spent the last week mostly trying to create a network using MAC’s which can share video with each other… nearly there… during this coming week i’ll get it sorted I’m sure (and will post photos)…
I’ve also been thinking about how we experiance time and have started work on some animation… not sure where its going yet… however see the video attached for the first sketch / ideas…
quick sketch for what might become a piece of work exploring how time is experianced on the internet and how we experiance time in the physical world…
degree show proposal was handed in today!!! i’m feeling good about what i’ve set out to do… to fill you in and to quoat myself
The work is the creation of a digital network and is exploring how networks embedded into architectural objects can provide a method of distributing audio and visual data about the public realm back into it. I am also interested to see how the audience becomes a preformative body whilst viewing the work. This avoids becoming about surveillance through showing all data gathered and by not keeping records of data.
Due to the nature of the work I have chosen to spread the works elements around the building, the various locations (marked on the plans provided and listed above) have been chosen through a process of searching the building for various features including use / meaning of the space, wireless routers and power outputs (discussed below).
I would also like the work to have a “base” with one of the architectural objects and a series of 5 prints depicting the network.
sundays photoshoot was rained off… but i did have a fairly productive meeting with flowlosopha anyway where we discussed some things including ideas for future collabarations…
over the weekend i also payed a visit to leamington spa museum and art gallery to see ground level which is touring from the hayward…it was genuinlly the most intresting show i’ve seen in a long time!!! it featured Heath Bunting’s BorderXing which i’ve been reading a lot about for quite a while now… also had a really nice peice of work which consisted of 3 digital prints and some sound by Yolande Harris… there are a series of events happening in response to this show and for the next 2 saturdays i will be participating in sonic workshops so i’ll post any results from those soon!!!
also been trying a few things with the printing of the book for marking the internet and the physical (source). and have made a proof that i am now going to produce in a series of 10. i’ve also added (script) to the title as i realised that this book is in fact the 2nd play i’ve been thinking about writing
i’ve realised that HTML is just stage directions for the internet
also on a trip to ikea i picked up 20 identical red, circular mouse mats…not entirly sure what i’m going to do with them but i know i needed them… i think they might become points on a map – i also liked that their mouse mats!!!
i’ve been thinking about things we can/can’t/have to do when using computers everyday that in no more than 4 years won’t be issues anymore… screen position being one (IPAD’s auto correct), and mice being another (touchscreen) so mouse mats might soon be redundant (???)
degree show proposal time… its due in on the 9th so i made a start today!!!
I’m planning on making a group of networked architecture, basically a series of objects around the school of art which are linked via webcams and monitors (poss. through skype or MSN??? SUGGESTIONS???) so that the objects are showing a diffrent space of the building whilst physically occupying a space itself…
I think theres gonna be a series of digital and/or screen prints based on the building blueprints and plans but altered to show the network i will have created
i made a really quick 3D sketch of the basic object today (i’ve been making 2D sketches around this idea for a few months) so i could start to get ideas of how they will opperate in space (see photos)
more soon!!!
the website is done!!! well at least until a new piece of work demands its updating…
so www.ryan-hughes.co.uk
been busy on a few other things as well, started on a series of what might become works which i’m thinking of calling contact (in persuit of…) then each work will have a diffrent thing that its in persuit of… the first one is contact (in persuit of Thrill)… i’ll upload images asap… and explain more when i do!!!
been thinking about work for the degree show as well… i’m thinking about re-presenting physical:virtual:freedom but in a more sculptural way… with walls and plug sockets and shelves…
and i want to develop my perspex google markers and spread them throughout the building, i’m thinking about engraving information about the points on the map their pointing too on to the objects to enforce the connection of the print and the object…
i’ve also voluntereed for fierce festival http://www.wearefierce.org/ and meet the organisers and other volunteers last night… looks like i’m going to be working on Quarantine’s The Soldier’s Song at moor st. station, Dominic Johnson ‘s Departure at Trove and hopefully plan b’s a day in the life (walkers in birmingham) at MAC…
