Y4 SEM1
YEAR 4 SEMESTER 1
Translating image through a medium
a practice-led visual research
This semester I've been mostly concentrating on preproduction and preparing and researching for my dissertation. Beginning of the semester wasn't easy for me as through the summer and the first few weeks I had to yet again deal with another complaint against my person put through by the same group that this time at least clearly admitted that 'their final goal would be to remove me from the course'. Dew to this situation and health problems caused by ongoing hostility from the people putting complaints against me, I wasn't at college or use the studio as often as I wanted or should have during the last few months.
After finally getting a decision about the last complaint and getting new studio space separate from the rest of the fourth year I mostly concentrated on attending lectures and workshops associated with writing my dissertation. Throughout the next weeks, I started planning out my final project and the structure of its elements featured in my short presentation. My preproduction project is mostly based on research and development towards my practice-led dissertation. By the end of the semester, I'm planning on the completion of few technical experiments in the field of animation and new ways of projection/presenting my work.
Also, would like to finish around 10 short films that would lead to my final project in semester 2.
I’ve started working on my series of short animations as always from research, finding interesting visual topics and scratching out few ideas. Even I don’t plan out on any specific narrative structure for those individual pieces, some of them supposed to be only simple sequences or visual experiments I would like them a whole to clearly lead to my final project.
some research images:
After working out the visual idea's ad topics for my project I'll started working on few visual experiments and wanted to finish at least 2 of the shorts before this formative submission, unfortunately, my laptop started to brake and about a week before that time became unusable it took me another week to fix it.
Few development images and sketches from my sketchbook:
Short note on my dissertation:
In my Practice-Led Dissertation, I would like to concentrate on the new media and the future of animation in a digital structure of media consumption in the 21 century. I would like to hypothesize the near future of media to come in the next 10/20 years how visual media will change and where it might go. The idea comes from my earlier work for the Screens and Surfaces course('Simulating Synthetized Reality' essay), in my dissertation, I would like to deepen this subject combined with few visual experiments and search for new ways of expression in the medium of animation.
Where our vast media consumption is going and how it might look like in the next 10/20years?
Can I find new ways of expression in the art of animation?
I’m interested in design, new media and new emerging technologies as new tools of expression, this is why I think the subject I've chosen is perfectly suited for my practice.
In my Practice-Led Dissertation, I would like to research practically different ways of expression that can be adapted in the field of animation by performing few visual experiments. I would accompany my visual research with contextual information from similar research articles, literature, and media.
slide from presentation:
In this project through practical research, I would like to develop new and different ways of expression.
So in a sense, the development and experimentation are more important for me than the final production this semester.
I’ve been working on serious of experimental animation shorts with none narrative structure rather than one film that would conclude in making my final piece (in the sem 2) in the new development technique.
By the end of the semester, I would like to finish the production of around 10 short films each using different techniques and animation styles.
Short :1 The end of the world (stop motion)
Short :2 Walking the loop (CG) (canceled)
Short :3 Throwing the body (live footage + CG) (canceled)
Short :4 Magneto (hand-drawn animation in style of Marvel comics)
Short :5 Destruction of Man (CG collage mixed technique)
Short :6 God of Meat ( stop motion animation)
Short :7 Body of Osiris (experimental future technique)
Short :8 Rewritten Light (experimental future technique)
Short :9 Attraction (experimental future technique)
Short :10 Beyond the image translation (experimental future technique)
Short :11 Schizoid/Idiot girl (experimental, rotoscoping)
Short :12 Intolerance (mixed media experimental)
Short :13 Persistence of violence (mixed media experimental)
(these titles and ideas might change along with the development of the project and research)
some visual research for 'Magneto':
Nevertheless, I tried to regain control over my work and continue working on my projects after my computer was repaired.
Through the last few weeks, I’ve been working mostly on regathering all of my lost research materials for the dissertation and trying to reconstruct the written work that unfortunately was lost in its entirety.
