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Apr 30
by Karyn in Ai, Animation, Augmented Reality, Experimentation, Film Production, Final Major Project, Final Outcomes, Unit 3 Blogs, Videos 0 comments tags: ai, Animation, Augmented Reality, Experimentation, Film Production, Final Major Project, Final Outcomes, Unit 3 Blogs, Videos

Augmenting the Book

Augmenting the Balance of Power Book – As part of my body of work I felt that it was really useful to produce an explanatory book all about the ‘Balance of Power – Unity in Bits’ mobile.  When I began the journey into the augmentation of the book I hadn’t really planned to shoot many clips, just enough to fill any gaps in my final film (Film Mark 2) and to give a flavour of the fully augmented book.  However, as I began creating each clip I decided to go ahead and augment the full book.  This needed to be done anyway as it will form part of my body of work. Once each of the pages had been augmented with video I decided to run all of the clips together to see how it looked.  What I hadn’t necessarily expected was that the total length of the resulting film was just over 7 minutes.  I wondered therefore, would it be possible to trim and tweak these clips to make the resulting film exactly 5 minutes?  My thinking was that this would afford me yet another possibility in terms of films to choose from. I was also keen to experiment […]
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Nov 17
by Karyn in Ai, Animation, Augmented Reality, Conclusion, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Graffiti, Ideas, My Work, Photography, Problem Solving, Research Paper, Research Paper Journey, Risk Taking, Sound, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos 0 comments tags: ai, Animation, Augmented Reality, Conclusion, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Graffiti, Ideas, my work, Photography, Problem Solving, Research Paper, Research Paper Journey, Risk Taking, Sound, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos

Love Letters From AI

Hidden Art – When I first began my MA, I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to do. Ultimately I knew it would be something to do with the hidden or the unseen. Initially I began looking at invisible phenomena such as sound waves and the passage of time.  However, nothing captured my interest quite as much as augmented reality.  It was this whole concept of a hidden unseen world (only accessible to those ‘in the know’), that intrigued me. While conducting research for my Research Paper I discovered that there is a distinct negative bias towards AI generated art. I looked at a number of strategies to help mitigate this bias.  Finally, after a number of image polls, used to inform my project, I created a fictitious robot called Athena.  Her name was inspired by the old Athena posters from the past.  My research was suggesting that humanoid robots with a sad ‘backstory’ could help to reduce bias and win over an audience when presenting AI art. At this point I began to develop a narrative for my robot.  During a visit to Barcelona, I was completely amazed by the sheer weight of graffiti adorning the city walls.  I […]
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Oct 27
by Karyn in Abstract Art, Ai, Animation, Augmented Reality, Culture, Experimentation, Graffiti, Ideas, My Work, Photography, Risk Taking, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos 0 comments tags: Abstract Art, ai, Animation, Augmented Reality, Culture, Experimentation, Graffiti, Ideas, my work, Photography, Risk Taking, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos

MACBA Metamorphosis

Barcelona’s Hidden Artists – While visiting Barcelona, I became fascinated with the vast swathes of graffiti covered walls.  It felt as if collectively everyone had given up on cleaning the walls.  Indeed, it felt as if the walls themselves had become works of art.  In stark contrast I also noted the pristine internal walls of the MACBA (One of Barcelona’s contemporary art museums). I was so ‘taken with’ the beautiful light inside of the MACBA that I decided to photograph it.  I also photographed many graffiti laden walls across Barcelona.  There really was a such a stark contrast between the pristine and the messy that I began to wonder what the MACBA would look like if it was plastered in graffiti? The internal walls of the MACBA were so beautifully clean that I felt an irresistible urge to ‘plaster’ them.  The vibrant colours and designs found externally on the Streets of Barcelona seemed a logical choice. Unfortunately, my dream of taking spray paints to the MACBA walls was pretty much out of the question.  However, I did have access to Photoshop, Ai and augmented reality. As a direct result of my thinking I managed to self publish 3 small art […]
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Oct 05
by Karyn in Abstract Art, Ai, Animation, Artists, Experimentation, Ideas, My Work, Patterns, Problem Solving, Risk Taking, Tasks, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos 0 comments tags: Abstract Art, ai, Animation, Artists, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Ideas, my work, Patterns, Problem Solving, Risk Taking, Tasks, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos

