Visual board...logo?

Visual board

 

 

Possible logo ideas, however are a bit too jellyfish like

 

 

 

The birth of..... VOID

I was ill for the presentation on Tuesday and heard from my group that they had a positive response and we had gained two more members to our group; Emily Jackson and Hannah Green. From both different areas Emily interactive arts and Hannah History of Art, It will be good to see what skills they can bring to the group.

this is a jellyfish image that has been warped in photoshop, this is the visual that I feel best describes VOID

 

List

The Promotional aspect: 
Social media : Facebook, website and twitter...hinted at during the day festival which will create intrigue…

Peepholes with visual dotted around different areas with writing above saying something like… have a peep/ look inside

Mirror writing posters

Magic eyes being handed out and put up around the day festival

Resin blocked handed out with a combination of visuals and the logo in them. Resin glowing in the dark as location marks… ' follow the glowing brick road'

Maps: handed out with the area of the festival black out and VOID and the logo beside it. Also working with the idea of concealed during the day and revealed at night Maps of the day festival shown in bus stops and then at night the area of the festival glowing in the dark

Wrist band handed out around the bridge area leading to the festival for these and the resin blocks which have the visual within them to create mini sculptures to how the audience would like to manipulate them/ arrange them

VOID itself: Different sections for different areas

A blank black wall when clapping occurs the wall become pixelated.

Toner (Ferrofluid)room, interaction with the magnets - possible music in this area could be near the DJ as could have black ink of the speaks moving with the music

Neon writing room concealed graffit

Really light and pitch black room disorienting the sense

outside area cable tyres around a Hub / bar area creating an interactive experience....

Isolated pods dotted around different areas of the festival for people to be at one with themselves and chill out/ reflect on what they have experienced. Also the glow in the dark panels creating spaces. Almost like a sensory neutraliser.

River; night lights

3-D mapping

Arches projections with intriguing visuals

smell disassociated with a space

Interactive floor with hypnotic visuals that dodge the festival goers due to their magnetic wristbands creating a wripple effect.
Artist and Music:

Manchester based eg Noise Toys

seminars areas for people to discuss elements linked to the their sensory experience example Victoria Henshaw.

Jellyfish

It has such an organic move creating a ripple effect within it. They are one of the most hypnotic creature with the fact that they glow in the dark and have intriguing shapes within them….. They are a VOID in themselves.  ‘They are typified as free-swimming marine animals consisting of a gelatinous umbrella -shaped bell and trailing tentacles’

http://vimeo.com/8889015

 

'Most jellyfish do not have specialized digestive, osmoregulatory, central nervous, respiratory, or circulatory systems. Jellyfish do not need a respiratory system since their skin is thin enough that the body is oxygenated by diffusion. They have limited control over movement, but can use their hydrostatic skeleton to navigate through contraction-pulsations of the bell-like body; some species actively swim most of the time, while others are mostly passive. The body is composed of over 95% water; most of the umbrella mass is a gelatinous material — the jelly — called mesoglea which is surrounded by two layers of protective skin.'

'You can even get an immortal jellyfish; Turritopsis nutricula is jellyfish form can revert to polp stage after becoming sexually mature.'

my own drawing from a jellyfish mirrored on photoshop

Ferrofluid

Hannah S found this magnetic liquid called Ferrofluid. This amazing solution reacts with magnets in a really interesting way.  When we saw the clips on youtube we thought this would be perfect as one of the elements to our festival an interactive element that is intriguing and hypnotic.

 

 

Interaction

Interactive art- A key element to our festival is that we want to encourage human interaction with the space and each other so having walls/ floor that manipulated by human movement from creating sounds and visuals; here are some examples of natural and fictious interaction

The fictious world pandora in Avator how touching certain things create different reaction: light, movement

Avatar a Bioluminescent world, where organsims connect and interact with sensory touch.

Venus fly trapper; sense with in the plant to trap its prey

Vintage Fibreoptic lamp. the colours change but it is that just something as simple as someone blowing on the lamp it creates bends and moves creating intriuging shapes with light

blue planet; fish that lure their pray in with a glowing light

Fish Visuals

I wanted to try to create similar shapes shown in an MRI scan as I tough the imagery in the vimeo video was really intriguing and hypnotic so I decided to do some ink print with different types of fish; prawns, calamari and fish sticks. The prawn prints were the most effective but were still quite ridged and not as fluid as I hoped. I am finding it quite hard to create movement within my visuals, as they are 2-D. I feel I need to manipulate them in Photoshop and film moving the paint around.

Group Experiment

We did a little experiment with different solutions to create intriguing visuals for a promo video. We used different coloured inks , dye powder and baby oil.

 

Which Tom then combined with his footage of the black oil on the speakers creating a ripple effect reflecting the sound through a liquid substance (sound art).  I am intrigued to see how he edits all the different footage.

Imagery around Manchester

Manchester Imagery; creating an intruging image from something people see everyday but do not think twice about.  Inside a Bus imagery and close up tree images unaware. Both visuals have been imapacted by weathering which has creating intriguing shapes in unusual places.

 

I Found similarities with Nick Knight's Flora book and some of the shapes from ‘inner’ Manchester. In addition, the bright colour works really well. I Will try to use elements of these in my own drawings.

Photos: Flora by Nick Knight combined with my own photos

Drawings: Organic shapes, mark making, intruiging spaces

these drawing are not as successful as I would have liked they are too static and do not have enough fluid movement in them.

