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Lead/team names:
Dr Zoë Mendelson, Pathway Leader (Acting), BA Fine Art Painting, WCA Alex Veness, Senior Lecturer, BA Fine Art Painting, WCA
Number of others involved in the delivery:
TBC
Students: 6-8 core students (across years) invited to help lead, with others coming along on the days in question as producers and participants.
Invited students:
TBC
Title:
Imagining Technology
Collaborative making - towards interactive installation
Short paragraph for context (what you will do) and how will the public get involved, also please include type of event it is (workshop, intervention, gathering, performance etc).
‘The machine, largely self-regulating and highly adaptive, stands between man and his world.’ Roy Ascott, 1964
We will be creating new machines through which to re-collect, distribute and examine works from Tate’s collection - using the educational projects of Roy Ascott as a model. Roy Ascott talked of concepts formed and developed via visual means – reinventing syntax to navigate the inadequacies of verbal and numerate systems. We will be looking at how artists can connect with conceptual digital research via analogue experiments – developing practical analogues of conceptual, behavioural and environmental issues brought up by artworks within the collection.
Practically, our two days at Tate Exchange will involve material production in response to some direct questions posed by the lead group, following the methodology of Ascott’s Groundcourse but actively articulating issues arising within fine art as it continues to respond to and become activated by digital interfaces and modes of capture. Example questions could be:
Imagine you wake up one morning to find you are Colin Self’s Leopardskin Nuclear Bomber No. 2 (1963) Visually restructure the parts to form a new identity.
Imagining that Beatriz Gonzalez’ Interior Decoration (1981) is an analogue for an event that included sound, construct an analogue for a sound-work in Tate Modern.
Analyse and dissect Louise Bourgeois’ Cell (Eyes and Mirrors) (1989–93) Visually discuss its cellular structure.
These projects will run alongside two one-hour events on each date which link our own artistic research to the Imagining Technology project.
On 8 March Alex Veness will engage the public in production using his own self-constructed scanner camera.
On 22 March Zoë Mendelson will invite the public to create the soundtrack to a collage film.
Key words to help identify themes
Concrete virtuality Fear of the machine Luddism Painting as a technology Handmade machines Autography Ventriloquism Roy Ascott projects, 2011 - Leonardo Journal honorary editor / technoetic arts
Dates you are committing to, can be all: below dates (12pm to 6pm):
Weds 8th March Weds 22nd March
To get involved, come along on the day.
Requirements/wish list of kit:
Projection – wall with possibility of projecting active drawing from tablet Cardboard sheets and paper construction materials Tape of different colours Lenses – security fish eye / selection of spectacle frames / other forms of lens Filter gel sheets - coloured Access in advance for students to select and view works in collection with a Tate supervisor Wire cables and clamp attachments Rope Black mark-making stuff – pencils, pens, brushes and ink Large sheets cartridge paper at least 180gsm