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http://natalielloydart.wix.com/mediart
This is my website for collation and framing of work from this semester.

slitscans

The above slitscans were taken from Adobe After Effects experiment made in class.  

The images were initially from photos of grass and pavement, mosaiced and highly altered and adulterated with every affect I could find in that programme.... great fun. Then I played the movie on laptop in front of computer camera onto slitscan. Ideally I'd love to print one of these out onto a long piece of paper, I hope to do the same thing with a canola video and print it out for art project/print.

abstract mosaic

 this was my experimentation with Adobe After Effects, its taken me awhile to get this to upload but here it is. I've clicked every effect to see what happened and now i need to learn how to fine tune, or not.

mosaic abstract

http://www.youtube.com/v/tKBXwz9jIW4?version=3&autohide=1&attribution_tag=npBEOo0beBFmL3_AEFyrXA&autoplay=1&autohide=1&showinfo=1&feature=share

Yellow Balloon Screen

this projection onto a 3d surface i found most interesting, the way the image wraps around the curved surface and distorts is part of this abstracted feeling I'm trying to work towards.

yellow balloon screen

http://www.youtube.com/v/gnBWh2bldRM?autohide=1&version=3&attribution_tag=dCs22Qxi8_m9WxXIeXVxqw&feature=share&autoplay=1&autohide=1&showinfo=1

red cactus

my latest experiment with video and abstracted colour fields using imovie this time and consciously working on including and editing the sound.

red cactus

http://www.youtube.com/v/-m7DErA-us0?version=3&autohide=1&autohide=1&showinfo=1&autoplay=1&attribution_tag=HXKVt_Bk_NeIVRyEfkbegA&feature=share

boogie times and Gurtie

hmmmmmmm k so im just going to lump this all into the one post to keep it simple and go by chapters

Brief of the plan from after mid semester reviews-

dance fest 2000

After playing with Final Cut a fair amount in the first half of semester i felt like i wanted to continue learning how to use it, I came across a video that mesmerized me with its technique of layering and pattern with movement called 'Choros' by Micheal Langan and Terah Maher. After watching it a few dozen times I decided I wanted to learn how they got the technique for it and play around with layering and trying to communicate a particular sense self presence with movement. This would be in the form of "I lost all concept of space and time because i was pullin such hard core shapes on the dance floor/bedroom" the kind of mental state that is often thought generally with an idea that the person is 'wasted' if they were to do it openly in public Artist Gillian Wearing's video 'takeover: Dancing in Peckham' shows this aspect. It's pretty funny

lGillian Wearing takeover: Dancing in Peckham – video

In my work i wanted to stay away from videos that looked like i was reenacting or glorifying drugs and partying, away from 'trippy for trippy's sake' (which is hard because i like patterns, abstraction, and colours) and away from something that resembled another narcissist shaking their ass for attention.

what i did want to do was:

- try to convey an untangable but instinctively relatable joy of dancing from somewhere between your gut and your primitive subconscious. 

-depict a person that has brought themselves into a state of complete loss of self consciousness, reflecting the engagement between themselves and their body.

- To use editing techniques to really accurately show movement in the way it would feel for the person who is dancing

- To film those who aren't professionally trained specifically to showcase the beauty of spontaneous abandonment

- i think there's more.. i wanted to do a lot of things

anyway yeah so i put my efforts towards figuring out the set up for filming to then trial some editting to see if i could get the whole layering thing down in final cut.

- this was the result 

Which i liked and continued on to play with the footage and plan for a time to do some more filming with more structure to what i wanted wanted for lighting, dancing, engagement with the camera etc.

 This is where i thank my friend Rose and my house mate Toby for being champions and dancing for me 

 I then set up the AV room and had Rose and Toby come in for filming them dance. I tried to think of ways that would break us from feel self conscious and be aware that we were in front of a camera. So i had a system where one person would dance in the spotlight while the other two would keep boogieing in the shadows talking, giving encouragement, making jokes, basically trying to break the ice. When that person would get too tired or would want to stop they would indicate by saying 'tap out' and the next in line would have to step in. Initially it was difficult because it was still forced but by the time we'd limbered up we had a rhythm going which made things easier. 