Manifesto

What is a Manifesto??

list of key points 

radical 

clarifying principles 

contract 

values + beliefs

political document

communication to the outside world

Anti Manifesto?

With all of these elements in mind my group decided to come up with words that we wanted to be reflected through our festival linking back to our concept.

  

  

• Intangable
• Sense
• Organic
• Growth/momentum
• Spontaneity
• Temporary
• Uknown (Appeal)
• Interactive
• Creativity
• (Dark/light night time event)
• counter Intuition

Night walk, locations in Manchester

A key theme that we felt set us apart from other design festival is that we wanted to be at night and attach/ complement a daytime festival, to find a good location that worked at night we decided not waste any time and go for a night walk around Manchester. Bringing with us glow sticks and a bubble wand to see how well these elements worked in a night environment and were we could find a location that we could manipulate the amount of light shining on it not wanting any streetlights but complete darkness

Cathedral  gardens was an area that we particularly took a liking to as it was pretty central and has also clearly been tried to be regenerated with  floor of glow in the dark fountains. Having been in Manchester for second year I had never come across this area and we all though it had all the elements we needed. The fountains could be a good base for the centre area of the festival and then there are tunnels linked to the Victorian Arch’s which we could manipulate lighting wise, it also lead to a big load of abandoned car parks which we all felt would be great to encourage the ‘organic’ growth we had been talking about.

photo: Martina, me and Ursula

Photographs I took in New York from the top of the Rockefeller, the light and movement emulated in a bigger scale of what we did on our Night walk.

Developing ideas

Reasearch

Intangible design:

As Intangible means unable to touch or grasp on to, it was hard to know where to start in creating Visuals that could embody this idea. This made me look at the sensory aspect of our concept and be informed by research done on the senses hoping this would communicate how I could translate this into intangible design.

Looking at MRI's

It is really interesting looking at MRI's of peoples at different sight levels and what sensory areas they use. 



"Your brain is not a prepackaged kind of thing. It doesn’t develop along a fixed trajectory, rather, it’s a self-building toolkit. The building process is profoundly influenced by the experiences you have during your development,” says Marina Bedny, an MIT postdoctoral associate in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and lead author of the study, which appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Studies have shown that a blind persons other sense are a lot more hightened due to their lack of sight. Sight also seem to dominate more then the others sense.

http://vimeo.com/269620

NBC News contributer Brian Alexander writes about how blind people's senses are heightened and how this has been shown in different studies and subconsiously particularly when it comes to sound.

"We’ve all heard about the amazing ability of some blind people to hear, smell, or touch with such a high degree of acuity that they become almost savant-like"

"Why do you close your eyes when you go to a concert?” he asks. “You are suppressing the visual input. That disinhibits the connection between the visual and auditory cortices” so information can flow between them. “It makes more of the brain able to process sound."

In 2009 I went to Secret Garden Party a 3 day festival where they had music and quirky little things going around the festival. The one memory that stood out from the rest was when I cued up behind a long line of people who were one by one taking off their shoes and going into a life size black box. When it got to my turn I didn't know what to except as the people leaving the box were told to not reveal to us what they had experience, building up our intrigue. It got to my turn and you step into a pitch black square box with no shoes on and feel your way to a seat. At the other end of the box a male voice speaks and asks was I feeling happy or sad. Confused I said Happy. He then sang a folk song on his guitar in the dark to me. It was a really hauting song and one of the only times I have really listened to the music and the lyrics. It was a weird and bizarre experience but has stayed with me and made a big impact on how a view music. Which just goes to show how powerful the senses are.   

Society has even caught on by suppressing one of your sense it heightens the others. Particularly a dominate sense such as sight. A restuarant called Dans le noir (translated from french, in the dark) has opened up world wide known for being a restaurant that service in complete darkness. 

I experiemented with images of different MRI's with glow in the dark paint as shown below and even magnetic paste with ink. Moving the ink around the sensory areas with could develop into one of the interactive elements of the festival. The space could be based on an MRI scan different area that would light up when you went into them and cause a ripple affect throught the space (brain) 

    

Neil T Butler - pop art MRI



A clip of two visuals over the top of each other; glow sticks and an MRI image. 

Group 3

I missed the first week back but kept up with what was going on through moodle and people in college 3. Everyone had been put into small groups to do with different areas of a festival.

The three groups:

Branding: Communication, looking at different ways of promoting. Looking at trying to make it sustainable not making 'crap'.

Space: looking at different locations, creating new spaces and dismanteling spaces.

Made:What we being going on within the actual design festival

from these three groups we were divided again as the whole point of Unit X is to encourage collaboration and I found I was in a group with just Textiles Girls, as there were more of us doing this particular college then the other areas in the arts. Through this we formed group 3, which consisted of me:

• Martina Billson 
• Hannah Sulek 
• Ursula Rae 
• Thomas Valentine
• Danusha Komar 

Concepts we came up with:

• Changing the city at night (Night festival)
• Temporary and intangible design
• Creating a sensory experience in Manchester
• Organic growth
• Bringing people together through a collective experience

We all choose different areas we wanted to focus on and develope ourselves from our collective concepts.

Martina:Promo plus interactive elements for the festival; wristbands

Hannah: Creating and Making spaces encouraging a sensory experience

Ursula: Practial spaces, encouraging interaction with the space using everyday sustainable materials; cable tyers

Tom: Visuals; promo video (creating intrigue) Experimenting with different sense creating visuals through sound...

Danusha:Promo, branding; hidden 

Me: Visuals, also looking at the research side of the sense