User:Emily/20160529

overview of the research project

The central figure of the research project is Symbolically charged obejects.
Be it in cinema, contemporary art, or ditial commons culture (specifially among these shared 3D files in the network culture), SCOs are distallations of certain structures, no matter if it's cinematic narration, institutional categorization or social condition at large.

The research and practice draw the attention to the affinity relationship between the chosen objects with readymades.

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The above will be explained in two parts that are mixed up, one is my own practices and the other is influences of the particular way of looking at objects that informs what I do.

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sybolically charged obejects in circulation

➡️Areas of research: Cinematic Objects (Objects as protagonists):
Hitchcockian objects: The key in Notorious and Dial M for Murder, the wedding ring in Shadwo of a Doubt and Rear Window, the lighter in Strangers on a Train
Typical MacGuffin/cienmatic pretext: Opening scene from Milano Calibro 9 (1972)
Object of exchange: compare the key in Dial M for Murder with the letter in The Purloined Letter.

➡️Areas of research: SCOs in comtemporary art:
Duchamp's readymades, and the informatioanl circuit
The changing face of readymades: in Guy Ben-Ner's work, I'd Give It to You If I Could But I Borrowed It
Sharable readymades, a work of Rob Myer, who "iconic art historical objects to the cultural commons"(Pipe, Ballon dog and Urianl).

➡️Areas of research: SCOs in ditial commons culture:
Thingiverse as a case study: the leading website for 3d printing designs in its repository are free to upload and download.
A group of objects are selected from Thingiverse, the most popular website for sharing creative commons of 3D files. They exist in a grey zone, a disputed border which questions what objects can be shared and produced.
It goes to show the power of certian forms even when they are separated from their function.

The readymade comprise not found obejcts, but instead "found structures beyong visible reality and its seeming concreteness." -- art historian Benjamin Buchloh
Like the readymades once towed the boarder-line of the art in the institutional museum-garllery, the sharable 3d printed files follows the same manner question what can be shared as digital commons.

Symbolic network

"There are no commons without community: commons are always maintained and managed by a community"

• the well-organised absense of information that draws us in
• storytelling without a dialogue, the purest form of cinematic storytelling
• the domain of the production of artists

Graduation project

For the Common Good

You need to present to us an overview of your self-directed research project: -- your aims -- the areas you have researched -- a brief history of your outputs across the research project in your 2nd year -- and the selected final outputs you have elaborated as your graduation project.

You should show us the the forms you wish to present in the Graduation Show :- your plans, prototypes and visualisations of the final performance / installation etc