Project Proposal
Working Title: Dance!
Dance:
Perform or participate in a specified dance.
Leap or skip, especially in an emotional manner.
Make somebody dance or lead somebody in a dance.
Talk misleadingly so as to avoid facing an issue squarely.
Get to a particular state by dancing.
Aims
The aim of my project is to create multi media installations exploring the contrast between hard edged political/geographical territory and personal territory.
This work should be:
• Clear and confident in its form
• An engaging self contained environment
• Well marketed
• The start of a growing body of work developed around specific core issues
Objectives
• Access relevant Film, Video and sound archives
• Learn how to use new software for final work: Motion, Soundtrack, Max/MSP (if relevant)
• Learn how to use new software for web site creation and webcasting
Dreamweaver, Flash, etc
• Find more efficient techniques for repetitive tasks when extracting frames from video/film footage
Rationale
From growing up in Northern Ireland I have always been acutely aware of political and personal landscape and territory, and of the fixed, polarised positions people tend to publicly adopt within areas of conflict. I wish to explore experienced and perceived personal territories within such areas - territories which are not fixed, and which can transcend geographical and/or national borders.
I am interested in how people position themselves and cope, within geographical areas deeply effected by conflict.
I wish to look at the influence technology has on the way we perceive and map the physical and personal landscape that we position ourselves within.
I am also interested in the relationship between older forms of media, relatively fixed within their physical structure, and new media, easily transformable into different incarnations due to the fact that it exists within the digital realm. I find the link between this idea and the idea of fixed national territory and unfixed personal territory interesting.
I want to work with film and video archives, extracting human figures from the footage, and placing them within neutral spaces on a screen, mixing figures from different times and spaces. Removing their actions from the context in which they happened, allowing the figures to perform a kind of melancholic dance. Using footage from conflict zones, but extracting the specifics of the location, to suggest a more universal experience of people caught up within conflict and changing territories, possibly touching on their dislocation, loss, willpower, strength. So each piece that I make would be a kind of choreographed dance with a soundtrack also constructed from archived material and newly recorded material, mainly voice and generally abstracted.
Outcomes
• The ability to carry out effective and efficient research
• A greater understanding of individual’s ways of processing conflict experiences
• An expanded knowledge of motion effects, interactive and web design software
• A sustainable working practice and professional skills to allow my practice to develop successfully.
Media
I propose to utilise Video, film, sound and photography to create work that could exist as an installation and/or web based work.
I will be using Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Protools, After Effects or Motion, and appropriate web technologies as I also want to explore live manipulation of video and sound within webcast situations and look at the potential behind video phones for dissemination of work.
I also want to look into Max/MSP software and, in particular, the Jitter video element in relation to possible interactive installation situations.
Methodologies
I will look at the history of physical mapping up to the present and the forces, both geographical and social, that have driven its development. I will research how people’s idea of personal territory has been affected by technological advancements and economic changes, like live as it unfolds 24 hour news, the reduced price of travel, faster affordable portable communication (satellite phones), Global positioning systems (GPS) telling us our location from anywhere on the planet.
All these advancements have effectively changed our perception of distance and location, but do they simply give us the illusion of knowing where we are.
Reference
BOOK:
MANOVICH, L., 2OO1.The Language Of New Media. Cambridge,
Massachusetts/London, England: The MIT Press.
HARRIES, D. ed, 2002. The New Media Book. 2ND edition. London: The British Film Institute Publishing.
BROUWER , J., MULDER, A., CHARLTON, S., 2003. Information Is Alive (Art and Theory on Archiving and Retrieving Data). Netherlands:V2_Publishing/NAI Publishers.
WEB:
MELAUGH, M.,2004. Conflict Archive On The Internet (Northern Ireland) [online] Available from: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/index.html [Accessed 20th September 2004]
INDYMEDIA. 2004. Indymedia UK is a network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues. [online] Available at: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/ [Accessed 20th September 2004]
CHRISAFIS, C., 2004. Racist war of the loyalist street gangs. [online] Guardian Unlimited. Available from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/race/story/0,11374,1120113,00.html [Accessed 20th September 2004]
CENTRAL SURVEY UNIT. 2004. leading social survey research organisation in Northern Ireland. Part of the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) [online] Available at: http://www.csu.nisra.gov.uk/ [Accessed 20th September 2004]
MOFFATT, J., 1996-98. UK Military Pollution. [online]. Manxman Review, Isle Of Man. Available from: http://www.manxman.co.im/cleague/archive/modenv5.html [Accessed 20th September 2004]
WEINTRAUB, R., 2002. NASA (National Aeronautics And Space Administration). Looking at earth:Satallite Imagery. Available from: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/index.html [Accessed 20th September 2004]
GLOBALSTAR. 2004. Product coverage information [online]. Available from:
http://www.globalstar.com/view_page.jsp?page=coverage [Accessed 20th September 2004]
ORDNANCE SURVEY OF NORTHERN IRELAND.2004. Ordnance survey services for Northern Ireland [online]. Available from: http://www.osni.gov.uk/homepageX.htm [Accessed 20th September 2004]
MHUR, Dr. K./McKAY, Dr, P. 200? Northern Ireland Place Name Project, Information about the project and its resources [online]. Queens University Belfast. Available from:
http://qub.ac.uk/lla/cel/placenameproject.htm [Accessed 20th September 2004]
KOPROWSKI, G, 2004. Wireless World: Satellite Phones On The Rise, [online] Spacedaily. Available from: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/satellite-biz-04zzzzzt.html [Accessed 20th September 2004]
Working Title: Dance!
