sculpture 2

Candas Sisman
This piece is dedicated to famous sculptor İlhan Koman. Koman’s unique design approach in his form studies inspire contemporary art works.

Flux: http://vimeo.com/15395471  
Date: 22nd September, 2010
website: http://www.csismn.com/
Media: Computer animation sound and vision.

Sabrina Raaf
Sabrina Raaf’s 40-foot-high Curtain Wall installed at the McCormick Place West convention centre, offers an ambitious example of the powerful fusion of sound, interactive movement, and monumental public sculpture

Curtain Wall: http://vimeo.com/22699096
Date: 2009
Magazine: Sculpture
Media: Glass and steel

Sachiko kodama and Minkako Takeno
To create organic shape-changing art forms and figures whose three-dimensional form, surface structure, and colour change dynamically and lively as if to reflect echoes of environmental music, light, and human communication. To create such three-dimensional organic forms and surfaces, in 2000, they started using ferrofluid in their interactive art project named “Protrude, Flow.”

Protrude, Flow: http://vimeo.com/25914791 http://youtu.be/XliOko5xrr0
Date: 2001
Media: Magnetic material and Ferrofluid

Tim Prentice
He wants to be able to see the wind and let it create the art

Yellow Zinger: http://youtu.be/_lI-h_mBDoo http://vimeo.com/30579027
Date: 2008
Magazine: Sculpture
Media: Aluminium and stainless steel

Gabriel Dawe

Plexus no.4: http://youtu.be/epdcN91HBNE
Date: 2010
Media: Thread, wood and Nails.
Size: 11x25x25ft


Edgar Arceneaux
Using sound at a certain frequency in a certain space to instill fear in people

Sound Cannon Double Projection: http://youtu.be/nGoz2gHVlfc
Date:2009
Media: Sound played at 20 Hz low frequency's

Christian Boltanski
Personnes is conceived as a powerful physical and psychological experience, an episode of spectacular emotion and sensations exploring the nature and meaning of human existence

Personnes: http://youtu.be/HV7JQEtPIQw
Date: 2010
Media: Mixed media


Daniel Canogar

Spin: http://youtu.be/9TxGEiASXGA
Date: 2010
media: DVDs video projections video animation and media player

Diane Landry

Knight of Infinite Resignation: http://youtu.be/K_jWA_o-Cvg
Date: 2009
media: Sound installation that is automated
Size: 19x14x10ft

Allison Hunters
This is a site-specific installation investigating humankind’s relationship to the natural world.
Zoosphere: http://vimeo.com/13185214
Date: 2010
Media: Video installation with sound and multi channels
Size: 208x117inches

Dara Greenwald, Josh MacPhee and Olivia Robinson
Animated the ghost church through video projections, sound, and digital animations
spectres of liberty street Church: http://vimeo.com/26455699
Date: 2008

Ted Victoria
live brine shrimp, projected on the inside of each window of buildings
Infestation: http://vimeo.com/24660534
Date: 31 of October 2009

Gelatine

So I have just began experimenting with some gelatine and food colouring to see what kind of things I can get to happen I made a few very short videos with a very bad camera....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWATnyyGFxI&feature=youtu.be

So if you go to this link you will see the Gelatine in action. When its solid I want to do some more to it
but that is it for the moment I really like this idea of this project and I really hope it goes well.

Viscom

Viscom was the last two weeks of the electives and I was very nervous about what it would be like. It has always been in the back of my mind to do viscom but I never knew if I would be any good at it. So now was the time to find out if it was really for me.
Our first week of the project was soul type based so we could only use lettering no imagery. I found this a bit difficult and realised that I in fact don't really have any interest in fonts.....
We each got a metaphor that we had to base our projects on my was "You'll be Blown Away" I thinking that this was a fairly OK one to have. So I started hiking of ideas to do with being blown away and eventually I came up with the idea of having the words in the shape of a  twister but as if you were looking down into a twister.

This is a small first version of the final one.

This is the finished one I added in grey lettering to simulate
the greys and blacks associated with a tornado.

This is another typography piece where the full stops are floating away.

This is the same as the before one with the addition
of leaves instead of fullstops being blown away.

This was a different one where the idea was that a pair of lips would be
involved somewhere in the letter to make it look as though the letters
were being blown away



This was based on an idea about smoke drifting
and being blown away.

So on the second week we could only use images no words. I found this a bit easier to do because I am interested in imagery.

This was my final piece for the imagery part. I really liked this
one the gun is to imply being blown away by a gunshot while
the lips are to simulate being blwon a kiss. I think it has a
bitter sweet quaility. I am pleases with the results.



This is just as it seems me trying to figure out how you would make it
look like someone blowing a kiss.

This is a smoking gun one the lips blowning the recently fired
gun smoke away.

This isn't a particularly interesting one but it helped me in the process
of making the final piece.

This was the beginning of the lips I was trying to make a tunnel
out of them so that it would look like kisses being blwon away.

This is the same thing really just in red.

This is where is began to get interesting and I then introduced the
gun element which became the finished piece.

This is something else that I had been thinking about so I said I would give it
a shot and see how it came out I really like this too but I was unsure if

          it worked so I stuck to the lips.





So after the two weeks of working in viscom I have decided that I don't think that its for me. I'm glad I gave it a shot though so at least now I know that I don't really want to do it. Its not that I didn't like it I just don't think that I'm that good at it. I don't think I'm passionate enough about it either. But was worth while all the same.

Sculpture and Combined media

When I started sculpture I was very excited I couldn't wait to see what kinds of work you could actually do as a sculptor. The first day we all took part in doing group mind maps on massive brown sheets on the floor. Our brief was dealing with the senses and body functions such as sight, smell, hearing, taste and temperature, respiration, and pulse.
We each went from sheet to sheet putting down our own ideas about what ever was in the middle of it. After awhile of doing this we each had to pick about twenty words altogether from the collective amount of sheets. Then narrow these down until we had one word.
We were told that if we started with one word that we shouldn't necessarily end with the same word by the end of the two weeks.
I chose the word expand. I thought that this word was really great expressive word. So I started thinking about what I could do with this word. Throughout this two week period I didn't really know what my end result was going to be. But this was freeing in away it allowed me to just keep making things not thinking hard where I'm going and why.

Stretched piece of material

These are the rice pieces altogether with a backdrop of cream
 material just so that they would stand
out better.

This is rice which I coloured with different paints I then added
then to skin coloured tights

My tights weighed down with rice and stretched with very
thin pieces of bamboo

This is a dark coloured tight filled with the coloured
 rice and manipulated using a piece a circular cardboard.



These are some dried beans stuck to a piece of cardboard
I dripped different coloured paints on them.



Skin coloured tights filled with rice and painted to make them look a bit
gross looking.

These are the skin coloured tights I think they
work better then the dark tights
because you cab see the colours more clearly
through them.

This a twisted rice piece that has been weighted down to the ground
and twisted around.

With this one I was trying to make a sort of nest out
of the rice tight. So i lay them down one on top of the
other letting them fall into their own comfortable
positions.

By the end I wanted them to kind of simulate the family unit. But really I liked the idea
of the nest of rice people. the largest one is made up of the dried beans.

So I really enjoyed my two weeks of sculpture and would love to do more in the future.