6-WEEK Project Friday

Today, I am tired as I stayed up late talking to our delightful SERVAS visitors, and then had to download and install my new subscription to Norton.

Still, I've made it into college, late it's true, but I am here.

Think I will work on the bits and pieces I have to have ready for the tutorial when we get back from Berlin- I'm first at 1000 so I would like to be ready rather than having to work on it the weekend I return.

Please bring
short written brief to tutorial outlining
main interests,
themes
possible outcomes of project.

So this is what I have to produce. Even looking at it, I begin to feel a sinking feeling so I'd better just start writing.

What are my main interests?
Some of my interests are

• The beauty and uniqueness of the ordinary world, just as it is.
  
• That there is (or I want there not to be) any boundaries between my everyday life, my art life and my spiritual life. I want to produce art-work that demonstrates this philosophy.
  
• That the world is a different place now because of the feminist movement, but in my opinion, not all the changes have been positive for all sections of the human race. I have an interest in exploring this issue through art-related communication, but don't currently have precise ideas of how I might do this.
  

What themes might I want to explore?
Maybe what I have listed above are also 'themes', but I am choosing to define this in terms of project ideas I might like to explore.

• Appropriation of Gerry Greene pictures to create 'video paintings'.
• Make another simple video like the Two Hands piece, this time more about drawing, perhaps with clue words, maybe from a song. (thinking of Susan Hiller and her automatism - not sure exactly how it might work out)
  
• Bipolar Balance see-saw to explore Depression
• Make a toy theatre using either/or After Effects or Isadora to have sliding 'sets' moving in and out as they used to do in Regency and Victorian times.

What might be the outcome from the project I have in mind
I need to do some experimentation before I decide finally what I am going to do.

I am quite keen on the idea of having a show at the end of the project, and am wondering whether I should be thinking of resources at this stage (cut my cloth according to my measure), or should I just plan what I want to do, and then trust the Universe to provide?
I think the latter course - depend on the Universe - even though impractical, might produce the better work.

I think space will be limited, so probably a self-contained piece would be most suitable. Well, we shall see. Maybe a self-contained piece might not be what's needed.

ACTION
Need to contact Gerry Greene and se how he feels about me using some of his images. - DONE!

While on GMAIL, I just read a message with the following quote:

They say Forbes magazine in which Peter Drucker predicted
the internet, broadband and mobile trends is the same one who has
predicted that the next great growth opportunity is what he
called 'webucation'- studying on internet. Success university aims
to be No. 1, their product personal development.

This could tie in very well with what Cliona said yesterday when she gave me my results (I've forgotten the numbers), but I do remember her saying that I could consider web-page art as a possible way to go, particularly because web-files use so little storage on computer.
If the quote about is correct, this use of web-art as a non verbal 'webucation' might be really good, so long as I could make it truly 'interactive', which I think is very possible.