SELF - directed

Self-directed research essay = 1000-1500 words

The aim of this exercise is:

(1) to further articulate your practice and to discuss it within a broader cultural and historical context

(2) to identify and articulate a methodology

Abstract/ Intro/ Text/ Conclusion
(Note on mode of address: imagine you are writing for a reader who is known to you, a peer or colleague. What needs to be explained to them for them to understand what you do?)

Guidelines: The aim of this assignment is to use description of your work as a way of identifying and articulating your method. Describing first what and then how and why you make work often leads to discussions of the works context (what work is similar to the work you describe; what are the key ideas the work deals with) . The theoretical elements of the texts you write should therefore emerge from, and have a very clear connection with, the work you are making. For this experiment I am asking you to follow the method outlined above so that you can begin to reflect and write quite deeply about the work you are making. A second method you will find useful is to draw on annotations of texts you have read which have a particular relation to the work you make.

Key themes

Abstract

"It is the vanishing point of now-here is the same time a no-where."

Describe recent work

"The pulse of RealTime orients the life of every citizen.
Eating, resting, going to work, getting married-every act is tied to RealTime.
And every act leaves a trace of data - a footprint in the snow of noise.
The New Machine monitors these data traces to ensure that all is well."

• Urban planting is a social intervention in public space or an action cease to provoke a reaction.

I placed a plant —a common interior feature out of the context at the Rotterdam Central metro station. I intentionally positioned it in the middle of the sidewalk where it frequently became an object of illumination by numerous fluorescent lights and CCTV cameras. I found myself and my non-depict form of intervention in the spotlight: overexposed, monitored and investigated. Thereby neither the absurdity of the object by itself, nor the audience’s bare reaction were central; instead it was the authority’s (in particular the security’s) response that became the main event of action.
I found myself interested in this anonymous or depersonalized, transit aspect of the city. The intervention was provoked by analysis on rhythm of space and time and how the "rhythm" in this sense "the enclose system" can be triggered, changed and even glitched. Nevertheless the project reflects upon to Foucauldian notion that we are constantly exposed to surveillance. Under numbers of CCTV cameras we have become an ultimate object of observation, monitoring, targeting and recording. Therefore I link my attempt to interfere with a system, questioning the aspect of enclosure spaces to “Faceless project” where interdisciplinary media artists Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel investigate surveillance, privacy, regulations of public space. "Faceless" is described as a CCTV si-fi fairy-tale narrative or visual essay which surfs as a continues journey of figures moving into the public space. The video consists of CCTV diverse footage, where the faces of the protagonists are replaced by dots surpassed by an abstract voiceover. Faceless project is a poetic, philosophical and artistic interpretation of the idea of mass surveillance. It explores the blurred boundaries between private-public, The machine - the machine operator and time – RealTime interconnection. The notion of the RealTime orients the life of every citizen. "The Machine" as - the ultimate tool, which operates in an invisible, unethical level – tracing data in RealTime – the current time of being.
reading_references:
"Postscript on the societies of control" by Gilles Deleuze, 1992
visual_references:
Faceless project – Voiceover (Manu Luksch & Mukul Patel), 2007

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• • "Disrupted practices" is an representation of an on going visual search.

The site documents series of experiments with an analog & digital signal in form of hardware and software intervention - found or appropriate. From Mac OS rejecting to install Ubuntu ... system_( system Error) throughout short video sample of Glitching the R'dam Bridge explores the idea of re-creation or mimicking of the aesthetics of the glitch using.
series of analog visual signals_ I experimented with controlling the RGB signals (three channels green, blue and red) from a VGA cable. Arduino perceives and transforms the signal as hi flickering glitches displayed on TV. A Max/MSP patch was used to communicate with Arduino through the Serial port, syncing the VGA signal to the frequencies of the played audio file. A MIDI controller was sending values to the patch for mixing the color channels and adjusting the distortions of the VGA signal. Search on analog signal or how to build an obsolete oscillator. In this workshop I experimented with building oscilloscope out of the Tv from the Workshop_1 (VGA customer controller) The DYI oscilloscope allows observation of constantly varying signal voltages usually as a two-dimensional graph of one or more electrical potential differences. The left and the right channel are connected to the screen. One is using for the (horizontal x-axis) and the other is plotted as a function of time (vertical or y‑axis). There are two built up amplifiers connected to two eight volt external speakers. I've used Abelton to send notes to the oscilloscope. The visuals are sync to the sound input.

The video is 2' documentation on the intervention. The object could be seen as nice tool for Audiovisual performances.

What links here:

• 'The work of art in the age of digital recombination' - Jos de Mul
  

• "Online video Aesthetics or the Art of Watching Databases" Networks without cause Geert Lovink, (to write annotation)

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Draft on Methodologies

The process is non repetitive. There are multiple paths, multiple plots, multiple processes. My methodology is a circle an infinitive form of on going search. There are no exact rules steps to be executed. Instruction One now follow step_1, step_2 then step# In these terms is extremely difficult to set up certain rules, a start or an end point there are multiple starts and ends of a work.
My methods of work is often connected to visual approach or already predefined “pictorial” outcome of the chosen subject of research. Often the process based leads to create or shift into another direction or ultimately become the actual work. Text source of thoughts (research based) is influential texts I would go forward and backwards referring or denying. Howsoever this method could be blocking or liberating at the same time. The text evaluates the work and structuralize in coherent way. Space real-virtual intersections – this is the place where I have to define to what extend I will incorporate "the internet " in my practice. Can it takes more complex form of online-offline back to online ( which does not necessary mean "net art" practices) Contextualize images use already existing source – combine, recombine, compare, match, mismatch and can they lead to different interpretations? I will stay offline and work with time-based media / images create an experience, perception, specific mood to address? Installation or performance based approach.

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conclusion???

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conclusion???

Ex.You Tube as a sculpture Why won't this video load?
The artist Constant Dollars made a physical sculpture out of the standard loading gif and then he uploaded it back to you tube, where comments why the video does not load were made.