wrapped up against the current cold i find a warm corner to record and reflect upon what i’ve been doing lately. the young coproducers network and on going research for the skin and bone trio.
the network, funded by an artists room bursary is enabling the derby museums trust to research and develop more opportunities for young people to become involved with the museum.
working in a coproduction model allows for those taking part to explore their own needs within “how might we….?” type questions. derby museums work within a human centred design ethos.
last weekend the network had a projection mapping workshop. a member of the network is interested in how might projection mapping be seen in a gallery and had a demo version of resolme to play with. two further projection solutions were shared : cyril and freeliner.
i shared freeliner with the network and a couple of them played with it and started to understand the concept and ethos behind the project. having only recently started playing myself, i think its a testament to the usability of freeliner that i’ve been able to share how to use it in a workshop situation.
we placed some simple shapes on the wall and freelined round them, manipulated the templates and discussed what was happening. it was great to see the faces of the netwrok members light up with enthusiasm and joy at making freeline patterns and shapes.
i personally think freeliner is an impressive work by maxime damecour. its built in processing and has an array of features that makes freeliner very open to use and very much allows for delving into ones own schema type for creating and projecting patterns and shapes.
i’m at an early stage of understanding and i gel with the notion of learning through play, experimentation and practice.
this next image is the output of freeliner syphoned into isadora. its a gif (click on it to view animation in gallery mode). the gif is relevent as this weekend the network at the museum is making a gif / meme workshop. i’ve been playing with both app and browser based solutions and am loooking forward to sharing what i’ve found and being part of the group leading them through their own gif/meme creation using the galleries of the museum as inspiration.
to close i’d like to share with you my discovery of a stream from the international space station. parts of it are not live when the station is on the dark side of the earth. last night we worked out that if we could travel at the speed of the iss it would take us a tad under 2 seconds to get to derby. a bit too quick so for now the public transport options are just fine.
