Monday 13 October 2014

Sketches for a series of wearable objects

After a period of time rethinking my work, I have finally came up with a some sketches for a series of objects.

In this work I wish to question the role of framing for perception of real projective spaces. In this series of wearable devices I intend to explore phenomenon of fragmented visual experiences of space. These objects aim to exclude perspective from the perceptual framework and by that form an mage of non-mathematical nature.

Projection diagrams
Body positions


Pendant #1  

Pendant #2 

Ring #1

Ring #2

Costume #1

Costume #1

Costume #1

Costume #2

Monday 15 September 2014

Journals and Books Overview

Considering the amount of time passed after my graduation, I am looking for a way to publish my written work and/or artwork images. I have been researching on peer-reviewed magazines and other on-line sources publishing research articles and art projects within art/architecture field. I have found some, which could be interesting for reading in first place, however they do accept papers for review, so publishing something looks possible.

Here is what I found so far:

http://www.jar-online.net
http://artjournal.collegeart.org
http://openartsjournal.org
http://www.imagesjournal.com
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/vol0701/home.html
http://www.artmargins.com
http://www.waspjournals.com/journals/artontheline/index/index.html
http://onlineresearchjournals.org/IJAH/index.htm 
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/emotion-space-and-society/

I have researched through engines, and have also found a directory of open access journals http://doaj.org.

I am currently looking at books I would be interested in reading, so I have created a wish list in Amazon, which proved itself incredibly convenient. I will be updating it in future. http://www.amazon.co.uk/registry/wishlist/1XFSIVQ5VDDHD



Saturday 24 May 2014

Testing Projection

I realised that recently I have been interested in perception of spaces, depicted on a plane: printed, reflected in a mirror or screened. I have made some experiments with projection to gain a similar effect, using one of the projectors provided. I have used the following schemes to explain creation and application of the device during Thursday presentation. 

Scheme 1

A scheme above explains how projection happens in my work. There is a custom made projector, provided by Clement Briend for a period of time with a slide is inserted into it. Lights passes through lens, slide and optics resulting in an image on a plane. There are particular specifics towards slide elaboration: to create the slide I used for projection, we screened a digital image of space and photographed it again with a help of film camera (positive film used). 

Scheme 2

I got interest in the process, during which space seen by an eye turns into digital image, then analogue images, then slide and, finally, projection. I have decided to keep viewing points used to photograph the image of space on different stages. For this I have created a device with a mirror, which allowed to change the projection direction from one used to create a film photo back to one used to make a digital photo of space. 

Scheme 3

This experiment allowed me to test forming new relations between the eye of the viewer and space, substituting real space with a virtual (imaginative) one. 

Device photograph

Me presenting work done during the workshop at Strelka

Device applied to projector used during presentation

Image projected during the event

I consider workshop itself, device elaboration and presentation as a valuable experience. I have made some tests with slides and I see more opportunities for application of this new knowledge. I believe it would be really interesting to explore layering and projection. By this I could work more with projected spatial images rather than printed, screened or reflected in a mirror. 

Wednesday 21 May 2014

Device for Projection Forwarding. Making and Testing.

While considering images I intend to project during presentation, which is to happen tomorrow at Strelka, I also decided to think of how I am to project them. For this I have found inspiration in the process of creating a slide. As my images are digital, they will have to be converted into analogue ones in order to develop slides, so the position, in which both photographs are to be taken, will differ.

Digital image

I have taken a digital photograph of space holding my camera vertically, while a screening of this digital photograph was taken while holding analogue camera with positive film horizontally. In my performance I have decided to preserve this sequence of how view of space turned into image and then into projection. For this purpose I have elaborated a device, which is to forward projection rays into a different direction.

Projector with a device #1 attached

Projection made using the device #1
The first prototype didn't forward the image in the right direction as the glass was not positioned at 45 degree angle due to some constructional issues: the device was rather 'hanging' on the lens rather than clutching into its surface due to lack of fraction between wood and plastic and weight of the mirror, making one side of construction heavier than other. This analysis resulted in creating another device, in which I made attempts to solve some of these issues by adjusting some details, adding new and adding rubber bands to stabilise joints.

Device #2

Device #2

Device #2 video
It seems I have solved most of issues, but there is still some work to be done: for now I have paper cards to apply tension and fix the joint between to elements. A video shows the projection with a stroboscope light on.

Monday 19 May 2014

Clement Briend's workshop experience: projection

I have visited Clement Briend's 'Projection Art. From Theory to Practice' workshop recently at Strelka, which seems to be a very useful experience. I have been looking into opportunities to use projection on 'Screens' instead of photographs, videos or mirror reflection of space for a while, and it looks like this tool could become a solution. For now I am exploring different types of optics I have.

