I have now completed a rough cut of my video for Project Brief 4. In the end, I decided to go with my idea of interviewing people about their feeling towards old media, however I’ve narrowed this to look specifically at home movies, which I…
Throughout my work in the studio, a few key themes have emerged for me. Two themes that have really interested me and that I’d really like to explore in my final project are materiality and memory. Ideally, I’d like to find a way to combine…
I made these images through data-bending, which is the process of manipulating the information which makes up digital images. To do this I used TextEdit and copied and pasted parts of the texts. The results varied drastically. Some changed very little from the original…
I put my most recently two blog posts, my last Cinema essay and a reflection I submitted for my Psychology elective into a word cloud generator and this was the result. The fact that the words, Luhrmann, film and Gatsby and the three most reoccurring…
We’re already 5 weeks into the course which is slightly terrifying, but I feel I’ve already a learnt a lot from this studio. I’ve really been enjoying the in-class discussion about old media technology, particular when we look at what we’ve lost and gained in…
Digital archives don’t offer the same tangibility as physical archives In my collage, I wanted to explore the concept of physical archives offering a tangible quality that can’t be experienced when accessing a digital archive. I choose to represent this tangibility by finding a picture from…
Analogue photography possess ‘a certain quality’ that can’t be achieved with digital photography With the photo series, I wanted to explore what exactly it is about analogue photography that people feel cannot be reproduced with digital cameras. To do this, I found photos I took a…
Home movies gains new meaning the more time has passed For this video, I edited a super 8 film shot by my maternal grandfather to an audio recording of my mother narrating the footage. The commentary was unscripted, which allowed me to demonstrate how narration…
Alternative processes Usually means a non-silver gelatine process Often called “historical processes” Can also include camera-less images that use light-sensitive materials Experimental process Non-standard Using things in a different way to what it was designed for Big cameras John Chiara – camera obscura…
Today we made lumen prints in class. We gathered materials from around campus before placing them onto the black and white photo paper in plastic sleeves out in the sun. The two prints above were my first two attempts. Unfortunately, the wind flipped over these…