Deliberation – its decided.

Think Im done, Ended up dropping the green side of the RGB LED, have been reading about colour and mood, and like how red and blue and generally considered opposites. Red excitement, Blue calm, (some even put fear in the purple hues in between) the whole thing of having how possible choice are viewed as time and circumstance changed just seemed to sit better  with these colours. Also visually it fits better with the mood.

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If it works don’t mess with it

Trying to tidy up my wiring, tried to unsolder my ultrasonic range finder. Very bad idea, a bit crap at soldering = very crap at unsoldering, and it looks like I cooked it. Very sad, will have to have a closer look at it later but for now am going with an infra red detector, less range means people will need to be much closer than I had wanted but it will work in a pinch.

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Soldering irons and craft knives

The projects starting to come together.
I am very rusty at soldering but I’m finally getting things to stick.
Having quite a bit of fun building this type of stuff, it is taking me back to much earlier times.

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A Name – many choices ?

Deliberation

After much deliberation I decided to call it deliberation.

The work is about choices, decisions, how did I find myself here ?
What paths were taken? but it also looks at the nature of choice and determinism.
Is there really a choice ? Will all choices lead to the same outcomes ?
From a distance there appears to be multiple choices, they fade in and out of favour, the longer you look at them the more they shift, what seemed right before no longer seems to be the best option.

The work contains an avatar of my self, the lego man, dwarfed by the choices before him.
As he’s viewed these choices fluctuate, but once approached they blend together, they are all the same.

Step back to perceive your choices.

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AmWantLike – a mini world

A world with programmatically controlled with light sculptures. – worlds light colour

That covers the I like and I want but what about I am.
Who am I, What brought me here ? Why did I choose this path ?
Food for thought – but this should be the emphasis of my project .

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AmWantLike – ideas

Lego

Light

Colour

World

Lego- I would realy like to incorporate lego into this work, but not film of legos the actual bricks. So I tending towards something physical.
Instillation art is what Im most interested in at the moment,  but build large scale instillations requires more resourses than I have available to me.
The beauty of Lego was it allowed me to build my own worlds in miniature, so this is where this project should go.

I will build a mini Instillation.

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E-media 2-2

Semester 2 and its new classes new projects

I am, I like , I want.

First task was to deliver a Pucha Kucha style presentation 20 slides 20 seconds a slide.
Like all thinks initially suspicious of the who this, most likely due to my inability to properly read instructions.

After a few false starts decided to take the whole I am thing way back to my first creative memory…  Lego.
Once I had this start it all started to fall into place.
I have always drawn a parallel to my interest in e-media and my interest in lego, for me the computer is a box of possibilities as was my box of legos was, they both game me an escape in to imagined worlds. Lego block – pixel there are heaps of similarities could go on for ages.

So slides about lego slides about computers then as I was going all the way back Dr Suess via Dali through to artistic influences. Ending in a distilation of what drives me.

Colour, Light, Imagined worlds.

Worlds is a loose term could be spaces or even just an idea somewhere to escape into.

The presentation.
I made notes for the slides culled it donwn to what could be said in 20sec. The trouble was It only just fit if I had to stop and think/remember to say something then I wouldnt get it all in. I decided to use notes.
Bad Idea, I never use notes I’m much happier winging it, I’m guessing notes work for organised people. Long story short, screwed up my timings, gave up on the notes and winged it. Much happier missed out on lots I planned to say, but it went ok.
No notes ever again never never. Learn to want to say less.

you can check out the presentation files here.
I am, I Like, I want – slides with notes

A few of the images that resonated

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Semester ends

That’s it for semester 1, what will semester 2 bring ?

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Beginnings – Instillation

Today I had to install beginnings at art school, ended up wasting a huge amount of time, stuffed around for ages setting up the tv first off my laptop and then off an iMac. Extension cords where at a premium the was only one power point in the room  was installing in couldn’t get a microphone and the audio cable would reach the TV. I was toying with having other versions of the screen installed but with no where to plug them in it just wasn’t going to happen. In the end I had a setup I was ok with but sitting back watching the screen I realised that the colours fading in the back ground weren’t visible at all. so I packed the TV away, gave up on the extra screens and just left an iMac on a plinth, I didnt hate it but cetainly wasn’t my vision, but at least the room was dark. And the colours were vivid.

I think it still worked ok, and i was happy with the idea, I just really need to think more about how something will be viewed / prensented form the begining, and not just assume that it would all come together.

I let in run for about an hour and it all worked ok, even had it making some pretty interesting sounds. Still have to drop back in on Wednesday to start it up again. And I need some admin password, to turn off the screen saver / power saver. but hopefully Wednesday will go ok.

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So what’s it all about ?

Sense

Process

Express

These are the ideas I want to play with, the thing(not shore what to call it yet) gets it information of the world around it from its microphone, everything it takes in it puts back out this creates some interesting feedback loops and possibly an emergent behaviour. all information is converted to visual information, the things mental image what’s happening, the central region reacts purely to the moment excited by stimuli quietening down as it ceases. the coloured horizon is its world picture its understanding. This is constantly updated due to new inputs and the data builds on its self adding detail to its world. As its world picture is constantly changing the early stimuli fade having less effect (similar to memories fading)

The imagery is created looking like a horizon to represent the things image of its world, intense primary colours have been chosen as this signifies its childlike (naive) interpretation.

As well as reflecting its senses back out it remembers some moment of activity calling them out again when things are quiet.

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