 The editing after getting the footage was the hard part because i'd gotten so much, and being able to focus on what i wanted to convey and how wasn't entirely clear. So i figured i would least find bits of footage that seemed strong and experiment with what i could do with final cut and how the end result matched with what i was initially wanting to do.

so the result was a collection of videos playing with time, pattern layering, and positioning in ways that would try to convey to the viewer the concept of a moment engaging with dance

These are in order in which i finished editing them

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/cliteracy_n_3823983.html

Gertie

Most of the process with Gurtie has been mostly trying to figure out the meaning of her existence. at first it didn't bother me but after some thought there are so many different ways of interpreting what a monster siemese vagina symbolises. It seemed more apparent throughout the semester (for myself) that i had to be clear with my intent or else the novelty of the fun would wear off with the guilty feeling of being insensitive. So i started looking into feminism... or i started looking at the articles my friends posted about feminism on facebook but they had some relevant modern point about them. 

Cliteracy 101: Artist Sophia Wallace Wants You To Know The Truth About The Clitoris

://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/cliteracy_n_3823983.html

'People may be more receptive to advocates who defy stereotypes by coming across as pleasant and approachable'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2433913/Feminists-man-hating-unhygienic-How-negative-activists-stereotypes-remain-barriers.html

http://www.pedestrian.tv/news/arts-and-culture/google-searches-reveal-just-how-sexist-we-are/2dcdde7f-9387-47a6-b909-892f6eaac44f.htm

So this campain has pretty brutal insight, these pic shows the first 4 suggestions when you type in 'women need to', 'women should', 'women shouldn't'

I tried this myself to see what would come up just in case, these are my snapshots

CHATTING WITH PETRA COLLINS ABOUT HER MENSTRUATING-VAGINA SHIRT

Interview by Vice with Patrick McGuire

I’m always scared of people reporting me on Instagram because I don’t want to lose my profile so I have to block a lot of these people. Oh here’s a good one: “Next to actually seeing a girl shit, this is the worst thing I’ve ever seen. The woman is the most remarkable creation on the planet, but some lady things they go through… I’m not trying to see on a T-shirt. This is just mind-blowingly disgusting. This shirt on any beautiful body will instantly be a deal breaker, I’m sorry! But any publicity is good publicity right?”

Why do you think people get so grossed out by bodily functions that they take it too far and start oppressing people?
Menstruation—and also pubic hair—really freaks people out. There’s pubic hair in the drawing, which I guess is super shocking to people, even though I cannot get over that. I feel like I’m so sheltered in a way. I always forget that people are so close-minded.

Grown women are taught to repress their postpubescent body or hide it. When you start puberty and you start growing hair you’re taught to shave it, because no one’s supposed to see it. With your period, it’s something that you conceal—no one’s supposed to know. It’s almost pedophilic—and I don’t want to throw that word around. But this feminine ideology we have, of the woman being a prepubescent girl, is how we’re taught to change our bodies.

I guess your T-shirt is the perfect visual symbol to combat that attitude, isn’t it?

Yeah. I was really inspired by… you know those really gross novelty shirts that make it look like you have boobs? I just wanted to reappropriate that and create a feminist, more aesthetically true drawing on one of those T-shirts that everyone can have.

http://www.vice.com/en_au/read/chatting-with-petra-collins-about-her-menstruating-vagina-shirt?utm_source=vicefb

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/27/need-to-know-designer-vagina-surgery_n_2772617.html

Your Vagina Isn't Just Too Big, Too Floppy, and Too Hairy—It's Also Too Brown

http://jezebel.com/5900928/your-vagina-isnt-just-too-big-too-floppy-and-too-hairyits-also-too-brown

