Projects that may or may not be made
to be updated!
First Idea
What is it?
Transmitting information, data storage and structures through SSTV imagery.
Example: https://archive.org/details/youtube-yAzX4S4KEyc
Why make it?
- I’m interested in how SSTV imagery works and how this process could be more accessible? By accessible, I mean not needing a radio license to transmit such images. Could it be a way to send images to other unknown areas? Would we get a reply? (This is purely speculative thinking).
- Sometimes it feels a bit restricting, as its illegal to use this without a radio license: https://www.reddit.com/r/HamRadio/comments/u5sb5n/send_images_via_sstv_without_fcc_license/
- Can SSTV be reinterpreted into a programme that does not require a radio license? Would this defeat the purpose?
Workflow
- Learning about how SSTV technically works.
- Researching the history of SSTV, important events that mark milestones of this technology.
- Work out the main steps of using SSTV decoders and can I make my own programme for it?
Timetable
- I think this might take a month to figure out (research part). It is a bit of a technical project, which may require more than a month…
Rapid prototypes (scratches)*
- Look at SSTV programmes, see which functions they have in common.
Previous practice
- I’m interested in exploring this further as my previous practice is centred around the image, mainly using archival imagery as the main base of a project and building onto that narrative.
Relation to a wider context (personal reader?)
Choice made
- to be confirmed
Second idea
What is it?
Residency with Beyond What Drifts Us Apart 2025
"Beyond What Drifts Us Apart (BWDUA) is a multi-year interdisciplinary research and residency-based project that uncovers the less dominant narratives associated with the environments surrounding Malta’s historic (300-year-old+) coastal towers. As colonial legacies have dispersed over time, the relevance of these towers beyond their military and cultural significance has faded. However, their continued presence within fragile landscapes reveals the evolving relationships between impacted ecosystems, human intervention and non-human communities."
Why make it?
- Being invited to my first residency and working within the theme that has been proposed.
- I want to make larger work, thinking more of an installation
- working with the public as a method of research: through workshop giving and how can the results of such workshops contribute to the final installation
- can the work produced contribute to the eroding tower? How can I create a sense of permanence and record for this eroding historic sturcture?
Workflow
Timetable
- Residency ends in September 2025
- Working on the research now until May
- May till june/ july = polishing up proposal and waiting for feedback
- August/ September: working out logistics for materials and workshops
Rapid prototypes (scratches)* Previous practice
Relation to a wider context (personal reader?)
Choice made
- to be confirmed