Your Life Line is Drawn in Your Own Hand
Here are the final photographs of my installation in situe
Your Life Line is Drawn in Your Own Hand
Here are the final photographs of my installation in situe
A Final Note
Taking Digital Arts Practices has been a really positive experience for me, as it’s allowed me to see the potential of my practice as a visual artist through the unlimited opportunities it offers. Working with PD has been especially beneficial for the direction of my study and through the lecture series, one-to-ones and independent study I feel confident I can carry on experimenting with it.
It was especially exciting to come across an area of study I have become so passionate about, that being interactive installation. I think focusing on one area of study (like the movement detector) taught me to understand it much easier than looking at several and not allowing that greater room for exploration.
I’m happy with my final piece, as I feel I’ve developed my artistic style at the same time as experimenting with digital practices. My only disappointment is that I haven’t been able to document the installation in a studio environment, because of the technical difficulties, studios not being open on the weekend and with finishing the project. Despite that I’m content with the alternative forms of presentation I have come up with as a result of it and in the short time frame of the course, especially as it meant challenging my photoshop skills. The installation will be exhibited on Wednesday morning in the Dartington art studios in Woodlane, as part of an interim showing.
This has been the first project I have worked on without collaborating and, although it has been fulfilling to produce individual work, I am keen to start collaborating again, especially as I have learnt that it’s integral within this specialist field.
For me, interactive installation allows you to see art in a different light by physically experiencing it and I am excited to explore this through working with changing environments and the staging of interventions.
United Visual Artists
In preparation for the written work, I have been looking at artists who deal with interaction based on choreography of the body but through developing my own piece have discovered my interest lies in interactive installation and audience participation rather than a choreographed piece. I came across UVA through The Creators Project (see my first post), which I believe is much more relevant to my own practice.
Final Installation Setup and Design
I have decided to present my final work through the digital illustration here, using photoshop, as a way of visually concluding my project. It’s really satisfying to use all the primary material I’ve created (such as the screen print of my PD patch) and present it in a new digital form which has supported the making of my work throughout. This formal design has also been a useful task for me to do before setting up my installation for an exhibition later this week.
Original Installation Setup and Design
I have chosen to post my original annotated sketches of my piece to show the development and progress I have made in making this design a reality.
Crane Mobile
This is a still photograph from a few of my suspended cranes.
Projection Problems
I had my first attempt in setting up the installation but have had issues with PC-Mac and projector compatibility. Technical difficulties have meant there will be some delays in posting the final outcome but I will use this time to experiment will alternate ways in presenting my final piece.
This is the final still from my piece. Since my last entry I have resized all the objects, edited them to all face the same direction and also changed the order to make the composition and movement appear fluid. I chose to change the colour of my 5th crane to red, as a design feature more than anything else. It will also draw the line between the work and the red origami sculpture. In the next few days I will be setting the installation up and documenting the piece in situ, which I will post here.
This is a piece I’ve been looking at by digital artist Klaus Obermaier and Ars Electronica Futurelab, exploring the body via technology and technology via the body. I’ve been looking especially at the complimentary choice of design and use of motion sensory technology.
