Sus - proposal

Proposed area of study / investigation for PHD in creative practice; University off Sussex

Collaborate / with computing / engineering / sound designers / artists / general public 

To Open New doors -

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‘We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.’

Anaïs Nin -1961 work “Seduction of the Minotaur”.

personal question;

To create a non-fixed, immersive, interactive environment to confront / transcend the ever-changing artificiality and seemingly fixed motifs of the modern urban landscape.  Utilising archetypes of symbols / logos / signifiers to create a new land / sound scape in flux which the participant controls through his / her interaction / play with it. 

This could be through overlaying images / sounds / fragmenting the linear flow of imagery and associated sounds / reacting to physical gestures i.e. eye tracking / responses to triggers. i.e. physical  movement within the space both on screen, through performance / dance and physically for the participant.

My aim is to collaborate, with other specialists in their respective fields e.g. programmers / hackers / performers / dancers / musicians to create a system, within an installation / moving image and sound context that can be manipulated by the spectator  as a means to evaluate, control and manipulate images / symbols / signifiers through possible different interactions with the work.  .  

My aim with the piece is to generate in the participant a sense of fluidity and passive control of imagery / sounds outside of their mainstream contexts within the current media landscape.  To empower the individual and subvert the perceived rigidity of the image / expected sound(s) outside of their usual context, by subverting the familiar / linear flow and expectations of the narratives that may have accumulated through repetition through external systems of influence.  i.e. influential media sources

The outcome of this should enable the participant to reflect, self-critique their own hierarchical logos system(s) and question their participation in the creation of the phantom of solidity and their transient meanings; to empower the individual to question the influences which may affect their lives, thought processors and the same for others.

Through a system of playful and questioning interactions utilising moving image, sound - symbols and signifiers through a process of self- discovery / reflection / a self-imposed heightened awareness as they are / become a site for the perception, cognition and reflection of the symbolic code / narrative;  and a (re)-discovery of its fluidity of meanings both personal and universally held. 

 

Consume my heart away; sick with desire

And fastened to a dying animal - It knows not what it is; and gather me

Into the artifice of eternity.   excerpt:  Sailing to Byzantium.  Yeats

Tools:   isadora (?) Memory -  Old technology / aesthetics / colour and reactions / generate ve system - Symbols   

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Public intervention - empowering / subversion of media 

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Areas of potential research:

Cognition - David Bergson 

Gilles Delueze: The body without organ

structuralism

Trance films - e.g. jordan Belsen / james whitney 

stan vandeerbeek - movie mural 1968

culture jamming / scratch video / sampling

Baudellaire:  ideology extends through the constructon of the sign itself in its claim to present reality or meaning

submersion vs other tracking / hacking

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method - collaboration - society

- Daniel Higlston