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21.04.24 / Exhibition Outcome / Research

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I had a chat with Matt about this pool in NYC, that became caught up as a symbol of race and class. really interesting history, and an angle that started to make me consider I could look at for the outcome. In the end i decided not to, because it was in the states, and i did investigate a bit here, how pools can reflect class etc, but my conclusion was that councils, do actually make efforts here, to make their leisure facilities engage with local groups and demographics to encourage sport.

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Now that I am clear on what I should do. What I would like to create is a documentary style video, based on people deeply reflecting, on memories that have been based around water. I would like my apace to have an immersive feel, to assist in being able to aid people to connect with their mind. There was a turning point in this process, that I very clearly started to make this piece about promoting and communicating my mind, and the minds of people that would like to participate.

I want my piece to have heart and trigger people to reflect on their own mind. I also want people to think about connecting with the mind and people able to express what is on your mind.

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01.02.24 / Exhibition Outcome / Idea Formulation

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#currentmindset So here we are again.......water, pools, swimming. I always get paranoid that I bang on about how much I love swimming and being in the water, but i'm a fat c*nt! :).

I am trying to think about how I can make something engaging, impressive and collaborative. Following on from the essay, and my understanding that a true collaborative process will be an outcome that has been equally contributed to by a range of users. I am trying to think about how something can be exhibited that allows people to design something. The logistics of this are going to be quite challenging.

We are learning Figma, could I use that, that people can design their perfect pool, as in what puts them off swimming now, why don't people swim more on a day to day basis. Many people recognize it as a healthy activity, makes you feel great, but then many pools struggle financially. Lidos in the colder months are super unused. Even heated ones. There is also a massive racial disparity in users of pools. Some of this is cultural and tried to be rectified by having gender segregated sessions but they are poorly attended in my experience also. I'm thinking could we make a truly collaborative pool, rather than a pool that has used a consultative process (very common from councils, to claim they involved the community as a tick box exercise).

I was thinking how I could use shapes to represent specific areas and proceeses involved in swimming and how the layout could be arranged.

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Shadow Documentation at the DD Exhibition Space

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22.02.24 / Exhibition Outcome/ Visiting the Design District Space

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22.02.24 / Exhibition Outcome/ Visiting the Design District Space

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I visited the space for the first time on 22.02.24

. I wanted to document how the sunlight affects the space, in case this was something I need to consider or use, once I think of my piece.

Thoughts on the Space.

It is quite a cavernous feel due to the high ceilings, and it has a lot of natural light. I am not sure what I want to do, but I am trying to consider how I can use the space to its advantage. One area I am thinking about, is the colour scheme of the entire show [as the degree has always made me think about how your work, comes together as an overall piece and how we can consider the space, other peoples work, the lighting, the environment, to carefully consider every decision we make for our work. It many not get noticed by the public, but I feel much more comfortable, that I am thinking about every decision and every decision is justified.

As the space has dark walls, I am thinking that I want to create an immersive area. I really liked some of the 2nd year student show work from last year [that was held in the studios at stockwell street] when an immersive area had been created [Giulia Balatti [[ student]] had an area at the back [Life drawing area] with a documentation of her hometown in Italy, and it was dark with sofas and exclusive to her work, i really liked this] There was also another space that a little room had been created with the walls. Considering all of this I wanted to try and make some early decisions to secure this, and maybe I can change it, if in the end my outcome goes in a different direction.

I visited the space for the first time on 18.01.24. I wanted to document how the sunlight affects the space, in case this was something I need to consider or use, once I think of my piece.

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08.02.24 / Exhibition Outcome / Experimentation

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I began looking at how I could use real water to reflect a magnified refractive reflection onto the wall and ceiling of my space. My intention was to make my space have this ripple effect all around so you feel like water is nearby.

The issues this presented were having a body of water nearby to many electrical outputs and equipment, and although I liked the effect It was not as large or immesive as I wanted.

I created this effect with tin foil and shining a mobile light onto the tin foil in water and shaking the container of water. Obviously with a bigger light it would be clearer, but this is something I need to consider if I was to develop this idea.

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For the show element of the module this week, Marianna and myself wanted to start developing some flyers and a unique fold design they could take. We worked on these but were then advised that the visual communication team would be designing these. I then started working on a guest list for the private view.

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01.02.24 / Marketing / Private View Guest list 

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This was the list I started working on, in the first weeks for the invites to the private view.

There was talk of making physical invites, that If I am truly honest, I was seeing as ambitious as I knew the term would get busier, but I felt it best not to vocalize this, and suggest focusing on a nice digital one because I did not want to be seen as negative, and I want people to be able learn from this experience in their own way. So i was very much keeping to a back seat, but unfortunately I could see it in my opinion, just not progressing week on week. I was trying very hard to bite my tongue.

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This presentation, acted as turning point in my journey of process for the show. Prior to this, I felt like I had multiple mediocre ideas, I just felt like I was trying to imagine something I could do, that was water related, but aimed at impressing people. I was very much focusing on the show element, not the 'why' of my piece and if I am making it for myself or for an audience or for both?

