subject of study
1. Impressions and influences linked with visual images
2. Expressions and emotions connected with motion picture
3. Evoke impressions specified to the viewer using the moving image
4. Stimulating the dormant areas of our mind / soul by motion picture
5. Sensitize the viewer to stimuli received outside the cognitively
6. Putting the viewer in the uncomfortable position as an intruder
7. Collective memory
8. Voyeurism
Research questions
1. What sort of emotions can be evoked by different kinds of motion pictures?
2. Is it possible to stimulate dormant areas of our mind/forgotten memories - by visual image whichdoes not represent anything particular / or / not by what it shown but by what this image exactly is
3. What are implications for motion graphic, animation when creating sequences to be a part of an interactive installations / Starting from the classical, hand-drawn animation process by working on the computer (assembly, colour correction, composing) to be end was used as a part of the creation of a multimedia video installation
Research aims
1. To explore the area of collective memory problem
2. To check how will traditional animation works as a part of interactive installation.
3. To ensure the motion picture can evoke deposited emotions and memories of with existence of which we cannot realize
4. To make some researches connected with sensitivity and stimulation received outside the cognitively
Research objectivess
1. An Animation of birds as a metaphor for collective memory, as a philosophy.
2. I plan to design the animation whilst at NTU with a view to the animation being controlled via interactive methods by a user. The interactive production will be prototyped in Poznan.
3. Explore appropriate visual images or method of represents the birds.
4. To produce visualization of the proposed interactive installation to show the animation in its intended confer.
Why?
To realize a project which bumped into my head once, when late at night I came home from my friend. I saw something that was related to my project, this thing had a big impression for me and that visual experience had brought me so much intensive emotions. for a long time I thought how I can most fully express that this strong impression. it seems to me that I found an appropriate way for that.
Description
A project is a hand – drawn animation with postproduction in computer using Adobe After Effects. Projection is from multimedia projector in the dark space/room, from the loudspeakers sounded processed sounds of birds mixed with other sound from city and electronic music. The sounds seems to be strangely familiar but also unsettling - without any practical reason.
When you enter into the dark space from the outside you can see projection on the wall. Now is just landscape and soft swaying trees.Few seconds ago there were the rooks, which you already raised by your entrance. Stop, wait, do not move. The birds will flown again.
It’s a kind of metaphor, I would like to encourage viewers to spend a few moments in silence, peace and reflection. Without any movements. At the moment, try to focus on how you receive this simple but wide optical image. Calm down, stop run, spend/loose a few minutes of your day (which will not bring you any tangible benefits in the colloquial meaning) in the contemplation of impressions which you’ve just received. impressions which I am trying to bring out
How to make it working?
Possibilities :
1. Infrared Sensors/photocell
They can detect the motion, they are cheap and reliable
I can plug in to the computer using:
b)Hacking keyboard like here http://www.instructables.com/id/Hacking-a-USB-Keyboard/
Disadvantages
a) Typically webcam connected to the computer
- less susceptible to lighting
- variously clothes are different reflected
Disadvantages
It only detects the movement of people so I assume they move, and always
are within range of the photocell. It is because there is no movement that does not mean to
come out
are within range of the photocell. It is because there is no movement that does not mean to
come out
2. Web cam
Requires a program which will follow the changes in the image
a) Typically webcam connected to the computer
Disadvantages
- very sensitive to lighting (which is variable during the day)
3. Infrared Webcam
Advantages
- less susceptible to lighting
Disadvantages
- variously clothes are different reflected
in infrared which can sometimes be problematic- may require additional lighting
to lighting which is variable during the day)
4. Summary
creating three separate video clips
a) the birds - the natural neutral behavior - voyeurism
b) the flight birds
b) arrive birdsRegardless of who the technique (1 or 2) will be used is needed to have a program that will turn
video clips matched to what motion detector device sees.
video clips matched to what motion detector device sees.
