Notes of Thought.....

• As modern technology users
• use technology to make our social choices.
• hypertexts such as Wikipedia
• creating personal stories through the use of film and sound
• allowing the user to use laptop as a means of moving through the labyrinth the artist has created
• this labyrinth does not require the audience to move through the space physically but through the moving of imagery and sounds presented on 3 laptops
• The vessels on which the laptops are placed are individual furniture items and again the audience is invited to choose which vessel they wish to interact with.
• moving only back and forth through the imagery and sound the audience are absorbed in the decision making presented in this visual labyrinth.
• the furniture resembles a domestic setting and are recognisable items, illustrating the everyday gestures performed.
• the emotionless movements of the heterosexual couple are at points humorous and in others rather dark.
• the actors were not asked to demonstrate emotion in the gesture making and therefore these perceptions of emotion are developed through the recognition, use of sound, use of colour and imagery.
• the breaks in footage allow the audience to rest with the piece
• in comparison at other points the selected scene fills with a combination of scenes and overcrowds the screen.
• the scenes repeat allowing the audience to sit and watch the piece and selections they have chosen.
• the use of colour is taken from the text and reflects certain colour themes
• soundtrack is developed from ideas within the text and uses the same instruments to illustrate the change in emotion through different musical techniques and sounds.

Mock Artist Statement

Claire Swift

Garden of Forking Paths

'In all fictional works, each time a man is confronted with several alternatives, he chooses one and eliminates the others; in the fiction of the almost inextricable Ts'ui Pen, he chooses - simultaneously all of them. He creates, in this way, diverse futures, diverse times which themselves also proliferate and fork.' Jorge Luis Borges

The Garden of Forking Paths is a short story by writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, created using several layers the story can be read in various ways creating not only a book but a maze. Using themes from this hypertext this video installation invites its audience to interact through the process of selection using the three laptops presented. Selecting not only visual image but sound, the audience are able to construct a narrative projected using numerous layers. Using the text the artist selected imagery embedded within the text and created visual patterns that the participant can decide and choose from. The work is a combination of three selections, still image, a moving couple on coloured backgrounds and soundtrack creating a visual representation of the story and ideas of Borges.

The gestures recreated using a stereotypical heterosexual couple, are taken from scenes within the text, ask to perform without expression the couple demonstrate recognisable gestures that allow the audience to develop an idea of narrative on screen and create their own story through their process of selection. This idea of narrative is also developed through the process of image and soundtrack selection, both of which use the same technique of deconstructing elements of the text and transferring these ideas into still image or music.

Written under the facade of a spy narrative the Garden of Forking Paths has a large similarity to today's digital media and hypertext projects such as Wikipedia in which its user is able to move through and select. Highlighting it's digital connection GFP uses laptops to show the choice of selection and allow the participant to make their own personal selection. Borges writes of "a labyrinth that folds back upon itself in infinite regression" and asks the reader to "become aware of all the possible choices we might make" these ideas are reflected in the video installation. The audience can discover all of the possible sound and visual elements they are able to choose from, however they are not trapped in the dilemma of choosing one and eliminating others; they may choose to unfold all possibilities as through the process of selection all elements are made available, filling the space with confusion. They "create, in this way, diverse futures, diverse times which themselves also proliferate and fork."

Green Screening NOTES

Eddie Chambers Tutorial

Complex nuances
layered
sophisticated work
Video, Image, Soundtrack

Challenges: How to represent text, Depth of text, Unless substantial steers, Chance % won't be abel to get nuances

Audio Component?

Highlighting words, insight

Stages: read, extract, share

Communicated Dialogue

emotionally challenging
gestures, subtle, pronounced, affections, confrontations,

Dialogue
introduced into text

Highlighted pages

Responsibility: to consider source of the work, extract most possible information, ideas from work.

IMAGES: intriging, instinct, viewer, to try and make sense what am I looking at?
potential to alienate: limit ways the work is read, "make sense"

metaphor

IMAGE IS TEXT

mindfull specifies audience, context

Accomplished work: very superficial, visual age, uses the medium of technology - UNSETTLING (difficult, engaging, challenging)

WHAT A LOVELY MAN x

Clio Tutorial July

Douglas Gordon: dynamic of screen
James Turrell

understand colour
thinking of selection
colour:emotion
image: interlect
different elements

stills --> movement
stiff ---> pleasure of movement

gret: no connections
remove people:ODD
glitches allow to rest with image

one instance: group

search engine: generic
significant
social experience
streamlining
experience

particular place
text story ----> search

labryinth: lines of sight
something impeeds
choices
darkness
projection immediate

Change laptop supports: reinforce intution, characters, added element eg desk, shalf, vanity mirror

mirrors - reflections, projections into

choosing everything together: overwhelming

what happens does consider trial

PARTICIPANT

exlpore clarity, ONE CONCEPT
complex set of media
Character of choice
crescendo


THE PROCESS IS THE LABRYINTH

Clio Tutorial (very very late)

Robert Wilson: Performances USA & theatre, endurance

Peter Greenway: minimal, duration, public

Discovery, further, hidden

Ola Furt Elissaon: experience driven, feel emotion, event, parallel facebook

making art as an experience

ephemeral

document

Bruce Nauman: installations, Hayward Show, head piece, not polished, interactive, removed from texture, voice, noise

SOUND texture in the piece, reflection, originates

Manufactures situation

UNFOLD

making the audience move, different spaces?

groups (herd)

Elison: controls behaviour crowds

Tate Turbine Hall: crowd filming

real applied

scale of images

Pulp Fiction/Kill Bill

knitting it together

objects become set

articulates

uncovered parts

coherence of your thinking

what I LIKE

mind mapping

central activity core

series of works?

Richard Wilson

what are my structures

exploration

x

Number References

2 pages

6 o'clock sun

9

30

3 rd chapter

4 th

2 circumstances

13 years

1000

1 nights

2 versions same epic chapter