Fields & Frames #1: Unit Briefing + Weekly Project: The Weird & Eerie

 KEY POINTS FROM BRIEFING:

- No theme but to use this unit to reflect on own ideas to develop my practice

- Research Driven 

- Look at hybrid spaces between analogue and digital and how I use new and different technology within my work and how I can push the boundaries.

- use it to figure out my style, refine my interests and make unique, conceptual work.

I want to use this project to really figure out my style and what interests me the most and so I created a mind map of things that interests me. I will be adding and taking things off as I go along so I can refine my interests. I'd like to experiment and explore using different mediums .

Notes from lecture: 'THE WEIRD AND EERIE' DOMAINS OF THE INTERNET

Based on Mark Fisher's novel (2016) where he talks about human's unnatural placement in the world and that they are the most grotesque beings on earth due to being the most unnatural. 

- Human's placing our selves as the apex. 

- Human's believing everything stems from them. 

- Idea of looking at ecology in art

- how we as humans have changed the landscape 

- Do we upset the natural order of things to the point where it becomes hideous? 

PETIT YOUTUBE -  YouTube videos under 100 views which are randomly generated. 

CURSED IMAGES 

KONAMI CODES - type in to certain websites to reveal something walking across the screen or backgrounds changing colour created specifically for that website.

GLITCHING : look at real life glitches and how they are portrayed on the internet and to realise that not everything you see is real, things can be edited or altered to become an illusion. 

I began researching and taking notes on unusual real life things that are 'weird and eerie' as well as words that fitted and related to humans:

- botched plastic surgery or ones that went wrong

- seems unnatural 

- strange

- phenomenas

- uncomfortable 

Lichtenberg Figure on woman's skin 
(Lightning scars)

The image above depicts the scars that were left on a woman's body after she got hit by lighting. I thought that. This was suitable as the branching pattern on her skin are traces of of electrical discharge from a lightning strike that hit her. As she was a survivor I found it interesting that she was marked by quite literally as a battle scar. 

Glacial Blood Falls

Glacial blood falls is happens when there is an outflow of iron oxide salty water. It's quite a horrifying site, resembling blood, as if there was a massacre.  

Panoramic photographs - Using the panorama feature on phone to mess around with movement or lighting to make it seem like you have captured a real life glitch. I was really intrigued by the three photos that we came across in the lecture which I found particularly interesting:        

The first image really caught my attention as it reminded of M.C. Escher's drawings, particularly 'relativity'. 'Relativity' is an illustration depicting an architectural structure that have I really like how the sea bends seamlessly and it looks very real. It seems almost apocalyptic and a bit dooming to see the landscape so altered. Furthermore, it also reminded me of the two films 'Inception' and 'Interstellar'. Both, have landscapes that are altered and bent to look impossible and surreal paradoxical architecture. I think it would be fun to explore different ways I could bend and alter natural landscapes using the panorama tool. 

I really liked the second image where it depicts the lights changing at a concert. This image looks heavily edited but the fact is that it has just captured the pyrotechnical changes. I also am intrigued with the space in between the changes, the ones that we normally can not see. When I look at that image, it makes me think of that space as a void, a place where we can't reach or that we don't notice, but we know is there. 

The final image is of a morphed body and looks like a very weird and unnatural creature. I feel like images that show a lot of skin type texture which you cant understand or comprehend what is going on always make me feel a little uncomfortable as I want to try and understand its structure making me want to stare longer. 

PANORAMA LIGHT EXPERIMENTS:

I started by doing a simple pan of my room. Whilst I moved my phone, I changed the colour of my lamp using a remote and this was the outcome:

I really like these parts in particular as when I zoom in you can see the bit where the lighting switches and it looks like torn paper. 

It reminded me of SMPTE colour bars:

BODY PANORAMIC EXPERIMENTS:

Both Vicky and myself did some experimentation with the panorama effect with our bodies and they came out extremely weird but interesting. Some of them were really glitchy as limbs look as if they are floating in mid air. These images were created by aimlessly moving and dancing around which is why they look a bit more chaotic. However, others flow and seem more unnatural but mythical and whole. This is depicted in the one of my self and the one of Vicky looking like a caterpillar. This is because for these particular ones, we did one flow of movement in the same direction the camera was panning. I prefer the ones which are more sporadic as they map her movement. some of the movement is lost in the capturing which is depicted in the glitching, this makes it more visually interesting making me want to look at it longer to try and figure out her flow of movement.  Furthermore, I liked how the room in most of them looked untouched by the glitching and seems like everything is normal. I think this is what makes the morphed body so effective as it is the only weird looking thing in the image.

They are quite fun to create as you never really know the outcome as sometimes there are unexpected glitches