(And trying to keep multiple copies this time)
My animation work for the course was unfortunately also fragmented by this but I’ve kept on working on the elements that I had left trying to not concentrate on reconstructing lost work.
Also researching the right materials and techniques for my final piece. I’ve experimented with different faro fluids and electromagnets setups and finally build a working prototype of a cell/segment for my animated installation.
Some more visual research for Magneto:
Project development:
Part of animation study is the creation and study of characters and its movement, Thus even I plan on my final work for the course to be somewhat more abstract in a form I can't omit it in my research for the project. As we finally had in past few years 2 let's say 3 X-men films worthy of the original written and graphic work done at the marvel studios in the 90s. I chose one of the characters from that universe for my sudo commercial work (sudo - as I'm not getting paid for it and no one actually told me to do it) . This first animation test is very close to the character original design but I'm planning on reworking this design or even getting rid off the signature costume in its entirety.
The idea for this short was to represent today's anxiety with artificial intelligence and more so age-long question in sci-fi of human nature and creation of artificial sentient life. I chose an image of an old 1980s PC to signify that this question about AI and continuous anxieties of a man being replaced by a machine are very old and some of them unnoticeably have and are coming true as we completely surround ourselves and are dependant on digital devices in our privet lives and also any infrastructures that we inhabit are dependent completely on vast networks of automated systems. I thought connecting this idea to Egyptian myth might be an interesting and thought-provoking idea as I find Egypt one of the first examples of highly successful society and infrastructure that was exceeding in science and technology with astounding fits thousands of years ago. I also find the roots of a postmodern system of thought, middle-east and wester religious systems coming from ideas first solidified in Egypt like the monotheistic religion system for example. The idea of this image and the title 'Hakled Body of Osiris' suppose to invoke a chain of thought: as digital computer and its input-output system suppose to correspond to our senses, can we view it as a reversal of a human body, an inanimated body of the interactive system and the basic logic universal machine in its core able to represent anything through logic and math, and in that way connect to the myth and fatal feat of Osiris. I wanted maybe to suggest this thought or a "romantical", sci-fi, fable-like notion first by placing a cut blue lotus flower next to the machine. Next in a bit more gore way by the blood spilling out from underneath it. My first attempt at visualizing this idea was an image of a computer body split in two, signifying two hemispheres of a human brain and obviously violence that has happened in the past. But I thought this image was not conveying the idea properly as it was intended. The idea that the modern computer systems already are a 'hackled', fragmented, incomplete and inverted dead body of 'Osiris'.
It's an idea for a short interesting animation and not a scientific or philosophical theory by any means. It supposes to make you think about the past and look to the future and maybe get you interested with Egyptian mythology. Also a 'very' maybe an idea for a future longer cyberpunk fable or modern adaptation of the myth and definitely not a proclamation of any type of faith or belief system.
Thought I just ad this little note here if any 'tinfoil hat' single-minded theorists (of what they think that I might be thinking about something) would like to persecute me or speak their mind about this, taking it literally.
I just like corny, low brow sci-fi B movies from between the 70s and early90s and the purposes of fables and pseudoscience are completely different.
I want my final piece and the research materials to have an underlining narrative connection, joining all of my work throughout. I would like to present The Myth of Osiris as a baseline or a theme loosely connecting all of the shorts to my final piece. I choose this story to share my admiration for ancient Egyptian culture, art, and astonishing engineering and scientific achievements. I find Egypt to be one of the most compelling birthplaces of human civilization and scientific thought.
