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idea / experiment 001

thinking and doing something about binaries

so i’ve started to conceptualise a new thought of binaries and it’s the binaries of memory. this first idea that i’ve compiled all together are all of pretty much the same photo of the same thing, but they are all on different camera rolls. they tell a different story everyone of them, but they’re all the same thing. 

the binary of memory from what i’ve thought and conceptualised is

real or fake

vague or clear

remembering or forgetting

the memories that we have slowly fade away and start to meld into this one blob, what once used to be so clear to us in a moment in time, starts to slip away slowly in our lives and therefore gets lost in the blob and starts to become more insignificant.

i want to expand this idea with the thought of a film roll that i haven’t finished shooting yet, and start painting/drawing the image of what i think it could actually be and see how close it is to the original photo that i have taken. 

how do we think about our memories in hindsight and in present time?

Feedback / Reflection 

Self Reflection: All in all I think that I had accomplished 4 transformations and this task really pushed me to think beyond the ‘box’. Every transformation pushed me to think differently and it provided me to self-question how can I transform and change the box even more, in an unconventional and experimental way. 

My presentation was cut a little short and I didn’t get enough time to express myself but with that said, I was thinking with all the other feedback maybe I could’ve utilised different mediums other than video and maybe remix the sounds of my room being recorded instead of the video medium and then create something out of the sounds. 

For a fifth transformation (if given the chance), I would like to take that sound idea and meld it with the virtual reality to make a truly immersive space for the viewer, transforming them and their surroundings to my box. 

Feedback from the Class

These words give me an impression on what my box means/is viewed as through other people’s eyes. I guess the ones that really stuck out to me were: 

Big Brother: This was one of my main ideas and it’s good to see that people see it too. 

Visually Presented: It made me realise how different my box was as it was a different way of presenting and out of all the class, no one really had a box like mine. 

Conceptual: I was really aiming for a conceptual thought and turning my box into some greater idea so this was good to see. 

Surveying: This was nice to see as I never looked at my project like this, I was surveying my room and surveying my movements in my own life. 

In conclusion, This project made me think differently and think in a new way, forgetting about preconceived thought and undertaking a new strategy in creative thinking. This project was the introduction in taking on new ideas and the introduction to documentation and creative process. This project/class has introduced me into a new way of thinking and has opened up my eyes to creative practice and how I can utilise it for the next few years/rest of my life.

Life in Boxes, thank you. This was my life in my box. 

box⁴

This is the fourth transformation of my box. I had decided to take my privacy into a new form and let you delve deeper into my box. By making it VR (Virtual Reality), you delve into my privacy and see my room first hand.

I experimented with the negative colouring and the channel colours making it seem more like a surveillance camera or some other being viewing from me a different lens.

This is box⁴.

box³

(The changing/transformation from the ordinary.)

This is box experiment 003. I had decided to change from a physical box to a more conceptual/self-meaning box. I started thinking about what it meant for something to qualify as a box, so i thought 4 sides would pretty much equal a box meaning my room is the box.

I came up with the idea of looking through my room with the ‘eyes’ of some other being or big brother invading my privacy and seeing how I move and live within my everyday life in different circumstances. The experiment was seen in 2 ways:

1. Do I act different or do I act in a particular way more differently when I am being recorded?

2. How would this turn out when i finish editing it?

These were completed in this first experiment as I did somewhat act a little different but sometimes i had forgotten that there was an actual camera recording my moves and then it was pretty funny looking back on what was actually recorded.

The end product created something ‘aesthetically’ pleasing, but to add on it looks at a new form of editing that I haven’t really done but have wanted to delve into for awhile, which is collage editing or taking a different approach to my editing and letting my creativity run wild for this project. The birds eye view creates this large image of my room when i collated the footage and it was quite pleasing to see this topographic view of my room coming from this video.

This box was the transformation from a physical ‘box’ thought and taking a more deeper self reflection into what I thought the box was and it takes a bigger insight into my privacy and life. My box has been compromised, viewed. You now know my tendencies and possessions. Welcome & Goodbye.

I transformed my definition of the box and this is what I have created.

I present, box³.

A Conversation with Myself About the Box

box1

a container with a flat base and sides, typically square or rectangular and having a lid. e.g. “a cigarette box”

Going off this definition, technically my room is a box. So I created this idea, that I attach a camera to my ceiling and have it record during different times of day and such. Technically, anything that is enclosed can be a box (e.g. I can attach it to a train and it technically is my box for that moment in time.)

By turning my room into the box I open my privacy and have a look into my personal ‘box’. When we stay in our room we stay in our boxes, we feel safe and secure; which then poses the question will I act different if I am being recorded in my box? The experiment here is that I will try and record different times of day and then moving on from there try and branch out until i get different rooms and such.

This concept takes on a very ‘big brother’ or ‘reality show’-esque type of vibe towards it. I think the main point i’m trying to get at here is that being in our own boxes we tend to be comfortable, so I want to try and see if I can feel uncomfortable and see how this would work with other people if they viewed my life like this.

The image above is the first connection of the room from a birds eye view and will soon connect with other views.

box³

A transformation, looking deeper into a conceptual thought within these ‘box/es’. 

Delving deeper into the thoughts of what these boxes could transform into, I had asked myself:

What do these boxes represent? 

What do they symbolise? 

I had already fleshed out these boxes (Tetra Paks) and was looking into the conversation/thought of gender. Fleshing out the boxes I had cut out a female in one box and male in one box. Now they look like a typical heterosexual partnership, but thinking about it more deeply, when I turned them over the insides were the same. They both share the same inside and I guess i wanted this to somewhat reflect us as humans today. “Love Wins” is something that I truly stick by and this is a simplified version of that belief, as we are truly all the same on the inside. This also speaks about sexuality, gender, humanity, etc. 

box²

fig a. water experiment on fleshed out/inside out tetra pak.

box²

This is an iteration/experiment of the physical box that I had started with. This was the Chrysanthemum Tetra Pak that I had started with and I had the idea/experiment to turn it inside out and see if it still held the same structural integrity that it did when it was normal (solid state).

So I turned it inside out and saw that it was raw in form and that it was blank. I saw the beauty inside of it that this material was almost similar to 3M when light was flashed upon it; a material that I fancy quite abit. I turned the box pretty easily inside out and taped it up on the crucial sides so that it would close up and hoped for the best.

I poured water inside it and for a second it worked. Water actually stayed inside there and I could actually drink out of it, but then when i progressively poured more and more into it, it gave in and the water went everywhere. (refer to other video on blog).

MAKE ART FROM A RANDOM SENTENCE MADE OUT OF BOOK TITLES

We went to the library and got 6 books as a group and made something out of it. We expressed our emotions through this drawing and this was the iteration that we had landed at. 

This was a good way to get out of creative block as it made us think differently and push our boundaries with something as random as this, making a sentence that made us express something that resulted in an artwork in such a short amount of time. 

ADAD 1001 - WEEK 002 EXPERIMENTING AS A CLASS / NO COMMUNICATION ACTIVITY WHAT CAN WE COME UP WITH? 

Chrysanthemum Tea Tetra Pak/Box

Box 001 / Week 001