The uncanny was discovered over a century ago; it tells us about human nature and social behaviour. It isn't about violence or gore it is more about the easy feeling that 'Something is off'.

Sigmund Freud described the uncanny 'all that arouses dread and creeping horror' he uses the German words 'Heimlich' and 'Unheimlich' which are words meaning 'Homey' and 'Unhomey'

The reason why it is unsettling is because its thing we know and are familiar with it then becomes a thing we are not familiar with and it makes us unsettled and creeped out. This is called 'Cognitive dissonance' it is used a as a term used by psychologists to describe a mismatch between what we know and what our senses are telling us.

In the early 20th century, Psychoanalysis explored the strange inner workings of the human mind through investigation. This means that people began to be interested in dreams, and the idea of subconscious began to form. This carried the suggestion that the human mind may have a life of its own which behaves in uncanny ways beyond our control.

Rene Magritte's work and Andrew Wyeth's are both focused on the tension. Which is more about anticipation more than action.

This gave the uncanny an opportunity to represent different parts of ethical challenges.

Freudian psychoanalysis are often dismissed as it is classed as dated and patriarchal. As this suggests a link between the uncanny and certain vulnerabilities such as mental illness.

Often the uncanny is about unpredictable behaviour. Some examples of uncanny are;

-The weeping angels from doctor who

-Statues suddenly move when up donated a coin

-A Childs toy suddenly speaking in a deeper voice

-A guest being hypnotised on TV

Dada was a movement started by a group of Swiss artists during WW1, they had a huge influence on the surrealists. It was partly a response to the horrors of war.

~Uncanny Valley~

The uncanny valley is used to describe accidental uncanniness in media, whereas that thing in media can be identifiable as a robot or human. Which made it seem so uncanny.

The uncanny valley can be presented in different parts in media, Artists can make their art wrapped and can exaggerate their piece to also give the uncanny feeling.

Her philosophy is that the most important thing for the picture book is love for the children. Without thinking and fueling for the children audience, the imagery would be lifeless.

As a graphic designer she had lectured in the academy in berlin from 1992-1993 and in 1999. The work which have made her world famous, is an experimental book design that she been doing since the 1950's. Her book form is beyond the limit of a fixed book and print production.

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I love her art style as its simplistic and very colourful. I like how she gave her characters unique and individualism. I also like how she didn't made them look 'perfect' looking for the sake of it.

When she was a child she always been fond of found objects such as sticks, seeds, buttons etc...

Sabine creates three dimensional work with the items she finds stranded in places such as the beach, then getting inspired to create tiny miniature things and characters.

However when shes in her studio thats when majority of the work takes place, she firstly scribbles and do sketches to get an idea on how the character would act and look like. Then she lets the characters interact with each other, and then start using the materials she found stranded and start to create a location for the characters interaction.

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I quite like how she does her work, i like how the characters she makes have alot of individualism and detail to them. This inspires me to put in a bit more detail when i create my own characters and will encourage me to put more thought and detail to them.

Hybrid creatures have been around for a long time, ancient civilizations have left evidence of imaginary beings, that are neither fully one thing or another. This let us ask ourselves questions about their origins.

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In ancient history, hybrids were believed that they have control in human desitiny, and during time they have gotten popular during the bronze age as the new trade routes and cultural mixing have caused psycholgical anxiety.

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Some hybrids are called 'liminal' means that they live between states or 'between worlds'. Religious iconography made use of this idea to differentiate between opposites. Hybrids would be able to shift between good and evil, heaven and hell, etc...

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Gargoyles who are another breed of hybrids, they serve a pratical service by conducting rainwater away from the sides of buildings. They were also known to fraught off evil sprits and were seen as a reminder to people to attend church as they remind them what could be awaited for them on the other side.

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Hybrids in the medieval period were mainly used as a reminder and to teach moral lessons. Some hybrids were known as 'Bosch' are in between human and animal, they dress in the popular clothes in the time period they are from but generally something is off about them.

Popular workshops have had asked Stephen to tech his techniques.

He published a book which shows the joy of simplicity of stamp carving which it shows at least forty different projects which are step by step guides.

The book includes multiple different things being taught, such as typefaces, repeat patterns, collaborative mall art, creating books and zines, creating cookies, body art, graffiti, making portraits, translucent, and spiltwork. It shows a complete guide to print with rubber stamps, what equipment to use, how to carve your stamps, how to register multiple colours and mashpoints. Overall the illustrations are very clear and understandable.

While using the art or storytelling and using the combination of representation and abstraction in her paintings she uses diverse subjects such as; race, sex, religion and art history in her paintings.

He creates colourful geometric shapes and creates handdrawn designs and wooden or paper constructions.

Alongside of being an illustrator he creates books and apps for children and he works in volume which he creates pop-up books stage sets, and large format installations.

Semiotics is a way of analysing and understanding how meaning is created and communicated through word and language. It is argued that how anything can be a sign. (word, image, object, texture, smell, etc...)

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Semiotics can be a way of reading or looking.

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Signifer is the form that is a sign. This maybe a sound, word, facial expression, image, line, colour, shape, etc...

