I’ve started a visual blog of my arrows. You’ll find it here: findingmywayinshanghai.tumblr.com
It’s where I’m going to collect all of my images of arrows and any notes that I make as my thought process for the time being.
The digital app workshop started today, I’ve been with the rest of the group at a great Public Art centre at Gucun Park in Shanghai. I’m in a group with 2 BA students in Digital Art, 2 MA students with backgrounds in printmaking and graphic design and 3 of the tutors from Shanghai University who have skills in programming, digital technologies and visual art.
The brief is to design a smartphone app that makes use of GPS. We are working with the idea of locating Public Art works, but incorprating a playful element of following a trail and collecting pieces of a jigsaw along the way. I’ve managed to incorporate elements of my practice into the project – and hopefully in addition to this collaborative piece of work, I will learn something that I can use in my own practice.
Hopefully tomorrow afternoon I’ll be able to go out with the students I’m working with and see some public art so that we can incorporate it into the presentation of the app in an exhibition on the 14th November.
I’m off out now to go and meet an artist from Linz who is here on a 3 month residency – the director of the Atelierhaus Salzamt put us in touch when he found out that we were both going to be in Shanghai. We’ve never met, but have both been in residence at Salzamt at different times, so we have at least one thing in common.
