That day the sunlight looked more made up than ever. All I really saw was Blue’s absence. After reading the article about Film and Video Umbrella, in the artist’s view, the damaged retina has started to peel away,’ in Blue, ‘leaving the innumerable black floaters, like a flock of starlings around in the twilight. I will […]

Learn from Pre-fieldtrip research By watching the video of Williams, L. “Sugar, ships and science: The City Observatory and Caribbean Commerce” (2020). [Online} Collective, I learnt the role of the city observatory in shipping to and from Leith. The City Observatory site also has a long history as a crucial provider of accurate time to […]

  In the video, it shows the audio display of the video narrator for Canadian fish as research partners. The atmosphere of “fish” is created through the display of indigenous voices and voice narration. Without taking pictures of fish from a human subjective perspective, we enter the world of “fish” from a third perspective and […]

01 From the artwork ‘BLUE’, I remember a sentence which touched me a lot. Your body is the whole ocean. My body is the droplet, or the spark, forming below your tongue.  The auditory comes to replace the visual; with Blue there is a sensory tussle as we are forced  to listen. Reflecting on your […]

Themes： Tianxing Peng https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2339972_themes-in-contemporary-art-2022-2023sem1/2022/09/30/sprint-1-weird/#comment-6 https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2339972_themes-in-contemporary-art-2022-2023sem1/2022/10/14/week4-play：-orange/ Yinan Lu https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2449532_themes-in-contemporary-art-2022-2023sem1/2022/10/14/jack-theme-group-work-play/ Kate https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2457669_themes-in-contemporary-art-2022-2023sem1/2022/10/18/reflective-analysis-2/#comments Xiaotong Wu https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2358907_themes-in-contemporary-art-2022-2023sem1/2022/10/14/周34-播放/?unapproved=6&moderation-hash=3e4a4cdebc67ea26c80bc7c6d31520ac#comment-6

Open learning： Yinan Lu https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2449532_contemporary-art–open-learning-2022-2023sem1/2022/10/14/art-assignment/ https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2449532_contemporary-art–open-learning-2022-2023sem1/2022/10/04/make-gold/ Tianxing Peng https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2339972_contemporary-art–open-learning-2022-2023sem1/2022/10/16/sprint-2-portfolio-reflective-analysis-end-of-sprint/?unapproved=4&moderation-hash=96029dbe0cc9dce721b4197854e2b02d#comment-4 Zhiqian Zhang https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2248556_contemporary-art–open-learning-2022-2023sem1/2022/10/13/sprint-2/?unapproved=6&moderation-hash=5e42b815a2bca945ee76b1d117394527#comment-6 Yirong Fan https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2444438_contemporary-art–open-learning-2022-2023sem1/2022/09/30/sprint-1-p2p-reflective-blog/#comment-6 https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2444438_contemporary-art–open-learning-2022-2023sem1/2022/10/14/sprint-2-open-art-toolkit-reflective-blog/#comment-7

Review About Week3 – PLAY&SCORE 01 Before the class, I had an advance preview about the theme of this sprint. The key point we are going to learn is What PLAY is and how we “make a play”. At the beginning of the class, Jake showed us a paper named a summary of the characteristics of […]