Presentation Mode

 With the final critiques coming up I wanted our wall space to really get up to standard with what I believed an exhibition would be. I knew this would take hours of hard work to achieve and I was willing to do this as I knew it would be for the betterment of the group. I was somewhat let down by other members of the group who chose to focus more on the individual work rather than the work that benefitted everybody. This has made me think about how crucial it is that when choosing your group you find those people who you know will consistent work to benefit both themselves and the group. Without the support of half the group a huge weight was placed upon myself and Corey to produce something that would prove both interesting and relative to the project. This set up has also taught some key lessons about how to set up a display as well as the amount of time it takes to produce such work and how crucial team work is. However, in the end I was very pleased with our final result and I believe it is an outcome that both accentuates and supports the material we have decided to display.

Here is our final display

The Visualisations

Now that the rig is ready we were able to take it ou to create the visualisation dependent on where we felt the most connection to. Corey took to the park, Jenny down High street, Nick down Queen street and I tried to emulate the curb runner idea. From the visualisations we got a range of images that varied in clarity. This was exactly what we were hoping for as it clearly showed the relation between the texture and the video. By getting right down into the space with which we were gathering the data we were also able to experience first hand the texture which we were trying to capture. I saw this as one of the key points of our project. To truly understand the city. From these visualisation we pieced together a video of our experienced which will hopefully inspire and guide viewers to explore the world around them

Production

The production of our product was a long journey that had a few ups and downs. Working from the CAD drawings we were able to accurately create the shape of our model, however minor concessions for different sized screws and such had to be made. The fact that our rig was so small made the whole process pretty efficient as we could get a production line going. It did take longer then I liked though and this pushed our testing back by a few days. No issues arose with any of the manufacturing processes.

The First Test

This was the first test of our webcam running through the processing program. I was really pleased with the results but it gave me some things to think about such as how light will affect our project. I think we made need to be selective with the time as which we shoot our outcomes.

Theo Jansen Kinetic Sculptor

This video displaying some of Theo Jansen work as a kinetic artist is really at the top end of what we are aiming for. His work that runs on the power of the wind is a great inspiration for any kind of kinetic art we try to do.

An insight into the possibilities of reading colours, texture and brightness

fragments of RGB - 02 from onformative on Vimeo.