While assembling the presentation, I was very much with the mindset, that historically many well know artists had clearly be captivated to try and capture water, and i wanted to communicate the message of 'why?' also to say this is not just a 'me' thing, it was a way of saying 'look, all these great artists have done it too, but we are just not thinking about why do they do it, why do we all do so many things that involve water?'. I think this mindset was partially being born out of feeling I have to justify myself as to why I am always defaulting to water and paranoia that I will be seen as either obsessed or a one trick pony. At this stage I was not thinking about an outcome based around this, I was very clear at this stage, that I could not settle on an outcome.

Prior to this crit, I was just drawing blanks. My head was a complete mix of so many random things. I was thinking to try and make an interactive floor projection [been done many times before, but its draws attention], allowing the public to design a swimming pool [a truly collaborative approach to designing a pool to maybe see what current pools are doing wrong, or why they don't attract certain demographics], a collage art piece made up of people pictures of swimming pools that could also be added to during the show to get them to email their favorite picture, A world map of all the pools ive been to, and documented and allow people to add to it, with their memory of an ocean or a pool.

I had discussed in tutorials, my ideas, which were sort of i felt acknowledged as ok. [but i do see that in this stage of the degree, lecturers let us run with many or our own ideas, and just guide us to some reference points to help bring it to fruition].

Juliette has raised the 'why' question about what I wanted to do, Matt had mentioned a couple of reference points [Artsists and websites] and to maybe look at the polluting of our rivers are coastlines.

However, at this crit, as you know, I gave a very transparent verbalisation, of my mindset about this project, and the feedback was to take that ability to verbalise and communicate and focus on that.

I was a bit stunned at first, but after a bit of time to process and obviously I also want to act upon feedback I receive from lecturers [due to their much more vast experience of envisioning an outcome [[not to grade chase - just to be clear]]. I thought, yes this is maybe an angle that I can deliver and it gives some 'heart' to my piece.

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A website that I found interesting for community lidos

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There is a small renaissance of lidos in the UK at the moment, as some refurbishments have been very popular [London Fields, Reading Thames Lido]. They are very community lead and collaborative with the community, so I found it interesting that a website exists to help get these projects off the ground.

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I have researched David Hockney quite in my quest to to justify that water is a well documented area of art,

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Summary

This depicts a splash in a Californian swimming pool. Hockney first visited Los Angeles in 1963, a year after graduating from the Royal College of Art, London. He returned there in 1964 and remained, with only intermittent trips to Europe, until 1968 when he came back to London. In 1976 he made a final trip back to Los Angeles and set up permanent home there. He was drawn to California by the relaxed and sensual way of life. He commented: 'the climate is sunny, the people are less tense than in New York ... When I arrived I had no idea if there was any kind of artistic life there and that was the least of my worries.' (Quoted in Kinley, [p.4].) In California, Hockney discovered, everybody had a swimming pool. Because of the climate, they could be used all year round and were not considered a luxury, unlike in Britain where it is too cold for most of the year. Between 1964 and 1971 he made numerous paintings of swimming pools. In each of the paintings he attempted a different solution to the representation of the constantly changing surface of water. His first painted reference to a swimming pool is in the painting California Art Collector 1964 (private collection). Picture of a Hollywood Swimming Pool 1964 (private collection) was completed in England from a . While his later swimming pools were based on photographs , in the mid 1960s Hockney's depiction of water in swimming pools was consciously derived from the influences of his contemporary, the British painter Bernard Cohen (born 1933), and the later paintings by French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-85). At this time he also began to leave wide borders around the paintings unpainted, a practice developed from his earlier style of keeping large areas of the raw. At the same time, he discovered fast-drying acrylic paint to be more suited to portraying the sun-lit, clean-contoured suburban landscapes of California than slow drying oil paint.

A Bigger Splash was painted between April and June 1967 when Hockney was teaching at the University of California at Berkeley. The image is derived in part from a photograph Hockney discovered in a book on the subject of building swimming pools. The background is taken from a drawing he had made of Californian buildings. A Bigger Splash is the largest and most striking of three 'splash' paintings. The Splash (private collection) and A Little Splash (private collection) were both completed in 1966. They share compositional characteristics with the later version. All represent a view over a swimming pool towards a section of low-slung, 1960s architecture in the background. A diving board juts out of the margin into the paintings' foreground, beneath which the splash is represented by areas of lighter blue combined with fine white lines on the monotone turquoise water. The positioning of the diving board - coming at a diagonal out of the corner - gives perspective as well as cutting across the predominant horizontals. The colours used in A Larger Splash are deliberately brighter and bolder than in the two smaller paintings in order to emphasise the strong Californian light. The yellow diving board stands out dramatically against the turquoise water of the pool, which is echoed in the intense turquoise of the sky. Between sky and water, a strip of flesh-coloured land denotes the horizon and the space between the pool and the building. This is a rectangular block with two plate glass windows, in front of which a folding chair is sharply delineated. Two palms on long, spindly trunks ornament the painting's background while others are reflected in the building's windows. A frond-like row of greenery decorates its front. The blocks of colour were rollered onto the canvas and the detail, such as the splash, the chair and the vegetation, painted on later using small brushes. The painting took about two weeks to complete, providing an interesting contrast with his subject matter for the artist. Hockney has explained: 'When you photograph a splash, you're freezing a moment and it becomes something else. I realise that a splash could never be seen this way in real life, it happens too quickly. And I was amused by this, so I painted it in a very, very slow way.' (Quoted in Kinley, [p.5].) He had rejected the possibility of recreating the splash with an instantaneous gesture in liquid on the canvas. In contrast with several of his earlier swimming pool paintings, which contain a male subject, often naked and viewed from behind, the 'splash' paintings are empty of human presence. However, the splash beneath the diving board implies the presence of a diver.