Signified is a concept or a shape that's being represented.

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Denotation is the most basic or literal meaning of a sign.

Connation is the secondary cultural meaning of signs, or 'Signifying Signs', signs that are used as signifiers for secondary meaning.

Synecdoche is a kind of connotation which is used as a whole.

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Icon has a physical resemblance to the significance to the signified, the thing being represented.

A photograph, a image, simplified form.

In terms of image making, iconic signs often refer to what is depicted in the image.

Index have some evidence of the thing being represented, it has a link to the significance but does not physically resemble it.

In terms of image making, indexical signs often speak to how the image was made.

Symbol has no resemblance between the signifier and the signified. The connection between them is culturally or socially learned.

Words, language, numbers, logos, associations, etc...

In terms of image making symbolic signs often speak to metaphor, trope, genre, or sterotype.

The phase is a commonly used in different European language. The phase is used to describe someone evasing or being overly careful about a topic.

The idiom itself was documented in 1641, and it means to avoid speaking or acting directly about something. The English equivalent is 'To beat around the bush' which is a hunting reference however another different reference is 'Pussyfooting about' it refers to cats and their natual nature to hunt.

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In his paintings shows a equal sense of realism and the uncanny, he blur the lines between the two. In his landscapes he incorporates familular elements of the suburban life, which naturally gives the audience a sense of comfort.

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Alex Roulette: Departure

(the artwork i choose to focus on)

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This artist was mentioned in a video from YouTube and the channel from 'game theory'. I remembered this artist from the video and thought it would be a good opportunity to research this artist.

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The fleischer studio was originated by two brothers, Max and Dave. The studio was created in the early 20th century and was known for their animations and the known characters of Betty Boop and Koko the clown.

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The artists in the studio were also known as innovators, and known for the 'bouncing ball' and the inventions of the rotoscope and the 'set back' process.

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Nowadays max's grandson mark, he serves as chariman and CEO at the studio. Mark's team has dedicated artists to bring his grandfathers characters to life.

Hanna switched careers to cartooning (previously studying journalism and engineering) and became director and story man in the animation department of MGM. In the same year Barbera was working as a bank accountant and then started to submit cartoons to magazines. Then he was hired as a sketch artist.

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Hanna and Barbera created the characters Tom and Jerry, and from that series it produced 200 films in the series between 1940 to 1957. From those series they won 7 Oscars from the academy of motion picture arts and science.

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From that year, they formed their own company and made multiple well known classic cartoons such as scooby do, the Flintstones and more. They were praised for their good quality of writing which was found in their productions.

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The principles consist of;

-Timing and spacing

-Squash and stretch

-Anticipation

-Ease in and out

-Follow through and Overlapping action

-Arcs

-Exaggeration

-Solid drawing

-Appeal

-Straight ahead action and pose to pose

-Secondary action

-Staging

The uncanny was discovered over a century ago; it tells us about human nature and social behaviour. It isn't about violence or gore it is more about the easy feeling that 'Something is off'.

Sigmund Freud described the uncanny 'all that arouses dread and creeping horror' he uses the German words 'Heimlich' and 'Unheimlich' which are words meaning 'Homey' and 'Unhomey'

The reason why it is unsettling is because its thing we know and are familiar with it then becomes a thing we are not familiar with and it makes us unsettled and creeped out. This is called 'Cognitive dissonance' it is used a as a term used by psychologists to describe a mismatch between what we know and what our senses are telling us.

In the early 20th century, Psychoanalysis explored the strange inner workings of the human mind through investigation. This means that people began to be interested in dreams, and the idea of subconscious began to form. This carried the suggestion that the human mind may have a life of its own which behaves in uncanny ways beyond our control.

Rene Magritte's work and Andrew Wyeth's are both focused on the tension. Which is more about anticipation more than action.

This gave the uncanny an opportunity to represent different parts of ethical challenges.

Freudian psychoanalysis are often dismissed as it is classed as dated and patriarchal. As this suggests a link between the uncanny and certain vulnerabilities such as mental illness.

Often the uncanny is about unpredictable behaviour. Some examples of uncanny are;

-The weeping angels from doctor who

-Statues suddenly move when up donated a coin

-A Childs toy suddenly speaking in a deeper voice

-A guest being hypnotised on TV

Dada was a movement started by a group of Swiss artists during WW1, they had a huge influence on the surrealists. It was partly a response to the horrors of war.

~Uncanny Valley~

The uncanny valley is used to describe accidental uncanniness in media, whereas that thing in media can be identifiable as a robot or human. Which made it seem so uncanny.

The uncanny valley can be presented in different parts in media, Artists can make their art wrapped and can exaggerate their piece to also give the uncanny feeling.

Alex was originally born in Columbus Ohio and now resides in Brooklyn. His paintings explore the surburban American concept by blending fantasy dreamlike esk and blur the lines of realism in his paintings. This makes his work eyecatching and resemble the uncanny nature.

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He is a French artist who is from Montreuil Paris, he draws prolifically and fills his sketchbooks with drawings from travels or in company with his friends and family. He usually draws in landscapes and people.