Writing such a program should take about 1h for the programmer
the best solution for the moment seems to be
camera + detection of changes in the image + controlled lighting condition
FOR MORE INFO ABOUT THIS PROJECT / ORIGINS /
THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF ITS CREATION / DESCRIPTIONS / OTHER
pencil test 1
penciltest2
penciltest3
penciltest4
general sketches
searching for a most interestign sign on the paper
to colour previous pencil tests
birds flight paths
drawings and their various visual interpretations - finding the most interesting form
inspirations / research / collected materials / useful stuff
RECORDED BY ME
RECORDED BY ME
photo taken by me on Peveril Street, Nottingham
photo taken by me on Peveril Street, Nottingham
photo taken by me on Forest Rd / Nottingham / 04.02.2011
photo taken by me on Waverley St / Nottingham / 25.01.2011
photo taken by me on Forest Rd / Nottingham / 04.02.2011
photo taken by me on Forest Rd / Nottingham / 04.02.2011
photo taken by me on Waverley St / Nottingham / 25.01.2011
photo taken by me on Waverley St / Nottingham / 25.01.2011
photo taken by me on Waverley St / Nottingham / 25.01.2011
you can also check some video stuff I collected
click on the following adress
Video recorded by me in The Arboretum / Nottingham / 10.02.2011
Video recorded by me in The Arboretum / Nottingham / 07.02.2011
Video recorded by me in The Arboretum / Nottingham / 10.02.2011
Video recorded by me on Peveril St / Nottingham / 20.02.2011
my external influences
WHAT ARTIST AND DESIGNERS
I HAVE LOOKED AT,
I'VE BEEN INFLUENCED BY
AND HAVE INFLUENCED THIS PROJECT
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Pam Hogg
1.photo from Metro magazine / Tuesday / February / 22 / 2011 / page 21
outfit designed by Pam Hogg
Pam Hogg is a fashion designer, singer/songwriter and scriptwriter/director from the United Kingdom
for more info visit official page http://pamhogg.com/
to the works of this artist I accidentally bump into, while I looked through the morning newspaper Metro.
Her outfits are very brave, weird and fresh. Especially exerted an impression on me collection from the
latest show in London, called "Pam Hogg: Far From the Madding Crowd"
you can see video from this avesome show here!
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Alfred Hitchcock "The Birds" Movie
Just a simple visual associations, however, film for its time,
with the whole post-production did a great impression on me.
While I was searching visual material and stills from this movie
I have found also the Alfred Hitchcock Barbie Doll,
it is totally awesome that you can buy with your child a Barbie Doll
and play a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's movie!
This is also a must-have for the lovers of cinema.
Sometimes you can find it on http://www.ebay.co.uk/
Alfred Hitchcock The Birds Barbie Doll
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PSYOP
pictures from http://www.dexigner.com/news/7939
about
MTV HD Station ID's: "Crow"Airdate: March 2006
1x 90sec / 6x 15sec
Directors - Marie Hyon and Marco Spier
Executive Producer - Justin Booth-Clibborn
Producer - Lucia Grillo
Flame Artist - Eben Mears
Lead 3-D Artist - Pakorn Bupphavesa
3D Artists/Animators -Laurent Barthelemy / Alvin Bae / Todd Akita / Kevin Estey / Damon CiarelliDave Barosin / Jason Goodman / Lutz Vogel / Mate Steinforth / Ajit Menon
2D/Rotoscope - Ella Boliver / J Bush / BeeJin Tan
Junior Flame - Jaime Aguirre
Editor - Brett Goldberg
Music: Q Department
Producer: Julie Hurwitz
Composer: Drazen Bosnjak
MTV On Air Design
Producer: Raffaela Saccone
Senior Design Director: Rodger Belknap
Vice President: Romy Mann
Tech Credits for MTV:
SOFTIMAGE|XSI
Autodesk Maya for 3D
Adobe Photoshop
Discreet Flame
About PSYOP
1x 90sec / 6x 15sec
Directors - Marie Hyon and Marco Spier
Executive Producer - Justin Booth-Clibborn
Producer - Lucia Grillo
Flame Artist - Eben Mears
Lead 3-D Artist - Pakorn Bupphavesa
3D Artists/Animators -Laurent Barthelemy / Alvin Bae / Todd Akita / Kevin Estey / Damon CiarelliDave Barosin / Jason Goodman / Lutz Vogel / Mate Steinforth / Ajit Menon
2D/Rotoscope - Ella Boliver / J Bush / BeeJin Tan
Junior Flame - Jaime Aguirre
Editor - Brett Goldberg
Music: Q Department
Producer: Julie Hurwitz
Composer: Drazen Bosnjak
MTV On Air Design
Producer: Raffaela Saccone
Senior Design Director: Rodger Belknap
Vice President: Romy Mann
Tech Credits for MTV:
SOFTIMAGE|XSI
Autodesk Maya for 3D
Adobe Photoshop
Discreet Flame
About PSYOP
“Advertising and animation are fields that have their own visual traditions, business cultures, and technical methodologies. Surprising results emerge when graphic design takes the lead in an ad campaign or an animated spot, as seen in the rich, painterly work of PSYOP, a multimedia design firm which creates, print, animation, and branding campaigns.
