soloution obsoloution

Obsolete technology has been a massive part of the inspirations behind my thinking. some of the marketing used to sell this technology is really stunning.

The art of the found.

Creating art work by taking an existing object and changing its context is something of a difficult task. when deschamps put a toilet in an art gallery, people were confused. nowadays its becoming more acceptable. Dicky graham takes the art of the found to a new dimension creating characters out of old products.

Ed Gill – drawing machines

Ed gill is a tutor at Chelsea school of art, i was made aware of his drawing machine projects yesterday and decided to take a look. some of the ideas and mechanisms that people are using in these drawing machines are similar to the low fi experiments i would like to get involved with starting from now.

3 Hour Poster Project

We were given 3 hours on the first day of term to try and create some imagery that depicts what we aim to achieve throughout our third year. I went out with a camera and and began photographing jet streams from aircraft, i took this image in Peckham and liked the geometry of the image. With a particular interest in the form of an equilateral triangle i placed one on top of the image as if it were a glass prism obscuring the perspective of the photograph. With a particular interest in scientific experiments in my work this representation is a subtle nod to the science experiments i conducted at school in physics class.

Black whole conference

black whole conference’ by michel de broin, 2006 (72 chairs) collection musée d’art contemporain de montréal.

This is not a kinetic sculpture but it does capture the essence of what it is I am going to be trying to create. Geometric forms. dodecehedrons made of a series of cuboid forms…Food for thought.

Light sculptures

Anthony Mccall approaches sculpture in yet another way.  I was fortunate enough to see this exhibition at the serpentine gallery in London. His work allows for a highly interactive and playful environment.

Vehicle Drawings

The work of Tim Knowles is something that I am massively intrigued by. The way in which he uses natural movements within nature aswell as the ways in which cars move one about on the road and the movents a package makes whilst in the postal service. This is an example of a drawing machine that Knowles set up in a car then drove across the alps. With the paper simply moving on a reel to keep it moving, the drawing is made entirely by the movements the car makes whilst on its journey.