Dance:
Perform or participate in a specified dance.
Leap or skip, especially in an emotional manner.
Make somebody dance or lead somebody in a dance.
Talk misleadingly so as to avoid facing an issue squarely.
Get to a particular state by dancing.
Aims
The aim of my project is to create multi media installations exploring the contrast between hard edged political/geographical territory and personal territory.
This work should be:
• Clear and confident in its form
• An engaging self contained environment
• Well marketed
• The start of a growing body of work developed around specific core issues
Objectives
• Access relevant Film, Video and sound archives
• Learn how to use new software for final work: Motion, Soundtrack, Max/MSP (if relevant)
• Learn how to use new software for web site creation and webcasting
Dreamweaver, Flash, etc
• Find more efficient techniques for repetitive tasks when extracting frames from video/film footage
Rationale
From growing up in Northern Ireland I have always been acutely aware of political and personal landscape and territory, and of the fixed, polarised positions people tend to publicly adopt within areas of conflict. I wish to explore experienced and perceived personal territories within such areas - territories which are not fixed, and which can transcend geographical and/or national borders.
I am interested in how people position themselves and cope, within geographical areas deeply effected by conflict.
I wish to look at the influence technology has on the way we perceive and map the physical and personal landscape that we position ourselves within.
I am also interested in the relationship between older forms of media, relatively fixed within their physical structure, and new media, easily transformable into different incarnations due to the fact that it exists within the digital realm. I find the link between this idea and the idea of fixed national territory and unfixed personal territory interesting.
I want to work with film and video archives, extracting human figures from the footage, and placing them within neutral spaces on a screen, mixing figures from different times and spaces. Removing their actions from the context in which they happened, allowing the figures to perform a kind of melancholic dance. Using footage from conflict zones, but extracting the specifics of the location, to suggest a more universal experience of people caught up within conflict and changing territories, possibly touching on their dislocation, loss, willpower, strength. So each piece that I make would be a kind of choreographed dance with a soundtrack also constructed from archived material and newly recorded material, mainly voice and generally abstracted.
Outcomes
• The ability to carry out effective and efficient research
• A greater understanding of individual’s ways of processing conflict experiences
• An expanded knowledge of motion effects, interactive and web design software
• A sustainable working practice and professional skills to allow my practice to develop successfully.
Media
I propose to utilise Video, film, sound and photography to create work that could exist as an installation and/or web based work.
I will be using Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Protools, After Effects or Motion, and appropriate web technologies as I also want to explore live manipulation of video and sound within webcast situations and look at the potential behind video phones for dissemination of work.
I also want to look into Max/MSP software and, in particular, the Jitter video element in relation to possible interactive installation situations.
Methodologies
I will look at the history of physical mapping up to the present and the forces, both geographical and social, that have driven its development. I will research how people’s idea of personal territory has been affected by technological advancements and economic changes, like live as it unfolds 24 hour news, the reduced price of travel, faster affordable portable communication (satellite phones), Global positioning systems (GPS) telling us our location from anywhere on the planet.
All these advancements have effectively changed our perception of distance and location, but do they simply give us the illusion of knowing where we are.
Reference
BOOK:
MANOVICH, L., 2OO1.The Language Of New Media. Cambridge,
Massachusetts/London, England: The MIT Press.
HARRIES, D. ed, 2002. The New Media Book. 2ND edition. London: The British Film Institute Publishing.
BROUWER , J., MULDER, A., CHARLTON, S., 2003. Information Is Alive (Art and Theory on Archiving and Retrieving Data). Netherlands:V2_Publishing/NAI Publishers.
WEB:
MELAUGH, M.,2004. Conflict Archive On The Internet (Northern Ireland) [online] Available from: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/index.html [Accessed 20th September 2004]
INDYMEDIA. 2004. Indymedia UK is a network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues. [online] Available at: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/ [Accessed 20th September 2004]
CHRISAFIS, C., 2004. Racist war of the loyalist street gangs. [online] Guardian Unlimited. Available from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/race/story/0,11374,1120113,00.html [Accessed 20th September 2004]
CENTRAL SURVEY UNIT. 2004. leading social survey research organisation in Northern Ireland. Part of the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) [online] Available at: http://www.csu.nisra.gov.uk/ [Accessed 20th September 2004]
MOFFATT, J., 1996-98. UK Military Pollution. [online]. Manxman Review, Isle Of Man. Available from: http://www.manxman.co.im/cleague/archive/modenv5.html [Accessed 20th September 2004]
WEINTRAUB, R., 2002. NASA (National Aeronautics And Space Administration). Looking at earth:Satallite Imagery. Available from: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/index.html [Accessed 20th September 2004]
GLOBALSTAR. 2004. Product coverage information [online]. Available from:
http://www.globalstar.com/view_page.jsp?page=coverage [Accessed 20th September 2004]
ORDNANCE SURVEY OF NORTHERN IRELAND.2004. Ordnance survey services for Northern Ireland [online]. Available from: http://www.osni.gov.uk/homepageX.htm [Accessed 20th September 2004]
MHUR, Dr. K./McKAY, Dr, P. 200? Northern Ireland Place Name Project, Information about the project and its resources [online]. Queens University Belfast. Available from:
http://qub.ac.uk/lla/cel/placenameproject.htm [Accessed 20th September 2004]
KOPROWSKI, G, 2004. Wireless World: Satellite Phones On The Rise, [online] Spacedaily. Available from: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/satellite-biz-04zzzzzt.html [Accessed 20th September 2004]
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