https://vimeo.com/455429947 Although I've not spent too much time on this and I've worked with what I had available, it's given me food for thought. I think I will present assignment five in this way. I will try to record some wave sound whilst I'm shooting the material but also spend some time searching for other …
Exercise 5.4: Online exhibitions
Looking at the land - Slideshow https://player.vimeo.com/video/49855891 Looking at the Land — 21st Century American Views from Andy Adams on Vimeo. Looking at the land is indeed an impressive slideshow. The images are from different photographers however they sit together really well. I think by presenting each slide in the same format helps to create coherence …
Exercise 5.3: Print-on-demand-mock-up
I have worked with Blurb before and as a first point of call, it's excellent, as it does a lot of the work for you. The issue I ran into in the past was paying for a PDF and then once I'd ordered the book found I wasn't happy with how it looked. This was …
Exercise 5.2: Print quotes
1. Print Quotes Digitalab The website seems impressive with good reviews and emphasis on quality and a more personal service. Prices for 6-19 A3 size C-type prints: £6.70 The Print Space Print space offer a good selection of different papers which range in cost. Prices for Giclee A3 prints £9.85 - £12.96 Metro imaging There …
Exercise 5.1: Origins of the White Cube
"The outside world must not come in, so windows are usually sealed off. Walls are painted white. The ceiling becomes the source of light . . . .The art is free, as the saying used to go,'to take on its own life.'" (O'Doherty, 1976) McEvilleys introduction focuses on the Gallery space as one suspended in time, shut off from the outside world. …
Exercise 2.6: ‘Edgelands’
Land is a valuable commodity. There was a time when the distinction between urban and rural landscapes was clear. Urban areas were a testament to man's progress and commerce. They could be seen as industrial and technological advancement, busyness and bustle compared to the slow paced rural idyllic life portrayed within Romantic art which has …
Exercise 2.5: Text in art
It's interesting how our mood and the weather affects our perception. I'd read through this exercise and wondered where I was going to go, to do it. Nursing a cold and walking in dismal grey weather, I walked to the end of my road to go to the shop. It's quite a quiet road. At …
Exercise 2.4: Is appropriation appropriate
Firstly I am going to say, as far as I'm concerned, anything goes. That's not to say that we will agree with or like everything that is presented as 'art'. It must however have it's freedom of expression. Appropriation art or the art of appropriation is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little …
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Exercise 2.3: Typologies
Definitions Typologies (www.dictionary.com, 2020) Topographies (www.dictionary.com, 2020) Sean O'Hagan's article on the 1975 exhibition "Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape", is a commentary on the 'aesthetics of the banal'. It's interesting that in Part one of this unit, we were looking at early photography which was generally topographic in nature. There was a desire then for …
Exercise 2.2: Explore a road
1. Exploring a road 2. 'The Way' The Father, 'Tom', a middle class Optomologist, Conservative and despairing at his wayward Son who has dropped out of College and good professional prospects to 'Travel the World'. In the early part of the Movie we see him playing Golf with his 'medical chums' and makes the comment, …
Landscape, Place and Environment 