13.05.10 Tutorial Feedback

Here is the feedback of tutorial today. I think it’s positive.

Pathway: (MA) Digital Arts

 Name:   Hong Zhang                                          Date: 13.05.2010

Issues discussed/Subject:

•     I took several pictures of buildings and put them in processing to simplify them.  Andy said they were interesting. The complexity of buildings which were under construction is external, but the working space behind the glass of buildings has another meaning of complexity which is three dimensional. Andy suggested me to carry on and add deep thinking about it.
•    In Symposium 2, I was proposed to think about the dialogue between audience and my work.  In my understanding, I tried to make a connection, such as making a live project to transfer the images captured by a webcam to a simplified moving image, like the processing work I’ve done. I am still trying to figure it out through processing, hope it can work.

 

Comments/Notes

•  I need to walk away from my work, and try to understand how audience understand my project. Will they understand what I am trying to express through my show?
•   Add deep thinking about the 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional complexity, contact Paul Coldwell, and ask him about the surface and behind surface.
•     Clarify my understanding of complexity.
•      Plan my time.

 Name of Tutor: Andy Stiff

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Issues discussed/Subject:

I am willing to do something about simplicity and complexity, but how? In what kind of form?

 I’ve did some research about simplicity, like John Maeda’s the Laws of Simplicity. How to combine theory with practice?

 Simplicity is a quite eastern thinking, how to balance eastern and western thinking in my project?

 When I show my work in a simple way, time is changing all the time. Time is complex, and it may change many things around the work. How to consider it? Think about audio as well.

 

 Comments/Notes

Research more practicians of simplicity. Tutor’s inspiration: Dan Graham, Piet Mondrian’s Minimalist art, John Pawson’s architecture.

 Keep learning processing to help and develop my project.

 Keep researching.

 Record every website I’ve seen as a reference and put it on blog. 

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Andy give me two great examples of practicians who did many works about simplicity. John Pawson and Piet Mondrian.

John Pawson is a British designer associated with minimalism. I want to borrow John Pawson’s book Minimum.