Interviews

As part of our research we discussed the idea of interviewing a series of people that focus their practices on the effects of the senses. We didn't ask particularly specific questions, the idea was to get an overview of certain elements they considered as part of their way of working and thinking. I was part of assisting with two of the interviews, one for which we interviewed my friend Jensen Brite a Sound Designer and Music student from Salford University. Some of what he talked about concerned how vision is our primary sense and it allows us to see things in order to interpret them and understand what they represent. Also how sound is an instantaneous thing, and we use sound to rectify and understand what vision presents with us.
The second interview was with Collectives and Curiosities, a collaborative group of musicians that put much emphasis on the importance of integrating across the art forms and have done many collaborative projects. One of which took place at Blank Space Media Collective relatively recently, this exhibition incorporated ideas concerning light sensitive sounds. Some of the points discussed by Michael Betteridge and Jacob Thompson Bell were about passive and active listening, and how you can sit an listen to something your not really listening to, you let it wash over you like an ambient thing or you can actively listen but your still sitting on your seat being an observer, an audience member rather than a component part of it, you don't even need to have an audience to have something performed. This is one of the main factors that concerns their work, that the audience must be involved and potentially become a part of the work.

Beams of light

This article talks of the work of Richard Box, the piece explores the debate whether electric and magnetic fields produced by appliances such as mobile phones and high-voltage wires contribute to human illness and cancer. The works is made from a series of fluorescent light bulbs displayed in a gridded form, the beams are planted in the ground beneath a series of power lines. The luminosity of the bulbs is controlled using ghost power radiating from the overhead wires.
This work related to the ideas we have been exploring within our group with magnetism an light, experimenting with ferrofluid (magnetic liquid).

http://inhabitat.com/eco-art-field-of-beams/

Parting sapce with light.

I found this article very relevant and could be one way of inhabiting the sensory spaces. By using haze machines and beams of light, it creates a flattened stream of light creating the illusion of a light wall.

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2007/04/anthony_mccalldecember_2007_ja.html

Ink experiments for promotional video

Group 3 spent the day experimenting with different consistencies of liquids to document their movement and the reaction they had in the water. Tom filmed the experiment with the intention of using the footage as a promotional video.

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.