Light adaptation

Sensitivity of the human photonic visual system declines with increasing ambient intensity. Sensitivity regulation is part of a process called 'light adaptation'. this process stabilises object appearance across illuminated conditions.
Abstract Masking, a process in which the stimulus visibility can be reduced by other stimuli that overlap the same region of visual space, a process known as masking.
Light phenomena enhances the details of your surroundings.
Visualising a dimension we wouldn't usually perceive.

Thoughts about visualising a space, creating a fabricated environment consisting of the sensory elements. A different space for each element, creating separate synthetic worlds that will cause the audience to engage with their senses in a new and unique way, to provide a journey of thought into an alternative reality.

Layered resin glow in the dark pouches

Glow bricks

Experimenting with resin, entrapping glow in the dark paint within the resin layers. Creating brick like forms that could possibly be used as location markers for the Festival.

Intangibility

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPAoWflgO1w

I thought this film related well to the intangible element to our ideas, the smoke is made visible by the lighting and it seems to have a ghostly presence as it moves across the room.

Light Illuions

Research into the effects of luminosity of lighting.

Pupils constrict wen we look at a brighter object from increased luminosity. we construct partly illusory perceptions that help us function better. Various light phenomena help us see details in our surroundings much better. Many illusions reflect the best interpretation we have of visual information. Maybe what we see is better than reality..

Night Walk

As a group we decided it would be a good idea as our ideas were generally focused on events and happenings in darkness that we should go on a night walk around the city to familiarise ourselves with the spaces available to us. During the night time spaces and places appear somewhat different than they do during the day, darkness can make you question a place more, possibly confusing you to think how much you truly know that place.
The night walk was a really useful way to start generating our ideas, we took with us a section of objects to incorporate into the spaces such as glow sticks and bubbles. In the images I increased the exposure to reveal the markings made by the lights, revealing the light from dark. We also carried out an experiment using bubbles within the Cathedral Gardens fountain area, the bubbles reflected off the water creating streams of colours within the images. The use of the bubbles related well to the intangible ideas we had been thinking about.

Group 3 Manifesto

- playing with the elements of light.
-the effects of the senses during the night/ darkness
- making something that could encourage people to interact with one another (magnetic wristbands) and tracking devices.
- leading people by light.
- the idea of happenings, rather than having specific set events.
- Ghost spaces, thinking about intangible events.

 

Manifesto Words...

- Intangibility
- Senses
- Organic
- Spontaneity
... - The appeal of the unknown
- Interaction
- Creativity
- Growth and momentum
- Temporary
- Counter intuition



Future Everything

In relation to the topics we have been considering within our group. A night festival, or events in darkness. As part of the Future Everything Festival I attended the Speed of Light event and the imagery from the event I think could be a relevant link to our group discussions.

Silent Stretches of Space

There is nothing like silence to suggest a sense of unlimited space.
Absence of sound leaves it quiet and in the silence we are seized with the sensation of something vast and boundless.
The mere absence of noise causes people to psychologically fall apart.

Group 3 Discussions

We formed into 3 separate groups, merging people from the previous groups of making, space and promotion. In our new group we found there was an underlying link between us all in the form of senses.
As a group we discussed our ideas surrounding the topic, mainly focusing on intangible elements. I explained the ideas I had been exploring in terms of concealing light (light pouches), and the idea of something concealed within the light and revealed in darkness.
There was much focus on sensory interference, and thinking of senses as something we are constantly surrounded by but go unconsciously unnoticed.
Possible ideas for the festival would be to have a constant flow of information and interactions, making people aware of the elements that constantly surround them but portraying this in an intriguing way.

Layered Shadow Drawings

Taking elements from the light pouches and layers, this is reflected through the layered drawings
 creating shadows layering and concealing themselves.

Light Pouches

Finding ways of concealing light, referring back to previous experimentation with glow in the dark paint. Creating an object that reflects ideas about light proofing, a tightly concealed layered structure.
using a very small repetitive blanket stitch to conceal the pouches.

