Food for Thought – Page 5

Dec 21

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Rindon Johnson

Monday Guest Lectures – Rindon Johnson – Rindon Johnson is an artist and poet. He has based his work in language. Johnson has presented solo exhibitions at Chisenhale Gallery (London), The Julia Stoschek Collection (Düsseldorf) and the SculptureCenter (Long Island City). Johnson has participated in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Kunstverein Freiburg, The Hammer Museum, The Whitney Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Literaturhaus Berlin, Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel among others. He is the author of Nobody Sleeps Better Than White People (Inpatient, 2016), the VR book, Meet in the Corner (Publishing-House.Me, 2017), Shade the King (Capricious, 2017) and The Law of Large Numbers: Black Sonic Abyss (Chisenhale, Inpatient, SculptureCenter 2021). He was born on the unceded territories of the Ohlone people. He lives in Berlin. Source: Take Away From The Talk Nothing really is out of bounds, not even the sex life of whales. Rindon discovered that when whales climax they experience colour in their brains which is unusual because apparently they don’t normally see in colour. This can only mean that they have a heightened experience. To make art from this is a unique and highly creative idea. Rindon has created the most beautiful glass […]

Dec 21

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Louise Giovanelli

Monday Guest Lectures – Louise Giovanelli (b. 1993, London, UK) lives and works in Manchester (UK). She completed her postgraduate studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main (DE) with professor Amy Sillman in 2020, after having earned a Bachelor’s Degree (B.A. Hons, Fine Art) at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester (UK) in 2015. Louise Giovanelli has been drawing attention as a rising young painter for her delicate, luminous works, which inject vitality into historical subjects from the canon of Western art. Through interconnected series, Giovanelli weaves together visual clues surrounding a specific moment or event. Her subject matter is primarily chosen for its formal qualities and includes, staged photographs, film stills, classical sculpture, and architectural elements. Within each series, Giovanelli repeats her motifs and certain paintings appear nearly identical, excepting slight alterations of the composition, or tonality. Deftly manipulating light and form, her multivalent imagery reminds us that the classical foundations of painting remain sources of delight and innovation. Keenly attuned to the historical significance of painting as a medium and system of representation, her paintings challenge the eye by dissolving representation into carefully crafted textures and patterns. For Giovanelli, painting allows for a visual slowing-down, and beholding her works is akin to […]

Dec 21

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Amanda Newall

Monday Guest Lectures – Amanda Newall bio-interdisciplinary artist and educator. Institutional posts include; The Royal Institute of Art Stockholm Sweden, Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Art Lancaster University and a series of posts in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Exhibitions include; Austin Tea Rooms Sculpture on the Peninsula, Hotel Jaguar, Exposed Arts Projects London, The Nordic Biennial Momentum 9 ‘Alienation’ Norway. The Hoover Diaries film, tour of NZ. Other exhibitions include galleries in Aotearoa, Australia, America, South America and Europe. Grants and awards include: Recipient of the 2021 Olivia Spencer Bower art award (differed to 2022 due to covid). Shortlisted for the Wallace awards and included in the touring show, shortlisted for the Rupert Bunny Award Australia, Swedish Arts Council funding, New Zealand Arts Council funding, STINT, IASPIS Sweden. Public presentations include: The International Award for Public Art, University of Paris 1 Sorbonne, ISEA Canada and Singapore, TATE Liverpool, Umea Academy of Fine Arts. Source: Performing Dress Take Away from The Talk Amanda Newall – My main take away from Amanda’s talk was: get crazy, make costumes, bring dreaming into your work. Shoot on location in wacky costumes, all while addressing serious issues. Use all kinds of research and different disciplines to inform […]

Dec 21

by Karyn in Abstract Art, Ai, Evaluations, Experimentation, Food for Thought, Ideas, My Learning, My Work, Patterns, Videos 0 comments tags: Abstract Art, ai, Evaluations, Experimentation, Food for Thought, My Learning, my work, Patterns, Videos

Creative Coding

Discovering Creative Coding with Processing – I thoroughly enjoyed our Zoom Session 10 where we were introduced to ‘Processing’. We had a small workshop that was run by Matthew Edwards. Processing is a simple but effective programming language ideal for anyone looking to undertake creative coding. I was absolutely ‘sold’, indeed I decided to explore further. Processing.org is a really well designed and thought out educational website teaching creative coding for beginners. It allows students to copy and edit code within an interactive browser while working through the online tutorial videos. I was delighted to receive a little certificate once I had completed my first hour of programming tuition. Certificate of Completion Below is my certificate of completion. I can thoroughly recommend the Precessing.org website for anyone who would like to begin a creative coding journey. Recently I have been working with Touch Designer and my last project involved some coding work. Processing has really helped with my understanding of the Touch designer workflow. This week I was able to tackle quite a difficult Touch Designer tutorial about ‘Lissajous Curves’. I believe the success of this project was largely due to understanding what code I was adding and why. This […]

Dec 21

Zoom Session 10

Programming with Processing 😊 – This has to be one of my favourite sessions so far. I love all of my zoom sessions, but the chance to learn a little programming is always a positive for me. Until today I hadn’t come across the programming environment called ‘Processing’. I downloaded the software onto my computer and I attempted to play around with it a little. This was to familiarise myself with it a before the start of our session. I found the tutorials really informative and I very quickly got the ‘gist’ of it. We also had a guest speaker Matthew Edwards, who came in to give us a demonstration and work with us through some example code. It was a very good pace and pitched perfectly for a total beginner like myself. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the results of my little programs. I also thoroughly enjoyed the group conversation afterwards. Jonathan introduced us to GPT chat. This is an advanced algorithmic program that can write highly intuitive essays from user text prompts. It can also write code. This week I’ve had lots to think about and explore. I have updated my ‘Zentangle’ gallery to reflect all of my little […]