At PSYOP, the creative process begins with still imagery generated by a team of designers and composed from drawn illustrations as well as photographs. These initial images, often build from dozens of layers of color, texture, and imagery, are then interpreted as a moving sequence.
PSYOP borrowed its name from the U.S. government’s Psychological Operations division, and the company has cheekily adopted the agency’s slogan as well: “Persuade, Change, and Influence”. At a time when consumers are bombarded with more messages from more media than ever before, Psyop seeks to win over the hearts and minds of the public through creative content that people willingly seek out and enjoy, especially on the internet, where compelling ads spread via word of mouth..”
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial 2006
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“ The Past is a Foreign Country”
Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun
23.01 – 2.05.2010
artists: Johanna Billing / Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács / Banu Cennetoğlu / Šejla Kamerić / Deimantas Narkevičius / Agnieszka Polska / Jasper Rigole / Slavs and Tatars / Jutta Strohmaier / Levi van Veluw / Ingrid Wildi / Krzysztof Zieliński / Edwin Zwakman
curators: Aleksandra Kononiuk, Agnieszka Pindera
exhibition design: Jeroen de Vries
graphic design: Kasia Korczak & Boy Vereecken
exhibition design: Jeroen de Vries
graphic design: Kasia Korczak & Boy Vereecken
"The international exhibition entitled The Past is a Foreign Country presents the works of artists that materialize places from memories, animate invented geographies, ask questions concerning their connection to identity and analyze the nature of remembering and forgetting.
The exhibition area is arranged by the Dutch artist Jeroen de Vries, who thus refers to phrenology – the picturesque scientific theory of the 18th and 19th centuries that binds together geography and the human mind. It described the brain as a mosaic of areas, different in form and structure, that are responsible for the various physiological functions of the body. Franz Joseph Gall, the German scholar of anatomy and the creator of the concept thought that from the size and shape of the scull one could tell the efficiency of memory, the fluency of speech, or even more abstract characteristics such as the strength of the attachment to the family home, or the capability of building hope. The more advanced the development of given qualities or predispositions, the more bulging the areas responsible for them. Jacubus Doornik compared phrenology to cartography: the scull is like a map which marks the spots of human perception, desires, weaknesses and habits.
Despite the fact that the 19th century metaphor of the human brain did not find scientific confirmation, it brings about the connotation to the phenomenological approach to place, which was propagated by humanistic geography in the 1970s. Humanistic geography defines place as an area accumulating emotions, habits and customs. Places appear gradually, they gain their 'bulge', their complexity and features over time, in the process of gathering memories and meanings.
The artists that have been invited to participate in the project document various places, such as utopian places (Paradise Recollected by Jasper Rigole), archetypical places (The Calendar by Agnieszka Polska), close places (diptychs from the Briesen series by Krzysztof Zieliński), historical places (Legend Coming True by Deimantas Narkevičius). They also picture spaces that do not belong to anyone, those that are described by Marc Augé as non-places (Here is Everywhere by Persijn Broersen i Margit Lukács). They speak of the longing for one’s place in the world, as does HomeSICK by Šejla Kamerić, the work that opens the exhibition.
