Relay of joy sound drawing tests
November 15, 2007
Drawing as research into sound relay machine for a performance. The round triggers play a sound via computer once they are drawn over. The process of drawing is changed by the introduction of sound feedback from the touch sensitive area behind the paper.
I have tried making a drawing blindfolded (illustrated above), which brings far more random results in to play. The relay is also broken, or changed from the normal, sighted, hand-eye coordination. Instead, sound returns an element of sensory feedback, permitting another type of coordination to occur.
Open Ear
October 23, 2007
Open Ear: Audio-visual events and performances at the Department of Media’s Broadstairs Campus of Canterbury Christ Church University.
On October 16th at 8:00pm Open Ear hosted an event curated by Paul Adams entitled Interference which incorporated a number of performances and an installation based on this theme.
Videos from the first Open Ear event Interference are now online: http://openear.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/interference-videos/
with some photos:
http://openear.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/interference/
The call for contributors for the next event:
http://openear.wordpress.com/category/call/
Mick Grierson contribued to open Ear: http://www.mickgrierson.co.uk/
Tim’s new body uploads
October 21, 2007
I have uploaded a set of images titled ‘What can a body become?’, to Flikr, click the link to view them.
The figures started with images scanned from my collection of catalogues, and also some photos. The series examine transformation in two related forms – hybrid source material, autographic and reprographic, and secondly, the possibility of finding the subject, the figure, with a rapid assembly of marks and lines.
This latter sense intends to access pre-cognitive, or intuitive action of eye to hand coordination. The rapid pace of each drawing, the reiteration of legs, faces, arms, sprouting out of bodies that ought not to be bodies – this issue, of a body becoming something, anything that it is not, derives from the observation by Baruch Spinoza: ‘What can a body become?’ Some images site other narratives within them – people hanging from hooks, a female form inside a male form…
Can the body become the thought of the thing imagined? What relation is there between action and reaction, in the context of drawing in this rapid way?
The assembly of disparate material, using scanned images, printed onto A4 paper, pencil, brush and ink, pen and ink, are then added by hand.
The action involves selecting and scanning the images, then adding a physical, analogue reaction.
Although the scanned images have a predominantly historical, old fashioned look, the intervention of the computer, the digitisation of the material, renders it malleable, separating it from the printed page, where the image may be surrounded by other images, and text.
As part of our research both Bryan Hawkins (in collaboration with the Substation Gallery in Margate) and Tim Long are curating seperate exhibitions in the Carey Building at Broadstairs and the Powell Building in Canterbury.
The second of these, the Thinking on Paper exhibition curated by Tim Long at the Powell Building in Canterbury is exhibiting print based work by members of staff from the Departments of Media and Art.