Sensory Deprivation

Sensory derivation, perceptual isolation- deliberately reducing or removing the stimuli from one or more of the senses. The zero gravity effect of the salt water within the sensory deprivation tanks and the lack of temperature plays with your ability to perceive where your body ends and where water and air begin.
Our senses are very much used to the everyday ruckus constantly surrounding us of which we become reliant on.
. Thinking of possible ways of soundproofing and light proofing spaces.
. Isolating its occupant from numerous forms of sensory input.
. Senses become a bridge between two alternative realities.

Senses

Bringing light into places often hidden or concealed in the light, and revealing these places when in darkness.
Low stimulus spaces, quiet anechoic spaces.
The limits of what you could experience, or limiting the experience.

Researching into anechoic spaces/ chambers. The acoustics of the space create an almost limitless an vast space like you are high up in the open air despite the space being rather restricted in size, there are no reflections from the walls, floor or ceiling therefore tricking the mind into thinking you are surround by a vast space.
The space is immensely quiet, ideal for testing particularly quite sounds.
Due to the quietness of the space and its boundless surroundings it could be a perfect place of reflection, the sound of silence and the silent stretches of space.

The Poetics of Space

From reading the Poetics of Space there were some points discussed about how to enhance an empty space.

An echo of a space emphasises its emptiness.
Mirroring a space emphasises its fullness.

This could be representative of an old water or oil tanker, empty shells of something once full, contained and concealed.

Space

 

Considering ideas from discussions within the groups about space and the elements I think are most interesting.

 

. Thinking about an awareness of place and space reflecting back on points made in the Manchester International Festival (MIF), making people aware of unknown spaces, masking the identity of a space or to enhance its emptiness.

 

.Within empty spaces create a place that is out of control or simply lost, the presence of absence.

 

. Spaces of Manchester, grey dungeness of an empty space, the empty shell block building near the mancunian way, places evacuated of life, the end of the old or the beginning of something new.

. Wasting time, exhausting time, thinking of time passing within the space.



 

 

Walter Benjamin

'The grey film of dust covering things has become their best part'

The ruin in reverse, how it could become an all new construction that would be eventually built.

Ruins

A site from which life has departed and creating a present from a past life. Giving Space new life..
Creating a space to occupy a central place in visual culture.

Manchester Design Festival

Space discussion.

. Manchester City Council and Manchester School of Art working together to develop a city wide design festival.
. The regeneration of the city
. Acting as a catalyst for future collaborative partnerships.
. The use of un-traditional spaces
. Festival branding an promotion.
. A festival of ideas.
. Unexpected interactions.
. Themed displays rather than subjects.

The Space Group

Discussions within the Space Group of utilising places of the city.

. Finding spaces and responding to the environment of the space
. A hovering space above the city..
. The development of the Piccadilly area.
. The use of the River, and canal.
. Regeneration of empty desolate space.
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MIF Lecture

Having attended the Manchester International Festival lecture I found all elements of the lecture very interesting. However there was one event mentioned that I found very relevant to my current thoughts about the senses, the performance by the band the XX and how the venue they would be playing at would be a secret and the audience will never know where the venue is or how they get to it..

Space

Considering the previous discussions in group work about sustainability. Thinking in relation to space that could be potentially used within the city. From reading the book 'Ruins' and what they represent;

 

 

The ruined building is a remnant of;

 

a portal into

 

the past

 

its decay

 

a concrete reminder of the passage of time.

 

 

Unveiling the hidden ruins of the city. Thinking about sites, landscape, place and memory. 

Tacita Dean, Sound Mirrors

It is an empty desolate place, and I'm sure it is this desolation that makes dungeness so utterly attractive that in its emptiness it can become so full.

 

Tacita Dean

 

Thinking about the emptiness of space and how emptiness could reflect something vast and boundless.

The Crap Manifesto

Stop making crap..
Taking into account the previous discussion about each of our individual practices and what we strive to represent through our work. We began our discussion by thinking about the main points mentioned from previous manifestos and there seemed to be one particular quote we all related to and it was 'Stop Making Crap'. The Manifesto stated how we wanted people to take time and think rather than making something without thought, considering the ideas surrounding commodities and sustainability when making.