Idea Outline.

General Reflection:

Lat year I really got into creating digital work. In the beginning the work I produced was not as good as I would have liked and so the first project for me was a bit hit and miss. However, the second project I did where I looked at portraits and what we consider to be a portrait, is I feel some of my strongest work. Mostly because I actually expanded upon my idea through my work and it was a more contemporary thing to focus on given emerging technology and the changing landscape of online media.

My third project though I feel the idea could have been more interesting and better explored, the method of presenting my work I felt really reached a new level for me and my personal practice. I also feel like the results I got from creating my holograms were a much better quality than I had thought they’d be.

This year I want to really run with this idea of digital sculptures and continue to work with holograms and maybe other ways to making 2D digital work 3D, however try to use it as an idea in exploring other subject matter than may not always link to the idea of holograms or digital art. (In short, a painter doesn’t paint about painting, painting is merely the media he chooses. So, as I’d like to focus on digital, I see holograms as mostly a good way of resenting work, but not necessarily what the work needs to be about).

My idea:

I’d like to create brain sculptures using blender that represent individuals who I have interviewed, using their responses to create artwork that is in a sense a ‘portrait’ of a person’s personality and their inner self, disregarding the face and focusing on one’s inner being almost like an avatar that brings the interior outside.

This idea came from online avatars and a piece of work I looked at last year by the art collective JODI, called ‘Material Want’. which used 3D digital models with concoctions and groupings of various objects into one piece. I found this interesting and remember thinking it would look better being projected in 3D as opposed to on a screen as it was. This term I would like to achieve something like ‘Material Want’ but try to take it off the screen and onto the table.