Granville Internet Connection

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This work is a collection of different sound clips that have been recorded from everyday life. The composition of the clips have been arranged in a very choppy short similar to that of flicking through tv channels or browsing the internet, where the user quickly goes from one place to another and only focusing on a particular item for only a few moments. The track also transfers between the left and right speaker, which has a felling of a conversation between the sounds or the movement of one's place in a particular area. With this movement the audience is able to explore the space in a different way.

The work has elements of UVA's (united visual artists) work called "Speed of Light" which was an installation using record sounds from different sources and the movement of lights. Part of the work has elements of the light searching around part of the installation, picking up different sounds and noises. The sounds jump quickly over and around the different noises appears to be a constantly evolving element as new sounds from the audience are being added every time it goes over the area. The location where the work has been positioned has elements of the work called "Lament for a Drowned Love" by the artist Susan Philipsz, this work is a sound recording of a story underneath "George V Bridge" in Glasgow. The two locations are both underneath a means of connecting to area's together, it is also an area where members of the public can walk and contemplate at any time with out restrictions.

Walking Thought

Walking the cities

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Walking Thought is a virtual map that documents a walk preformed on the 6th of March 2011 in response to the Tate Britain to Tate Modern walk in London, UK.

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking” is a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche, in this piece the premiss of the work is to engage in this idea by walking to think. With this practise rooted into Situationist International, Dérive work. As an element of the Dérive, the Situationist used to take a map from one city or location and traverse a different city with this map trying to get to a location on the map. This comparing of the two cities in this way creates a connection between them, which is only discovered when acting the route. Part of the Dérive was walking and drop people's usual motives for movement and actions in the city, in the hope of changing their relations to the terrain and the encounters they find there. When seeing this piece in this context you understand that the combination of the two city images and the text it in an attempt to generate new way of thinking about the environment and how we engage with it.

The way this piece is set out and presented has elements of Sol LeWitt's 'Certificate for Wall Drawing' series, as the work sets out instructions on how to recreate and preform the work, it also shows the route and images of the way points. With the work giving out suggestions of thoughts through the text, could be seen to lead the participant in how they relate to the juxtaposing of the images. With the text being a poetic or quotation response to the images, hopefully this literature use is widely known in culture so it will allow the participants to engage fully with the work.

Review Of There/Here

In the art work called “There/here” by the artist Germaine Koh and Gordon Hicks, physically there is only two doors which have been linked together using technology. A door is an object that allows people to enter or exit when open, and denies enter or exit when closed while it is closed the door gives a sense of security and safety. While in this work these functions of the doors have been warped, as these doors are in the centre of the room with no connections to the wall or objects, they just stand there in their frames. This removes all their functions and leaves them as basic levers. This doors have a digital element to them as both doors have become synchronised with each other, through the internet, this means what ever you do to one door occurs to the other and vice versa. This arrangement creates a heterotopia with in the digital aspect, a heterotopia is a concept of space that function in non-hegemonic conditions. Which means there physical location does not change or effect the space, in this work the space is with in the digital dimension. With this in mind these door do act as door with the user allowed to open and close the door into the heterotopia.

This situation the doors synchronising makes the user when opening one door to feel a presents on the other door. This interaction with the doors seem to be an act of play as people could take it in turn to open and close the door, and play with the situation of trying to see if the door will always open for them when they touch one. This notion of play will be a instant reaction to the work, once this notion has been pasted the audience can fully interact with the piece. This type of learning curve is similar to what happens in technology, when a person first gets something new they play with it and try to work out what happens when they do something. It is a bottom to top action of learning, when you try something out and hope it works. When they have pasted this stage then the audience knows the relationship between the actions and use them to accomplish the tasks. This work is sited completely in new technology habits, with each part of the relationship engaging with the new ideas of the time. With the act of synchronising between the doors, makes the physical actions of the audience converted from a physical action to a cloud basted process which is then used on the door.

The cloud is when a computer system as been places on a web server so can be accessed anywhere in the world it is a heterotopia personal computer, where someone can place their work privately and hopefully securely. This notion of the cloud has become an important aspect of technology in the last few months. Specially with the wikileaks controversy, the idea that anything can be places on the internet and be displayed and used either privately or publicly depending on how it is setup is now in doubt as anything in the cloud removes the original authors permissions and protection of it. This makes any private information public without restrictions. This idea that the private actions of the audience's body movements in opening the door is changed into a public action as the other door is opened and it has become recorded in the cloud. This relationship can allow multiple members of the audience to interaction with each other and create a relationship between each other as their actions become a subject of public pleasure watching each the people interaction and preform for them and the computer.