Further reading:
David Hockney: Paintings, Prints and Drawings 1960-1970, exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Gallery, London 1970
Stephanie Barron, Maurice Tuchman, David Hockney: A Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.38, reproduced p.158, pl.37 in colour and p.39, fig.24 (detail)
Catherine Kinley, David Hockney: Seven Paintings, exhibition brochure, Tate Gallery, London 1992, [p.5], reproduced [p.5] in colour

Catherine Kinley/Elizabeth Manchester
February 1992/March 2003

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Catalogue entry

T03254 A BIGGER SPLASH 1967

Inscribed 'DAVID HOCKNEY' on stretcher
Acrylic on cotton duck, 95 1/4×96 (242.5×243.9)
Purchased from the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava through the Knoedler Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
Prov: the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava (purchased from Kasmin Ltd, 1968)
Exh: David Hockney: a splash, a lawn, two rooms, two stains, some neat cushions and a table... painted, Kasmin Ltd, January-February 1968 (works not numbered, repr.); David Hockney: Paintings, Prints and Drawings 1960-1970, Whitechapel Art Gallery, April-May 1970 (67.5, repr.); David Hockney, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, May-June 1970 (41, repr.); David Hockney: Slike, Crtezi, Grafike 1960-1970, Muzej Savremene Umetnosti, Belgrade, September-October 1970 (30, repr.); David Hockney: Tableaux et Dessins, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, October-December 1974 (13, repr.in colour)
Lit: Nikos Stangos (ed.), David Hockney by David Hockney, 1976, pp.124-6, repr.in colour pl.190; Henry Geldzahler, 'Hockney Abroad: A Slide Show', Art in America, LXIX, February 1981, pp.136-7, repr.; Marco Livingstone, David Hockney, 1981, pp.108-11, repr.pl.59; Carolyn Lamb, 'David Hockney "A Bigger Splash"', Completing the Picture: Materials and Techniques of Twenty-six Paintings in the Tate Gallery, 1982, pp.108-13, repr.in colour p.109
Repr: The Tate Gallery: Illustrated Biennial Report 1980-82, 1983, p.51 in colour

A detailed discussion of this picture, by a member of the Tate Gallery's Conservation Department, is to be found in Completing the Picture (op.cit.). Part of it was based on written replies by the artist to a questionnaire. Extracts from this essay concerning the 's style and subject matter, but also to a certain extent the techniques employed, are reprinted below.

'"A Bigger Splash" was painted sometime between April and June 1967 while Hockney was teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. The Splash is based on a photograph he found in a book on the subject of building a swimming pool, and the background is taken from one of his of Californian buildings. In many of his paintings the subject matter is a composite of personally observed details and photographic images. He feels photographs do not in themselves contain enough information to draw from but they can be developed imaginatively or used as mnemonic devices. He does not aim to produce an exact replica of the photograph.

'Discussing "A Bigger Splash" in his autobiography Hockney describes his fascination with the depiction of such an ephemeral thing as a water splash. "I love the idea first of all of painting like Leonardo, all his studies of water, swirling things. And I loved the idea of painting this thing that lasts for two seconds: it takes me two weeks to paint this event that last for two seconds" (David Hockney by David Hockney, p.124).

'The Splash was developed in three paintings. "A Little Splash" (1966) was the first version, only 16 × 20in. in size. This idea was enlarged and modified into "The Splash" (1966). Unsatisfied with the background, which he felt was too complicated, he simplified the building and in the final version "A Bigger Splash" (1967). It is the largest of the three, 95 1/2 × 96in. in dimension, painted in Liquitex artists' acrylic emulsion paint on cotton duck .'

'...Hockney was greatly impressed by the acrylic paint he found in a Los Angeles art store when he moved there in 1963, and in fact gave up oils, using acrylic almost exclusively from this date until 1972. "The clear light of California suggested simple techniques as the light in a London room suggested an older ' chiaroscuro ' technique."

