Category: 1.2 Contextual Perspectives

Session outline.      (Week 7) Have you found your boundaries? A session to examine your progress with Testing your Boundaries.  Bring to the session an example of where you have come across a boundary and what you have done to work with this to overcome it. Be prepared to discuss this and share your account… Continue reading Test Your Boundaries

We had another Making Day last week. Six out of seven of us made it and a couple were able to work outdoors, so it was a lot of fun. I did some gel plate work and a couple of erasure/extraction poems. I am still just experimenting with the poetry technique and I still mess… Continue reading Making Day

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://spaces.oca.ac.uk/wallet6/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?

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

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

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

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

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