Baltimore Aquarium: Jellies invasion

Artist research

Pipilotti Rist

Anthony gormley : blind light

rAndom international

Marshmellow lasor feast

Kinetic Art Fair

Final touches

Final things:

Toms final Promo video:

http://vimeo.com/66018723

Ursula finished the final version of the, manifesto:

photo Ursual

Book/ Catalogue

Final book and poster just before the exhibition

Example of one of the visual pages how it is layout

My priority in this week was is to finish the book and make sure it is bound and ready for the exhibition on the 17^th



Plan:

Interation with the visuals

A clip of my own visual from the inside of a bus which I had edited on photoshop. I wanted to try and show interaction that could occur with the wall. Through using the smudging tool on photoshop. It is a low fi experiement which I feel works and would like to try on a bigger scale for the actual festival.

Noisy Jelly and Squid soup

Noisy Jelly; This concept is so clever; A box arriving, with all the ingredients to create a DIY ‘jelly band’. I do not know how it works as when your touch the jelly at different points it creates did not sounds. It is something that is so simple yet so fun and is a great feature for child who we would want at our festival as it is an event for ever one.  Even something, like this though I would spend hours playing with, brings out everyone’s childish side.

http://vimeo.com/38796545

Squid soup; a company that does very similar things to what we are trying to active but half away across the world in Australia. They encourage interaction with people and lights through touch. 

http://www.squidsoup.org/blog/

Visual board...logo?

Visual board

 

 

Possible logo ideas, however are a bit too jellyfish like

 

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

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.

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.