albert camus

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

thought for the day

The mouse turns into an elephant and you end up with an exquisite corpse.

Flash fun

very entertaining flash site that allows you to create a Mr. Potato head montage.
link

Zzzzz Compiler video prototype

relational art on art safari

link

latest mind map

This map is an example of my latest thoughts in relation to how i might break the boundary of the exhibition space and link the experience to the internet so that it can be shared by the participants in the room or by people in work at home etc.

museum in progress

link to site

Interactive installation

This link shows an example of work by Artists David Goldenberg & Wim Salki from Sharjah Biennial.
link to installation.

What is participatory art?

link to paper
I found this article interesting. It documents a conversation between David Goldenberg and Patricia Reed both practicing artists interested in the field of participatory art practice.

Dissertion presentation

TARA. THE INTERACTIVE ART ROBOT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBVFoiRyhD4

SHADOW MONSTERS

I love this piece for its simplicity and fun.
COPY AND PASTE THE FOLLOWING TO YOUR BROWSER:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0TOQo_7te4

David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain

COPY AND PASTE TO BROWSER THE FOLLOWING:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8TFcLgu5Ow

carl jung speaks about death and the psyche

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOxlZm2AU4o&feature

The above is a link to a video, at present my blog won't allow me to link it directly to the page so if your interested just copy and paste the above link into your browser.

David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain

video link

sleep paralysis

I have experienced this myself more times than i can count at this stage. Its not a a set pattern occurance thankfully it might not happen for a long time but then it could happen a couple of times in a month The experience has varied on intensity from one experience to the next. I've read that 25-30% of people experience it at least once in there life time which i think is a comfort.
link

The benefits and drawbacks to using technology media in art therapy practice: A Survey

link
while im not directly interested in interpreting the dreams of people i still think its interesting to see how art therapy uses technology.

Exquisite Corpse

http://www.exquisitecorpse.com/definition/About.html

http://harpojaeger.com/projects/exquisite-corpse/#dW5jb21wbGV0ZWQyNTI=

Wayward Dream

http://www.waywarddream.com/

Slumber

http://www.massmoca.org/press_releases/09_2000/9_26_00.html

Dreaming?

“It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.” C.JUNG

latest sketch

mind map

sketching

ANIMATA

ANIMATA LINK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY2dC9fi02s&feature=related
I found this link really interesting for me. I like the idea of the observer taking on a role within the screen. I wonder though can it be made to explore the space on screen in a more three dimensional way.

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
http://www.johnnylee.net/
this guy is really interesting

User generated content,modding& gaming communities

Blogging as a research tool and the task of creating content.
Before attending this course (interactive media masters) i had little or no idea what the concept of user generated content blogging, twittering, moodling etc were things that i had never consciously encountered. I did surf the net for research and i am sure i was looking at blogs during this time but was unaware of how they came about or the power the can hold as a method of research on there own. I was solely a voyeur in the space.
The discussion for me this morning set me thinking about how i could educate myself in the task of creating content and what formula could i apply to this new media. Thinking about this it occurred to me that the battle with the blog is not unlike the the artist faced with the blank canvas.And that really when i stripped it back to the main problems this was something that i had encountered and overcome before.I do believe that we can get too tied up in figuring it all out before we start(an despite being aware of this i still find myself increasingly falling in that trap). In art college i was trained to develop ideas in an extremely experimental manner. This experimentation was recorded in personal sketch/scrap books where i hoarded anything that i felt related to what it was that i was doing.I would then go about the task of filtering and editing what i would present as my research for what it was that i was doing. The time it took me to filter the information was a huge hold up for me.On the odd occasion that i did show a sketchbook to a close friend the feedback i got back was often quiet surprising for me as a different individuals perspective broadened my thinking and sometimes spurred a eureka moment which, had i not shared with that person it would not have happened. Putting your ideas and interests up for the world to see is daunting. But then even if i do post something that is a bit strange are people really going to remember me for that one post or will they remember me for the other relevant things that I put up.The opportunity of getting different perspectives on whatever it is that i was working on could be a rich reward in exchange for the threat of embarrassment.

creative learning

what is creative learning for me? Well while completing my degree in fine art I developed an interest in using the medium of digital film. Knowing little about either the process of filming or editing apart from a few basics, I began a process of trial and error to try and achieve what I wanted.While this process was sometimes frustrating it was in the end very beneficial. Not being shown the way meant that I had to come up with creative solutions and compromises to create a piece. This method of working with chance meant that I adopted techniques that I might not have thought of were I led by a tutor. I might have just regurgitated something that had already been done before. I had originally wanted to use film and animation together but given the freedom I had to experiment with the medium and ended up creating something very different from my original idea. In the end I combined film with older methods of puppetry to realise the final work.Which proved to be much more interesting.

dissertation draft 2

Hi all heres a few new thoughts on what it is that I am trying to achieve.
I am really interested in how film is presented to the viewer. I think i would like to explore methods of presenting film that would allow the viewer to become an active participant in the film piece. I am interested in using the medium of film to alter the viewers experience of everyday objects.

dissertation proposal

Deirdre Coleman
dissertation draft 1


Areas of interest
• Interactive cinema
• Installation art
• Expressionism
• surrealism
• animation
• horror
• media magica/ magic lanterns/illusions

I am interested in exploring themes of the real, imagined and constructed. Digital media
has the power to manipulate or experience of the world. Mass media shapes our experience
and understanding the world around us this in turn affects how we interact with the world
around us and the people in it. I would like to experiment with digital media as a means of
constructing and manipulating a persons experience of space. We as people rely on our
senses to navigate the world around us. I would like to focus on the idea of manipulation of
experience of space through the use of sound and visuals.

Proposal

interactive video installation
Title: Mirror, Mirror.
Discription
The installation space will consist of an abstract miniature landscape set that people walk
through and inhabit. The set will be small in scale in relation to the size of an average person
something along the scale of a large dolls house. The miniature set will be captured on film
while empty and will be represented on the screen as a life sized space and this footage will be
edited into a continuous loop. A live video feed from the same space will then be taken and
layered over the previous footage to give the illusion that the person is passing through the life
sized space. This layering of spaces from different times creates a second constructed digital
space. While the inhabitants of the real space are still present this mullti layered second space
will be displayed via a projection in real time, within the real space.
It is hoped that the ambiguity caused by this magic mirror effect will cause the person to
become more aware and question there position wthin the real space, as the person questions
the space and there surroundings they are encouraged to interact with the space in a different
way moving to experiment explore and change there position within this second space.
Sound will also be part of the work. I would like to experiment with different sounds that I
feel will manipulate the persons experience of the space. These sounds should be abstract and
there link to the visual second space will be random and ambiguous causing the person to
question the link between there position and the occurring sound, encouraging more interaction
through movement.