I’d like to get some work from this MA before an audience. We talked about conferences, seminars, residencies and abstracts of papers last week at our drop-in with Michele, who gave us good info on this. Next day Anna sent me details https://oca-wp-journals.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3554/2023/07/CFP-Writing-Artifacts-Edited-Collection.pdf of a CFP (call for papers) on something relevant for me. “… Continue reading A possible Paper?
Author: Dave
A retired research scientist, a photographer and a Fine Art student
Defamiliarisation through compositing
What a title! I was just reading an article, “‘Force yourself to see more flatly’: A photographic investigation of the infra-ordinary” by Joanne Lee in Forsdick, C., Leak, A.N. and Phillips, R. (2019) Georges Perec’s geographies : material, performative and textual spaces. 1st edn. London: UCL Press. Lee consciously takes Perec’s suggestion ‘to see more… Continue reading Defamiliarisation through compositing
Books about Art
Blair, what have you done? Only joking, but you shouldn’t have introduced me to this site! I’m a sucker for books. I have bookcases in 4 rooms and in the attic, and more will certainly come now. Brion Gysin, Identity and myself, oh, and Perec too Gysin I started reading the foreword (by Vincent J.… Continue reading Books about Art
Video Workshop in Berlin
I’m going to Berlin in August to take part in a video workshop. I need to get to grips with video editing. I used to do some editing with Flash, so I’m familiar with timelines etc., but I need to update my skills. It’s an excuse to go back to Berlin again too. my second… Continue reading Video Workshop in Berlin
The Seven Year Hitch
A couple of weeks ago I took the train to Belfast. The train is part of my studio, if I can get a seat with a table. I have a new camera and I wanted to try it’s video function out at a music gig, Grainne Duffy was playing and I really enjoy her music.… Continue reading The Seven Year Hitch
Artists to check
Hayley mentioned these artists that might be relevant to my work, so I’ll be checking them out. Lawrence Wiener, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lawrence-weiner-7743 Mel Bochner, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/mel-bochner-772 Sean Landers, http://www.seanlanders.net/ Erica Baum, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/681578 Christopher Wool, http://web.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/wool/ She also mentioned Italo Calvino https://www.britannica.com/biography/Italo-Calvino and Brioyn Gysin. https://www.briongysin.com/ Lisa mentioned Tom Phillips. https://www.tomphillips.co.uk/ Blair gave me Kerri Langsdale, @theartoftimeproject on Instagram.… Continue reading Artists to check
Variations on a Theme
I’ve been messing with a composite of several layers in Photoshop. The layers are so composed that they can have several appearances depending on some subtle and some not-so-subtle tweaks. I started with these layers and used the compositing method below. I’ll have to look up the Youtube video where I first saw this methodology.… Continue reading Variations on a Theme
Ageing, Perec and Time
In the book “The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Georges Perec Issue” (O’Brien, J. (ed.) (2009) The Review of Contemporary Fiction; Georges Perec Issue. end.: Dalkey Archive Press. ), there is an interview in English of Perec by Kaye Mortley called the Doing of Fiction (pp. 94-111). on p.99 he says, ” … I am, I… Continue reading Ageing, Perec and Time
Extraction of the Fraction
I wanted to try some erasure/extraction poetry, using pages from my MSc thesis from the 70s as the source material and maybe use some gel plate techniques to add some interest. One of the first pages I chose (p. 90), gave me the line “Extraction of the Fraction”, an omen for this kind of work?… Continue reading Extraction of the Fraction
Testing Your Boundaries
I wrote this before the second module began, but I forgot to transcribe it from my notebook! Worksheet on Initial Thinking What is the focus of my practice? My main theme is the observation of ordinary objects and/or everyday routines and their changing relationship with time and possibly entropy (if I have time!). These observations… Continue reading Testing Your Boundaries