The Osiris Myth
After the creation of the world, the first five gods were born of the union of Geb (earth) and Nut (sky) and these were Osiris, Isis, Set, Nephthys, and Horus. Osiris, as the first born, assumed rule as Lord of the Earth, with Isis as his queen and consort. He found the people of Egypt uncivilized and lawless and so gave them laws, culture, religious instruction, and agriculture. Egypt became a paradise under Osiris' rule where everyone was equal and there was abundant food as the crops were always plentiful. Set was jealous of his brother's success and grew resentful. Their relationship deteriorated further after Nephthys, Set's wife, disguised herself as Isis and seduced Osiris, becoming pregnant with the god Anubis. Set had a beautiful coffin made to Osiris' exact height and then threw a grand party where he presented this box and told the guests that whichever of them fit in it most perfectly could have it as a gift. When Osiris lay down in the coffin, Set slammed the lid on, fastened it shut, and threw it into the Nile, where it was carried away down river.
Osiris' body traveled out to sea and eventually his coffin became lodged in a great tamarisk tree growing near Byblos in Phoenicia. The tree grew quickly around the coffin until it completely contained it. The king of Byblos, Malcander, came to the shore with his wife Astarte and admired the tree and the sweet scent which seemed to emanate from it. He ordered the tree cut down and brought to his palace as an ornamental pillar for the court, and there Osiris remained, trapped inside the coffin within the pillar, until he died.
Osiris as the kind and just ruler, murdered by his resentful brother, who comes back to life is the most popular and enduring image of the god.
Isis had meanwhile left Egypt in search of her husband and eventually came to Byblos, disguised as an older woman, where she sat down by the shore and cried for her missing husband. She was invited to the palace by the royal handmaidens who had come to the shore to bathe and there ingratiated herself to the king and queen so she was asked to be nursemaid for their young sons. Isis tried to make the younger boy immortal by bathing him in fire and, when Queen Astarte discovered this, she was horrified. Isis then revealed herself as the goddess and the king and queen promised her anything she wanted if she would only spare them. She requested only the pillar - which they swiftly granted to her.
After leaving the court, Isis cut Osiris from the tree and carried his body back to Egypt where she hid him from Set in the swampy region of the Nile Delta. She left him to go gather herbs to make a potion to return him to life, leaving her sister Nephthys to guard the body. While she was gone, Set learned of his brother's return and went out to find his body. He managed to get Nephthys to tell him where it was, and when he found it, he hacked it into pieces and scattered it across the land and into the Nile. When Isis returned, she was horrified but quickly composed herself and went to work finding the pieces of her murdered husband. With Nephthys' help, she recovered all of the body parts except the penis, which had been thrown into the Nile and eaten by the oxyrhyncus fish, which is why this fish was forbidden food in ancient Egypt.
Isis was able to revive Osiris and, once he was alive, she assumed the form of a kite and flew around him, drew the seed from his body into her own, and became pregnant with a son, Horus. Even though Osiris now lived, he was incomplete and could no longer rule the land of the living. He withdrew into the afterlife where he became Lord and Judge of the Dead. Isis, fearing what Set might do to her son, hid Horus among the swamps of Egypt until he was grown. At that point, Horus emerged as a mighty warrior and battled Set for control of the world. In some versions of the story, Set is killed but, in most, he is defeated and driven from the land. The chaos Set had unleashed on the world was conquered by Horus, who restored order, and then ruled with his mother.
Cippus of Horus on the Crocodiles, 3rd
century B.C.E. Steatite, 9 1/8 x 5 5/16 x 2 3/16 in. (23.2 x 13.5 x 5.6
cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 60.73. Creative
Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.60.73_wwgA-2.jpg)
[In Egyptian mythology, the goddess Isis raised Horus by hiding him in the marshes from his enemy, Seth. Cippi,
or magical stelae, represent Horus’s healing from scorpion stings and
snakebites in the marshes. Egyptians believed that a liquid poured over a
magical stela could absorb and transfer the power of the stela’s spells
and images to the worshipper.]
The ferrofluid box
a working prototype of a single cell for a ferrofluid animation box:
The main idea behind this installation comes from my previous work done for the Screens and Surfaces course. I want to present animation in a new and unexpected way by creating a larger version of the single element that I build to present the working principle of my installation.
