Sunday, June 29, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Simple Cartoon
Some cartoons designed for a Dublin bluetooth-art project currently running from the 30th June for one week. Link.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Update on various projects
Speaker design project:
5 cardboard housings were built for speakers.
There were also a further 7 tin can speakers, visually like a child's makeshift tin-can-phone.
Each speaker was assigned a specific sine frequency that made its housing resonate and produce another tone and texture.
The work was displayed as a 5.1 Dolby Surround system, with the speakers hanging from the ceiling. It invites you to step inside the surround system and listen to how the tones are manipulated by the ramshackle speaker housings, and vice versa.
Pics to follow...
5 cardboard housings were built for speakers.
There were also a further 7 tin can speakers, visually like a child's makeshift tin-can-phone.
Each speaker was assigned a specific sine frequency that made its housing resonate and produce another tone and texture.
The work was displayed as a 5.1 Dolby Surround system, with the speakers hanging from the ceiling. It invites you to step inside the surround system and listen to how the tones are manipulated by the ramshackle speaker housings, and vice versa.
Pics to follow...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Speaker designs
Speakers will now be built inspired by drawings of geometric blocks begun in April last year, and constructed out of cardboard and scrap materials.
Cardboard polyhedrons:
Cardboard polyhedrons:
Monday, April 21, 2008
Do You Know Dublin? Project
Do You Know Dublin?
This is an artist-as-curator group project organised by hendersonflux.
Small squares of unprimed cotton canvas, and an artist brief will be dispersed as part of the Letters Project to NCAD students and other local artists.
Brief:
Do You Know Dublin? is a project organised by Dublin artists hendersonflux calling on other artists familiar with Dublin City to create a small artwork inspired by their personal view of Dublin society. The artwork can be a poem, a print, an embroidery, a painting, a word, a photographic transfer, collage etc. It can be ugly, beautiful, political, indifferent, in protest, or in celebration of Dublin City - just make it personal and make it original! When all art is returned, the canvas squares will be sown back together to make a large vibrant patchwork decorated or defaced with the personal experiences of the contributing artists.
The aim of the project is to get the work exhibited in galleries and arts centres around the city and suburbs, displaying to the public Dublin city's diversity as an ugly-beautiful humdrum urban space, and perhaps engage them in experiencing Dublin city in a new way inspired by the patchwork. Any participators in the project can be added to a mailing list to be further updated on Do You Know Dublin? news and hopefully successes. All artists contributing to the work will be credited in any exhibition, unless the artist wishes to remain anonymous.
This is an artist-as-curator group project organised by hendersonflux.
Small squares of unprimed cotton canvas, and an artist brief will be dispersed as part of the Letters Project to NCAD students and other local artists.
Brief:
Do You Know Dublin? is a project organised by Dublin artists hendersonflux calling on other artists familiar with Dublin City to create a small artwork inspired by their personal view of Dublin society. The artwork can be a poem, a print, an embroidery, a painting, a word, a photographic transfer, collage etc. It can be ugly, beautiful, political, indifferent, in protest, or in celebration of Dublin City - just make it personal and make it original! When all art is returned, the canvas squares will be sown back together to make a large vibrant patchwork decorated or defaced with the personal experiences of the contributing artists.
The aim of the project is to get the work exhibited in galleries and arts centres around the city and suburbs, displaying to the public Dublin city's diversity as an ugly-beautiful humdrum urban space, and perhaps engage them in experiencing Dublin city in a new way inspired by the patchwork. Any participators in the project can be added to a mailing list to be further updated on Do You Know Dublin? news and hopefully successes. All artists contributing to the work will be credited in any exhibition, unless the artist wishes to remain anonymous.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
More Rhino 3dms
Due to a lack of 'monetary resources', the evaluation version of Rhinoceros and Flamingo Raytrace were used in the construction and rendering of the above models, hence the grey bar-lines.
The actual intended construction will be built with thin gauge aluminium riveted onto a wooden frame. The main challenge will be cutting a circle out of the aluminium to fit the cone. The cube is 5-sided, one side will be left open to allow the reverse soundwaves to be audible. Found speakers will be used in its construction.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Pixelism
Further to some ideas I had when I first set up the blog, here is a pixelated portrait of NM><.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Billboard Project
Myself and Jeremiah have begun another public art project:
In Dublin City, and elsewhere around the towns of the country, any billboard advertisements have been erected illegally and without permission.
The 'SUBVERT LANDSCAPE (TM)' piece turns a remote location of natural beauty into prime advertising terrain, with hundreds of passengers passing by this location via DART and Commuter train lines.
Pics will be posted up tomorrow.
In Dublin City, and elsewhere around the towns of the country, any billboard advertisements have been erected illegally and without permission.
The 'SUBVERT LANDSCAPE (TM)' piece turns a remote location of natural beauty into prime advertising terrain, with hundreds of passengers passing by this location via DART and Commuter train lines.
