Mini Portfolio Task 3 Seminar

3rd March 2014

Angela, Jennifer, James, Simon, Eleanor

http://eleanormacfarlane.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/task-3-mini-portfolio.html

The task is about how coherent the three pieces are, just described and seen without context.

Simon
Subversion of current fashion with foxes, birds, etc
Reality of wildlife / road kill
Irony of fox / fashion
http://www.timorousbeasties.com/
Timorous Beasties
Punky, violent, grafitti
Death - final violence, not peace
Subverted domestic installation - normalise - everyday
Wallpaper repeat, not too domestic.

Jennifer
Exploring her aesthetic
Hannah Höch
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/hannah-hch
Sequential stop motion
Still - one frame story board - printed through photo process
Moving image come out of 2D
Repetitions through different media of ideas
Developing language
Colour forces links between different scales, frames, planes and literal colour
Hanging on to intuitive media
Becomes apparent, how to use
John Stezaker
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/john-stezaker
Obvious references - times, humour.

James
More eloquent - sound amazing - prefer more mechanical - authenticity
Unlikely views - some more considered
Sound animates all
Pace and flashing - better than before
Low key shots,not over composed
Pace, rhythm, integrated with imagery
Getting people to stay and look.

Eleanor
from Jennifer
Theatricality
Music more formal
Impulse towards inventory
Archival
Going around each child face, not counting, but a moment to look
Comparison - compare / contrast - visually
Scrutiny - different to inventory, not as intense, more compassionate
Lens in front of book
Display or curation
Archival impulse
More looking and archiving
Unlayering to show one layer
Numbers unimportant
Didactic - controlled experience
Controlled view / display
Aesthetic sequence
Teaching my world view
Controlling
Doesn't feel narrative
As in fictive - created by the imagination
Leave something for the viewer
How to keep work open for viewer
Multiples rather than numbers or counting.

from Simon
Directed around
My vision
Panning around
Heavy / ominous music
Can't read in what you want
Music - constructivism
Eisenstein
Aesthetic of found paintings.

from James
Like merged pics, new to old, old - places now
Set in museum
Low rumbling sound
Deathly, dramatic feel
Fear
Haunted
Over dramatic - out of proportion
Rusting ship yards
Old fashioned Titanic
Philosophic - Greeks

E
Distance of eye
Distance creating - viewer
Travel with photos
Object recognise, but obscured by Fresnel lens
Unusual distances
Ambiguity of where we are
Scale-less
How to project - TV
Music / associations - heavy - higher, Alpine
DNA strands of work
Core of work
Even obscured - core will show
Strong relationships
Leave something for the viewer.

Reflection

I deciphered my scribbled notes some time after the seminar - always a bit of a mistake because the context of some remarks fade. However, an interesting list of impressions and ideas to remember.It's always great to see how fellow MAers are getting on and what work is happening, but I think we all were at this stage fending off questions and somehow justifying the early stages of our intentions,and explaining what we are about to do.

17th April 2014