Design Sketches
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inThe Veiling
Images of a man and a woman moving through a series of nocturnal landscapes are projected into parallel layers of loosely suspended translucent cloth. They each appear on separate opposing video channels, and are seen gradually moving from dark areas of shadow into areas of bright light. The cloth material diffuses the light and the figures dissipate in intensity and focus as they penetrate further into the scrim layers, eventually intersecting each other on the central veil.
04 Wednesday Feb 2015
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inI have looked into projects that use video projection as their main project platform. Here are some projects that i found interesting and could potentially have an influence on my work. I have researched into various types of video projections which i find interesting and creative in various way.
Mask & The Machine
“In his exhibition Kalle Nio explores the spacial possibilities of moving image montage. Two streams of images in where the portrait-like images of the faces of people are filmed separately in a studio space are projected on a sculpture-like construction with a two-layered screen set-up. Illusion of interaction between the faces is born when the images are screened simultaneously. The artwork relates to the themes of distance and communication, which has been a subject of research for Nio also in his earlier works. One starting point for the exhibition were the writings of Lev Kuleshov (1899-1970), a Soviet film director and film theoretician. According to Kuleshov the face of the actor functions like a mask or a machine. It reflects overall environment without any specific expression, and it´s features can be said behaving like parts of the machine.
Kuleshov is most known about the experiment in where the images of different kinds of objects were edited following the image of the face. The audience complimented the skills of the actor even though the image of the face was always the same.
In a small box-shaped work an extra large close-up of an eye is layered on several polymer glass plates put in small distances between each other. Every now and then a stream of electricity is conducted into the plate turning the surfaces of the plates matte, shutting down the flow of the image through one glass plate to another. Seeing is fragile. The plates refer to the membranes inside the eye and the threats which are confronting it – in example a physical injury or opacity of the lens of the eye. Although Nio has filmed his own eye, in a tight close-up every eye becomes just “some eye”, like the french film director Jean Epstein has said. That a close-up detaches itself often from the environment has been noticed also by other film theorists, like Béla Balázs and the philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Nio´s work can remind the viewer also about the only film work directed by the writer Samuel Beckett, namely “Film” (1964), which starts with a close-up of an eye.
I really like the idea behind this installation. The theme of the eye entices you in, creating a eerie environment. I particularly like the idea of using streams of electricity to conduct the plate, turning them into a matte effect. This is a very clever way of ‘fragmenting’ something and can come in handy when designing and thinking about fragmenting online identity through my work practice.
Human Face Video Mapping
Humanoid Herb
Humanoid Herb is for the spiritual evocation of a human being. The man, whose face and cloth that is painted, is a metaphor for the human spirit. Through capturing the man wandering in New York City’s busiest sites, Rockefeller Center, Times Square and China Town, the artist tried to express our soul in the materialistic present day. To emphasise the suffocated psychological aspect of a human being, the artist contrasted the man, who is the image of nature, with urban sights, and then projected this video on a hexahedral glass box, resembling a building in the city. This project has gone beyond creativity. The artist has been really cleaver and uses metaphors within his work, which gets the viewer thinking more about what is being presented, instead of just focusing on a pretty and eye-catching installation.
04 Wednesday Feb 2015
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inAbstract – The Construction and Fragmentation of Identity through Social Media
The purpose of this proposal is to outline my project on how social media has an influence on our behaviours, approaches to people and how we adapt ourselves to the way how we want to be perceived.
This project will explore how social media has an influence one’s online and virtual identity. I will look at how people create and maintain an online persona through popular social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram. However, I will also be focusing on online dating websites such as Plenty of Fish, eHarmony, Tinder and Tickr because I find that users within the virtual world of dating would emphasise a persona as they are trying to look their best to impress other users, which demonstrate examples of how people have constructed their online persona.
I will study how people create their own reality and their online persona which is viewed by other interactive users, and I will determine how accurate this is compared to how people who know them best actually see them. I will investigate the idea behind social identity and try to understand the ways in which we construct out online identity. I will use ethnographic methods such as carry out interviews and questioning people on how “real” they set out to portray themselves online.