'Two painting techniques have been used in "A Bigger Splash". Firstly a masking technique and secondly the more traditional application of paint by brush. Describing the picture, Hockney says "It's very strong Californian light, bold colour, blue skies. I rolled it on with rollers and the splash itself is painted with small brushes and little lines, it took me about two weeks to paint the splash" ( David Hockney by David Hockney, p.124). The colours used were cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, raw sienna, burnt sienna, raw umber, Hookers green, Naples yellow and titanium white. These were applied mixed together or as tints (i.e. colour plus white for the sky and pool blue). Hockney stapled the canvas to his studio wall while he painted it. Not all of the canvas was covered by paint, the thin strip running horizontally across the centre of the painting (acting as the pool edge), and the wide canvas border were left unpainted. A canvas border was a frequently used pictorial device in his work between 1964 and 1967 - "It was a kind of concession to current art. It seemed to me that if I cut the picture off there, it became more conventional, and I was still a little frightened of that then" (ibid., p.125). No preliminary drawing was done on the canvas.'

Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984

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'A Bigger Splash', David Hockney, 1967 | Tate

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Artwork page for 'A Bigger Splash', David Hockney, 1967 on display at Tate Britain. A Bigger Splash is one of a number of paintings Hockney made of Californian swimming pools. He has captured the moment just after someone has dived in. The splash is the only clue to their presence in the scene.

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22.02.24 / Show Outcome / Experimentation

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22.02.24 / Show Outcome / Experimentation

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I am still not settled on an outcome and very lost with it, but I needed to start experimenting and hoping an idea would perhaps be born out of the experimentation.

The reason I went down the area of projecting water refractive light reflections, is because this is a visual outcome from water, that I find relaxing, beautiful and has always been something that from a young age, has attracted me to water. Or maybe i just joined the two from a young age, and I have now forgot and when I see these reflections, it just now make me feel like swimming or relaxed.

As i feel like this, and maybe one area of my outcome I want to explore is to explore if water envokes these feeling on many other people too, I found this as an effective way to trigger this feeling in other if it exists.

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Social Media Post to promote the Design District

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I captured the food options nearby to the venue, to promote the area on our ig channel. I did this, to start to build a relationship with the DD, and I advised Jake by email we had done it and to ask if they could also like our page and share the post.

I made it in this timelapsed style, to match the look of a previous post on the channel detailing how to walk to the venue from the tube station.

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I suggested to Valeria we make this plan because [and i want to be very clear and factual here that I am not down talking anyone or their contributions, my intention is just to deliver my thoughts and the facts to document my process, decisions and contribution]. I could see week on week, nothing really happening with in our team, the time was not being utilized well. As much as I wanted to take a back seat, I was also becoming increasingly conflicted internally with being part of something, that we look like we have not done anything as team, because I am part of that team, and this is strongly against my inherent nature of being a 'dooer'.

I had thought very carefully, about how to progress things, but without taking the lead and to use an approach that would try to ensure equality and workload among the group, and also allowing the group lead to take a lead role.

I felt this method, then acts as a visual contract to what people have agreed to do that is on display, so hopefully there will be a small amount of pressure for people to deliver and it is easy for the team to follow up on.

This week, I also got into a heated debate about getting the tik tok account up and running [but I also feel i was beginning to crack and get a bit vocal, which as i have explained I really didn't want to do, as i wanted the group lead to lead]. However I felt I was the only one that was going to call this out [that we are on week 5 and we still don't have a delivery that was an area of responsibility] Needless to say we got the tik tok up and running the next day.

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After meeting Jake at the DD, I was in touch with him by email to try and set up a meeting with the head of marketing at the DD to see if we could the brains on anything extra we could do, but also to build a relationship and utilize resources that we have access to. I invited Valeria to join in as she is the team lead for marketing.

We had the meeting and I found it quite useful, to ask for some direction. Alice [head of marketing] suggested we talk to 3 students about their work and they can promote it on their socials. Valeria asked for sponsorship, which I found a bit out of the blue, but in the nature of working in a team, I just rolled with it.

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List of websites / magazine i contacted to try and obtain a free listing

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Alice from the DD suggested to reach out to various blogs / art magazines to get a free listing. These are ones I contacted. In addition to a friend of Marianna's that is willing to write about our show. I suggested she writes up a piece before the show that we could use to drum up some interest.

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Exhibition Outcomes /  Meeting with Francis

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Exhibition Outcomes /  Meeting with Francis

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This was some areas of research Francs provided to look at exhibition spaces.

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I have been looking at this artist that Francis suggested. At how you can work with the floor as a space and how sometimes, making people look down can add to the piece.

I dint find this research particularly inspirational for my ideas, basically because the vibe of mine is to be thought provoking and relaxing. Its also a video, so quite different to this. I do like though how he includes to relationship with his work on the wall to the floor.

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Exhibition Outcome / Karla Black / Research

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Exhibition Outcome / Karla Black / Research

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I have been looking at these artists to see how they use the floor. Francis suggested using sand, but I see that causing issues with the DD and feel it is a little tacky. I have considered how I would like someone to sit down when they view my piece as I would like them to relax and also reflect on their life with water. I thought about buying a pool inflatable, but i also worry that it will look tacky. [I also don't have much money to waste atm, in the case it didnt work].

