Materials

Ashlee, i really like the idea with buttons, it looks very pretty and 3D!
I think it will look amazing.
 Have you estimated the cost, it would be nice to have an idea of how many buttons we will need and how much it will cost?
We need to know that in order to proceed.
See you tomorrow, so we can discuss these little issues.

Materiels

Hi, It would have been nice if someone had sent an email about these matters...i shouldn't have to chase everyone in order to no whats going on. If any choices are made within this group everyone needs to notified. We Dnt use the blog often so it was only by chance i saw this.

Here are a few examples of ways we can show the blood on the floor! and also one of how we shouldnt! all the ones that have been posted so far will be flat, have no depth do we not want something that will look almost 3d??

both of these two pieces where made out of small buttons that is one possible choice.

this materiel is called gum rubber, it comes in quite large sheets unfortunatly at the moment i haven't been able to find any suppilers that sell in a smaller batch than a ton!!! 

here s an exaple of how a velvet type carpet would look, i think i looks horrible!! so id like to rule that out from now!!

also as we have a presentation on monday showing our final design, i have started to put together a power point presentation could you all send me scans of your sketch books and any other information that you think should be included to the presentation!! i have written a list of all the equipment i no which we need and the prices which i am currently aware of could you all also send any cost info which you have as i will need to included this within the presentation.

On Thursday David tooks pictures of the final model which we all made this week but he couldn't take pictures of the different projections which i wanted for my sketch book, and i also wanted to no davids opinion on which he liked best so we could come to a choice as a group but they werent with the model. where have they gone?????

Effect with red metal sheet...

MORE SUGGESTIONS!

Another suggestion is RED ACRYLIC MIRROR
http://www.theplasticshop.co.uk/acrylic-mirror-colours-1394-0.html

Or red aluminium
http://www.wireandstuff.co.uk/acatalog/Aluminium_Sheet_-_A6_Sample_Pieces.html#a178

Suggestion: RED PERSPEX

This could be a possibility: Red Perspex.
Company, prices.... is in the link below
Have a look and tell me what you guys think

http://www.theplasticpeople.co.uk/tinted-coloured-acrylic-sheets-perspex-p-70.html?osCsid=36deb5190f6601e644d9504096485a78


Irene

Materials Suggestions

URGENT!!!!!

We should have by monday the definite idea of what the material for the blood stain in our installation is going to be.
Any suggestion must include:

1. Info about firm (where, who)
2. Price

Keep in touch
Irene

Presentation Board for Monday 14th Nov.

Installation rough visuals

Installation rough visuals

IMI group

hello,

it's camille and andrea, from IMI.

we thought about the project and we are not really agree with everything you proposed. we spoke with our tutor and its definitly not possible to have a sensor who take the beat of each person. Also, for us, artistically create a video of a heart beat with blood and dispose it outside is not really original. And nobody will let us dispose a projector outside.

to be honest we really liked the first idea, the ethanol molecule with liquid which destroy things inside, and the concept of alcohol consequences and projecting some differents video on the balls. we understand you had the idea and you dont really want to change it, and its why you dont let us really participate. however because we think you really had a great idea with the ethanol thing, we would like to find compromise with you. we spoke with our imi technicien, and he said its totally possible to project different video in different balls with just one projector, so we are now thinking to create some less obvious videos than the heart beat and project them into balls.

if you dont want us to project on "your balls" we could do two similar installations, one with the video projected on balls. it can be displayed as a support of your installation. the two wont be visible at the same time, they would be separated by a wall.

let us know what you think.

cheers

camille and andrea.

The Pulse Room

Hi, guys.
Here is a youtube link to the Pulse Room installation video.
Here is some info:

RAFAEL
LOZANO-HEMMER

Pulse Room

Pulse Room is an interactive installation featuring one to three hundred clear incandescent light bulbs, 300 W each and hung from a cable at a height of three metres. The bulbs are uniformly distributed over the exhibition room, filling it completely. An interface placed on a side of the room has a sensor that detects the heart rate of participants. When someone holds the interface, a computer detects his or her pulse and immediately sets off the closest bulb to flash at the exact rhythm of his or her heart. The moment the interface is released all the lights turn off briefly and the flashing sequence advances by one position down the queue, to the next bulb in the grid. Each time someone touches the interface a heart pattern is recorded and this is sent to the first bulb in the grid, pushing ahead all the existing recordings. At any given time the installation shows the recordings from the most recent participants.

