Artist Research .... Projection

I decided to do some digging, as we are at the later stages of our project, and after successfully learning how to project the way we want to for our final video, I thought it would help to find some examples of still images; artists that use projection, as we may decide to produce a collection of stills to present at MOSI.

'Austin, Texas-based artist Davis Ayer shows off light projection art at its finest.In each shot, Davis masterfully blends projections with a woman's body, turning them into intriguing pieces of art. Stunningly beautiful and almost like tattoos.' These seem effective as they appear as pieces of art rather than just photographs of the projections, maybe we could use this idea to compliment our final video, our digital prints could be tailored to produce abstract imagery ......

(http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/light-projection-body-art)

Video Development

After several failing attempts to master our projection concept successfully, we booked a large room with black out curtains for another attempt.  Frazer had produced some mock layered prints from our growing collection of drawings, that we could use to test our theory.  It soon became clear the prints that were more saturated, and that contained stronger colours, gave a more effective projection, this is evident in the proceeding images, even from stills the success of colour is evident.  We continued to experiment filming the projection from several angles, and eventually managed to position the model close enough to the projector and the camera, however at a very difficult angle to ensure the projection(that does actually appear on the floor to the right of the model) is not evident for filming. The process proved time consuming, the images and video below illustrate how much improvement has occurred from last week, however in our opinion does not reflect the amount of work involved in reaching this breakthrough!  This we hope will be evident in our final video!It proved really difficult to avoid the projection 'projecting onto things behind the model', I feel the results below are extremely successful the projection is almost exact in terms of following the shape of the body!
      In terms of our images we aim to produce more in the next few days, continuing with the layered idea, however will convert the stills into some form of moving sequence to enhance the quality of our final outcome.  We have agreed all digital prints need to be replicated, each replicated version should have increased saturation, contrast levels, and reduced exposure levels to achieve the best projection results when filming.  We hope to print large scale examples of our most successful prints to exhibit at MOSI,  this is why we will replicate all prints so the originals can be kept for this.

AIMS FOR WEEK BEGINNING MON 7TH MAY .....

. Contact dance department, circulate email to secure 4 dancers for filming end of this week/beginning of next.

. Buy all in one white suits for dancers to wear.

. Complete/edit all final digital prints.

. Meet with Mary to discuss editing of final video.

. ........ FILM FINAL VIDEO!

(Projection 1 )

(Projection 2)

Tuesday 24th... Printing.

Pigment printing (puff) using four layers.

Hand painting directly onto screen.

( silk, cotton, paper)

 

Drawing... Inspiration...Developemt

We are beginning to produce a collection of drawings to compliment our visual research, by collecting them together in our studio space we can all continue to evaluate our progress and make links within cultures, aiding us to consider ideas for our final design. We have agreed to each have a set of ten drawings/developments by Friday 27h when we meet as a group.....

Early print ideas....painting....drawing....

Projection Ideas

During our discussion dated 12th March, we discussed the possibilty of some sort of 'projection' featuring in our final presentation of work, we all seemed to agree this could be a effective way to communicate our ideas. I recently came across the eco initive 'make a forest' created by Anne van der Zwaag and Joanna van der Zanden.  In an attempt not to create a solution for deforestation, but to use art art and design to question whehter the use of one artificial tree could have an impact on a local area, they created artificial trees.  The initive itself was fitting in relation to sustainable design for the future, however it was the way the art was conveyed that caught my attention....
... A series of sketches of trees made from everyday objects were made, and then photographed. They were then exhibited as a series of 'lightbox installations'.  The images below illustatre how these illusions appeared.  To me they are extremely effective, maybe we could present our final concept in this way in the space provided??

(http://www.yatzer.com/vow-45-Temporary-Trees-by-Raw-Color-and-Mkgk)

Concept Ideas

 

 After reflecting on our previous group discussion were we considered the clashing of religious identities, I came accross the widely distributed facebook presentation 'Joseph Kony 2012'.  Produced by an advocac group, 'invisible children' the film calls for local celebrities and politicans to boost the hunt for the war criminal, who has continued to capture young children in Uganda for the past 30 years.  The campaign is a case study which tackles how the web is changing political campaigning, and within the film appears a list of the 'most wanted criminals in the world'.  In terms of creating a concept, we could consider the idea of 'exposing such criminals', making each one 'famous'  in order to increase global awareness and to accelerate the prevention of such devastating happenings.