In continuing our experimentation process to further develop our assessment, this week, we booked a satellite room and proceeded to play with video feedback, projections and audio/music, by using two projectors, a camera and our laptops. We finally used proper cameras to experiment with video feedback in which we explored the impacts of zooming in, moving and tilting the camera, resulting in a very interesting effect. The process of zooming in and moving/tilting the camera also displayed some visual glitches on the projection, such as the random bursts of light and the appearance of colours (predominantly red, green and blue lights). Carter also created short video clips that utilised various techniques including video feedback to create colourful ‘glitch’ visuals, in which we toyed with the way these videos could be projected, including projecting onto the ceiling, as well as combining two projectors to create a really long panoramic video. Additionally, Peter experimented with audio/music in which he mixed glitch sound effects with samples from other music, thus creating this atmospheric but also foreign and futuristic kind of vibe and environment.

Set up of one of the projectors and camera.

Small movements and tilting the camera, with Peter experimenting with music in the background.

Zooming in and tilting the camera, with Peter experimenting with music in the background.

Zooming in with the camera, with Peter experimenting with music in the background.

Stills of Carter’s glitch video clips.

Youtube link:

ARTIST RESEARCH/INSPIRATION: Yuken Teruya, Corner Forest (2003-09)

“Toilet rolls sprouting and spreading branches are installed to a wall to create a forest. There is a moment when the cut-out branches and leaves start holding themselves up with their own strength. It is as if I am helping the paper awakens its ability to come to life.”

This work conveys the strength of nature despite being faced with an ever-growing consumerism of man-made materials. Teruya explores the depletion of natural resources and the threat modern society poses to earth’s fragile ecosystems. 

@nikayla1002 @cindinh

We have decided to make some signs around our gallery, on most occasions, galleries would set rules such as no flash photography and keeking volume down. We would like to explore and create our own rules, below are some inspirations and rules.

We have found some interesting standard gallery rules from the websites below

http://thewordnebula-phoenix.blogspot.com/2012/07/cardinal-rules-of-art-gallery.html

https://art635.gallery/art-history/the-rules-of-art-gallery-etiquette

https://www.complex.com/style/2014/11/rules-for-attending-art-exhibition/never-touch-the-art

1. No flash photography - DO IT 4 THE #GRAM

Image from the website listed: http://thewordnebula-phoenix.blogspot.com/2012/07/cardinal-rules-of-art-gallery.html

Now visitors are able to Instagram their favourite artworks and flash photography is welcomed if lighting is not good enough.

2. No touching - DARE YOU TO TOUCH IT

Image from the website listed: https://www.complex.com/style/2014/11/rules-for-attending-art-exhibition/never-touch-the-art

we allow our visitors to touch the artworks, We dare them to TOUCH and really have a feel to the artwork, so they can feel the emotions of the artist through brush strokes and the quality of the paper.

3. Stay Quiet/Silence - TALK AS LOUD AS YOU WANT

https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vectors/please-keep-quiet-sign-vectors

All visitors are able to discuss and talk as loud as they want, there are no strict rules to noises. We love it when people enjoy the artwork as much as we do.

4. Don’t Reproduce Artworks - SKETCH THE ARTWORK OUT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcRTmfvI68U

All visitors are able to recreate and reproduce the artworks if they wish to, don’t feel intimidated!

5. Don’t Make a Scene/ Badmouth the Artist - LAUGH AS LOUD AS YOU NEED TO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnX1WwNJIF0

@nikayla1002​ @charlenezunsw​

OUR CHOSEN FRIDA KAHLO ARTWORKS (AND TRIBUTE ARTWORK) SOURCES:

The Wounded Table (1940)

https://www.fridakahlo.org/the-wounded-table.jsp

I Will Never Forget You: Frida Kahlo and Nickolas (2006) - Tribute

https://www.chroniclebooks.com/titles/i-will-never-forget-you.html

Me and My Parrot (1941)

https://www.fridakahlo.org/me-and-my-parrots.jsp

The Wounded Deer (1946)

https://www.fridakahlo.org/the-wounded-deer.jsp

Self-Portrait Along the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States (1932)

https://www.fridakahlo.org/self-portrait-along-the-boarder-line.jsp

Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940)

https://www.fridakahlo.org/self-portrait-with-thorn-necklace-and-hummingbird.jsp

Roots (1943)

https://www.fridakahlo.org/roots.jsp

ARTWORK FRAME SOURCE: 

http://www.pngall.com/gold-frame-png

Cindy (me) edited the square frame in Illustrator to complement and fit our A4-sized artworks. The frame aims to “legitimise” our artworks for our gallery.  