Grotto Print Ideas #1

Print Ideas & Adam Bridgland (Jealous London) –  Today we had an interesting talk about the ‘Grotto Project’ formerly ‘Merch’. Adam Bridgland from Jealous London came along to share some insights and revealed a lot of useful information – see a selection of his slides at the end from the talk.  I’ve just been looking at the deadlines and I’ve realised that I really do need to start moving on this. Some very interesting takeaways from the talk included answers to questions such as: what was a popular poster colour? What kind of images sold well?  Adam suggested that blue was a popular colour and skulls, butterflies and cute cats seemed to do quite well.  Unfortunately the human form, unless comprising a skull did not seem to fair quite so well. I’ve produced many digital images over the years, but the thought of choosing just one singular image to print has really made me think.  I have some interesting macro photographs of oil on water hanging on my walls.  One was bought by a large Australian advertising company, one hangs in the local hospital and one appears on an album cover.  Even Adobe use some of my work.  Therefore I can’t […]
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Jun 29
by Karyn in Abstract Art, Ai, Animation, Culture, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Ideas, My Work, Opportunities, Photography, Problem Solving, Risk Taking, Sound, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos 0 comments tags: Abstract Art, ai, Animation, Culture, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Ideas, my work, opportunities, Photography, Problem Solving, Risk Taking, Sound, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos

Barcelona Graffiti #2

Hidden Away – During my recent trip to Barcelona, I was was mesmerised by the colour and variety of the street art both in and around the city.  I briefly touched on this in part one of this post called ‘Barcelona Graffiti’.  I still don’t know exactly why I was so drawn to the graffiti (street art), except to say that the colours were amazing!  It seemed to relentlessly permeate throughout the whole fabric of the city, weaving a disjointed tapestry of colours.  Indeed it could even be described in some places as a riot of colour on an otherwise typical traditional cityscape and its walls.  All of this was in stark contrast to the walls of one of Barcelona’s most famous contemporary art museums, namely the MACBA.  Here there was no graffiti.  Everything inside was pristine with beautiful gleaming white walls.     A Short Recap Below is short video recap from Barcelona Graffit part one. It helps to illustrate the scale of graffiti and street art that can be found in and around the city.     In stark contrast to the brightly coloured graffiti in the video above, the following image gallery illustrates the crisp, clean, neutral […]
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May 06
by Karyn in 3d, Abstract Art, Animation, Artists, Experimentation, Mentions, My Work, Photography, Problem Solving, Risk Taking, Threats, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos 0 comments tags: 3d, Abstract Art, Artists, Experimentation, Mentions, my work, Photography, Problem Solving, Risk Taking, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos

A Temporary Distraction

The Annual College End of Year Film – Each year for the last few years I have been invited to produce our college end of year film.  It’s a long and quite complex task because it has to really showcase our department.  It needs to appeal to parents, staff and students alike.  Unfortunately because it is such a massive undertaking, my research has had to go on hold for a little while.  However in a couple of weeks I am due to fly out to Barcelona, so hopefully I‘ll have plenty of travelling time to catch up on my studies. In the meantime, I thought it would be interesting to document my film making process.  Each year I write all of the script, edit all of the video and use character animation software to enable animated characters to read the story’s narrative.  Often I also need to shoot my own video in order to help with the story and to fill in any gaps.  In fact I’m responsible for it all!  Over the last two years I’ve used a character I named ‘Horace ‘Boris’ Hedgehog’ (trust me, by watching the previous 2 films, his name becomes clear), this year it […]
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Apr 04
by Karyn in Abstract Art, Ai, Ai Chat, Animation, Artists, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Ideas, My Work, Photography, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos 0 comments tags: Abstract Art, ai, Ai Chat, Animation, Artists, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Ideas, my work, Photography, Unit 2 Blogs, Videos

