Holograms attempt 2

So finally i got a hologram to work, it took a long time and although not clear in the picture, it worked. It just seems that the positioning was completely off...(perhaps this was the problem before?) I need to have a chat with andy about it. The only thing i dislike about it is the fact that the image can only be seen under a lazer, to be honest, working with lazers is a risky business. I will try again after a chat with Andy.

Holograms attempt 1

So, my hologram kit arrived, and it wasn't a smooth arrival either... shame to say that my first attempts were completely unsuccessful. I don't understand it really, i've not seen anyone comment on it being particularly difficult. Turns out my laser was not hitting things as it was supposed to..after several attempts the best outcome i got was in the picture. Not a hologram, but i really liked the rainbow illusionary effect. I just need to figure out how i did it! haha

Day 2 of workshop

Day two was just as good as the first day of the workshop, i really enjoyed it. I always wanted to go back in the darkroom because of the interesting effects and it was a good opportunity to try out some ideas i had. I really like the effect of the photograms with the illusion paper. In my opinion it was really effective, i had no idea whether it was even going to work. We also tried some sun activated paper, but unfortunately, mine did not work successfully. The afternoon was a good opportunity to talk about our work and get some critique, which was really helpful, it was my first crit with people from the other years, it was a bit daunting, but it was completely fine.

Moving on workshop outcome day 1

I really enjoyed doing this workshop, i'm really glad i chose this one. I liked the whole theme of translating 3D to 2D again, it felt as if i was going back to the roots of my own practice, and it helped me a lot. We spent a lot of time scanning and photocopying our objects. I didn't even really think about photocopying something that was really 3 dimensional. They worked out very well, and I'm sure i'm likely to use this process again. The colour photocopies seemed to be the most effective, but i am looking forward to doing photograms on day 2.

Further context

Basil Beattie

Here are a couple of artists mentioned within our latest context lecture. and although they aren't really my cup of tea, it was interesting to see how these artists related to the tutor's practices. I enjoyed looking at the range of materials used.

Catherine Story

moving on worksop

Ella McCartney - ‘Between object and Image’: Translating sculpture into photography

(Mon 10.30-4.30/Tue 9am-3pm) Bon016

General Outline: This workshop explores ideas and the practical considerations of working between two dimensional and three dimensional media. The workshop will introduce a range of different ways to create images from objects, including the photogram and mono printing.

Student Outcomes: You will be introduced to and encouraged to explore a number of practical techniques including darkroom photography, digital scanners and mono printing. Participants will get the opportunity to explore the relationship between object and image that can feed back into each individual practice.

Health & Safety Content:

Photographic chemicals used in the darkroom.

Details of Session:

Day one will be spent looking at artworks that embrace a relationship between object and image. A series of mono prints will be made in the afternoon.

Day two: The morning will be spent in the darkroom creating photograms. At the end of the session there will be a group discussion where we will talk about the work and concepts raised during the workshop.

Photographic materials will be provided.

What you need to bring:

Bring along any small objects or materials that you would like to explore during the workshop, these can be made by you or objects that interest you.

Come dressed in clothes and shoes that you don’t mind getting messy

Context- read

"Heraclitus of Ephesus (/ˌhɛrəˈklaɪtəs/;^[1] Greek: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος, Hērákleitos ho Ephésios; c. 535 – c. 475 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the riddling nature of his philosophy and his contempt for humankind in general, he was called "The Obscure" and the "Weeping Philosopher".

Heraclitus is famous for his insistence on ever-present change in the universe, as stated in the famous saying, "No man ever steps in the same river twice"^[2](see panta rhei, below). He believed in the unity of opposites, stating that "the path up and down are one and the same", all existing entities being characterized by pairs of contrary properties. His cryptic utterance that "all entities come to be in accordance with this Logos" (literally, "word", "reason", or "account") has been the subject of numerous interpretations."

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski ([kɔˈʐɨpski]; July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist. He is remembered for developing the theory of general semantics. Korzybski's work argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and by the structure of language.

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Korzybski thought that people do not have access to direct knowledge of reality; rather they have access to perceptions and to a set of beliefs which human society has confused with direct knowledge of reality. Korzybski is remembered as the author of the dictum: "The map is not the territory"."

Semiotics, also called semiotic studies and in the Saussurean tradition called semiology, is the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics, which, for its part, studies the structure and meaning of language more specifically. However, as different from linguistics, semiotics also studies non-linguistic sign systems. Semiotics is often divided into three branches:

• Semantics: Relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata, or meaning
• Syntactics: Relations among signs in formal structures
• Pragmatics: Relation between signs and sign-using agents

Semiotics is frequently seen as having important anthropological dimensions; for example, Umberto Eco proposes that every cultural phenomenon can be studied as communication.^[1] However, some semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science. They examine areas belonging also to the life sciences – such as how organisms make predictions about, and adapt to, their semiotic niche in the world (see semiosis). In general, semiotic theories take signs or sign systems as their object of study: the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics (including zoo semiotics)."

Jean Baudrillard (French: [ʒɑ̃ bodʁijaʁ];^[2] 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, andphotographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism."

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