In this commercial for an Indian product called Clean and Dry Intimate Wash, a (very light-skinned) couple sits down for what would have been a peaceful cup of morning coffee—if the woman's disgusting brown vagina hadn't ruined everything! The dude can't even bring himself look at her. He can't look at his coffee either, because it only reminds him of his wife's dripping, coffee-brown hole! Fortunately, the quick-thinking woman takes a shower, scrubbing her swarthy snatch with Clean and Dry Intimate Wash ("Freshness + Fairness"). And poof! Her vadge comes out blinding white like a downy baby lamb (and NOT THE GROSS BLACK KIND) and her husband—whose penis, I can only assume, is literally a light saber—is all, "Hey, lady! Cancel them divorce papers and LET'S BONE."

bathroom bottles

one more experiment of projecting onto different surfaces. this time i have made a screen from cut up plastic bottles and projected through it onto the wall behind. i like the reflection and shadow pattern play. 

bathroom bottles

http://www.youtube.com/v/ejMDMO45X5s?autohide=1&version=3&attribution_tag=OR-IVqf5aM8jj7jV8JnIxA&autohide=1&feature=share&showinfo=1&autoplay=1

yellow kaleidoscope gif

these photos were taken of yellow objects outside my house, i.e. the hose and recycle bin lid, with kaleidoscope app then made into a Gif!!! or short movie in iMovie, the new version which i had to re-learn :{ I am interested in patterns and the never ending, hypnotic effect they can have when watched. I'd like to play this in the dome screen in the AV room at uni. Ultimately if the images swirled too that would be great, or nauseous.

yellow kaleidoscope

http://www.youtube.com/v/8J75ZurLc6Y?version=3&autohide=1&showinfo=1&autohide=1&autoplay=1&feature=share&attribution_tag=ntxb23OFQyL45hMkPV_ZXA

Canola video projected on wool curtain.

http://www.youtube.com/v/U65ALSxaFk0?version=3&autohide=1&autohide=1&showinfo=1&feature=share&autoplay=1&attribution_tag=6X7cc2uy0LVoK5kDciRkBg

canola wool curtain

this video consists of footage taken while projecting onto a wall of yellow wool i had hanging in the tangent gallery as part of an experiment for art project. Its a bit blurry on youtube as its been projected and then recorded with an iPhone a few times now. This image is a still shot that I've played with on an iPhone app "repix".

projection sites

just a recap from mid semester review and the possible projection sites on farm of canola video footage.

Canola projected onto the pick up belt on the front of the header when harvesting Canola seed.

 The ute windscreen.

 This hayshed is 70 meters long so it could handle 2 theatre size projections, would be awesome at night time. 

Grain storage silos.

Carla's Research

In preparation for tomorrow, here are links to some research that is relevant to my work:

Social Media // Reblogging as curating or art // Internet 2.0
http://hyperallergic.com/65674/revisiting-tumblr-as-art/ 
http://hyperallergic.com/66039/selling-out-the-impact-of-corporate-social-media-space-on-art/
http://hyperallergic.com/66463/the-measure-of-success-making-art-in-the-like-economy/
http://hyperallergic.com/66580/tumblr-art-and-web-2-0-ecologies-the-medium-is-still-the-message-2/
http://hyperallergic.com/66581/the-way-we-share-transparency-in-curatorial-practice/

Video Art about craigslist 
http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2011/08/kenneth_tam_craigslist_videos.php

Post-Internet
http://122909a.com 

We, the Web Kids 
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/we-the-web-kids/253382/

Post-Net Aesthetics Video
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/5745227/events/2464307

There isn't a lot of artist references there (just the one really) but after working with this content for two years now and extending it into an honours project in 2014, I feel it is more beneficial to read up on contemporary theory.

Artist/Project statement to come.