Also, have a look at this:
http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/pulse_phone.php
And this:

Pulse Park

Relational Architecture 14

"Pulse Park" is comprised of a matrix of light beams that graze the central oval field of Madison Square Park. Their intensity is entirely modulated by a sensor that measures the heart rate of participants and the resulting effect is the visualization of vital signs, arguably our most symbolic biometric, in an urban scale.

In Pulse Park, evening visitors to Madison Square Park have their systolic and diastolic activity measured by a sensor sculpture installed at the North end of the Oval Lawn. These biometric rhythms are translated and projected as pulses of narrow-beam light that will move sequentially down rows of spotlights placed along the perimeter of the lawn as each consecutive participant makes contact with the sensor. The result is a poetic expression of our vital signs, transforming the public space into a fleeting architecture of light and movement.

Volumetric Flasks

Hello Guys,

I have been doing some research about the Ethanol and its formula. And found two important points to take into consideration:

1. The formula has 3 main elements Carbon, Hidrogene and Oxigen. However they repeat several times, giving a total number of 9 balls ( what it would be flasks for us!)
2. Since we are using Ethanol and we are basing the whole process on its formula, I thought maybe we could use Volumetric Flasks from the lab instead of normal glass jars. I think it really goes into context.  

So, my point is that if we take into consideration what I just mentioned, instead of 4 flasks maybe we should introduced 9 in our installation, as in the formula, by repeating elements (tar, flesh...)

Also, I found those in the picture for very cheap £4.99 the pack of 5, 250ml. If we decide to go for it, I can buy them and try to find 500ml ones to represent the 3 big elements in the middle of the formula, as in the picture.

Suggestions and opinions asap,please!

defenestration: To throw out of a Window

Hi Irene, I was wondering if that will be suitable for you only. I meant by the amount of description which you have given if that should be okay. If so I can go ahead by talking about it on the following day 17/10.

Thank you,
David

The Installation Arts... The Speech 17/10/2011

Hi guys, I have analysis everyone projects. So I will start by a simple induction of names etc and start off. 

David's (Idea) 

Tacita Dean: FILM; Tate Modern

The Unilever Series, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London 11 October 2011 – 11 March 2012 Tacita Dean will undertake the twelfth commission in The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Tacita Dean is one of the most respected artists working today. Her practice encompasses artist’s books, drawing, theatre, opera, dance, comedy, classical music, pop, TV drama, literature and film.

Distractions: On film, the familiar glass and steel structure plays host to images culled from the outside world such as fountains, waterfalls, lakes, the sea, tree, a smoking industrial chimney, an escalator, flowers, mushrooms, pigeons, a snail and a grasshopper.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b015n01b/ 

The installation Arts

Hi guys, is this everyone (CHOICE) and if there is any changes please let me know by tomorrow between 10:00 am and 12:00pm please. Because I need to analysis everything to put it into simplify briefs. Hopefully by the evening tomorrow I will update everyone on how I have construct it.

Thanks David

My choice(Oksana)

Chelsea Art Museum Facade Lighting
M S W(Mader Stublic Wiermann) from Berlin/Germany designed a new skin facade for the Chelsea Art Museum in New York/USA.
1.It features a skin layer made of LED rods that is offset away from the original facade of the museum.
A layer of vertical LED-rods are installed on the façade of the Chelsea Art Museum, with a gap in between the building and the new structure.
2.The installation will feature abstract images moving across the building, at times even appearing to extend the structure of the Museum beyond its actual size. The gap left between the original building and the new façade structure respects the integrity of the building, while manipulating its appearance depending on the installation’s programming and the viewers position.
3!!!
Most importantly, the new facade does not replace the existing one, rather, it plays with its surface and volume. Consequently, art, normally contained within a museum, will step beyond the confines of the building to interact with the city and its inhabitants. The new architectonic volume of the building will strengthen Chelsea Art Museum’s presence in the Manhattan cityscape.

 

My Choice (Ashlee)

Current Disturbance By Mona Hatoum 

Current disturbance was made by Mona Hatoum, in 1996 as a body of work based around perceptually and psychologically de-stabilizing the space. The other pieces of work included where Light Sentence 1992, Short space 1992, The Light At The End 1989, and Socle du monde 1991. 

