About my 3rd Year practice

Preliminary:

My practice was resolved in second year by my exhibition piece '339 hours'. I mapping peoples addresses and turned them into abstract forms which I then animated and projected onto a perspex sculpture.
Visualising and creating my own sets of data inspired me to research data visualisation and the art that is created in this field.
For final year, I want to continue working with data visualisation and using projection in spaces and places.

Whilst we are in the height of the pandemic, the most talked about data is Track and Trace.
So I want to track myself everyday by using GoogleMaps Timeline. At every location I will record the coordinates, the date, the distance and the time it took me to get there.

I also want to learn a lot more about how to visualise data and materials. For example, using numbers and text. I have started reading the book ‘Processing’ by Ira Greenberg, and am learning how to create computational art by coding on the 'processing' software.

Projection Mapping is a new form of art I am beginning to learn, in order to project onto buildings, objects and into a space:
- It is a projection technique
- Used to turn objects, often irregularly shaped, into a display surface for video projection.
- By using specialised software, a two- or three-dimensional object is spatially mapped
- The Visual Software mimics the real environment it is to be projected on.
- The software can interact with a projector to fit any desired image onto the surface

I am using projection mapping as a way of transforming a building into my own visual perceptions. The instant space that projections overtake is a quick way of creating something that is immersive.

I also take photos of the views, buildings and locations I come into contact with so being able to visualise this and put it back into the space is like a full circle journey for me.

Navigation of my practice:

The data that was and still is most talked about during the pandemic was Track n Trace. Talking to friends and family about how much data the government has to navigate themselves through a mass population in a pandemic seemed scary. So in light of this, I wanted to track myself everyday. I already document what I do and where I go daily by taking photos and making a one second video every day. This is how I navigate my everyday life, so it was easy to keep this up. I have an ongoing album full of photos and videos of my travels/journeys and an excel spreadsheet of the coordinates, dates and times. This in effect is my own geographical navigation.

However, track and trace data is not the context that my work situates itself in, this was just a starting point to spur inspiration and navigate my practice.

The collection of footage and data set out 2 strands 1.architectural landscapes and 2.numerical data. I needed to incorporate the two to begin to display my navigation.

I set off by making experimental drawings and animations of my locations using the numerical data to compose them.

After researching artists such as Jenny Holzer, Mark Leckey, Paulo Climachauska I was further inspired by their use of reclaiming a building and bringing the exterior into the interior by using projection work and simple visuals. This way my 2 strands could be navigated together and I could create projection works in my studio environment and at home. Digital projection creates a spatial effect and enables viewing to become experiencing.

How I now think I have navigated my work is by mapping through space and data, whether that be mapped in the studio or at home. I am navigating my everyday life of geographical navigation to navigate my own practice in the form of mapped projections. I like to be able to look at my architectural environment, sculpt it and then reclaim it with my own illusionary visualisations.

playing between sculptural installation and projection mapping
Reclaiming a building and projecting architecture visualisations back into an architectural space
Creating my own new environments in response to the makings I’ve made from my normal environments

Trump l’riel

=art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the dedicated objects exist in three dimensions. Forced perspective is a comparable illusion in architecture.

This forced perspective is what I am working with when projection mapping and creating my own cardboard skylines