In reality, are we really the person we set out to be? The way we edit our pictures slightly to create flawless skin to hide any of our flaws? We question about whether the people we speak to online are really the person they set out to be which can also link to criminal offences such as identity theft.
I will be study the sociology of the internet, Cyber relationships and online identities (Scaglia 2011) focusing on the concept of the ‘mask’ and how we see it through online dating services. I will also be investigating ‘identity in the age of the internet’ (Turkle 1997) which highlights identity-transforming relationships between computer and a person alone with the machine, enabling us to live in virtual worlds. In addition to this, I’ll do an analysis of the documentary/film “Talhotblond”, directed by Barbara Schroeder (2009), which is based on a true of an online love triangle. From this thrilling documentary, a TV show was created by Nev Schulman called “Catfish”, which reveals the truth and lies of online dating.
From this research, I aim to produce a projection of identity that will be projected through glass and constructed through . Alongside the projection, a booklet will made which explains to the viewer as to why this has been done and to give the viewer a better understanding about my project.
Proposal – The Construction and Fragmentation of Identity through Social Media
The purpose of this study is to investigate the implications of how social media had an influence on our behaviours and communicational approaches to other interactive online users. With face to face communication, we communicate not only through our words, but also through appearances. However, the way we communicate online is based on the disclosure of information that one wishes others to know. This study will demonstrate the ways that we adapt ourselves through a virtual world to create our online personas, identity manipulating to give others an image of the type of person we want to be viewed as. Online Identity is a complex business and still in the process of being understood.
This project will explore how social media has an influence one’s online and virtual identity. I will look at how people create and maintain an online persona through popular social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram, however mainly focusing on the online dating websites such as Plenty of Fish, eHarmony, Tinder and Tickr because I find that users within the virtual world of dating will alter their online persona as they are tying to look their best and attract other users, thus making themselves possibly sound more appealing.
I will study how people create their their online persona which is viewed by other interactive users, and I will determine how accurate this is compared to how people who know them best actually see them. I will investigate the idea behind social identity and try to understand identity theft by using other peoples avatars, by studying people’s online profiles on social media websites.
I will use ethnographic methods such as carry out interviews and questioning people on how “real” they portray themselves online, seeing whether they are trying to create their very own online personas. In reality, are we really the person we set out to be? The way we edit our pictures slightly to create flawless skin to hide any of our flaws? We question ourselves about whether people we speak to online are really the person they set out to be, which can also link to criminal offences such as identity theft.
I will be study into the sociology of the internet, Cyber relationships and online identities (Scaglia 2011) focusing on the concept of the ‘mask’ and how we use it online dating services. The concept of the mask, according to Dorian Wisniewki and Richard Coyne, is whenever an individual interacts in a social sphere they portray a mask of their identity. This is no different online and in fact becomes more pronounced due to the decisions an online contributor must make concerning his or her online profile. Also investigate into the ‘identity in the age of the internet’ (Turkle 1997) which highlights the identity-transforming relationships between computer and a person alone with the machine enabling us to live in virtual worlds. In addition to this, I’ll do a close reading of the documentary/film “Talhotblond”, directed by Barbara Schroeder 2009, which is based on a true story where three people are caught up in a fantasy and are all involved in a love triangle that takes place entirely online. From this thrilling documentary, a TV show was created by Nev Schulman called “Catfish”, which reveals the truth and lies of online dating and identity theft which is happening in our society today. The term “Catfish” is a term created by Nev Schulman meaning “a person who creates fake personal profiles on social media sites—pretending to be someone more outwardly appealing than his/her true self, by using someone else’s pictures and false biographical information”.
From this research, I aim to produce a projection of identity that will be projected through two sheets of glass. The aim of this is to have a clear sheet of glass and a fragmented sheet of glass which will be placed slightly behind the clear sheet. Alongside the projection, a booklet will made which explains to the viewer as to why this has been done and to give the viewer a better understanding about my project.