The continuous wanderlust, a nostalgia for a foreign country, the necessity to escape and cross boundaries which is discussed by the artists, discourages from settling down. The topophilia – emotional, aesthetic or intellectual connection between a human being and a given place, is being replaced by topophobia – a hostility towards places. Contemporary tourists, migrants and virtual travelers are consistently losing their will to settle down. The continuous relocating and the process of erasing places from the memory is accompanied by the feeling of uncertainty and fear of the surrounding world, which in turn, paradoxically causes a longing for stability.
The Past is a Foreign Country will make a map of recreated and invented places, an accumulation of various emotions – nostalgia, despair, irony, happiness – thus posing the question: what is place today?"
from http://csw.torun.pl/
Particularly this work above impressed me and will remain for long in my memory. This is the type of organization dealing with collective memory which has their coworkers around the world. They are traveling in order to collect old films tapes from different regions and time and places, registred by different peoples. Coworkers searched on attics in folks houses, buy thesemoments from life which we would like to catch, stop for longer, do not let them disappear from our memory used films tapes from antiques fairs and sent them to the company. Then, other pathfinders doing some research about this found motion pictures to finally show it, as the form of art, as a video made of mixed found footages ( private video from different peoples from different places ) and diagram to show - which of motives/schemas in our everyday, private life we wont to register, a moments, which we would like to catch, stop for longer, do not let them disappear from our memory. To conclude, the most surprising, when we look at this graph, is that the human behaviors, important for us private events, things that we want to remember and immortalize - can be shown using a chart, diagram, where everything is linear, repetitive - as proof of the existence some kind of collective/visual consciousness, collective memory - against the common, current sense of uniqueness and prominence of individuals. I find it as beautiful and scary in the same time...
★
Norman Leto
Born Lukasz Banach in 1980 in Bochnia is a Polish painter, musician, writer, film maker, visual artist. His work has been exhibited at Warsaw's Centre for Contemporary Art (Ujazdowski Castle) and at Jeune Création Européenne 2007 in France. Very difficult to classify artist. His paintings and films are abstractive, expressionist, autobiographical and move social themes . He doing computer stimulation ( behaviour of the crowd, the physical simulation etc.)
The influences exerted on me by his works, we can understand much wider, as semantics.
What do I think about it is very difficult to express using words
There is any up to date website of him. but there you can check some of his early paintings, lastly he made very fresh movie "Sailor" and there there you can check an article about this movie on ERA New Horizons film festival in Wrocław, interview, stills from movie and many others.
If you will have opportunity, I would recommend you to see the movie "Sailor" by Norman Leto, and read a book wit the same title - which constitutes together with the film a kind of total art diptych.
★ ★ ★
from the animator's point of view...
There were few people, whom I had not met in my life, I would never not occupy the animation
★
Piotr Dumała
A film director and animator. His animation technique is original and fascinating, among the most interesting of the last 30 years. While training to be a sculptor, he discovered that scratching images into painted plaster could be a beautiful way to create animations. This is only one technique of a method called destructive animation, where one image is erased (in this case, painted over) and re-drawn to create the next frame in the sequence. William Kentridge is another artist who works in this destructive way. Dumala's main themes, and the way to show them, recall ostensibly the world of writer Franz Kafka, His film, Crime and Punishment, was included in the Animation Show of Shows. HERE you can see his movies. I met him as a 12 year old girl and his art had a great influence on me.
★
Izabela Plucinska
"Filmmaker for animated films. She finished the Academy of Arts in Lodz (Graphics and Design) and the Polish National Film School in Lodz (Animation Departament). During her studies in the Film School she found techniques which she continue to develop and express her arts with. The mentioned technique is sculpturing with clay, which resembles relief.
I took a part in the animation workshop conducted by Iza and her friend Marcus,
she shownd me how to animate things. I've done one of my first movies there.