I saw the piece in march 2011 at White Chapel Gallery,  as part of the showing of the D. Daskalopoulos Collection, in an exhibition Called Keeping It Real. All the pieces within the exibition where taken from the collection owned by Dimitris Daskalopoulos. The Collection has over 400 pieces of international artwork.  

The installation was made up simply from wood, wire mesh, light bulbs and electrical wire, the simplicity of the sturture was created to create a more dramatic effect. Hatoum used 228 cages to create a four walled structure, each cage containing a single light bulb which is individually wired to the junction box which is in the centre of the installation. The sound of the current flowing through each individual wire from the junction box to the light bulb has been amplified so that the 60 cycle hum is intensified, this alongside the illuminating lights creates an intense experience, where you cannot help but be drawn in.

The installation was originally seen first in San Francisco where it was associated with prison but Hatoum said in an interview about the pieces debut at Whitechapel“People will read something more into it about cities, perhaps." . The piece is based around urban architecture and surveillance; she described the underlineing message as “It's part of a body of work looking at council flats and architecture as prison – basically, architecture as control.” When she moved from lebanon to london she felt as if she was trapped and constantly being watched, desribing london as "Big Brother-Land". 

A video of the piece 

http://vimeo.com/19993263 

My installation choice (Irene)

DEFENESTRATION -San Francisco, since 1997-present
Brian Goggin

Defenestration: To throw out of a window

Abandoned four-story building in a neighborhood that historically has faced economic challenges and endured the stigma of skid row status.

Everyday objects flood out of the window like escapees out onto available ledges.

Simple, unpretentious beauty and humanity of the falling objects: similarity with the Cuming Museum objects coming out of the archives.

Throwing out becomes an uplifting gesture of release: an inviting reflection on the spirit of the people that live in the community, the objects they encounter and the places they live in.

tacita Dean: http://www.frithstreetgallery.com/search/results/236d99caa3033ea8f33c3438f190293e/

By: david

Exhibition ; Tacita Dean in Turbine Hall; robot film Real Steel. By David

Exhibition ; Tacita Dean in Turbine Hall; robot film Real Steel

The Unilever Series, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London 11 October 2011 – 11 March 2012 Tacita Dean will undertake the twelfth commission in The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Tacita Dean is one of the most respected artists working today. Her practice encompasses artist’s books, drawing, theatre, opera, dance, comedy, classical music, pop, TV drama, literature and film.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b015n01b/ 

 

Tate Modern’s lofty Turbine Hall is dominated by a giant CinemaScope screen flipped on its side so it becomes 42ft high and resembles a lift shaft or cathedral window. Instead of angels, saints or sinners, though, the starring role in Tacita Dean’s FILM is given to the building’s east window – the one hidden behind the huge screen. One of the main subjects of the film, then, is the very spot where you are standing – where much of the film was shot.

familiar glass and steel structure plays host to images culled from the outside world such as fountains, waterfalls, lakes, the sea, trees, a smoking industrial chimney, an escalator, flowers, mushrooms, pigeons, a snail and a grasshopper; add to this abstract patterns and surreal incursions such as an eye, balloons and a light bulb, and you get an apparently random sequence of mesmerising visual effects lasting just 11 minutes.

   "FILM (pictured right) is basically a collage," Dean explains and she means it literally. The images took shape as collages made by cutting up postcards from her vast collection; she surrounded the Matterhorn with sea, for instance and, on screen, the idea is transformed into a peak rising above swirling mist.

Making a collage with scissors and glue is one thing, but producing similar effects on celluloid without resorting to post-production wizardry is a huge challenge. To introduce the variously shaped inserts she wanted, Dean had to design circular, elliptical, square and triangular masks that fitted between the film and lens to conceal some parts of the frame and expose the rest. And to construct each frame one element at a time meant putting the film through the camera up to 10 times.

glass matte painting; to mimic lightning, she painted a jagged line across glass and shone a light through it. Hand-tinting turned black-and-white footage blue, orange, cerise or pink and allowed an eight-second shot of mushrooms to appear in six different colours. Finally, down the side of each frame she added sprocket marks so that on screen the image looks like a strip of film held up to the light. Not surprisingly she describes FILM as a portrait of film that pays homage to the medium.