The larger version of the device would be built from similar segments connected to PCB boards controlled by the Arduino controller hooked up to portable PC and in principal used as a low-resolution screen.
The image would be created by the electromagnets lifting the ferrofluid and harsh fluorescent lighting. I want the installation to have another hidden animated element that would be completing the beveled image on the surface of the fluid. The second part would be only visible through a mobile phone or other digital devices after scanning QR code and downloading an app that would reveal another part of the animation.
design concept:
visualisation:
Even with these unfortunate setbacks I’ve managed to at least finish some of my animation research shorts and complete The Box prototype for my final piece.
At the beginning of the next semester, I’m planning on reconstructing the lost work and finishing the series of short animations exploring different animation techniques leading to my final piece.
Also constructing the animated installation that would be the focal point of my final work for the course.
The installation in itself supposed to gather and join all of the topics from my animated shorts and also my dissertation project in one coherent whole
Research continiuse :
someone else's box :) , an example of a new media art animation project, beautifully executed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6JcybgDFo&t=204s
projection mapping :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0w-V5KGA8w
ferrofluid sculpture by Alessandro Brighetti "Schizophrenia"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVgGSiFB8L8
Tokyo Digital Art Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNlgtjdu5-o
Translating image through a medium
a practice-led visual research
This semester I've been mostly concentrating on preproduction and preparing and researching for my dissertation. Beginning of the semester wasn't easy for me as through the summer and the first few weeks I had to yet again deal with another complaint against my person put through by the same group that this time at least clearly admitted that 'their final goal would be to remove me from the course'. Dew to this situation and health problems caused by ongoing hostility from the people putting complaints against me, I wasn't at college or use the studio as often as I wanted or should have during the last few months.
After finally getting a decision about the last complaint and getting new studio space separate from the rest of the fourth year I mostly concentrated on attending lectures and workshops associated with writing my dissertation. Throughout the next weeks, I started planning out my final project and the structure of its elements featured in my short presentation. My preproduction project is mostly based on research and development towards my practice-led dissertation. By the end of the semester, I'm planning on the completion of few technical experiments in the field of animation and new ways of projection/presenting my work.
Also, would like to finish around 10 short films that would lead to my final project in semester 2.
I’ve started working on my series of short animations as always from research, finding interesting visual topics and scratching out few ideas. Even I don’t plan out on any specific narrative structure for those individual pieces, some of them supposed to be only simple sequences or visual experiments I would like them a whole to clearly lead to my final project.
some research images:
After working out the visual idea's ad topics for my project I'll started working on few visual experiments and wanted to finish at least 2 of the shorts before this formative submission, unfortunately, my laptop started to brake and about a week before that time became unusable it took me another week to fix it.
Few development images and sketches from my sketchbook:
Short note on my dissertation:
In my Practice-Led Dissertation, I would like to concentrate on the new media and the future of animation in a digital structure of media consumption in the 21 century. I would like to hypothesize the near future of media to come in the next 10/20 years how visual media will change and where it might go. The idea comes from my earlier work for the Screens and Surfaces course('Simulating Synthetized Reality' essay), in my dissertation, I would like to deepen this subject combined with few visual experiments and search for new ways of expression in the medium of animation.
Where our vast media consumption is going and how it might look like in the next 10/20years?
Can I find new ways of expression in the art of animation?
I’m interested in design, new media and new emerging technologies as new tools of expression, this is why I think the subject I've chosen is perfectly suited for my practice.
In my Practice-Led Dissertation, I would like to research practically different ways of expression that can be adapted in the field of animation by performing few visual experiments. I would accompany my visual research with contextual information from similar research articles, literature, and media.
slide from presentation:
In this project through practical research, I would like to develop new and different ways of expression.
So in a sense, the development and experimentation are more important for me than the final production this semester.
