'Sculpture as Screen': Projected animation(s)
Sculpture as Screen
A multi-component output consisting of a series of five works ('Kitchen Collider', JHB, Pellucid, 'Office Metropolis', 'Brunel's last dream') that exist as either video projection installations or videos documenting the said installations. These works utilise projected animations to examine the nature of the screen as a sculptural concern whilst acknowledging its relationship to the vernacular and the technological.
The work operates within an extended notion of the term ‘cinema’ and both still, and moving, projected images are used as a means to interrogate the nature of the screen and what might constitute such a surface.
The work acts upon the detritus that surrounds us. Very low level materials such as discarded plastic bottles, bin liners, polystyrene packaging and cardboard boxes are juxtaposed with high-end technology in terms of the use of projectors and 3D animation software.
The animations are made using 3D software utilising some of the more unusual properties of particle systems, camera clipping and glitches.
Objects made from translucent materials are sometimes used to allow the light from the projector to bounce around inside them, promoting a sense that the projections are actually within the objects rather than simply sitting on the surface.
Essentially the animations attempt to propose a degree of suspicion as to what is physically present and what is simply a projected image.
‘Kitchen collider’ installation dimensions: 1m x 0.75m x 0.5m, projection distance 1.5 m
‘Office metropolis’ installation dimensions: 2m x 1.5m x 1m projection distance 2.5 m
‘Brunel’s last dream’ installation dimensions: 2m x 1.5m x 0.25m projection distance 2.5 m
‘Pellucid’ installation dimensions 2m x 1m x 0.5m, projection distance 2.5 m
‘JHB’ installation dimensions: 2m x 0.5m x0.5m, projection distance 1.5 m
Link to output:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ5I5Icl7kk&feature=youtu.be
‘Sculpture as Screen’
This output gathers together five videos/video projection installations from an on-going, larger series. These selected works have been extensively disseminated from 2014 to 2020 (see below). Other works in the series can be found in the accompanying contextual information.
‘Kitchen collider’
01/11/2014
Video selected (shortlist) to be exhibited at ‘Northern Artists Film Programme Prize’, mobile cinema, Salford quays (under the pseudonym Joe Stokes). Group exhibition.
http://quaysculture.com/past-projects/2014-projects/cinema-truck/
08/09/2015
Video selected to be exhibited at ‘Carbon meets Silicon’, Oriel Sycharth Gallery, Glyndwr University. Group exhibition.
Link to online catalogue (p12):
http://glyndwrpix.co.uk/carbonaugust2/mobile/index.html#p=1
21/10/2015
Video selected to be exhibited in the online moving image gallery of the ‘National open art competition’. Group exhibition.
Website no longer available.
03/12/2015
Video selected to be exhibited at ‘LUZ’, PRISMA Art Projects, Galeria Casa Jefferson, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. International group exhibition.
Link to facebook site:
https://m.facebook.com/events/1653021281650167?__tn__=%2Cg
‘Office metropolis’
03/09/2015
Video selected to be exhibited at ‘Alternative worlds’, DYMA, Plano Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, international group exhibition as part of the architecture conference ‘DO YOU MEAN ARCHITECTURE’.
Link to conference website (see button 2):
http://www.doyoumeanarchitecture.com
Link to conference website (alternative worlds):
http://www.doyoumeanarchitecture.com/2015/08/alternative-worlds/
Link to conference website (blog):
http://www.doyoumeanarchitecture.com/blog-2/
21/10/2015
Video selected to be exhibited in the online moving image gallery of the ‘National open art competition’. Group exhibition.
Website no longer available.
28/03/2019
Video selected to be exhibited at ‘yoo-TOH-pee-a’, ‘FIIK Studios, Leeds. Group exhibition.
Link to exhibition advertisement:
https://www.redeye.org.uk/exhibitions/yoo-toh-pee
05/08/2019
Video selected to be exhibited at ‘synergic’, ArtNumber 23/Ovalo gallery, Mexico. International group exhibition.
Link to gallery website:
https://www.artnumber23.uk/events
link to exhibition catalogue (page 10):
https://issuu.com/artnumber23/docs/mexico
‘Brunel’s last dream’
21/10/2015
Video selected to be exhibited in the online moving image gallery of the ‘National open art competition’. Group exhibition.
Website no longer available.
15/03/2019
Video selected to be exhibited at ‘Dream states’, non dual xqdq, Hoxton Cabin, London. Group exhibition.
Link to facebook site:
https://www.facebook.com/events/541155466375287/
23/08/2019
Video projection installation (version 2) selected to be exhibited at ‘FUBAR’, The Crypt gallery, London. Group exhibition.
Link to gallery website:
http://cryptgallery.org/event/fubar-exhibition/
Link to curators’ website:
https://www.fubarcollective.com/exhibitions
24/01/2020
Video projection installation (version 3) selected to be exhibited at ‘nice to see you to see you nice’, CASC gallery, Chester. Group exhibition.
Link to gallery website:
https://www.cascgallery.co.uk/nicetoseeyou
‘Pellucid’
09/10/2015
Video projection installation exhibited at ‘Leeds Light Night’, Leeds.
Arts Council commission to create a piece of work as part of the ‘SHINE’ emerging artists programme. Group exhibition.
Link to website:
https://whatson.leeds.gov.uk/lightnight/previous-editions/2015-light-night
Link to exhibition catalogue (page 20 No.48 – Pellucid):
https://whatson.leeds.gov.uk/lightnight/Documents/Light%20Night%20guide%202015.pdf
‘JHB’
10/09/2015
Video projection installation exhibited at ‘The JHB archive’, Birmingham Open Media, Birmingham.
Arts Council commission to create a new work in response to the lost work of Julian Henry Beck. Group exhibition.
Link to gallery website:
https://www.bom.org.uk/2015/07/14/jhb-archive-winner-announced/
Link to curator’s website:
http://www.jogane.co.uk/projects/286/lost-sculpture-the-jhb-archive/
- Submitting institution
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University of Chester
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-17/320005
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- https://youtu.be/lQ5I5Icl7kk
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of production
- November
- Year of production
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Output: Artefact
An on-going series of installations and videos that utilise projected animations to examine the nature of the screen and its relationship to the vernacular and the technological.
Research process:
The research methodology involves an iterative, studio-based enquiry and the work operates within the field of interdisciplinary installation involving the intersection of sculpture, animation and video projection. The animations are abstract rather than figurative in opposition to the projections of Oursler and Wodiczko. The ‘screens’ for the projections are ad hoc sculptural constructions often made from low level or discarded materials which means that this work is significantly different from any gigantic, public projections onto buildings.
The research investigates how the receiving screen for a projected image might be constructed in three dimensions to disrupt and reformulate any perception or potential reading of the said image. At the same time the research accommodates and acknowledges the material significance of the screen and how this might act as a foil to the technology involved. The sculptural elements are not simply a receiver for the projection but operate as a considered array of materials and objects that reference the work of Sze, Rhoades, Bock and Takahashi.
Research insights:
The research dislocates any generally accepted procedures for the presentation of projected moving images and repositions these within a frictional dichotomy between the technological and the everyday. The work purposely opposes any slick grandiosity involved in projecting images and the ‘smartness’ of technology is undercut with a ‘lo-fi’ sense of making do. The work creates an interplay that continuously questions the relationship between image and object and the shift in perception between the material and the immaterial.
Dissemination:
The installations and videos resulting from the research are exhibited in art galleries as well as domestic and corporate spaces both nationally and internationally.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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