#mtbnovember

Last Friday was the final presentation of our folio work to date for semester one. Alongside my research, sample video work, and future plans for the project, I presented a small book dummy and 19 digital images.

The feedback received from the presentation was extremely helpful to the project, and gives me plenty to think about and work on over the break. The assessors agreed that the work contains multiple elements that would be suited to a central online platform, something that I’ve been considering and experimenting with since the beginning of the project. Now that I have some material to collate into one location I will begin to start testing ideas. The video work was also encouraged and is definitely something that I’ll be focusing on over the break. As well as the visual side of the video, the more physical installation aspects of the VHS work was also something that they suggested I push forward with.

The following literature review will examine four key texts in relation to my photographic project, A Radiated Library. Wolfgang Ernst’s Digital Memory and the Archive; Ernst Van Alphen’s Staging the Archive; Vilem Flusser’s Into the Universe of Technical Images; and Glenn Willumson’s Making Meaning: Displaced Materiality in the Library and Art Museum. The first two texts are important to my work as they pertain to the archive, its changing forms, and ways that it can be photographed and portrayed. The other two works were chosen for their relevance to the notion of materiality, and the photograph as an object.

So far the video component of the work is progressing slowly, but I hope to get a lot more work done over the break. So far I’ve got the more installation based VHS tape loop work, alongside the motion graphic 3D work. I hope to merge the two of these as an experiment some time soon.

VHS Loop Experiment using archival footage of myself at age four. 

Thanks to Daniel for sharing this with me, the Journal for Artistic Research looks to be a great source of research related to similar themes that I’m dealing with. It’s an open source journal focused on practice led research, and presents work in conjunction with the Research Catalogue, which is an online platform for sharing research papers, focused on work with solid practice to support the research. 

The Research Catalogue pages feature images, text, video, sound, links, custom HTML and CSS formatting. This example is one of the more visually striking papers I’ve come across.