tool, and tourists creating a dense google image library.
Stylistically I was sifting around on the soundseeker page which have created a site with ideas based around audio mapping, offering sample audio tracks on specific parts of New York City. I tried to send them a sample from Dunedin but wasn't part of their deal to extend their sounds out of NYC. So in a way i'm replicating my own version.
Another example of the multiple video/audio documents in conjunction with mapping came from an interactive electronic mini cinema inside the Australian Centre of the Moving Image (acmi). They had a suburban sprawl of Melbourne with videos, short films and documentaries scattreed through out.

NOW that idea does sound very similar to what I intend on creating...but the content of video is going to be different and targetting a different market sinse the work will be on the web and orientated towards visitors to the city who are researching places of interest... and also hopfully just a fun interesting website to visit.

eg;

This is an image of two designs which breach copyright. The print on the left has incorporated low resolution images of a different tee shirt brand's range. The print on the right is a collection of three images scanned from a book in the library.



also breaching copyright is the seal head on the left figure...also copied from the internet.

copyright....?

where does copyrite fit into art? this is a commonly asked question i believe, and after watching a film this morning called 'RIP: A Remix Manifesto' which is a story about contemporary artists (musicians, cartoonists, painters...etc) creating their work while breaching copyright laws.

But are his (Girl Talk's) practices legal? Do his methods of frenetic appropriation embrace collaboration in its purest sense? Or are they infractions of creative integrity and violations of copyright? -http://www.ripremix.com/

This film explores a few key points about the past controlling the future yet the future can only progress from from past and other such ideas (which I will update shortly once i remember what they were).


http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/episode/1992-rip-a-remix-manifesto/1


In relation to my tee's, yes I am breaching copyright and I am conscious of it. The imagery I use has been altered and put in a different context which I am portraying as a collection of ideas surrounding a specific place [Dunedin] and glamorising banal features not in a patronising way but a subtle social reflection of the city.

home page

hashkey.publishpath.com


This is a screen shot of my tee shirt company's webpage. It was created through a host domain- speaklight.com - so with my web address is accompanied with a '.publishpath.com'

Ideally I would have my own domain name free from the host but that will come in future because at the moment it is free and working well as a showcase of my products and info.

website stuff

With edie recently we've been working through a basic website construction thing. I've been using my tee shirt brand as an experimentation unit for the programme. I'm trying to make it slick and designerish. The encourporation of these tee shirts into my art has been slow. I have often thought of the two seperately. Since these works are exhibited and sold in a mainstream shop in town open to all (not a selective art market) and sold cheap. There has definitely been a lot of though around the physical nature of the tee shirt and in comparison to art. I compare what I create and with tee shirts because it has become commercial as well as heavily art based and as a company it takes a very different approach to the market, taking onboard industry rules i guess but again holding different views and approaches to marketing and the product itself.



hashkey.publsihpath.com