18.04.24 / After consideration about this, I would like just a simple stool or black box for someone to sit on quite low and watch my piece sitting down if they wish.

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Exhibition Outcome / Branding / Colour Pallete

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Exhibition Outcome / Branding / Colour Pallete

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From the beginning of this process, I have wanted for my piece to consider its overall larger environment and the show. Both elements will have a colour scheme and feel and I would like to consider both for my piece.

When I have been experimenting with projections it became apparent that a nice little touch that might work to just add a fine detail of water and constellations would be very subtle twinkles. I have sourced some black glitter, but need to think about how I can have this on the wall to capture the light from the projector.

I have not tried yet, but I am thinking to have small bits of black paper on the black wall with just very finite glued dab of glitter. I will experiment with this prior to the show to be prepared on the day.

I will also consider the colour palette of the visual identity of the show, to work into my piece.

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28.03.24 / Exhibition Outcome / Research

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28.03.24 / Exhibition Outcome / Research

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This website about the jubilee pool in Penzance, which I found linked from a resource that Matthew Frame provided to me, has become one of my main sources of inspiration as a benchmark for my video. I spent quite a lot of time looking at the 'People' video to come up with a paceing for my own video, and I used the technique of the voiceover before the matching video starts.

I did try to get participants in the video to reminisce quiet a lot and matched them with their supplied childhood photos and for those that were old enough and the photos are clearly old, i really like the nostalgic aesthetic this creates.

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Jubilee Pool Stories is a collection of images, sounds and film celebrating the heritage and people's memories of Penzance's famous art deco outdoor lido.

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06.04.24 / Exhibition Outcome / Experimentation

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Vauxhall Bridge Water Reflections. I went to film these to practice on the short throw projector at Uni.

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Reflection Projection @ Stockwell Street

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09.04.24 / Exhibition Piece / Mockup Trial

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09.04.24 / Exhibition Piece / Mockup Trial

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The day we came in to try and do a practice run for the show, I borrowed a short throw projector that I have arranged to use to test how they work and the type of video i will need to make to best use it. These were using some reflections that I filmed from the vauxhall thames clipper pier and vauxhall bridge.

I was quite impressed with how they came out and I am glad that I think they will produce a good effect in my space. I am keeping it black and white to match the dark interior of the venue and the constellation nature [night sky and stars]. I found it very therapeutic and relaxing watching these reflections. However they were not exactly the type of reflections I was looking for. Ideally what I am imagining is an outdoor pool [or some clear body of water] with either artificial lights or moonlight creating the same refractive reflections.

What I am trying to achieve is that bright sunlight reflections, but in a black and white sense [so the refracted light rays in white and the rest of the scene black].

I may have to do this in the daytime and play with the colours because having access to a pool at night and to be able to film it is a bit challenging.

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10.04.24 / Exhibition Outcome / Inspiration

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From the Jubilee Pool Stories, I looked into Awen Productions, who make collaborative films for community projects. This one caught my attention, as it matches the heart of the type of style I would like to emulate with my video.

I love the stories and the golden hour lighting and voice overs. One thing I have to consider is that many of these videos are about a place. I need to think carefully about what is the focus of my video.

I have been thinking about it on my cycles to and from Uni and I feel there will be two main elements that I want my piece to vibe.

1 - The conversational element, talking out aloud and expressing ourself verbally i think is turning into a skill that is becoming rarer and rarer. I want my piece to promote internal conversations and verbalizing these into spoken words.

2 - Nostalgic Reminiscing. I want this to feature, to promote the viewer to do the same, or feel nice by hearing someone elses memories. I would also like to inspire people to think about their own memories that have been about water. I want people to consider how water is the gathering place for humans, just as it is for the animal kingdom. Like a watering hole in the African Savannah

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An ancient harbour in need of change. Penzance's Holy Headland. A divided community...An ancient harbour in need of change. Penzance's Holy Headland. A divided community...

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13.04.24 / Exhibition Outcome  / Research

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I discovered this video on the Jubilee Pool website after I had make the bulk of my video already, but I became quite excited that we had overlapped on some of our visual fascination with the look of this. I found the video so interesting and beautiful to watch. Another video that you might find interesting is the video next to this on the website titled 'refractions' that has been made with a temporal camera. I found this enchantingly beautiful too. I think it is so nice that this pool, is providing a platform for this experimental work. Its disheartening to know that this pool, which recently refurbished to much fanfare about having now aheated geothermal element, has had to turn it off due to costs. The publicity was great for [semi] wild swimming.

https://www.timeout.com/uk/news/this-much-loved-seaside-attraction-in-cornwall-has-been-forced-to-shut-011524

Seems to me the council fudged it up, and thats a massive shame, as over 1/2 million £'s were invested from local donations.

