What would it be like if our brains had a ‘Shuffle’ feature; If we could experience the world as a de-contextualised succession of moments and impressions? Would we find serenity in the blissful waves of meaningless stimulation, or would we become consumed by the void of nothingness between sensory pulses?
Posted in blurb about my piece., Coursework, My Work
Tagged Existential, Experience, Interface, Meaninglessness, Meditation, Nothingness, Pulse, Shuffle, Subjectivity
Looking over my recent blog posts and considering these two in particular.
http://andrewburgess.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/pd-patch-variation-1/
http://andrewburgess.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/the-importance-of-words-in-relation-to-my-work/
The word Shuffle just slapped me across the face.
Excited by this word it contains everything I need it to.
Obviously it immediately makes one think of the Ipod shuffle and also the shuffle feature that is built into most multimedia players.
I want to push the idea of shuffle further and explore shuffle as a feature of our contemporary mindset. A mindset where we want everything all at once, where time, space and location can be, well ‘shuffled’. This shuffling can lead to a sense of nowhereness, it seems logical that to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. That is how I feel sometimes. Without context.
There is also the phrase ‘shuffling along’ which refers to a kind of slow methodical pace of walking, I like this a lot since walking is a big part of my creative process, lately in my efforts to generate material for my video/sound database I leave the house with my camera and go where my feet take me, arbitrarily shooting anything that I find visually pleasing along the way. I think the term ‘shuffling along’ describes the atmosphere of my work very well.
I guess I now have some ideas for a title for my installation with; Shuffle, Shuffled and Shuffling along.
My mission for the immediate future is to explore the concept of shuffle both within interface design and as an existential concept. And ideally to arrive at a situation where shuffle as a function can give depth to shuffle as a concept (and vice-versa) .
Posted in My Work, Progress Report, project proposal, Recent Work, Shuffle, Work
Tagged Dislocated, Existential, Interface, nowhereness, Shuffle
There is some discussion that has started among the students about the name for our group show.
Lots of good ideas have been put out there already. http://madigitalarts.wikispaces.com/message/view/home/40084584
I was initially quite disinterested in the topic of what to name the show. Sometimes I feel as though the words we attach to things have little significance to the things themselves.
Yet I started to consider the implications of different names on the show and started to think about memorable art shows I have been to and how the name was actually of great significance in how I interpreted the work.
Below are some art show names that have stuck out in my mind (either for a positive or negative reaction).
The Year of the Comet. (Hayward Galley )
Decode. (VaA )
Blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat that isn’t there. (ICA )
The Russian Linesman: Frontiers, boarders and thresholds. (Hayward Gallery )
Ultra Modern (Tate Britain)
Abstract America (Satchi West)
Design Real (Serpentine)
I started to think about why I favour some names of over others? and what constitutes a good name in my own mind.
I did not reach any conclusions.
But I am starting to understand that titles and names are of great significance to art work and that the name of a show/work is an integral element within it, not just a mere label.
While I am keenly interested in the developments of our class discussion about what to name the show I am also now starting to devote time to the name and description of my own final piece, as I would like this to be well articulated and integral to the concept not merely an afterthought.
I will thus begin to publish some draft Titles and Descriptions of my work on this blog.
To make this easier I will make a selection of words and terms that I like in relation to my work and add to this list when ideas come to me.
Here is my list so far.
Techno-mystical, Interface, Extraface, Screen, Meditative, Trance, Unpredictable, Unknown force, Mysticism, Enchanted, Mystification, Expressionist, Subjective, Existential, Ontological, Shuffle, Dislocated, Transfiguration, Temporal, Ritual, Flux, Interiority, Vehicle, Drive, Driven, Idiosyncratic, Arbitrary, Dismembered, Re-membered
Posted in Coursework, My Work, Progress Report
Tagged Arbitrary., Dislocated, Dismembered, Drive, Driven, Enchanted, Existential, Expressionist, Extraface, Flux, Idiosyncratic, Interface, Interiority, Mysticism, Mystification, Names, Ontological, Re-membered, Ritual, Shuffle, Subjective, Techno-mystical, Temporal, Transfiguration, Unknown force, Unpredictable, Vehicle, Words
‘In Other Words.
Whatever we describe, it cannot be the subject self, for as soon as we describe it, we externalise it and make it part of ‘our’ world, standing over there against us. The self cannot describe itself, unless it tries to make itself an object. And if it tries to do that, it loses the very essence of it’s selfhood. ‘
pg 54
Teach yourself Philosophy of the Mind. Mel Thompson Publisher: Teach Yourself Books; New edition edition (26 Dec 2003)