★
Janek Koza
Born in 1970 in Wrocław. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Black humour and aggressive stroke – careless, jagged. Janek Koza’s style is easily recognizable no matter whether it is a comic book, a cartoon, an advert or a painting. His drawings are simplistic and gruesome, disregarding the rules of perspective and proportion His characters are ugly on purpose and the stories of human relationships, told with a pinch of irony, are unusually complicated. You can see his exciting movies HERE
★
SURREALISM ART / MOVEMENT
★
VISUALIZATION OF THE PROJECTION SPACE
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GUIDE FOR USERS
You can use, interact and control the sequences of animation by your moves and sounds.
Try to move, to stop moving, clap your hands and check what will happen !
TO SUMMARY
if there is a movement or sound made by you in the projection space - the birds moving also - out of frame
if detectors won't detect your movement - you can observe birds
cause they wont fly away if you will stay in calm.
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one of the possibilities of usage the animation in a projection space
the animation
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1. Pamm Hogg, 2011. Pam Hog website. Available at http://pamhogg.com/ [Accessed 6 April 2011].
photo from Metro magazine,Tuesday 02.22.2011, page 21,outfit designed by Pam Hogg
2. Alfred Hitchcock "The Birds" Movie, 2011, fan made trailer uploaded on YouTube by DavieD123 17 Oct 2008 available here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu1tiBmecSY&feature=player_embedded [Accessed 6 April 2011].
3. Alfred Hitchcock The Birds Barbie Doll, 2011. UK Contemporary Art Blog. Available at http://www.whokilledbambi.co.uk [Accessed 6 April 2011]. photo from http://www.whokilledbambi.co.uk/2010/12/alfred-hitchcock-the-birds-barbie-doll/
4. PSYOP, 2011. MTV Crow Project. Psyop website. Available at http://www.psyop.tv/ [Accessed 7 April 2011].
pictures from http://www.dexigner.com/news/7939
5.The Past is a Foreign Country Exibition in Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun
CSW website. Available at http://csw.torun.pl/ [Accessed 7 April 2011].
photos from http://csw.torun.pl/ , quotation : Aleksandra Kononiuk, curator
6.Norman Leto, 2011. Norman Leto website http://www.normanleto.com/ [Accessed 7 April 2011]. picture of a 'lifeshape' from Norman Leto's 'Sailor' from http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/leto-ivw/
7. Piotr Dumała, 2011. The Internet Movie Data Base website. Available at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0241398/ [Accessed 8 April 2011] picture is a still from movie
" Crime and Punishement"
8. Izabela Plucinska, 2011. Izabela Plucinska website. Avaialable at http://www.izaplucinska.com/ [Accessed 8 April 2011], picture is a still from movie "jamsession"9. Janek Koza, 2011. Janek Koza website. Available at http://www.fungun.republika.pl/koza/index.html [Accessed 8 April 2011] picture from Janek Koza Canvas
4. PSYOP, 2011. MTV Crow Project. Psyop website. Available at http://www.psyop.tv/ [Accessed 7 April 2011].
pictures from http://www.dexigner.com/news/7939
5.The Past is a Foreign Country Exibition in Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun
CSW website. Available at http://csw.torun.pl/ [Accessed 7 April 2011].
photos from http://csw.torun.pl/ , quotation : Aleksandra Kononiuk, curator
6.Norman Leto, 2011. Norman Leto website http://www.normanleto.com/ [Accessed 7 April 2011]. picture of a 'lifeshape' from Norman Leto's 'Sailor' from http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/leto-ivw/
7. Piotr Dumała, 2011. The Internet Movie Data Base website. Available at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0241398/ [Accessed 8 April 2011] picture is a still from movie
" Crime and Punishement"
8. Izabela Plucinska, 2011. Izabela Plucinska website. Avaialable at http://www.izaplucinska.com/ [Accessed 8 April 2011], picture is a still from movie "jamsession"9. Janek Koza, 2011. Janek Koza website. Available at http://www.fungun.republika.pl/koza/index.html [Accessed 8 April 2011] picture from Janek Koza Canvas