Art crush of the day: Kleber Matheus Neo Ornamental

Umbrella installation

http://hydeordie.com/search/neon/page/3

David: I found this and thought of uploading it.

Another one

3013 Installation at the Architectural Association

http://www.dezeen.com/2011/09/01/3013-installation-at-the-architectural-association/#more-151514

Teddy Cruz Cone Room 2008

I know this isn’t so much along the line of neon as it is just along the line of awesome but I couldn’t resist.  I wonder if cruz would let me climb on it.  I bet he would if I asked really nicely.

RESEARCH and IDEAS on Installations ( by Oksana)

Hi, guys. I just want to upload some  links with interesting installations i found, that maybe could be useful?

1. Moving theatre

Gavin Bell wanders through a surreal installation about Russian life, where art and theatre meet and sculptures come to life

                       

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/apr/05/sharmanka-installation-eduard-bersudsky-glasgow

2. I think this is really beautiful and interesting idea.

ROSO’s Art Installation at Clark Shoes International Headquarters

Clark, ROSO’s art installation at Clark Shoes Headquarters in Somerset this piece is situated in the communal court yard in the heart of Clarks office building.

http://cubeme.com/blog/2008/10/16/roso%E2%80%99s-art-installation-at-clark-shoes-international-headquarters/


3. New Art Installation Logo In Front Of The Channel 4 Building

Art installation 'Shelter', a giant number 4 made from discarded umbrellas by artist Stephanie Imbeau, winner Channel 4's BIG4 public art competition, stands illuminated in front of the Channel 4 building on March 4, 2009 in London, England. The piece, a representation of channel 4's logo, is constructed from unconnected blocks so that it only appears as the number 4 from a certain viewpoint. 

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/5RZmn88_wI_/New+Art+Installation+Logo+Front+Channel+4/EsE1Y7i3ezM

4. This website has interesting things:

The Art of Architecture: 10 Incredible Installations

http://weburbanist.com/2009/04/13/the-art-of-architecture-10-incredible-installations/?ref=search

5. This site has some useful info on Sound installations:

http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/B/bigart/about_artists.html

6. And also, search for Shadow Art in Google, it is so amazing and can have so many meanings behind it!!

Extra choice

Here is an interesting photo we could also use
Aerial photograph of Southwark
c.1990

Artist: Unknown

Object/Work: 2100 x 1200 mm

Photography

Subject: Maps

It is nearly 20 years since this photograph was taken and much has changed. The road layouts remain the same but a lot of re-development has taken place along the Old Kent Road, Peckham and Bermondsey. Properties have been demolished and new houses and commercial premises have been built.

Oksana's choice

The canal was cut between the years 1807 and 1809. It was originally intended to extend the cut to Vauxhall and over Surrey and land was leased beyond the present terminus at Camberwell Road as far as Kennington Common. The picture shows St. George's Church in the background. Terminating at Camberwell Road with a spur to Canal Head on Peckham High Street, the canal connected to the Royal Surrey Docks. It was drained and filled in, in 1960. Only St. George's Church now remains from this view. The buildings alongside the canal, many of which were derelict following bombing in the Second World War, were demolished and the whole area is now Burgess Park. A footpath and cycle way follow the route of the canal.

I think its interesting, because we can visit the place and view it in todays perspective- no canal, but the church captured from roughly the same spot. Also guys, i think we should go with both of Irene's choices as a pair. It would make more sense.
Now we need just one more object image, if you all are happy with choices so far.
Any suggestions? Ashlee? David?
I NEED TO SEND OUR CHOICES BY TONIGHT, SO PLEASE RESPOND ASAP!!!


Oksana.

My choice (Irene)

Hi guys,

Here is my object choice. It is by William Hogarth and it is called Gin Lane and Beer Street. They are two different works, however is the same 'kind of coin' showing the theme of alcohol, one with its positive and the other with its negatives sides. Beer and Gin.
I would like to know your opinions about it. As they are two objects, although completely related, should I just choose one of them or the juxtaposition of both of them?
I think both makes it more interesting! 
Have a look at them and let me know,

Thank you,

Irene

?????

Hey guys, check BB!
There is a sms from Nicky saying that we are not supposed to choose an object from the museum, but one from the archive of the museum. If that is the case, I wonder whether the object should be "archived" or on display...????
 

Well done Ashlee!!! Way to go!

-Oksana

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