update

the science and art day was fun, short 10min presentations from artists, scientists and in-between people. Great to hear from cross-disciplines with relating themes. My favorite was the guy from the oceans simulations gig. His first few slides were of the earth and the marked portions of the oceans which have never seen the light of the sun therefore very largely un-explored which is very refreshing after spending a lot of time on Google maps exploring the world.

he mentioned the mysterious nature of the creature/ treasures which cruise these deep waters

html

http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/html_color_codes/statement.html

after being so immersed in html this semester I get excited when its mentioned, its nice to see html used in an art context instead of a commercial function.


With this exhibition I liked the use of space in context. Its obvious yes. I found the navigation of the site limiting because my first experience was not making an extra click on the work to 'activate' it. I saw the image accompanied with the text like you would see in a gallery but fell short on the full experience untill later which put a whole new layer of movement, time, space and in some cases a further context through the work.

pictured here firelight (from the Colorbots series)
by Owen Plotkin (2003)

an example of a html colourfield image (i wasnt to say painting) constructed using code
eg: red = ff0000

the first 5 videos

Sudhirs sound performance

The performance in the museum was very interesting, it was a loose chance for Carmen, Joe and myself to create a sound in a public place and work with visuals along with a bodily action from Sudhir. The sound got pretty funky because both Carmen and I come from art background, it also got loud and psychedelic once didgeridoo and synth combined resonating through the top open floor of the museum. Joe seemed to hold back maybe due to his music background or whether he was paying more attention to the visuals. you could say we got carried away in the performance of aspect

tourism/ travel

Exploring Dunedin, New Zealand from Craig Martin on Vimeo.

http://indietravelpodcast.com/about/#cralinda

sound

after the sound seminar a few weeks ago i was interested in the ideas of invasive sound. An example i could use was the translation of visuals to audio. The image in this post depicts a view of the mega mitre 10 store/warehouse from a Waverley street. the image is a low resolution screen shot from google street view.
the below image is the original and the top image has had saturation manipulation to intensify the drastic changes in colour. this could be compared to a Kandinsky painting, with the synesthetic nature.


this weekend i am involved with a sound and painting performance at the museum, i am playing my didgerido with a few others on different instruments. i will update that performance next week eh!

update

it is the first day back at school and the first of 4 weeks remaining untill assesment on the 13th of november.

Today i have tidies up the design of my web site and now blieve it is time to start blasting out little videos asap!!!
i have begun selecting the locations. the next stage is writing a coherent description of my intention of the shoot and any equipment, props, costumes i may need.