I’ve been working on serious of experimental animation shorts with none narrative structure rather than one film that would conclude in making my final piece (in the sem 2) in the new development technique.
By the end of the semester, I would like to finish the production of around 10 short films each using different techniques and animation styles.
Short :1 The end of the world (stop motion)
Short :2 Walking the loop (CG) (canceled)
Short :3 Throwing the body (live footage + CG) (canceled)
Short :4 Magneto (hand-drawn animation in style of Marvel comics)
Short :5 Destruction of Man (CG collage mixed technique)
Short :6 God of Meat ( stop motion animation)
Short :7 Body of Osiris (experimental future technique)
Short :8 Rewritten Light (experimental future technique)
Short :9 Attraction (experimental future technique)
Short :10 Beyond the image translation (experimental future technique)
Short :11 Schizoid/Idiot girl (experimental, rotoscoping)
Short :12 Intolerance (mixed media experimental)
Short :13 Persistence of violence (mixed media experimental)
(these titles and ideas might change along with the development of the project and research)
The main characters' design and costume remain mostly unchanged through the years (1963 till present) with some small changes and variations but its been mostly unchanged and as iconic character design as Supermans or Batmans'.
I found it very sad that the filmmakers responsible for the Movies didn't recognize this importance at all and chose to change the overall look and design of the character from the original in the movies.
Just before the formative assessment, two of my small (A5)sketchbooks have disappeared from my bag, possibly in college or library:/ also my computer started to malfunction and finally suffered from hard drive failure. Dew to this I’ve lost significant amount of previous work, not only parts of my animation projects but also research and drafts for my dissertation. Also, I’ve lost 2 weeks being unable to work as all of my projects were locked on a broken computer while I was waiting for replacement parts.
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Nevertheless, I tried to regain control over my work and continue working on my projects after my computer was repaired.
Through the last few weeks, I’ve been working mostly on regathering all of my lost research materials for the dissertation and trying to reconstruct the written work that unfortunately was lost in its entirety.
(And trying to keep multiple copies this time)
My animation work for the course was unfortunately also fragmented by this but I’ve kept on working on the elements that I had left trying to not concentrate on reconstructing lost work.
Also researching the right materials and techniques for my final piece. I’ve experimented with different faro fluids and electromagnets setups and finally build a working prototype of a cell/segment for my animated installation.
Some more visual research for Magneto:
Project development:
It's an idea for a short interesting animation and not a scientific or philosophical theory by any means. It supposes to make you think about the past and look to the future and maybe get you interested with Egyptian mythology. Also a 'very' maybe an idea for a future longer cyberpunk fable or modern adaptation of the myth and definitely not a proclamation of any type of faith or belief system.
Thought I just ad this little note here if any 'tinfoil hat' single-minded theorists (of what they think that I might be thinking about something) would like to persecute me or speak their mind about this, taking it literally.
I just like corny, low brow sci-fi B movies from between the 70s and early90s and the purposes of fables and pseudoscience are completely different.
animation tests:
The Osiris Myth
After the creation of the world, the first five gods were born of the union of Geb (earth) and Nut (sky) and these were Osiris, Isis, Set, Nephthys, and Horus. Osiris, as the first born, assumed rule as Lord of the Earth, with Isis as his queen and consort. He found the people of Egypt uncivilized and lawless and so gave them laws, culture, religious instruction, and agriculture. Egypt became a paradise under Osiris' rule where everyone was equal and there was abundant food as the crops were always plentiful. Set was jealous of his brother's success and grew resentful. Their relationship deteriorated further after Nephthys, Set's wife, disguised herself as Isis and seduced Osiris, becoming pregnant with the god Anubis. Set had a beautiful coffin made to Osiris' exact height and then threw a grand party where he presented this box and told the guests that whichever of them fit in it most perfectly could have it as a gift. When Osiris lay down in the coffin, Set slammed the lid on, fastened it shut, and threw it into the Nile, where it was carried away down river.
