User:Nicole Hametner/Graduate Research Seminar 2013-TM4.02

Practical Steps

retrospective view on former own work, summary in keywords
collection of notes and ideas of self directed research
collection of references in one single folder
develop a system for personal research database
create an up-to-date readinglist and concrete readingplan for the following weeks
make a clear separation between sources for the thesis and the graduation project
read and write annotations
outline a retroplan until the end of the forth trimester
finalise the project proposal
scout for locations, organise possible access to closed areas
produce small works that might help to develop towards the graduation project
casting for portrait shooting
test out different lightsituations in the studio
tutorials for postproduction
reflect about sound
reflect about presentation mode, how to simulate a space with an installation

Worklog/Retroplanning

25.09.13 Kralingse Bos, shooting in the moment before night falls
26.09.13 Draft for a personal manifesto, my position as an artist
27.09.13 Unseen Photofestival; Grimm Gallery Alex Verhaest videoinstallation
28.09.13 XXXL painting at Onderzeeboodloods; location scouting in harbour area
29.09.13 project proposal; retrospective view, make a neat copy of notes of ideas
30.09.13 read and start with annotations/synopsis...
03.09.13 database of references; readinglist and readingplan
04.10.13 test shooting project 1; evaluation and plan for project 2
05.10.13 prepare seminar Barend 08.10, possible individual tutorials 08.10 and 05.11?
06.10.13 project proposal...
10.10.13 location scouting
11.10.13 location scouting
12.10.13 evaluation of locations; plan the next shooting end of the month
14.10.13 project proposal; organize shooting for commissioned work in Bern
17.-28.10.13 work in Bern, shooting and complete the postproduction
29.10.13 project proposal...
31.10.13 shooting
01.11.13 shooting
02.11.13 evaluation and plan for next shooting
04.11.13 project proposal...
05.11.13 tutorial with Barend; project proposal, two more weeks to final version

Small projects/ prototyping drafts to understand and develop the graduation project

• photo/video brighten up, testshooting in park
• small selfmade beamer > rent beamer and reservate one whole day a projection room
• filmed photographs > iso settings and brighten up effect > reanimation of the picture?
• short film with labels (Project 1) > presence/ absence and stick on what is leftover
• magic lantern installed and fast memory card ordered for RAW shooting > need faster cardreader and external hard drive! > look at different tutorials for RAW shooting > Adobe Premiere und AfterEffects organisieren/ installieren
• RAW shooting: tree in wind, water surface, interiors > recorded RAW - dng - tif image sequence - mov > image sequence back and forth > what about the notion of "still- and moving" imaging? > record the sound independently and sync it afterwards!!!
• shooting in park without RAW > frame rate/ compression/ encoding/ datarate etc > what is the noise, what makes the noise, light and dark zones > treshold of the sensor, its limitations, signal-noise relation > how to get to the border between noise and the object behind?
• thinking about nightvision > research for other possibilities to brighten during recording > shoot during the evening, before dusk, process of darkening > ir-filter/ nightvision/ wideangle etc.
• film deleting the month of september on my cell phone > thinking about what remains > materiality of digital information
• found two old photographs with a visible layer of photographic emulsion
• first testshootings unfortunately in automatic mode? > why is the preview showing it differently than the quick time player?
• reference from David: Gillian Carnegie, Black Square > black painting of trunks with textured paint > about the viewers position, his movement to reveal the image > challenge of depicting a night scene > do I have to simulate my vision at night? > found old work of forest > Carnegie also mixes genres, still life, landscapes, portrait - including the gaze? > about the contradiction between matter and image
• film watertank in darkroom (Project 2) > coming and fading, images in constant movement > element of water, reflection of lighttubes on the waves > drying the photographs on the mirror, thinking about material and surfaces > now sound while RAW shooting!
• text from Laura Mark: How Electrons Remember > about particle-wave relationship > Yoanas "wave of pink noise" > loss of indexicality? are digital images fundamentally immaterial? > material connection between reality or is the connection entirely symbolic? > why factor of prolongation irrelevant in electronic imaging?! > la technologie de la photographie, Thierry Fumey
• Black paintings, Mark Rothko, Sugimoto's Pine trees, Odilon Redon
• Installation The Running Thunder from Steve McQueen > hanged screen in space > reflection of the presentational mode
• pointillisme from Seurat
• Text Bill Viola and the sublime, Rina Arya
• Interview and lecture Bill Viola, Louisiana Channel
• Tacita Dean/ Runa Islam/ The Sight of death by TJ Clark

Project 1:
During the summer I have worked two month in a factory. The company produces adhesive and sealant for the industry and ships its product all over Europe. The sound of the machines and the quiet monotonous working hours were an interesting experience. There were two days where I did nothing else than sticking labels on cardboard boxes, sometimes 50 of the same label for a small special comission, but also up to 1000 of the same. When I threw away the first charge of the remaining backsides of the labels I was fascinated by the way they felt into the big trash container. I decided to collect the huge amount of the following backsides in a bag and to bring them to Rotterdam to produce a small film. Not only the materiality of the backsides interest me, also the sound and rhythm of removing the label. Then other thoughts came to my mind, about the remainder in general, the idea of adhere to something and the process of detachment. I will test in the coming weeks how I can let the little paper pieces fly through the air and filming them, observe what happens while zooming in and discover some details towards a complete abstraction. Besides that I will record the sound of sticking labels on cardboard boxes and remind myself where I spend the last summer.

Project 2:
This small project follows another idea for a short film I had in mind. It will be shot in the darkroom, the camera is pointing on the rinsing tank where the developed photographs move around in the rythm of the water coming out of the pipe. Like the backsides of the labels in the air, the photographs also turn around, showing for a short instant the image and then turn away in the next moment presenting the reverse side, all accompanied by the ripple of the water.