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The mediums he uses are water colours, coloured pencils, ink, and pen on location which are usually engravements.

His work appeared on 'The new yorker', 'L'Vomo vauge', 'M'le magazine du monde' and 'The new york times'. He has also callobarated with fondation cartier, the contempory art museum in Paris and regularly exhibits his original drawings etchings and prints.

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She studied at edinbrugh college of art and the royal college of art.

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Her clients she worked with;

V+A, Frieze week magazine, skyarts, so young magazine, east london comics + arts fair, house of illustration, hacking comic + zine fair, derwent.

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a place can be an event, experience, memories, and expectations.

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Why does this place matter?

what makes it interesting-I find York shambles market interesting because of its authenticity and the general area.

What can you show us/tell us that we didn't know already?

I could do illustrations of the areas in the market place and do little historic fun facts about york/market.

Whats your unique point of view?

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What turns a location into a story?

-The personal

-The public

-The historic

-The physical

-The intangible

I feel related to all of these when i think of York and the shambles market. However i am leaning towards the intangible and personal, as i love the general area of York but i cannot put it into words.

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Documentation can be presented in different ways, however they fell in two categories which are;

-Outward-facing

-Inward-facing.

Outward facing;

News/information/education/propaganda/awareness campaigns. {Impersonal/informative}

Inward looking;

Memory/Nostalgia/Personal moments/Felt response/Sensory experience/Emotion/The intangible. {Personal/heartfelt}

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What are things to consider whilst reporting?

-Objectivity, aim to be objective and informative about the facts.

-Immersion, should the illustration be more involved with the scene they are depicting or should there be a critical distance?

-Editing, How much information should be given to the audience, as sometimes less words can be more of an impact.

-Ethics, we have a responsibility to make ethical images- but at what costs?-By never intruding or making images that could make a impact on peoples lives?

-Tone, what could illustration do that photography cant? Different materials and mediums can be used to persuade the audience to a diffrent opinion based on the style of the work.

-Audience, you have to think how your style of work and the mediums you use can affect them.

-What counts?

What makes your place newsworthy? How can you convince the audience that your work is important?

-Headline, think of a headline which defines your approach. A clear focus will help to direct towards your drawing.

She illustrated at least 21 books and have written 15 of them.

With each project she does, she doesnt use a paticular medium, however she analyses the project and then she uses whatever medium she sees fit.

She directed 2 animated short films and have written the art direction of stage play for children. She also produced a radio show for young audiences with texts by two diffrent authors.

Some of her clients were;

DDD,

Universial Music,

Non verbal club,

Leoardo filmes. (and more)

this is where i orginally got the idea to do the other festival however i leaned towards the tomato festival instead.

Badges are a signage system which are both public and personal.

Types and meanings,

They played a significant role in the 20th century pop culture. They made the public feel that they belong in the community of their fandom, in addition they were very affordable and cheap. They can promote, celebrate and can commemorate an event. They can represent various things such as activism, protest, music, peace etc...

They generally reflect on your personal standpoint and would open conversations that can be classed as controversial.

Virtue signalling is classed as humble bragging and it reflects on how you show yourself to the world that you have good character. It basically tells the public that you are too distracted showing you are showing yourself off that you are too good of a person.

Character can also be presented through badges, can show people what characters you like or can be from nostolgia. Can also be classed as humble-bragging as it's not too 'in your face' to the public.

Products and advertisements can be shown through badges, however they were mainly popular in the 90s and 80s. Achievements can be shown through badges aswell it is similar to a 'badge of honour'.

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Badges are...

-Immediate. You know what it is telling.

-Simple/Economical. It is generally appealing, it would be bold and simplistic, not too complicated in design.

-Informative. It could tell you something new, something you didn't expect about the badge or about the wearer.

-Impactful. Eye-catching from afar.

-Synthesised. The text and the design looks completely different but compliments each other.

-Urgent. It spreads awareness to the public, whether it's a big issue or a small one. (global issue, birthday)

-Advertisement. They can be used to advertise, clubs, status, or irony publishing something private, another form of social media.

It can give you power on some level on how people see you in public.

Badges can mean different things and can be used in different ways.

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-Emblem

-Device

-Accessory

-Insignia

-Display

-Indicator

-Symbol of Authority

-Legitimating sign of status

-Identification

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Emblem is a visual object or representation that symbolises a quality, type, group-the concrete symbol of an abstract idea.

Insignia is the symbol, badge, or a sign that shows somebody rank or that they are a member of a group or organisation.

Symbolic meaning, it is a mark, sign or a word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as repersenting a idea, object, or relationship.

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Variations of symbols;

-Symbol/image

-Slogan

-Use of space

-Negative Space

-Typeface courier

-Pinstripe (Suit material)

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Slogan is a memorable motto or phase used in a clan, political, commercial, religious or other context as a reparative expression of an idea or purpose.

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A slogan may include;

-A cause, place, brand

-An action, activity

-A group of people, individual

-A statement

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(the book itself explains alot of anatomy aswell)

In 1957, it was banned because it didnt had a religious purpose.

I thought it was important to mention it as i believe it shows strength in comunity.