Month: July 2016

Imagined Worlds, Town Hall Gallery (Hawthorn)

Statement of Goals

My main goal for this second Semester (Media 2, 2016) would be to innovate my work with new ideas from the influences around me- including others, new media (incorporating concepts from current artwork), as well as modern societies views and values.

The collaborative work within this studio (Capturing Creativity) would help me to continue gaining experience building skills interacting and cooperating with others. My previous experience in practical work (Diploma of Screen and Media) will definitely help me more this semester as the skills expected will have grown from Media 1 (which for me is a good aspect as I will be able to utilize them to greater capabilities).

I also wish to enter into more discussions as well as learn to listen into student’s opinions and open free minded debate (It’s always interesting to see as to how opinions are formed; and especially if any cultural or personal influences shine through). Furthermore, building my mise-en-scene and cinematography skills as well as theoretical.

I’ve noticed with theoretical aspects I can find it hard to sit still as my mind is extremely hyper attentive at times and I feel the need to multitask or do more than deep focus. In saying this- for me practicing really engaging into what an individual’s saying or an action that is current will help any urges to get up and move (or to be practical) which I sometimes feel especially during the mornings.

Finally, I would like to work on my research skills and the sources I use in order to gain information, rather than ‘having’ to use books and journals I would like them to be resources I feel naturally inclined to go to- this just means understanding where to get information from the resources I need for the right topics.

Our ‘Capturing Creativity’ class visited Gertrude Contemporary for our Wednesday Studio session.  The first pieces of innovate art we saw was from a collection called ‘Octopus 16: Antiques Roadshow’, these pieces of work reflected the dawn of the internet and online era.

All artists aimed to encapsulate the changing views and values of our society by bringing together art forms (the majority) which were multimedia. The exhibition choose it’s title “from the long-running BBC television series of the same name as a means to consider how value and historical importance might be considered within the present moment” (Gertrude Contemporary, 2016). A piece of work I considered most interesting was a machine that consistently released a scent that was meant to encapsulate ‘opening a MacBook for the first time’. I thought this instalment was very creative, interactive and made the audience really think about the concepts of what is art especially within modern digitalised society,

Octopus 16: Antiques Roadshow will be open until 8pm on Friday 15 July and Friday 22 July during the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, which runs from 15 July–24 July.