My Ideas and what I hope to achieve.

I want to distort the image in some way so as to make it 'new' again, indistinguishable.
I want to create abstract and aesthetically interesting images, to make objects or scenes difficult to interpret straight away.
I want to create a new sense of unknowing and new vision.
I want to obscure the visual perception.
I want to reduce objects to the minimal criteria for identification.

Stan Brakhage

I found Stan Brakhage to be really interesting. I loved his idea of the 'unruling eye'.

Metaphores on Vision '64
What is the nature of the moving world and how can it be represented?
Distorted visual reality and questioning of the screen.
What we see as reality. Our 'ruling' eye. He transforms images, leaves us guessing what it is we are looking at.
'Act of seeing the world'
Brakhage intended to film not the world itself but the act of seeing the world. Brakhage's films were themselves expressions of a single, great metaphor: visual perception.

This quote from his essay Metaphores on Vision is definately something I hope to look into for this project.
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, and eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'

Some points to start working from

Not paying attention to what we are looking at. We seem like robots while watching the screen
The screen has many functions
It provides info we consume more or less passively.
It is a mediator.
Representation meets reality.
Representation of space and our relationship to it.
Different ways of representing reality. Using the screen. What do we automatically assume when we watch tv?

New Project -Interrupting the Screen

Today we can hardly even imagine a day without computer, television or other screens
surrounding us. Nevertheless, we hardly pay any attention to the screens themselves,
but use them as if they had always existed. We use screens for many functions, they
may entertain and display information; some are used interactively, others provide
information that we consume more or less passively. Screens also have many different
sizes and shapes and different technologies are used to implement the necessary
functions.
…(the) screen does not have an immutable identity, but has its own history, influenced by cultural, social, technological and ideological factors. Screen is not a goal in and for itself, but its purpose is to represent information, communication, figures, faces and virtual realms. It is a mediator.

Jarmo Hiipakka, Art and Science in Historical and Cultural Context

Think about the quotation above and about how we relate to the physical, temporal, spatial and/or cultural nature of the screen and/or its use in art, communications, science,entertainment or any other field that interests you. Research and analyse the work of video artists and other screen based artworks that deal with the nature of televisual experience. Address this theme in video, video installation or photographic format. Interpret it as you will,considering its relevance to your own artistic development. Identify and address how your work will be presented to an audience.

Working towards the exhibition!

Well i decided not to use the words with the pictures because I didnt think it looked right in the end, but as i printed and laminated and cut the pictures and words up i decided to do the words separately. I also thought that displaying them on a fridge would heighten the idea of memory... most people use friges to stick their magnets on, like memories from a holiday or something. The words are like the word magnet games you can put on your fridge or locker too so it kind of had that 'create your own narrative' connection with the piece. Here are some photos I took of the process of the work and the final exhibition.

Idea for Exhibition

For the exhibition I've been thinking about how to set up my work and what sort of format im going to have it in. One night I printed out some contact sheets of all my photos that I had taken for the project, i cut them up and placed them all out in a grid... surprisingly i really liked it, it looked well, so i thought that maybe i could present them this way for the exhibition. We had a tutorial with Ralph again and my idea became clearer, I'm going to post all my pictures up like the contacts but with magnets on them so that they can be moved around, while also on a big metal board of course!! People can then make their own narratives from it and place them in different story lines etc, Im also going to have the text up in movable fragments, so there will be a text aspect to the work aswell. Also under each picture there will be a brief description of what the picture is. I think this adds to the remembrance of a memory aspect in which I am trying to encorporate into my work.

Further Developments

Ok so a decision was made about the outcome of the project, because it's a narrative and there are so many pictures, and there is a story with them, I am going to make a book out of them.

I don't exactly know what the order of the book is going to be. I might do two different kinds...

the six word memoir one, which could include the memoir and either one photo or a series of photos on the opposite page,

or

i could juxtapose images against each other, one on each page, so they form their own narrative.

now i just have to decide what images go with what six word memoir and what images make narratives in themselves. also have to decide if more photos are necessary to be taken. I can also take stills from the video footage I have taken.

The video footage is another story. I don't know exactly what's going to be done with it all... they are an extension of whats taken photographically, so I might just create a series of small experiments, and if any video pieces go together really well I might create a full sequence out of those... audio wise....either music or maybe stories being told.? For now I'm just gonna concentrate on the photos, see which ones go well together etc!!