Dec 21

by Karyn in Drawings, Food for Thought, Research, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings 0 comments tags: Books, Drawings, Food for Thought, Research, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings

Zoom Session 9

Playing Catch-Up – Even though I was only away in London for a few days, I feel there is so much that I need to catch up on! I found zoom session 9 on the playlist and managed to watch it all. Julia Flood, librarian at CSM gave a very informative presentation about the library and it’s services that are available to us. This is something that I want to explore further and I will be documenting this as I begin my research journey. I really do want to take full advantage of what the library has to offer as I felt Julia’s talk was very inspiring! In the meantime please see below for my weekly ‘Zentangle’ Design. I felt a little out at sea this week with all of the information about the library. This is why I chose to produce an image of a boat. It certainly brought me back down to Earth in terms that I really do need need do properly conducted research. CSM has access to all kinds of wonderful resources that I really need to explore. I have already started to do some basic keyword searches and I think that help with materials will […]

Dec 21

by Karyn in Artists, Culture, Food for Thought, Galleries, My Work, Research, Videos 0 comments tags: Artists, Culture, Food for Thought, Galleries, my work, Research, Videos

London Part 2

A City of Culture – I’ve visited London on numerous occasions but this time was different because it was with the specific aim of visiting art galleries and museums. My visit to the capital last week was a business trip. This week I was helping my colleagues to escort 30 students around a number of museums and galleries. Following is an account of my time there. I have also documented some of the most amazing artworks at a number of leading galleries. Day 1 Our first day was spent travelling. Just like last week I travelled from Paignton to Paddington with one change at Newton Abbot. However it very nearly didn’t happen because a train broke down near Paignton. This meant that we were almost an hour late. Therefore we had to get a later train from Newton Abbot to Paddington. Sadly because of the delay we lost about 2 hours and arrived around 9.00pm instead of 7.00pm. Above is the view from my hotel room window. Although it was a later than planned arrival, we dumped our bags and headed out to find somewhere to eat. We wound up at a Turkish restaurant near to the Ibis Hotel […]

Nov 26

London

Time & Travel It’s Better to Travel Than to Arrive? – This was a quote I stumbled across earlier this year. Unfortunately I’m not sure who said it, but given I was travelling to London I decided to use it anyway. This was the first of two trips to London this year. As I am a keen photographer I decided to document anything interesting. I couldn’t help but notice that the light was particularly beautiful at Newton Abbot train station. However this was nothing compared to the beauty of the ceiling structures at Paddington train station. Below is a small collection of images including the view from my hotel window. A Few Random Shots with My Smartphone Unfortunately I had decided to leave my DSLR at home. However, should I ever decide to shoot Paddington station again these are the kind of shots I would take with my DSLR. My smartphone is great for this activity, but maybe not so good with its pixel count. The Most Underwhelming Time-Lapse Ever! At the start of this blog I muted – it is better to travel than to arrive? I’m not sure that is strictly true, but just in case, […]

Nov 22

by Karyn in Ai, Drawings, Food for Thought, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings 0 comments tags: ai, Drawings, Food for Thought, Zentangles, Zoom Meetings

Zoom Session 8

Much Food for Thought – This week was a real ‘food for thought’ week. We started our meeting with a presentation from the Post Grad Community Team, who gave a very informative talk about what they they do and the weekly newsletter they create. I am really interested in a number of the items they spoke about including: a Post Grad Ambassador role and a potential residency. My heart is saying yes apply, but my head is asking how feasible is a residency when I’m juggling both work and a young teen. Sadly, I don’t think she (the young teen) would like it very much if I disappeared for a few weeks especially during her GCSE year. But I’m the eternal optimist so I’ll never say never. Before I begin to work through our session today this afternoon, here is today’s Zentangle doodle. If you would like to see all of these weekly images to date, here is the blog post where I am curating them. Today’s Zentagle Imagination This week much of our discussion revolved around ‘imagination’. In our small group (it was nice to see some familiar faces) we chatted about what curtails imagination for us. […]

Nov 11

by Karyn in Ai, Books, Food for Thought, Tasks, Zoom Meetings 0 comments tags: ai, Books, Food for Thought, Tasks, Zoom Meetings

Zoom Session 6

Elusive Taxonomies – As always, I thoroughly enjoyed this week’s zoom meeting. I was introduced to the term ‘Elusive Taxonomies’. This isn’t a term that I was familiar with, but it has provided much food for thought. Our breakout group felt that the language was very formal. We discussed how the word taxonomy suggested the pigeonholing or categorisation of things. We found the word elusive in this context somewhat harder to define. We wondered if this may have been a word used by Darwin. Jonathan gave us some interesting pointers and interesting reading material. I screenshot some of the main points for future reference including some of the recommended literature from the session that I would like to read. Elusive Taxonomies a Discussion Task for Week 6 This week we have been asked to explore some reading material and present back to our peers. Early indications from my ‘Tag Cloud’ is clearly showing that I have an interest in Ai and it’s relationship with art. For this reason I decided to choose the book ‘Ai Super – Powers – China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order’ by Kai-Fu Lee. Key Discoveries from the Book Below […]

Rindon Johnson

Louise Giovanelli

Amanda Newall

Creative Coding

Zoom Session 10

Zoom Session 9

London Part 2

London

Zoom Session 8

Zoom Session 6

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