However I see the route the jubilee pool has gone as publicizing itself and providing a platform for the local community is how the future of swimming needs to be in this country. It is such a healthy activity and combined with saunas and steam rooms, Jacuzzi it can really benefit people with all sorts of muscle and joint issues. In central Europe swimming and spas are massively more accessible than here [i can speak of Germany quite confidently], but Poland, Austria and Hungary all have very affordable spas, that are massive and accessible where as the equivalent ones in the UK and confined usually to a £250 3 hour treatment at a luxury hotel. Some council operators offer some spa elements [Ironmonger row baths] but even this is 5 times the cost I would pay in Germany, and 5 times worse.

Regarding the video, I will watch it carefully and maybe add in some of his techniques into mine, if I feel they fit.

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An artist's film inspired by Jubilee Pool by Lou Brett

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Exhibition Outcomes / Research / Marina Abromovic / Balkan Baroque

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Exhibition Outcomes / Research / Marina Abromovic / Balkan Baroque

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I went to this show in December, 2023. Im not going to try and say i went to this for inspiration for the show, but, i did go, because i know a lot of her work is performance based, which you can argue overlaps a little with participatory outcomes.

However this piece of work, has come to my mind, when I think about my piece for the exhibition. I think it is because the skeptical voices are saying 'i'm just doing a video' but then I think about this piece, which you cannot really see in this picture, but is accompanied by a large screen of Marina talking, and for quite a long period of time. I think it is justification for me to reassure myself, that talking and dialogue can be beautiful. Personally I feel it is something about the duration, tone and if you can empathize with the speaker that makes it beautiful. I have tried to capture this with my opening monologue, but time will tell if I have managed to emulate it.

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25.03.24 / Exhibition Outcome / Research

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25.03.24 / Exhibition Outcome / Research

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I run an instagram that shows lots of pools that I have visited around the world. So it has a fair share of pool enthusiasts, which I tried to reach out to get some interviews for my project. Unfortunately, I was in touch with this one person that runs a website showing all the lidos of the UK, but she went cold.

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25.03.24 / Exhibition Outcome / Research

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25.03.24 / Exhibition Outcome / Research

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I tried to reach out to pool enthusiasts through my Instagram

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Exhibition Outcome / Meeting with Francis

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Exhibition Outcome / Meeting with Francis

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I took some time with Francis, regarding the physical installation of my show piece. Now that I was clear that I would be displaying a video, with some projections to make an immersive feel. I just wanted to make sure I was reserving all the equipment I would need ahead of the game.

Francis was extremely useful and went way beyond what I was expecting [or what i knew about his experience in this field]. As tv's on stands was very limited, we discussed having the monitors on the floor [that would be useful due to the lack of stands] but also how we can use this to our advantage and think creatively how to make this look considered.

We looked at examples of using two screens and how best to use them [not just displaying the same video] and how they can be carefully placed. I liked this idea and also saw it as a challenge to work with.

This meeting was extremely useful to have ahead of schedule. I then started to arrange my equipment correctly with Matthew Barton, and I was keeping the exhibition team updated for their master list.

I started organizing this independently as I wanted to ensure that I was not relying on someone else, that could cause a breakdown in communication and affect my outcome and all the work I will be putting into it. I considered if this was a selfish approach, hence why i kept the appropriate group teams updated about what I was doing.

There was some political communication that had to take place about Matthew receiving too many random emails and it was confirmed that Francis would be the one point of contact. However as time evolved I sort of built a line of communication with Matt and he has been asking me many things about the equipment logistics, so somehow I have kind of my accident and unwillingly fallen a bit into this role.

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A collection of the videos I made to make a video for the design district social medias. Rookie mistake, the first batch was without sound, as I loaned the camera from the university and had not turned on the mic, so I had to do a second round.

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The design district requested a video on three students work. I wanted to use this task as a way to get some of the students that wouldn't normally participate to feel a bit more involved and also to get them thinking about the show and their work.

In terms of the marketing team at this stage. I have decided to work on a a few tasks independently, that came out of the marketing meeting with the DD.

There has been submissions in other modules and regarding marketing work, it does not seem like much is being produced. I also dont have the time, to rely on involving other members of the team in what I am planning or doing. I do provide videos for the social media uploads but i dont see many of them getting uploaded. I dont upload them myself as we had a nominated person for that, so I am sticking to the protocols. I have asked why, but you get very waffled 'computer says no' type of answers.

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The Art Newspaper, offered us a free advert. This actually turned into quite an amount of work [which i'm sure you can empathize with] in regards to back and fourthing with image size, pixel density etc. In addition the asset that I had requested from the vis com team, never arrived [except from Helen]. However I had to them spend time re-editing the image to the correct specs the that website needed it at. In the end we got it over the line though.

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I needed a leaflet to promote the show, and we were not getting much from the vis com team [excluding Helen], after several requests. I made my own flyer based on various assets i had seen over the last few weeks. I was thinking this could be a double sided A5 flyer. The original intention for this was for the Art NEwspaper, but it had to be modified due to pixel resolutions.