Osiris' body traveled out to sea and eventually his coffin became lodged in a great tamarisk tree growing near Byblos in Phoenicia. The tree grew quickly around the coffin until it completely contained it. The king of Byblos, Malcander, came to the shore with his wife Astarte and admired the tree and the sweet scent which seemed to emanate from it. He ordered the tree cut down and brought to his palace as an ornamental pillar for the court, and there Osiris remained, trapped inside the coffin within the pillar, until he died.
Osiris as the kind and just ruler, murdered by his resentful brother, who comes back to life is the most popular and enduring image of the god.
Isis had meanwhile left Egypt in search of her husband and eventually came to Byblos, disguised as an older woman, where she sat down by the shore and cried for her missing husband. She was invited to the palace by the royal handmaidens who had come to the shore to bathe and there ingratiated herself to the king and queen so she was asked to be nursemaid for their young sons. Isis tried to make the younger boy immortal by bathing him in fire and, when Queen Astarte discovered this, she was horrified. Isis then revealed herself as the goddess and the king and queen promised her anything she wanted if she would only spare them. She requested only the pillar - which they swiftly granted to her.
After leaving the court, Isis cut Osiris from the tree and carried his body back to Egypt where she hid him from Set in the swampy region of the Nile Delta. She left him to go gather herbs to make a potion to return him to life, leaving her sister Nephthys to guard the body. While she was gone, Set learned of his brother's return and went out to find his body. He managed to get Nephthys to tell him where it was, and when he found it, he hacked it into pieces and scattered it across the land and into the Nile. When Isis returned, she was horrified but quickly composed herself and went to work finding the pieces of her murdered husband. With Nephthys' help, she recovered all of the body parts except the penis, which had been thrown into the Nile and eaten by the oxyrhyncus fish, which is why this fish was forbidden food in ancient Egypt.
Isis was able to revive Osiris and, once he was alive, she assumed the form of a kite and flew around him, drew the seed from his body into her own, and became pregnant with a son, Horus. Even though Osiris now lived, he was incomplete and could no longer rule the land of the living. He withdrew into the afterlife where he became Lord and Judge of the Dead. Isis, fearing what Set might do to her son, hid Horus among the swamps of Egypt until he was grown. At that point, Horus emerged as a mighty warrior and battled Set for control of the world. In some versions of the story, Set is killed but, in most, he is defeated and driven from the land. The chaos Set had unleashed on the world was conquered by Horus, who restored order, and then ruled with his mother.
[https://www.ancient.eu/osiris/]
Cippus of Horus on the Crocodiles
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
On View: 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
stop-motion set photos:
some snapshots from visual experiments with ink suspended in different fluids and first ferrofluid experiments:
The ferrofluid box
a working prototype of a single cell for a ferrofluid animation box:
The larger version of the device would be built from similar segments connected to PCB boards controlled by the Arduino controller hooked up to portable PC and in principal used as a low-resolution screen.
The image would be created by the electromagnets lifting the ferrofluid and harsh fluorescent lighting. I want the installation to have another hidden animated element that would be completing the beveled image on the surface of the fluid. The second part would be only visible through a mobile phone or other digital devices after scanning QR code and downloading an app that would reveal another part of the animation.
At the beginning of the next semester, I’m planning on reconstructing the lost work and finishing the series of short animations exploring different animation techniques leading to my final piece.
Also constructing the animated installation that would be the focal point of my final work for the course.
The installation in itself supposed to gather and join all of the topics from my animated shorts and also my dissertation project in one coherent whole
Research continiuse :
someone else's box :) , an example of a new media art animation project, beautifully executed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6JcybgDFo&t=204s
projection mapping :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0w-V5KGA8w
ferrofluid sculpture by Alessandro Brighetti "Schizophrenia"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVgGSiFB8L8
Tokyo Digital Art Museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNlgtjdu5-o
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