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Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Cardiff and Bures Miller are a huge influence on a majority of my work, including my Minor Project. My admiration for their work was heightened by the exhibition The House of Books Has No Windows which was showing at Modern Art Oxford between 15th October 2008 - 18 January 2009.
With my current project I feel that the influence of carefully considered sound-based elements within Cardiff and Bures Miller's work is of particular relevance. I will consider the effect of such installations as The Dark Pool, Road Trip
Schedule
Week 1 (26/10/09-01/11/09)
Monday:
Design Circuits
Research
Tuesday:
Work on aesthetics, design.
Wednesday:
Build first circuit (if parts have arrived in post!) and build a mock up - Test
Thursday:
Work
Friday:
Calculate length of tape that will fit into printer track and how long this is in seconds.
Saturday:
Work
Sunday:
Brick Lane market: look for tape-based products and printers.
Week 2 (2/11/09 - 8/11/09)
Monday:
Record Sound
Tuesday:
Measure tape and cut into strips or mark to be cut
Wednesday:
Build further mechanisms/circuits
Thursday:
Work
Friday:
Build further mechanisms/circuits
Saturday:
Work
Sunday:
Junk shop in Nottingham
Week 3 (9/11/09 - 15/11/09)
Monday:
Junk shop in Derby
Tuesday:
Finish aesthetic design and scout out relevant materials
Wednesday:
Scout out relevant materials
Thursday:
Work
Friday:
Finish mechanisms/circuits (depending on materials gathered)
Saturday:
Work
Sunday:
Brick Lane market: look for tape-based products and printers.
Week 4 (16/11/09 - 22/11/09)
Monday:
Build installation
Tuesday:
Build installation
Wednesday:
Build installation
Thursday:
Work
Friday:
Build installation
Saturday:
Work
Sunday:
Brick Lane Market: Final visit to get any more needed objects
Week 5: (23/11/09 - 27/11/09)
Building and testing up to deadline (27/11/09)
Preliminary Sketches/ Statement of Intent
Over the summer break I have developed an interest in using magnetic tape, I have always fancied creating something sound-based as most of my work to date has involved moving image.
Here are some pages from my sketchbook:
STATEMENT OF INTENT
For my minor project I will be exploring physical computing through the use of Arduino technology and/or basic electronic mechanisms. My project will consist of a sound-based installation utilising the qualities of magnetic audio tape. I desire to use this medium because of its potential to be used experimentally, taking advantage of it's aesthetic, physicality and manipulability. I will be mostly experimenting with how magnetic tape can be played back using unconventional means, extracting a tape head from an already existing audio product and utilising it in a creative and experimental manner.
My installation will contain a series of motor's and track's (taken from disused printers) mounted on a panel in front of the spectator. Within the print head I will install a tape head and on the track, a strip of tape. The tape head's will be taken from various tape-based technologies, such as cassette players, answering machines, dictaphones and reel to reel players. I will use the lo-fi acoustics of the different machines to emphasise the fact that this technology, which was once universal, is now rapidly becoming obsolete in a digital era of crystal-clear sound.
The tape that I choose will be segments of a recorded short narrative or poem. The spectator will be able to control the movement of the tape head's across the strips of tape by controlling the motors using a panel of buttons, switchers and/or potentiometers. The separation of the narrative will encourage the spectator to create cohesion by controlling the motor's in the correct order. This references the idea that a machine is only as cohesive as it's creator makes it, and these technologies, which are designed to play a consistent replica of a message or piece of music can be broken down and deconstructed due to their vulnerability as a physical object, however, questioning whether this is any different to the vulnerability of modern day audio files which can just as easily become corrupted, remixed or deleted.
Points of Reference:
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
Theory:
The theory I will be referring to and in which my piece will belong is postmodernism, particularly the use of old and new, high and low.
Jameson - 'postmodernism & consumerist society' in The Anti-Aesthetic
Jenkins - Convergence Culture: Where Old and new media collide
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