Time of the Signs

A Physical Derive – Shortly after we had our Zoom Session 18 I decided to try out the concept of a physical derive.  My DSLR camera was at work, so I headed out armed with only my smartphone.  I had no preconceived ideas about where my walking or my thoughts would take me, I just decided to physically wander. On reaching the end of my street I was greeted by the huge sign for our local Funeral Director plus a plethora of road traffic cones and more signs around it.  I began to wonder about signs? At first I thought about taking photographs of purely negative signs, but then I thought, what about information overload?  Even in a short walk to the end of my street I had already encountered many signs packed with information.  I began to wonder what the ratio would be between negative and prohibitive signs and more positive and informative signs? Brixham is a small town and in my opinion ‘rammed to the rafters’ with signs, would a busy city centre be better or worse as a comparison in terms of signage? Then I began to wonder if there was a correlation between the variety and […]
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Feb 17
by Karyn in Abstract Art, Ai, Animation, Artists, Evaluations, Experimentation, My Work, Photography, Problem Solving, Videos 0 comments tags: Abstract Art, ai, Animation, Artists, Evaluations, Experimentation, my work, Photography, Problem Solving, Videos

Jason Schulman – Inspired Work

Hidden Light and Colours – I particularly admire the work by Jason Schulman.  I discovered him last week and ever since I stumbled across his work I have been absolutely ‘sold’ on it. Schulman records light with his camera across the entirety of a film.  His work has been incorrectly likened to that of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s ‘Cinema Halls’.  Schulman explains more about this in his interview with Dominic Jaeckle.  Although the process of recording the entirety of the film is quite straightforward, it appears that Schulman is somewhat a pioneer in the area of recording films. I am a huge fan of slow shutter techniques, which I believe were used in the creation of both Sugimoto and Schulman’s images.  Therefore I could not resist experimenting further using the work of Schulman and Sugimoto as a starting point.  I find the notion of light being recorded and compounded into one image very appealing.  Generally we never see light compounded in such a way so as to reveal a multitude of hidden colours and tones.   Throughout my project I have been searching for the ‘hidden’ in whatever shape or form that may take.  Schulman’s work reveals the beauty hidden in compounded […]
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Feb 11
by Karyn in Abstract Art, Ai, Animation, Context, Drawings, Evaluations, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Hand Written, Ideas, My Work, Problem Solving, Videos 0 comments tags: Abstract Art, ai, Animation, Context, Drawings, Evaluations, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Hand Written, Ideas, my work, Problem Solving, Videos

Boring, Boring, Boring

Nothing is Ever New – I often tell my students about a great piece of advice that I received as a photography student over 30 years ago.  The advice was simple, but it has had a profound effect on my work through the decades. It goes like this…… “When you have your finalised brief or theme – go away and brainstorm 5 ideas and write them down on a piece of paper. Once you have your list, screw it up, or better still tear it up and throw it in the bin.  Why???…Because those 5 ideas will probably be the exact same 5 ideas that everyone else will come up with.” I now always pass on this little piece of advice to all my students. They usually give me a look of abject horror, having just spent the last two hours working on the first idea that came into their heads. Yesterday Noah, one of my fellow students, kindly alerted me to an artist who is working very much along the same lines as me.  Here is an Instagram link to his work. I am not really surprised by someone else working in my area of trying to marry up […]
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Feb 01
by Karyn in Animation, Books, Drawings, Videos, Zoom Meetings 0 comments tags: Animation, Books, Drawings, Videos, Zoom Meetings

Zoom Session 14

The Art of Seeing – This week we ran a really interesting exercise.  We were asked to look at a photograph and then look again more closely and then keep repeating this.  It is amazing how much can be missed with a cursory glance at something.  Our group discovered so much by analysing the image over and over again.  The little details gave away lots of information.  For example the police officer in our image was wearing a red poppy.  Instantly we knew that the photo must have been taken somewhere in the UK in November.  The poppy is synonymous with Remembrance Day which happens around that time.  This week we also did another 5 minute free writing exercise.  Our task was to look around our immediate surroundings and then say what it all meant.  I talked about all of the disruption in my front room because of having the room below it plastered.  We are extending the house and everything seems quite chaotic at the moment. One thing which I found absolutely fascinating was the idea that my salary will actually be the same as my salary averaged across the salaries of my friends.  Even more interesting was the […]
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