Presentation Day

Tuesday 27th April 2021

I had prepared most of the things I thought I needed for the presentation, but there were just some final things that I was going to need to do before it was fully ready. I edited a lot of images and I thought about keeping screenshots and documenting the process but they were quite a bit of images and the process is all the same; trail and error.

Before the preparation for the item display we were given a presentation about different things to think about.

1. Scale - small...large...very large

2. Media - physical...digital....both

3. Visual, Auditory, Tactile

Examples/Suggestions of these:

1 ---

. Walker Evans - photography exhibition - small images to create intimacy

. Sherrie Levine - traditional photographs of African Masks - sequence to allow comparison

. Ansel Adams - large scale - most of the work is printed the size of a negative (8 x 10)

. Starn Twins - large scale hand printed photographs - roughness to the work

. Gary Hill - multiple projections

. Bill Viola - projection through fabric

Looking at this made realise that I wanted to make my images on a smaller scale to allow it to appear more personal and intimate (though it isn't really because the images are of different people with no faces really seen).

2 --- (this one is more vague so I decided to not get images for everything)

. Presenting concept designs

. Magazines

. Physical & digital together (like a screen)

. Lightboxes

. Gary Hill - physical objects, digital projection

. Tony Oursler- projection on to objects -projection on to trees & mist

. Augmented vs virtual

. Project mapping

We were also told to think about what kind of experience we want the audience to get.

3 ---

. printed surface, magazine, film, still

. music, sound effects, loud, intimate, headphones/speakers

. natural fibre, paper or fabric, acetate

These are the images I brought as "memories in time":

They were meant to show different types of experiences and events that can affect how we form out identity like having pets, playing instruments and stuff like that.

I was going to get some of them and have the "audience" interact with it by deciding what type of background they thought it might go with (like a photo frame, school portrait, cinema screen, clothes or photobook which I forgot to add) but in the end the images weren't really good and I don't think the idea was really good.

The image of the cinema and the cinema of the disco lights were purposely blurred but I don't think it was a good choice, either way it didn't matter since I didn't use them in the end.

My tutor suggested I incorporate projection into my display which was something I didn't really think about but is pretty interesting so I did. I did not bring my camera so all the pictures I took of the displays were not too great. As well as projection, I also did a lot of printing and experimented with repeatedly printing the photocopies which gave a really nice faded effect.

I also played with printing the images in black and white and in different sizes. The last thing I did was take the tiny black and white images and put them through a string sort of as a play on the metaphor "stringing ideas" but having to do with stringing memories together to form a complete identity. That was the idea anyway but I didn't really have enough variation in images.