Peter Tscherkassky
Peter Tscherkassky’s films are amazing. I love his technique (see below) and the result. Outer Space- is made with footage from The Entity (1982) by Sidney J. Furie, starring Barbara Hershey. Christa Blümlinger at Senses of Cinema on Outer Space. LUFF.tv “Peter Tscherkassky gives us a brief userguide of...
Metamodernism
I learned about ‘metamodernism‘ when I was in my second year at Chelsea. I honestly don’t remember how I came upon it, but it blew my freakin’ mind and spoke to me in the deepest way. It suddenly made everything I’ve been increasingly feeling over the past 15 years...
Reflections On Self-Reflection- repost
I originally wrote this for the blog I did during my Foundation and BA, published Feb 6, 2018… One of the requirements for my Foundation diploma is keeping a ‘self-reflective journal’. After trying to write in a journal (with a pen!!!!), and failing, I moved onto this blog. It’s...
Infrathin
“What art is in reality is this missing link, not the links which exist. It’s not what you see that is art, art is the gap. I like this idea and even if it’s not true I accept it for the truth.”[1]http://www.impossibleobjectsmarfa.com/infrathin (Arturo Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel...
I Am Sitting In A Room – Alvin Lucier
This piece has been an ongoing inspiration for several years now- the repetition until destruction and a creation of something new and other-worldly… Wikipedia I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece composed in 1969 and one of composer Alvin Lucier’s best known works. The piece...
Freedom
“What work would you do if you were free to do whatever you want?” This question came up in a discussion with a fellow MA student yesterday. It was something that was asked of him recently… we both agreed that we ARE free to do whatever we want! So...
What is Action Research?
Notes from October 13, discussion with Jonathan and MA Students at Camberwell. Action research is a type of research that isn’t about data collection. It is practice based and intentionally doing more than you would normally do, raising questions and improving and changing what you do. It is more...
Presentation
We had to do a 5 minute presentation about our work. As I mainly do video, I decided to do a video as my presentation…...
Self-Reflection
Where does your inspiration come from? This is one of questions that is asked of anyone who does anything creative and it’s hard to answer. You can list films, books, artists, tv shows, plays etc that you like and have ‘inspired’ you, but to deeply answer the question –...
Bibliography- Everything Else
Journals, articles, websites, online videos, etc A-ha, 2010. A-Ha – Take On Me (Official 4K Music Video). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914. Abramson, S. (2014). Metamodernism: The Basics. [online] HuffPost. Available at: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/metamodernism-the-basics_b_5973184. [Accessed 4 Feb. 2022] Abramson, S. (2017a). What Is Metamodernism?. [online] Huffpost.com. Available at: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-ismetamodernism_b_586e7075e4b0a5e600a788cd?ncid=engmodushpmg00000006 [Accessed 4 Feb....
Bibliography- Books
Books Abramson, S. (2015). Metamericana. 1st ed. Buffalo: BlazeVOX Books. Appiah, K., 2005. The Ethics Of Identity. 8th ed. [Kindle] Princeton: Princeton University Press. Arthur, C., 2021. Social Warming – The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media. London: Oneworld Publications. Baudrillard, J., 1996. The System Of Objects. New...
Bibliography – Films/TV
These are the films/tv shows I referenced in all my written work at Chelsea. Films/TV 2001: A Space Odyssey. (1968). [film] Directed by S. Kubrick. Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, England: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Annihilation. (2018). [film] Directed by A. Garland. London, England: DNA Films. Black Swan. 2010. [film] Directed by D. Aronofsky....
Coming Soon
I’m about to start an MA in Fine Art. One of the requirements of the course is to keep a blog. I uhmmed and ahhhed about starting a new one or using my art blog that I’d been keeping throughout my Foundation and BA, but decided that I might...
I Punch First
The night of the 22nd of May, I’d gone out with some friends in the evening, only had a couple drinks and got home early. I was in bed by 11pm. At just after 5 the next morning, I heard one of our cats jump down from my little...
Strong, not skinny.
This morning I woke up to see yet another woman being attacked with horrendous abuse and rape threats on Twitter. My first reaction was despair. “Not again. Will this never stop?” Before I made myself feel defeated by ignorant morons, I got down on my floor and did some...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Thank you to everyone who voted for Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s discovery of pulsars in the Great British Innovation vote. She came #4. Amazing! Several weeks ago Roger Highfield from the London Science Museum got in touch with me to ask if I’d like to take part in the Great...