CA

electronic traces

Media and electronic landscape, traces of an electronic landscape and manipulation ... my contribution to the traces starting

sound cloud

played with some sounds for the video I am working on, well, trying to work on if I can find the video. The sounds were from Sound Bible, the Audacity tutorials attached to that site are easy to follow, shame I only just found them. Link to Sound Cloud result :https://soundcloud.com/user902374155/mech-world:

help

I have come in to work but on the computers I normally work on, there is no storage and when I open Final Cut Pro there is nothing I have been working on before - they usually just pop up when I open the program. Suggestions?

Animation Progres

http://internetidentities.tumblr.com/post/66437713904

Animations for the final video are almost finished. Sound is recorded and lip synced, drawn in flash. These are just gif examples of some.

LetterPress SilkScreen gif

                                                                                             
Today I had a go at making a gif. I used a print I made using the Letterpress that was included in the 2013 20x20 Print Exchange that Curtin participates with other Australian University Art Departments.

I created a dense pattern where the letters became quite obscured and look a bit like a wallpaper print. It was then scanned, played with in photoshop and then silk screen printed using a 4 colour separation printing process.

This new image was once again scanned into photoshop, screenshots were taken as I changed the hue.....then made into a little movie. I will have to make a shorter version as its rather large and will drive viewers nuts waiting for it to load.


http://www.youtube.com/v/-96elEdyk1w?autohide=1&version=3&attribution_tag=UCAI2swvwRbnKh73UXAU7A&autoplay=1&showinfo=1&autohide=1&feature=share

letterpress silkscreen gif

keep calm and carry on

Taking my own advice to keep calm and carry on with the video started last week.

What does is say and what does it fail to say? Does speak of layering and landscapes.  Slips into boring in middle, maybe reduce time and edit some out. Definitely need to fade in/out to remove the people in sections of video. Why have the copper texture? making the layer more veiled and metallic, OK, but better without? try both and try reducing the effect with lower % opacity.

The idea behind it?  layers, textures, landscapes, impact, industrialisation, revealing, excavating.

Breakthrough after expressing ideas to Jeremy and direction gained after questions posed and work continued

• what are you intending to convey - is it textural, a poetic shift from domestic? yes
• what about sound, is it important? yes, have recorded machinery and natural sounds already, need to embed and also remove some of the original sound. Did source drill via Sound Bible and edited in Audacity, thanks for tip.  Have now extended that and using my own recorded audio, after adjusting them in Audacity , imported sounds into final cut pro project and will continue with this with the new sounds I recorded last week.  
  
• Jeremy's visual diary notes expressed tracks building up, peaking, and lowering mimics what is happening with the number of tracks and the opacity;  already done.  Have extended  visual diary notation, it has resonated for me, and helped clarify what to work towards with the audio and visual tracks of the final cut project. 

working towards...

today I reverted back to video and also using stills to create a video, overlaid a number of images and videos with transitions and blending of layer like collage, hence the project name, collage.  It is work-in-progress and feels like a long way to go but it is working towards what I have in mind - a series or loop of created landscapes recording our path across and impact upon them. I want to link/embed with the sounds of different environments and machinery I have recorded. The idea is to present them as a projection in the AV room and utilise the dome projection for an encapsulated sense of space and/or goggles and/or interactive reflective video if possible , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxR6EVYj-aA. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-yourself-in-arcade-fires-interactive-reflektor-video-20130909

http://122909a.com

This is a great text from a book called "Post-Internet" by Gene McHugh.

Easy to read. Covers art in the post-internet society and how painting can relate to computers.

Two thumbs up.

