[SEM2] Site Week 4 02/04/2022
For the embassy show, I will start present my work in from of a video installation consists of 3-9 flatscreen monitors mounted on metal tubes (or other forms of metal structures that I’m able to build in metal workshops). During my Monday group critic, Keith mentioned multiple artists including Gretchen Bender (https://hammer.ucla.edu/take-it-or-leave-it/artists/gretchen-bender), Brian Eno(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQllM0qx3c0), Christopher Williams, Ed Atkins, Ian Gouldstone (https://iangouldstone.com/projects/NNDeptford/), and etc which I will look more into concerning my own way of showing my work on digital screens.
Regarding the site specific concept, I’m capturing landscape and cityscape photos of locations in Edinburgh that seems vague, ambiguous and undefinable to me with my film camera. I have dropped 4 rolls of film at the developing lab in ECA this week, but since the the machine won’t be fixed until Monday, so I don’t have the images just yet. When I got my developed film rolls, I will first scan and create a digital copy of the images. Then, I will work on alternatives ways of manipulating those analogue films through post production to create even more ambiguous digital forms (which could be in still photo, moving images, animations and etc.) I will also experiment with the film negatives psychically using different ways of scanning or even printing in the darkroom to create more variations of the images. Additionally, I’m also capturing random pedestrians on the streets since I’m thinking about manually creating double exposures with those street portraits and my landscape photos to emphasize this interaction between humanity and the nature.
Finally, when all the digitally and psychically images are ready, I will combine them on my laptop and make a video in order to play them on synchronized monitors which I mentioned previously. Each screen creates its own little space. While all the screen are synchronized together, they form another space with each little space emerging and colliding with each other with videos playing.
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