PhD-Day

So I decided to take part in a PHD research day for the current PhD students.

This included being partnered up and brainstorming ideas for their practice to give them a different aspect of their work. To begin with the day, we had to do speed crits. We were sat in two rows facing each other, one side was the PhD students and the other the MA undergraduates.

The PhD students then had 3minutes to tell the opposite their practice and what they're doing, then once the 3 minutes are up, they move along to the next seat and do the same thing again.

This was quite an interesting crit that I had to take part in and only a few stuck with me and some I was thinking 'What? How do I even begin to comprehend'

In the next section I was paired with one of the students whose PhD made my head fall off.

Her PhD was based on smell and how the brain interacts with this. It started off like quite a good little collaboration but as they kept on talking about their practice, I started to get really really confused and kind of 'shut down' as I had no idea how my work and practice could've been integrated into their practice. In the end I ended up suggesting trying music to incorporate into their work. Like what would the tase of a lemon sound like etc. I thought a lemon would sound like static or something very abrasive. I left the session feeling really confused and a bit dumb because I couldn't think of anything that could've really benefited the PhD student, even though I was told that they were the hardest one to have been paired with.

Very hard session.

Some Animations for a Local Band

So a local band called Fleece contacted me about some of the animations I've been making on blender and wanted me to create one for them. They were very brief about what they wanted. The found some of my older art works that they would like me to take inspiration from.

A few different ones. I Would upload the animation but I need their approval first.

The Roots to my Project Pt 2

So as I have stated many times that the inspiration to my second year of my MA was the film 'A Ghost Story' by David Lowry and the concept of hauntology.

The film and concept both work with each other greatly. In the film the passage of time and time being a loop from start to finish while hauntology is about the past haunting the present and the mourning of a future that never happened.

So What is My Goal?

I want to integrate interdisciplinary methods from soundscapes and 3D rendering to explore the concept of hauntology and the passage of time. Although my sound work doesn't really follow the traditional ideas of hauntology in sound, I want to try incorporate my own insight into it.

I also want to develop transdisciplinary frameworks that transcend traditional art boundaries, incorporating insights from philosophy like Derrida, Foucault and current writings from the books of Simon Reynolds and Mark Fisher.

Doing these I can create innovative art pieces that allow viewers to experience the intersection of past and present, exploring haunted animations and spectral narratives.

I have also discovered the technology of NFC tags, these could be very useful in the way of taking the physical to the digital side of things. Merging the classical with the modern techniques.