Helen did send me a flyer she had created so I think potentially we can use both for the flyers. The flyers and flyering will be the next task that I will be encouraging the marketing team to all participate in, but it does seem I will have to organize the printing of the flyers as I just cannot get anything from the vis com team [you have obviously seen my numerous requests by email over the weeks] Its a shame, because [rant incoming] because its a waste of my time to have to request this info, and the emails are just mostly point blank ignored.

When I did try to talk about it face to face on one week, it caused a massive rift about the visual direction that had been sent out, so it just goes no where. Its a shame, because I feel this show and title, provided a lot of scope to pull from our branding module, but the politics just took over and sheer laziness im afraid [my opinion].

I do apologize if this is ranting and I know its perhaps not the most positive thing to read about, but as a document of my process and group working i feel its very relevant to know the details of my contributions and why those contributions have had to be made, even if they are reluctant and also take away from my time like my time is less important. I have just found the lack of attendance but then the entitlement and expectation for other students to provide the answers on equipment etc astonishing. But I assume its the same every year. I have tried to be as helpful as possible but also with an element of directness.

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The live advert on the Art newspaper website. We had to amend the ad significantly due to the 300px x 250px ratio. Small fine text just didn't work, so this was the most we could get on there. The ad did link to our ig page though which obviously provides more details.

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I will be exhibiting participatory design, and for the show I am on the marketing team.

We have devised a list of actions, that will need to be completed. Valeria offered to lead the group. My thought process at this stage if I am perfectly honest, is that I felt like students in marketing would expect me to volunteer to be the group lead. I did not for several reasons. I consider myself, quite committed to the uni process and I am aware of that, and i feel that other students need to be put in the position of leading, to get an idea of the non-tangible skills involved. I also, wanted to show myself as a supportive figure, not the kind of bossy, direct trunchbull type figure that I feel other students might perceive me to be. Not that I particularly care, but my decision to stay as a secondary role, was strategic.

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Trying to get the marketing team to contribute toward the flyering.

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15.04.24 / Marketing / Riso Flyer Production

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15.04.24 / Marketing / Riso Flyer Production

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I sat with Francis getting the flyers into a physical state. I was very keen to use the riso. We printed in the end with a diamond [to match the show] halftone effect, however we experimented with offsetting a colour but it didnt work on the small text. Finally we just did the stars and main title in a different colour. Great session on the riso and FRancis was extremely helpful. It inspired me enough to re-visit my bootlegging outcome for the IS module.

This video was sent for the socials, and followed up verbally for the tik tok, account, but nothing happened.

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15.04.24 / Constellation Flyers / Experimentation

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15.04.24 / Constellation Flyers / Experimentation

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Experimentation of different opacity's.

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15.04.24 / Marketing / Riso Flyer Outcomes

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15.04.24 / Marketing / Riso Flyer Outcomes

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Video for the socials, but was not used. Basically was told the videos didnt work [standard mp4 format] and offered to send in an alternative way to the relevant people, but was not provided any contact details. A shame. good publicity for the uni's resources.

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20.04.24 / Marketing / Flyering Evidence

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I delivered the flyers from the riso to these two design focused universities. As i was wearing my bodycam, I thought it might be an interesting way to document it. Hope it brings back some memories Juliette ;)

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Flyering Evidence for Constellations Show

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I cannot complete this sketchbook without touching upon and effect that I embarked to learn on adobe after effects, that has taken me absolutely ages. I started one day at around 10am, and gave up around 4pm and reverted to somple text ripples [because this is basically just one a very small part of my piece [[name introductions]]. But I felt defeated when I went home, i felt after effects had defeated me and I wasn't happy about it, so I watched more tutorials and decided to give it another attempt the next day. It took all day, and I was becoming a little concerned that I was fixating on something that has a very brief appearance in my overall video. However I have to look at the overall bigger picture, that I gained more familiarization on technical software, the name intros tie together my segments and can aid in the visual feel of my work and I did feel, that I was not conducting any 'technical' design in my work [this is how i felt] so i thought this might be a worthwhile exercise to invest a massive amount of time into for the benefits it will bring me in the long term and to introduce some design that I can control in my work.

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Video showcasing the technical side of one of the main effects that I have been using in after effects. [Pain in the A*se!]

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Video showcasing the technical side of one of the main effects that I have been using in after effects.

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How I plan to use the wave world and caustic effect in the final video.

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Me in the pool [not used in final video]

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I had some footage of me [watch if you want its awful], but on review. I had to trust my intuition, that I felt like it did not match the other stories. All of the others were very convesational, and this one seemed a bit more kind of 'action based' and I felt like i also talked too much about it being cold water, and this was not really the main focus of my video. Also the wind was too loud in the video, so i didnt use it in the end. I think the type of video footage i need, to compliment a conversation, would not be focused on people, per se, but more the relaxing nature that I draw on from a pool, as I want my video to be about communicating what I [and 'we' [[other contributors]] can draw from memories with water in it or how we feel about being in water.

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22.04.24 / Construction of Outcome / Learning Outcomes

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22.04.24 / Construction of Outcome / Learning Outcomes

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Now I am [broadly speaking] at the end of this process. I would like to document, some of the areas that have been challenging, that I would do differently if starting the project again or areas, that I have particularly enjoyed and would like to take further and develop.