Pics will be posted up tomorrow.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Public Letters first draft summary:
132 letters have been dispersed in total.
96 of these were handed out on the street. The remaining 36 were delivered to people around the college.
In college the letters were handed out at about midday. A letter box was set up in the concourse.
The Dublin letters were handed out to people returning home at bus stops, and also posted directly into the letterboxes of various commercial premises around the City Centre (eg Laser, The Dragon, Tower, Karen Millen)
In general, ncad students were happier to receive the letters, and understood the concept behind the project.
The public were guarded and apprehensive, wary that they could get something for nothing, with 'no strings attached.'
Some pedestrians ignored us attempting to give them a letter, but the majority of the public took it, choosing to read it further down the street. In this case, they appeared bewildered, and looked back to see if they could spot us.
When they saw it was an art-piece they became more interested, some coming back to ask us about it.
One man in particular, waiting for a bus, was particularly pleased with being handed a letter.
NCAD students were more likely to return letters. I had received 5 letters back from students, there were more but alas, the highly-secure public letterbox was infiltrated by a criminal mastermind and the letters were stolen, presumably by said mastermind.
Conclusion?
96 of these were handed out on the street. The remaining 36 were delivered to people around the college.
In college the letters were handed out at about midday. A letter box was set up in the concourse.
The Dublin letters were handed out to people returning home at bus stops, and also posted directly into the letterboxes of various commercial premises around the City Centre (eg Laser, The Dragon, Tower, Karen Millen)
In general, ncad students were happier to receive the letters, and understood the concept behind the project.
The public were guarded and apprehensive, wary that they could get something for nothing, with 'no strings attached.'
Some pedestrians ignored us attempting to give them a letter, but the majority of the public took it, choosing to read it further down the street. In this case, they appeared bewildered, and looked back to see if they could spot us.
When they saw it was an art-piece they became more interested, some coming back to ask us about it.
One man in particular, waiting for a bus, was particularly pleased with being handed a letter.
NCAD students were more likely to return letters. I had received 5 letters back from students, there were more but alas, the highly-secure public letterbox was infiltrated by a criminal mastermind and the letters were stolen, presumably by said mastermind.
Conclusion?
Monday, March 3, 2008
Public Letters Update
In total 5 letters have been returned at last count today. They will be up on publiclettersproject.blogspot.com by tomorrow noontime.
Public Letters goes public on Thursday.
Public Letters goes public on Thursday.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Public Letters Project update:
Letters handed out in NCAD yesterday (thurs). One letter returned, anonymously. Receivers were, in general, confused, but ultimately disinterested in viewing the website unless they knew it was a media project. It was suggested to have a seperate note containing information about the project in the envelope, directing the public to visit and interact with the artwork.
Gdansk, Poland
Images from Gdansk and Sopot. Note the billboard advertising in someone's garden in the second photograph.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Mailart
Popular Mailart blog.
Running a very interesting postcard competition called Let Your Postcards Do The Walking.
Mailart forum.
Great mailart resource.
What is mailart?
Mailart is, basically, art that uses some aspect of the postal system as a medium:
The envelope as gallery.
Running a very interesting postcard competition called Let Your Postcards Do The Walking.
Mailart forum.
Great mailart resource.
What is mailart?
Mailart is, basically, art that uses some aspect of the postal system as a medium:
The envelope as gallery.
Fluxus
http://www.fluxus.org/
Fluxus means change among other things. The Fluxus of 1992 is not the Fluxus of 1962 and if it pretends to be - then it is fake. The real Fluxus moves out from its old center into many directions, and the paths are not easy to recognize without lining up new pieces, middle pieces and old pieces together. Dick Higgins
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Public Letters Project update
Each letter will now include an edition 1 artwork by the "Agents".
Locations:
Grafton Street Upr
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Dame Street, Central Bank
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Locations:
Grafton Street Upr
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Dame Street, Central Bank
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Haircut in Public
Similar idea: disruption of public routine by the unexpected, in this case a woman shaving her head in the middle of a busy square in Portland. Link.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Research: Sophie Calle
From: http://www.iniva.org/dare/themes/space/calle.html
In 1980 Calle made a piece called 'Suite Vénitienne' in which she followed a man she had met at a party to Venice and continued to follow and photograph him there for two weeks.
"For each room there was a photograph of the bed undone, of other objects in the room, and a description day by day of what I found there."
"I asked my mother to gire a private detective to follow me, without him knowing that I had arranged it, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence."
In 1980 Calle made a piece called 'Suite Vénitienne' in which she followed a man she had met at a party to Venice and continued to follow and photograph him there for two weeks.
"For each room there was a photograph of the bed undone, of other objects in the room, and a description day by day of what I found there."
"I asked my mother to gire a private detective to follow me, without him knowing that I had arranged it, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence."