CA

Had a laugh at the email from You Tube "Looks like someone's been inspired lately. Here are the videos you just uploaded." Why, thankyou YouTube, very perceptive of you. Actually, inspired by the links Jeremy shared with me last week to engineering and arts collaboration for interactive media for training and art. Posted a lot of links on the blog also here http://www.icinema.unsw.edu.au/projects/icasts---mining-vr/
"In a myriad of ways, the effects of the rapid uptake and convergence of new media technologies are felt and experienced by populations and individuals at the level of a virtual and actual sense of dislocation. Fragmentation of ”community”, urbanization, and the collapse of locale and neighbourhood, the erosion of the private spaces of the sexual and the familial – all these have emerged as themes attributable to the restructuring and divergent flows of new information economies and mediascapes.’ Anna Munster, in response to exhibition (dis)Locations, featuring Del Favero. I'm trying to source the DVD but so far, only the essays have been sourced.
http://www.videoartchive.org.au/dfavero/45minutes.html

Ben Ridgway; Cosmic Flower Unfolding

I just found this talented artist, animator who makes these hypnotic movies.

Art Ltd quote-
“Ben Ridgway presents his Continuum Infinitum, a kaladeoscopic, mandala-like digital animation, played as a continuous loop. Like the worlds created by artist and set designer H.R. Giger, Ridgway’s trance-inducing experimental animation seems inspired equally by the industrial and the organic. At the center of Ridgway’s animation is a still point from which fine details emanate. Imagine watching the “star gate” sequence of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey while inside a dome, thereby plunging you fully into the experience, and you get some idea.”

Tristan's blog : surrealism cinema study

http://chenquanyu123.blogspot.com.au/

line of canola

I recently pinned up on a wall in the print corridor, 186 images taken with a go-pro in a paddock of canola. The images were taken 1 every 10 seconds and then placed on the wall in sequence, as you walk along the wall you can see the light change, clouds move and a bit of movement from myself walking in the paddock. If you just looked at a few in sequence there would be no difference detectable, however when you walk down the corridor and look sideways you create you're own foot powered stop motion effect.
This isn't the greatest footage but it kind of gives the effect. its also running right to left just to change things around.

omg you guys i just made my first gif and it's probably the first of many gifs...
http://amymediaart.tumblr.com/

After a good discussion with Jeremy in class today (thank you) i have been busy on you tube and the internet looking up Stan Brakhage and his work.

"Mothlight"

Stan Brakhage

1963

  Brakhage constructed an organic visual nest (moth wings, grass, leaves, dirt) and put it between strands of tape, which was then rephotographed through an optical printer. 

"The Dante Quartet"

Stan Brakhage

1987

 Many of his most famous works pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Some, including the legendary Mothlight, were made without using a camera at all, as he pioneered the art of making images directly on film, by drawing, painting, and scratching. 

 This led me onto Oskar Fischinger who was making video years earlier but with the same imagination, passion and inventive techniques.

"Allegretto"

Oskar Fischinger

1936

Fischinger manipulated hundreds of paper cut-outs hung on invisible wires and shot a frame at a time to make this animation.  

"Optical Poetry"

Oskar Fischinger

1938

http://www.oskarfischinger.org 

 This website has interesting information that Ive enjoyed reading. His paintings using circles is also relevant to some of my work I'm currently working on in the print studio....bonus.  

 "Pulling Whirl" 1964

"Revolving" 1965

processing and video

Today I wanted to apply the asci code to video  recorded from a site field trip to manipulate  the images to create an artificial/ technology world.  This has involved hacking the code from asciVideo routine to make it import the movie rather than video:
void setup() {
  size(1280, 960, P2D);
  // Load and play the video in a loop
  movie = new Movie(this, "SANY0023.mov");

inserting a save routine and ensuring enough # for the frames generated:
   saveFrame("frames/frame######.png");
making the saved frames increment and save to a folder on the desktop:
 for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {

then importing the frames into final cut pro to edit and create video

code changed in places, experimented to get an interesting image such as font size, 2.5 min video 4500 frames

fontSize = 1.5;

at this point still processing the movie into frames so fair bit of work to be done to create the final video, but original source material (2.5 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLCD0Ts34LEand short video with limited frames from  the video (3 sec) on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1skJ8mK34Cc

This is just one of the frame images (number 4281) with brightness/contrast adjusted in photoshop