Camera boxes

Reference here
also http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/13/afghanistan-street-photography-box-camera-project

Abelardo Morell works with pin hole and camera obscura, the last image is a photograph by him that becomes a photographic diagram of the optical physics of a camera lense.

Final AVC essay

The first three pages of the final hand in for my AVC essay

Recent links / topics / webpages / articles

1. Luke Turner
 http://www.luketurner.com/text.html

2. The Image Object Post-Photoshop
http://www.metamodernism.com/2012/12/10/the-image-object-post-photoshop/

3. Andy Holden, M!MS and Metamodernism
 http://www.zabludowiczcollection.com/london/events/MMS-and-Metamodernism-with-MMS-book-launch

4. Metamodernist Manifesto
http://www.metamodernism.org/

5. Simon Martin exhibition at Chisenhale
http://www.chisenhale.org.uk/archive/exhibitions/index.php?id=1

6. James Parkinson
http://jamesparkinson.co.uk/

7. Hauntology: A not-so-new critical manifestation
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/jun/17/hauntology-critical/print

8. Non-Places
Augé, M. (2008) Non-Places. 2nd edition. Verso, London

9. Hito Steyerl, 'Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?'
 http://www.e-flux.com/journal/too-much-world-is-the-internet-dead/

Just taking videos.

Controversial topic of taking videos in public of anonymous people.
Made by an anonymous man who lives in Seattle.

Essay notes and sources

New Auras. New Images.

Détourage and the Reconfiguration of the Aura

Benjamin, W, (1999). Illuminations, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. English Edition. London, Pimlico.

Bourriaud, N, (2001). Postproduction. Edition. New York, Lukas & Sternberg.

Steyerl, H, (2012). e-flux journal: The Wretched of the Screen. Berlin, Sternberg Press.

Campany, D, (2007). The Cinematic (Documents of Contemporary Art). London, Whitechapel Art Gallery.

Room 237 (2012) [DVD]. Directed by Rodney Ascher. USA: Highland Park Classics

Video Drome (1983) [DVD]. Directed by David Cronenberg. Canada: Canadian Film Development Corporation.

Davies, K (2013). This Lecture is about Power/This Lecture is about You: How Cultural Memory and Artistic Practice can Transcend the Power Structures of Borders [lecture]. University of the West of England, Bower Ashton Campus. 13 November.
http://www.katiedavies.com/38thpara.html
  
Tuerlinckx, J (2013). Wor(l)(d)(k) in Progress?. Cologne, Walther König.

Words from books:
Diverted
Data
Catalog
Protocols
Semionaut
Cartographies
Termination
Sample
Salient
Site of navigation
Generator
Lines
Unite
Scrambling
Boundaries
Equality
Contributions
Negotiation
Lexicon
Appropriation
Redymade
Relics
Purchase
Mechanics
Visual frontality
Organic metaphor
Poster Artists
Visual conditioning
Angles of desire
Simulationist
Capillary network
Smuggler
Dissemination
Détourage (clipping)
Short circuiting
Superimposes

London visit 08/11/13

Judith Dean 'Phase 4', Beaconsfield Art Centre
http://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/collection/works/judith-dean/

Katharina Fritsch's 'Hahn/Cock' Fourth Plinth, Trafalger Square
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/jul/25/big-blue-cock-trafalgar-square

Mark Wallinger White Horse sculpture on the Mall
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21667202

Lutz Bacher 'Black Beauty' / Zhang Enli 'Space Painting', ICA
http://www.ica.org.uk/

Adam Chodzko 'Room for Laarni, Image Moderator', Malborough Contemporary
http://marlboroughcontemporary.com/

Thomas Houseago 'Rattlesnake Figure', Hauser and Wirth Outdoor Sculpture
http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/1907/thomas-houseago/view/

Onnasch Collection, Hauser and Wirth Piccadilly
http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/1904/re-view-onnasch-collection/view/

Jeff Elrod, Simon Lee Gallery
http://www.simonleegallery.com/exhibitions/jeff-elrod-2013-10

'THE SHOW IS OVER', Gagosian
http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/the-show-is-over--october-15-2013

Oliver Laric '5' / 'Jimmy Merris Sings the Blues', Seventeen Gallery
http://www.seventeengallery.com/home/

Forced perspective

The Lord of the Rings is a film that utilises so many camera distortions and editing techniques: from extremely intricate, software and post-production based CGI editing to manual, live situation camera and visual distortions.

See also: http://www.visualnews.com/2013/10/16/vintage-street-scenes-created-using-model-cars-forced-perspective-250-point-shoot-camera/

Room 237 (2012), Rodney Ascher

Watch the film for free here:

http://viooz.co/movies/16059-room-237-2012.html
(Sorry for any unwanted popups)


Room 237 (2012) [DVD]. Directed by Rodney Ascher. USA: Highland Park Classics.

Reproduced life-size in gloss on aluminium

Spike Island Open 2013 / UWE studios

Signs (4/4) installation shot
2013
Duck tape
521 x 393mm

Lamp 2003, David Lynch

http://mubi.com/films/lamp

Culture clash

Street views

10 works of art inspired by Google Earth

Some more artists

01 René Magritte
Michel Foucault, 2008. This Is Not a Pipe: 25th Anniversary Edition (Quantum Books). 25 Anv Edition. University of California Press.

02 Daniel Sinsel 
31 August – 29 September 2012  at Sadie Coles, London

03 Michael Krebber
16 February — 31 March 2013 at Maureen Paley, London.

04 Oliver Laric
Version Control, Arnolfini

05 Corin Sworn  
8 February - 24 March 2013 at Chisenhale gallery, London

06 Chris welsby
Film in Space, Camden Arts Centre / December 2012 - February 2013 

07 Amikan Toren
Joan Key on Amikan Toren, Turps Banana 12

08 Dan Hays
danhays.org 

09 Lucy Cash
http://www.lucycash.com/about/  

10 Richard Hamilton (again)
Desk, 1964 and Interior I, 1964, both collage paintings. 

11 Becky Beasley
http://www.beckybeasley.com/workshome.htm 

12 Yvonne Spielmann (professor of new media)
http://www.yvonne-spielmann.com/research.html 

13 William Raban
http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/william_raban/angles_of_incidence.html  

14 Nicholas Deshayes
http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/focus-nicolas-deshayes/

The Pirate Bay

Interim 28.02 - 02.03

Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics

[PDF] Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics - Claire Bishop
2004 October Magazine 110

Also: Bishop, C, (2012). Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. 1st Edition. Verso.