Public Letters Project description
Public Letters Project is a combination of performance, interactive, and multimedia/digital art. 5 performers wearing uniforms (black suit, blue shirt, black tie) will hand out up to 500 letters (preliminarily), and each envelope will be addressed to specific visual qualities of certain pedestrians, e.g. "to the woman with the black jacket." Each letter is designed to be obscure and slightly confusing, but minimal and interpretable. Each letter follows a specific minimal style and layout.
Letter receivers will be advised to visit publiclettersproject.blogspot.com if they wish to find out more about what they have recieved. There they will find a blog set up for the discussion of the letters project, where they are encouraged to interact and describe their reactions - negative or positive.
The performance will, if possible, be filmed and photographed, for documentation purposes. The documentary photographers will, if possible, remain unkown to the letter recievers.
The main focus of this project is to subtly disrupt the everyday of a number of pedestrians: They will participate involuntarily in an art performance by opening the envelope and reading the letter.
The artwork is the letters, the performance, the surveillant documentary footage (if possible a short film and some photographs) and the content of publiclettersproject.blogspot.com
Letter receivers will be advised to visit publiclettersproject.blogspot.com if they wish to find out more about what they have recieved. There they will find a blog set up for the discussion of the letters project, where they are encouraged to interact and describe their reactions - negative or positive.
The performance will, if possible, be filmed and photographed, for documentation purposes. The documentary photographers will, if possible, remain unkown to the letter recievers.
The main focus of this project is to subtly disrupt the everyday of a number of pedestrians: They will participate involuntarily in an art performance by opening the envelope and reading the letter.
The artwork is the letters, the performance, the surveillant documentary footage (if possible a short film and some photographs) and the content of publiclettersproject.blogspot.com
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Everyday: Letters Project
500 letters will be handed out by the end of the project along busy streets in Dublin city centre. A seperate blog will be set up with public permissions so the receivers can access further information on the project. Each letter will be published on the blog, so anyone who types the letter into a search portal will be directed to the blog, where a discussion of the letters and their effects on the everyday will take place.
It is undecided if I will document the acts visually - via hidden photographers/dv camera operators? Perhaps audio recordings? Overt documentation will, in my opinion, detract from the Letters Project.
A link will be posted up to the new blog, complete with the letters, soonish.
It is undecided if I will document the acts visually - via hidden photographers/dv camera operators? Perhaps audio recordings? Overt documentation will, in my opinion, detract from the Letters Project.
A link will be posted up to the new blog, complete with the letters, soonish.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Industrial Design Project, January 2008
Speaker Cone.
The final brief was to create a fully rendered three-dimensional model of any item - real or imagined - in Rhinocerous, a 3D modelling tool for Windows. I decided to create a Speaker Cone, an idea I toyed with in CORE Year, 2006. The following images are of my rendered model:
The final brief was to create a fully rendered three-dimensional model of any item - real or imagined - in Rhinocerous, a 3D modelling tool for Windows. I decided to create a Speaker Cone, an idea I toyed with in CORE Year, 2006. The following images are of my rendered model:
Everyday: US Soldier fighting in Saipan/A Homeschool student
Sensational quotes, but give us an idea of the matter-of-factness that the soldier's everyday is greeted with.
"It rained again today. Yesterday our artillery on the beach gave the japs an awful pounding."
"There is a very strong odour from the beach. It smells like burning flesh."
"reading a letter by the glare of the far-off flames."
In contrast, the everyday decisions of a homeschool student appears somewhat frivolous in comparison:
"Home students decide what time they get up at."
"some get dressed, some don't!"
For this project, my preliminary interest lies in contrasting experiences of the Everyday.
"It rained again today. Yesterday our artillery on the beach gave the japs an awful pounding."
"There is a very strong odour from the beach. It smells like burning flesh."
"reading a letter by the glare of the far-off flames."
In contrast, the everyday decisions of a homeschool student appears somewhat frivolous in comparison:
"Home students decide what time they get up at."
"some get dressed, some don't!"
For this project, my preliminary interest lies in contrasting experiences of the Everyday.
Found Sounds Library & Everyday
Found sounds library: sounds collected from banale to quietly enigmatic.
Sound art must incorporate visual as a crutch??
Everyday changes meaning with the times: Everyday during world war 2 for a child is not the everyday that a student navigates in the 21st century. Compare and contrast.
Variables:
Date and History.
Gender.
Location.
Occupation.
Social Class.
Sexual Orientation.
And so on...
There is no single concept of what the Everyday includes. The Variables in full are much more than the above.
Sound art must incorporate visual as a crutch??
Everyday changes meaning with the times: Everyday during world war 2 for a child is not the everyday that a student navigates in the 21st century. Compare and contrast.
Variables:
Date and History.
Gender.
Location.
Occupation.
Social Class.
Sexual Orientation.
And so on...
There is no single concept of what the Everyday includes. The Variables in full are much more than the above.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Rebirth of the Blog
Electro-instruments
Dice, each side a note or sound is applied. When rolling, the dice plays the sound of the sides which touch a surface.
Dice, each side a note or sound is applied. When rolling, the dice plays the sound of the sides which touch a surface.
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