Dialogue, Modernities and technologies - Notes and Reflection

• Presentations by Catherine Baker, Jamie Gledhill, Steven Pippin, Clunie Reid.
• Am i optimistic for the future in regards to technology enhancing or am i concerned?
• Technology is something all the speakers have in common
• the world around us shifts as technology progresses
• modernity brings opportunity, brings new ways at looking at the world
• the rapid rate at which technology is changing can make us feel panicked and overwhelmed 

Catherine Baker

• science technology - the relationship between an artist and a scientist doesn't always work 
• answers she was looking for werent something she could answer with her own knowledge and research - if ones self cant answer the questions always best to seek someone who does rather than giving a half hearted answer that may be possibly incorrect.
• When searching for a scientist shes didn't just email everyone she did her research and tried to find the person who best suited what she was looking for - she then research everything there was to know about them before getting in contact

Branch

• Working with trees and neurological science
• Plantanus Orientalis Digitata - CT Scan - tree in kew gardens and hypocrites tree where medicine was taught underneath
• Sees scans as beautiful an their own don't need to be messed with

Waiting

• Finds it hard to be able to select one image to represent someones illness 
• waiting is a lot of the process when being medicated - the waiting till the end of life can be painful and a struggle
• important to talk to the patients and understand their process
• natural thing of holding breath underwater - water is taken up of oxygen but is something we cant breath in 
• patient isn't the only one waiting, family, friends are all waiting but each will have different feelings
• very personal, immersive experience to allow the artist into - so important to keep connected with doctors and patients 
• endless cycle of people waiting - constant cycle of film one person in one out 

Jamie Gledhill

• playful and placement - how technology can mediate the space between us
• playing around with deconstructing what technologies are out there and reconstructing them to come up with new ideas
• looking at how digital technology can enhance a space
• development of technology can mean looking back at previous work and reworking them - having a new perspective 

Electricus

• co-interaction looking at ways people interact with work as well as each other
• artist made himself available to chat to the audience and reserve feedback which informed his work on how he could possibly make this better in anyway - relating back to my dissertation about how artist use their audience to inform future ventures
• Tried work out by presenting something which he knows as to being incomplete, to then have the audience voice their opinion on how it could be made better
• important to review peoples actions as it may voice an improvement without saying anything 
• looking at how the importance of play has been forgotten so important to interact with space and to bring play back
• every audience is different - each audience will have a different way of responding therefore each response will give the piece a different meaning but overall its fundamentals are play

Steven Pippin

• kinetic Sculptures
• crude pinhole photography experiments
• processing images in washing machine - boring process but yet interested in the connections 
• playing with mirrors in way to allow the camera to take images of itself - evolved so that the camera was cut in half so it took a picture of itself in two halves yet put together makes a whole
• faxing continuously to each other creating an closed loop of communication which cant end
• work has evolved with the use of technology

Clunie Reid

• photo, digital montage  then moving to moving image
• looking at the online culture an violence 
• looking at how art can deal with historical violence - changes as years become greater

Notes taken from notebook pages 8