Communicating Vessels - Being Human

Lucid Dreams to Virtual Reality

Lucid dreams/Waking life allows you to be awake within your dreams which surrealists studied, however in the modern world with digital technology, are our lucid dreams becoming digitalized within the possibilities of Virtual reality? Being in a world where anything is possible and the restrictions of the world are no longer an obstacle. 

Is this the extended world of Lucid Dreams?

Digital Environment's Elective:

"Some of the topics brought up to day did however further my opinion of how digital is becoming dangerous, such as HAPTIC, where the physical feedback from a virtual world can be felt. Where is this next going to take us? Where we can not differentiate from reality and virtual? Not in the near future but what I think we must be cautious about is that it can happen and we as human beings could loose the effectiveness of being in reality, therefore loosing the joys of being alive. The question pressed: "What is living?" or "What is life?" 

Could we live our lives virtually (already slowly happening on facebook) and still say that we have lived?"

Communicating Vessels

Diego Rivera

"Communicating Vessels"

"Waking Life"

With the final piece now chosen for the Magic Museum brief the print "Communicating Vessels" from the exhibition Mexican Prints 1910-1960 in the British Museum. It was inspired by Andre Breton, a French wrier, poet and surrealist theorist, on his visit to Mexico, where the title refers to an essay that Breton had published in 1932. The essay refers to the interaction between the life of dreams and waking life in terms of the ebb and flow of fluid between two containers. Below "Waking life" a film which discovers different aspects of dreams and the restrictions and the polar aspect of being in control and awake in your dreams, being able to control. To ask yourself "is this a dream?" whilst still asleep.     

LINE COLLECTIVE

Line Drawing

Line Drawing (overlay trials)

Damien Hirst

"By looking death in the face, it's terror is diminished"

Damien Hirst's work I have never fully researched, however I have suddenly become fascinated by his choice of concepts, being oblivious of them before. I feel his work challenges and displays answers for difficult equations asked. His fascination but also understanding of death, I feel puts life/death into a whole new context which for me I'm able to read, understand (to what I know), interpret and become in-turn presented with a whole new line of equations. 

It's nice to be influenced and asked equations for yourself.

Video Artists

Short artist video's just seem to make a large impact in inspiring me within my work, mainly just through the words that they use and the context they are put in. Using these lines I try and interpret them into my work.

I am Thought

First trial of Flash and just experimenting. Need to start thinking more on aesthetics and a final presentation but just wanted to have a go at a very blunt, basic presentation of these words. 

Second trial with sound, allowing the words to match up with the text. Spelling the quote out to you. So annoying however that as soon as I put the file on blogger it no longer matches up...

Beyond The Boundaries

First reaction to Baldessari's work

Within looking at boundaries and being in a place that is outside our sphere that we would not normally go to or even understand, I have decided I would like to look into John Baldessari's work ethics and procedures. In displaying concepts that I have not been aware of. Taking the concept or piece of work and understanding it and then reacting to it. Shown that I have entered this boundary of either not understanding or being aware, and then in turn produce a reaction of how I feel or how I interpreted what I saw. This could be taken with anything. The olympic village and construction where I enter and review my surroundings and then in turn produce a response. The whole idea of a boundary being observed and then broken down / the deconstruction of it. 

The outcomes could range from anything, just of how I feel and the boundary could in turn be anything. 

See the world or characteristics of it for the first time.