ETHOS

I am a people watcher and that is why interaction is the focus and drive of my work. I feel over time physical interaction between people has significantly reduced. With Modern culture first closing down the doors of communal living, into our own personal worlds, everything at hands reach; personal computers; personal MP3 players; even to the extent of personal robotic pets. From there the doors began to reopen, but interaction as we knew it refreshed; a middle man is now required, ‘The Device’. I would agree that change and progress is important, but as I see it we are not gaining new skills, we are replacing. them. Physical interaction is comparatively rare to those of ‘the device’, and slowly we are loosing the ability to communicate to our previous level, creating age barriers of those before and after ‘the device’.


During the 3rd stage of ISD course I would like to design events which encourage physical interaction as I feel passionately about creating design for change, with my aims to bring back the community, whether that be through town planning or interventions which provoke a reaction and discussion. I am particularly keen on temporary structures and installations which pop up in busy places, as this opens them up for the ‘everyday’ person to see and often is a catalyst for discussion, inevitably flowing into the device interaction ; the news, networking and photo sharing internet sites, therefore creating a worldwide critic on just one persons vision.


I want to further my understanding of the context of space and abstraction of space, therefore allowing my work to become stronger and enable me to push my passion for creating discussion and physical interaction between young people.

Monday, 7 March 2011

Anthony McCall

After seeing McCalls exhibition in 2007 at the Serpentine Museum I was blown away by the impact of a simple form such as light, manipulated in a certain way could effect the exhibition goers and myself. 

"The effect is calm, meditative, otherworldly" - Time Out.

 During the recent hype of his new exhibition in Baker Street, it has been brought to my attention the interest he has on cinema, and how he considers his own work as expanded cinema; both sculpture, cinema and drawing rolled into one.


"My initial interest was very much about the medium of film and the cinematic problem of how to make a film which only exists at the moment of its projection. Having done that I gradually realised that I was also now engaged with three-dimensional, volumetric space. When I took up the “Solid Light” works again in early 2000 it was with the idea of sculptural rather than cinematic space, although the series can only be really understood as existing somewhere between the two. In the 1970s it was an issue as to where this kind of work belonged. It was written about as avant garde cinema, which I was perfectly happy with, but I felt that I was a conceptual artist working with film, rather than a filmmaker. Now artists are not required to define what they do in terms of medium.The only issue is - is it interesting?" - Time Out.
For me McCall has always been a very prominent artist, and feel that although working with light, the same possibilities are available with sound. 


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