Challenges:

Getting strangers to participate - I reached out to people, and tried approaching people at the pool. But i did not have much luck. I also had a lot of frustrations obtaining permissions from the pools, if you ask for permission to film anything. The standard answer will be a no, and then many don't seem willing to move from that. I think its best to not ask, go when its quiet ad then just get on with it, with some obvious discretion.

Multiple Screens - this was weirdly more time consuming than I thought. Although i did not help myself really on some of them. as I diced the clip up forgetting i was moving around, i think if was to offer to anyone doing it or to myself. Is do not 'unlink' the audio from. This mistake cost me about 3 - 4 hours.

What Would I do Differently:

I think, |I would like my names to appear as they do in my introductions in a real 3D space, I did not do this in this one, as the effect i was using was already caining my laptop and i was worried that I would be investing more time into segments that represent about 4% of my video.

What I enjoyed:

Overall I did enjoy the module. It has been refreshing to work towards an installed outcome which is off property. I enjoyed looking at other documentary style videos that have been made in a way to capture the heart of a place or a person and i hope I have achieved almost as half as well as they have done. I'm not sure if this is a particular area of design I would like to take further [I don't really like working with video or video editing software] but i do like creating something that i feel means something to me and might mean something to other people. I want to make something beautiful, but beautiful not necessarily in the visual sense [but i would like that too] but beautiful in the emotions it evokes on the viewer. I would love someone to watch my video and also reminisce about their own experiences or be inspired to create some experiences themselves. I also hope that it encourages people to have internal conversations with themselves and the importance of just being able to talk and that can also be a beautiful thing in a day and age of gadgets that in someways take us away from talking with our mouths.

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There are still a few more tiny little touches that I would like to add to my video, but at this stage I would say they are not imperative to the outcome. Clearly very 'finishing touches'. I would like to pull some key adjective positive words from peoples conversations and have them emerge on the projector footage in the same way that peoples names do.

I also need to consider what I am doing with the second screen, during my monologue. I think it will work, with just my black and white ripples that has become my glue for this project [and that is because i find them so therapeutic] so they work well in tying it all together.

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I had to think a lot about if I make my video black and white or colour. The overall colour scheme of my video is black and white mostly, as is the show and this has genuinely been something I have wanted to consider from the beginning.

This left me in a quandry about keeping the other videos i have from the other participants. I just felt that if i make it all black and white, its a bit like 'ok, hes made it black and white, but why, just because?' Do i have a real justification for it? It makes me think about the use of black and white for Schindler's List, but as it used colour [the girl in the red coat] in a very symbolic way throughout it was felt poignant, justified and cohesive with the movie. I don't feel i have that justification really and almost seems its like i am doing it to be artistic, but then i get intl the territory of 'who am i making this for? me or to impress other people? I have shifted in this process that I want this piece to be for me ultimately and i just hope other people find it beautiful.

I'm still not entirely sure, what I will do, so you'll have to see, but i think I am edging to keep the photos and videos other than my monologue in colour, but with a very well considered filter that i hope will help emulate beautiful nostalgic memories.

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Construction of Outcome / Research / Video Filters 

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I am researching filters that I can apply to my video that will give it tied together feel. However i want to be subtle and not detract from the main pieces of the video. One of the considerations I have here is that I am using a lot of old style photos and I don't want over erode them, but i also don't want to take the filter off just for them as then there is a disconnect. I am clear that I want this filter to be over the whole video like a wrapping, but i need to find the subtle balance that it is not too distracting.

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I wanted to add a small segment about which of the talks have stood out to me. I have to apologise I have probably forgotten quite a few of the names, but i can easily say which ones stood out to me.

Thats what the water gave me:

This was a curve ball, as I had not picked up on the fact that it was about the weather [weather is also a little fascination of mine] so how she visualized this was really interesting. I have mentioned quite a few times now in submission conclusions that I am increasingly finding it interesting that people just have these interests and then it is turned into 'something' . When i say something, i mean this in a way that it build into something, something that can be shown, a project. Showing us the ingenious ways that water was collected for the drier season in this ice sculptors was really interesting

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Dystopia for Fun & Profit

I feel this week would have been massively useful for anyone that is presenting speculative design [i'm not....typical], but i really found it interesting when they showed the mockup of life through AR, and if it was un-controlled and how many ads we would be bombarded with. Made me wonder if the apple vision pro will go that way.

I also think you have to be impressed with the detail and dedication of their sketches.

Overall though, it was inspirational and good visual databank to see how AR could be used.

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Olive Man Gingrich

This is maybe a little biased, but I do always like the way Olive speaks and describes things. However it is also insightful to see these research areas that our lecturers are involved with. This talk was also useful to see how participatory practice was playing a part and the involvement they invited us to take part in at the end.

It is re-enforcing what I have learnt about participatory design being truly open with the results that you receive.

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Cutting the vinyl 84cm to black out the windows