Summary of EA2 two two twoooot

To conclude....
I really wanted to make an interactive installation, that involved using digital media but i just couldn't work something out that was effective with use of the resources i had.
I wanted to explore tones of colours and see if people could see an obvious difference and see my picture or not notice anything at all.
I don't think this project was resolved very successfully for me, i found a lot of interesting artists and facts about vision and colour through my research but didn't manage to pull this together and make something i liked.
I re-made bars and tone with different tones of colour instead of sound. Partly because i have never really worked with sound and am apprehensive about using it and also it would have driven me insane having that droning on a loop all day.
When making this it was interesting to see how different programs read different colours. When i was rotoscoping the clips in Photoshop, i thought i had matched the colours really closely together so that the eyes were barely visible. When i put all the frames back into premiere it was blatantly obvious that there was a moving picture amongst the bars, so i had to go back and change the colour again. This was quite an interesting find because i thought my eyesight was good. tear.
Went to Spencer Finch's exhibition at DPAG because colour is the main concern in his works. I wasn't very impressed with that particular exhibition but some of his other works are cool and can be found here on his website.

I'm over it bring on project 3.

another concept..

I like the idea of using eyes as an image in my work as i am doing studies on 'perception' and eyes have EVERYTHING to do with this :).
I had an idea that i could film people looking at something, so it is interactive and their eyes become the work/installation. This page attempts to give an explanation...

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"With all his tools perfected his man institutions - such as the motor sensory - or acknowledges the limits of their power away. Engines give huge forces available, it looks like his muscles in any direction can send, and that the ship Plane makes that neither water nor air prevent its movement. with the glasses he corrected the deficiencies of the lens in his eye, with the telescope he looks to distant expanse, with the microscope he overcomes the limitations of visibility caused by the construction of its retina concerned. in the photographic camera, he has an instrument that the fleeting vision states, which gave him the gramophone record for the same transitory leistenmmuß sound impressions, both basically given him materializations of the assets of remembrance, his memory. with the help of Telephones hears He distances, even as the fairy tale would reach respect, the script was originally the language of the absent, (...). The man is, so to speak, a kind of prosthetic God has become quite great if it all his auxiliary organs creates, but they are not with him to grow and make him occasionally too much. incidentally He has a right to comfort is that this development is not just with the year 1930 AD will be completed. distant times are new, probably inconceivable great progress in this area the culture to make the God similarity even further. " Freud, Sigmund, Das Unbehagen der Kultur (1930), Frankfurt aM, 1989, S.86 - 87 Freud, Sigmund, the unease of Culture (1930), Frankfurt am Main, 1989, p.86 - 87

Really poorly translated but you get the idea of what he's trying to say

installation idea

I think it would be interesting to make an installation where the conditions were controlled by somebody in another place, like Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s work ‘entanglement. It is so simple with two neon signs in galleries on opposite sides of the world that are connected through a computer so that they turn off and on at the same time. I liked the idea of somebody controlling the conditions of a room when they weren’t anywhere near it. Thought it would be interesting to create two environments, one with controls that people could play with and the other being the room or space that is affected by the controls.

Could use the hearing range experiment for this, people in one room could turn the frequency of sound up or down and this would be heard in another location. And maybe they could match colour with each other in reds and oranges, work together to reveal a picture or something that is being projected on to a wall. Colours have different frequncies so maybe i could make a sound to match each one, see this colour chart. When i walked past liquorland yesterday they were painting over graffiti on the outside wall, and the paint used was a completely different tone of orange so i wonder if this has anything to do with males not perceiving much difference between oranges and reds.

I really want to use found colour in my work rather than colour generated by the computer. might just explore this a bit before i decide to do an animation using it, or maybe see if i can create a decent range of colours to from my own palette to use on the computer. Maybe film something then replace the colours with my own. Haven't a clue how to do that. But i will go and photograph colours i find then put them all together in a grid like palette on premiere, maybe ending with the computer version of each colour that i have tried to model the colour on

Could look at hand colouring in early film??


I could re-make bars and tone using found colour and sound. Definition for bars and tone here.

Animation maybe..

Another idea instead of the colour thing, have a site where people can all add frames to an animation. The frames would be drawn in and all people would have to do is add colours like paint by numbers, and add different elements to the frames, sort of the same set up as the hugocreate website with its poster generator.
Would have to have a limited palette for each number so that the animation isn't too hard to look at and actually looks effective. but maybe not because who really cares... would have a little character in the animation that you could choose facial expressions for etc, and textures as well as colours so the image isn't too flat.

Prism

Prism idea cant really work..., wanted to project an image on to the prism in white light, then have the seperate colours that result interact to form some sort of animation, but this is difficult because you would have to have something moving that the images were being projected on to. and i don't know if it would work trying to project different coloured images from the right angles so that they make white light. I don't want to do that anyway.

What is red?

So... decided not to use eye tracking as my project,
a) too expensive
b) too expensive
c) didn't know where i was going with it anyway.

Decided to stick with using the internet as my medium and to stick with colour perception and make something interactive that is affected directly by people's differing perceptions of colour.
Have looked at Olafur Eliasson and his work 'Your uncertainty of colour matching experiment, 2006'. Found this really interesting that people matched such a vast range of colours with the blue.


I tested my hearing range on a random website i found that my audio range was from 30 Hz to 17000Hz. I think it would be interesting to make an installation or some sort of immersive work that only certain people could see and/or hear. But then i have no idea what the sometimes invisible pictures would actually depict so flag that idea for now.

Interested in colour, and what is actually red? and who decided that red was red anyway?? Pantone? So i am thinking of making a web site where people could submit what they think of as 'red', and the primary and secondary colours in the form of a photograph. These photos would add together as they were uploaded to make 'true' versions of each colour based on what people submit.

NOW>>>> i have to learn how to use dream weaver. yaaaaaay. and try and get a site up and running so i can get people to submit colour photographs so i can find out what red is