Canon Lens FD 50 mm

Canon Lens FD 135 mm

Tokina Lens 28-70 mm with Tokina Doubler for C/FD set on 28

Tokina Lens 28-70 mm with Tokina Doubler for C/FD set on 70

Tokina Lens 70-210 mm with Tokina Doubler for C/FD set on 70

Tokina Lens 70-210 mm with Tokina Doubler for C/FD set on 210

It seems from experiments that Tokina 70-210 mm lens is the best option for small scale projection, while Tokina 28-70 mm and Canon 50 mm lenses are the best for huge projections. However, Canon 50 mm lens seems to be more bright hence there is no added zoom optics. Canon 135 mm lens seems to produce a projection almost as small on produced as Tokina 70-210 mm lens set on 210, but seems much brighter as well. Overall, it does look like it is preferable to pick a lens without any zoom optics. I hope I will explore this tool further with mirrors and try to apply particular lenses to project images in my devices. 

Sunday 18 May 2014

Sketch 1:10 Drawings for a Device #1.1

I have recently been looking into ways to materialise my schemes. The schemes below demonstrate layers of developmental work both for imaginary and physical sides to particular device in scale.

This set of sketches shows exploration of visual field on a 1:10 device drawing. Here I am applying schemes explored on their own in a previous post to a particular device. Blue zones indicate visual field for the schemes. One indicates visual field when seeing space and another one indicates visual field when seeing image.

Developmental 1:10 sketch drawings on layers of tracing paper. Study of visual field within device 

The set below demonstrates schemes for development of the device in 1:10 scale in three projections, among which the first one is the starting point for work. The second drawing explores the size and position of wax elements, in the the third one I make attempts to determine position of the mirror. In the last one I test a possible solution for structural support of the wax elements. I use different colour to indicate different parts. 

Developmental 1:10 sketch drawings on layers of tracing paper. Study of making possibilities


Friday 14 February 2014

Diagrams of the Visual Field

I was going again throguh the preface to 'Brunellesch, Lacan and Le Corbusier' by Lorens Holm when I encountered a following thought: 'The image by which Narcissus is made known to himself, dissolves as soon as he tries to kiss it. He loves the object but all he gets is a lovely image; when he tries to attain the object, his world goes pear-shaped'.

My Illustration for a Quote

I think it is a very simple yet clever way of describing the metaphyscal process behind the physical process of seeing. This is not about actually seeing an image on a plane surface, but it is about imagining what is being that image: a real object or existing space. At the same time this drawn scheme introduces a possibility of seeing a space as an image. It suggests that there could be an invisible 'screen', which beholds the the whole area of space seen within our visual field.

My sketches of the 'Projection Simlified' and 'Projection Proper'
from 'Brunelleschi, Lacan and Le Corbusier' by Lorens Holm

These perspective triangles explains the relation between the viewer and the world. The lines in the 'Projection Simplified' explain the direction of the view, while the dashed lines in the 'Projection Proper' indicate that there is a difference between view and image and shows what is looked through the screen or image. 


Viewing Diagram Progression


I started with a very simple scheme, partially based on the projections from Holm's book. On the first one I indicated the position of the eye of the viewer towards the image and imaginary. Then, I overlapped it with a similar scheme, on which the eye of the viewer is positioned towards space and imaginary and in this scheme the image could be thought of as a virtual 'screen'. I placed blue lines on the third scheme indicating the 'image'. Image and the 'image' appear on the same line and again could be read as 'screen' and the 'image', while the other 'image' is fused with space. While I do call it space, it is a mere space representative, so it is a 'screen' itself. The sketch on the left below indicates that.

Sketches for Diagrams


The sketch on the right above is an idea for development of the scheme, in which I relocated the position of space and kept the 'image' in its place by putting a mirror instead of an image. The scheme below shows a step-by step development of this proposal.

Progression of the Diagram within the Device


My second step was to relocate the space in such a way, so the 'image' is formed by reflection. The first scheme presents a change made in the position of the space 'screen' and 'image'. Blue lines and arrows indicate the 'image' transfer. The second scheme contains information on position of the actual space in relation to the 'image' and 'sceen' as well as information on arrangement of these spatial elements in case of the 'image' relocation. The last scheme suggests possible solutions for updating the eventual scheme as by adding space outlines the the viewer's eye got trapped inside the space itself, while it is to be positioned outside the space. Options one and two are marked in orange on a scheme number three.