Northumbria University

Seven minutes in length…is it too long? is it not long enough?

Should there be four shots?

The decisions were made, but were they the right ones?

It relates to older mnemonic technologies such as books, architecture, frescoes, cave paintings an so on…all the forms that humans have impressed more or less permanently upon matter.

Physicality/virtuality comes into existence, is one more priveleged than the other? What does setting the books alongside the laptop suggest?

I am aware that the work is very internal, in both content and process..it knows about itself, is recursive. I am aware that it might resist entry, can it be absorbed by the viewer?

The blog is an entry, into a conversation, a way of looking at my practice as itself and outwards.

From Art and language: “we acknowledge that reading and looking are distinct, we suggest that reading the text in a textual picture is in some sense equivalent to understanding certain iconographic or technical principles, and that these go to the picture’s having an internal subject.”

Why can’t everything be wireless?

I’m sitting at the desk I have set up in the gallery, the desk with the laptop and projector…and 5 wires surrounding it. Although it is supposed to represent an ordinary working space, the university has gone health and safety obsessed and so everything must be secure and out of sight.

To ease this problem I had thought of readjusting the projector’s space, having it face another wall (so that the wires fit closer together) but it meant changing the way the work would operate…it was more difficult to read the projected image, and it lost the intimacy that it had when it sat in line with the laptop. Luckily I was advised to change it back to the way I had it originally, meaning that you could stand behind the person typing, and while it is projected onto the wall, there is still a distance between the viewer and the person interacting with this blog and contemplating the work around them.

“As Wolfgang Laib sees it, the potential of his art is diminished when it becomes disconnected from everyday life.”