CHARLENE CONDENSING THE INFORMATION FROM THE ABOVE SOURCES:

NIKAYLA EDITING THEM TO FIT OUR CONCEPT AND WRITING THEM OUT:

CINDY MAKING THE BALLOT BOXES FOR THE RAFFLE:

https://passengerart.com/2013/06/28/putting-the-cult-back-in-culture-marina-abramovics-new-world-order/ → Putting the “Cult” Back in Culture: Power and Performance in Marina Abramović’s New World Order

This article explores the many performance works of Marina Abramović. Here are a few excerpts from the article (link below):

“Powerful appeal of idol worship, the widespread and desperate need for attention, and the ever-expanding cult of celebrity, as present in the art world as in any other entertainment industry.” The Artist is Present, MOMA, 2010

“There was a cultish atmosphere to the whole thing that was generated more by the crowd than by their charismatic leader.” → Winter Garden Theatre as Abramović described the “Marina Abramović Institute” she intended to open in order to educate everyone in the “Marina Abramović Method”, during which participants would “engage in a series of long-durational activities: fasting; sleeping in communal quarters; walking for hours at a time; standing barefoot in the snow; functioning only in slow motion or in hyper-speed;” etc.

“By engaging in these long-durational activities and experiments, she suggests, we can reclaim time from our techno-controlled accelerated society and perhaps transcend the perils and pain of contemporary life. She says she is attempting to build a new form of consciousness, a new form of culture, a new community.”

Marina Abramović’s works reflect ideas of desire for attention, recognition and the value placed in social influence. Her performance work/lecture during which she spoke similarly to that of a person trying to start her own cult, with the building of an institute and minimum 6 hours worth of activities for anyone who visited the site, as well as describing a utopic future based on transcention from the “perils and pain of contemporary life”.

What are your strengths?

Apple

Brainstorming interesting ideas

Writing scripts 

Creating storyline

Lucia

Editing videos

3D modelling; building environments which look like in the future

Brainstorming for the event happens in visual novel

Aileen

Brainstorming a range of interesting ideas and cutting them down methodically

Editing videos on iMovie

Experienced in writing scripts (especially of visual novel-esque formats)

Some experience in making animations to overlay on videos in iMovie

What are your weaknesses?

Apple

No experience in making visual novel

Not good at editing

Not good at using professional camera

No experience in creating BGM

Lucia

Don’t know how to make a visual novel

No experience in writing scripts

No experience in creating sound effect 

Aileen

No extensive experience in the coding aspect of visual novel creation

No experience in adding video clips to visual novels

Little experience in using professional cameras (especially to their full extent)

No experience in creating BGM

Delineate roles: who is doing what?

Script-writing: Apple, Aileen

Prop-making/collecting: Apple, Aileen 

Photographer/filmer: Apple, Aileen

Video editor: Lucia, Aileen

Visual Novel creating: Lucia, Aileen

BGM/Sound effects creating: Lucia

Do an account of what the ‘event’ to which your work portends?

The event occurs a decade or so in the future, where technology is an even bigger impact on our lives than ever before. It’s neither all positive or negative, but it is simply a different lifestyle. Everyone uses ‘smart iris’ in place of phones or tablets, placing the screens on a contact lens to encompass everything they interact with. Our work portends to an event in this future, where all technological communications and devices become obsolete due to an interference in the signals. Our work is an account of an individual’s day during this interference and how the event impacts them and the world.

How will you make it unusual/interesting?

These are the links to the actual objects, their descriptions and actual auctioned price:

-Book

-Vase 

-Hand Mirror 

-Table 

-Chair 

-Table Lamp 

-Jug 

-Cutlery 

-Contemp. Art