Rafael Lozano

Rafael Lozano's work is also very creative, I found a website which displays his works and I picked out two which interested me the most. These were "Under Scan" and "Subtitled Public", the main reason I liked them was because they both require an interaction from the public. They both react to where the user is in the projects space. 

Please click below for the webpage:

Under Scan

Subtitled Public

Week 2

On the back of week 1, I had already decided to focus on the Cultural Olympiad. As a group we had a chance to discuss our initial ideas. The feed back I got for my ideas wasn't a positive one, imply because they seemed a bit vague and didn't have enough substance behind it. Again we were provided with several more, useful resources which will of course spark some new ideas and different approaches towards the assessment, these included:

• Rafael Lozano
• Ruth Catlow
• mazine.ws
• Marc Quinn
• Peter Weibel
• ZKM Germany
• Artists Sketch Books (gis.net)

Week 1 - Continued

With regards to basing my final project work on the Cultural Olympiad, I felt it would be the best option for me to take rather than creating something else from scratch. This was for two main reasons:

1. It gives me an instant focus focus point to work towards
2. Because I have a great interest in sport, it will enable me to bring a personal dimension to the project, which will hopefully add dynamic to my process and ideas

Initial ideas at this stage:

• Looking at the history of the Olympics, by somehow linking statistics to countries and some how using the data to create a visualisation, maybe also interactive.
• Fireworks displays (opening ceremony), finding process behind the displays and recreating them in a smaller scale.

Click here to see Beijing 2008 olympics fireworks display

Nick Crowe

Nick Crowe is an extraordinary artist who's works are in my opinion unique, creative and at the same time bizarre. But I was deeply moved and inspired by two of his works . These were:

Operation Telic (2005-2006). Twelve shelves with inset hand-engraved drawings on 2 mm float glass panels, cast plastic and electrics.

The Beheaded (2006).Ceiling-mounted mobile with armatures of powder-coated mild steel, suspending 68 elements cut from 3 mm dichroic glass with Kevlar thread.

"Operation Telic" inspired me because it is a very basic idea, but visually looks very interesting. The contrast between the dark green and black was very effective and his images are interesting with meaning. The way he uses the glass is phenomenal and it has interested me to maybe produce something along these lines.

"The Beheaded" is also another great art piece which involves him using glass, I cant work out the motive behind the positioning of the glass figures, but again the use of colour is very effective and if you look closely these figures have either been projected or reflected onto the wall.

Eventful

Eventful was another resource that I was exposed during the lecture, this website is quite useful because it give useful information on the up coming events such as exhibitions. This can help me extend my research if I attend these exhibitions and I will always be aware of what is currently going on in London.

Heres the link for the website: Eventful

Cultural Olympiad

From what was being explained during the lecture, Cultural Olympiad is a dynamic exhibition which allows artists to enter their work in relation to the forthcoming London 2012 Olympics. It really is a great opportunity for artists to display their creative work and it will also add dimension and depth to the olympics itself. As part of my research I found the official website for the Cultural Olympiad, which explains what it really is in a lot more detail, with videos, images and information.

Here is a link for the website: Cultural Olympiad 

Week 1

Week 1 was the introduction to the module, our lecturer explained to us the structure and purpose of the module in terms of assessments. In total 5 assessments a required with the first one due in week 5. We were told that we need to come up with some kind of idea, which may be linked to the forthcoming Olympics and Paralympics, London.  This was optional but we needed to produce a detailed breakdown of how our project will be completed. We were exposed to a few useful links, which already sparked some ideas. These ideas included:

• Cultural Olympiad
• Eventful
• Nick Crowe