Day 5: Cleaning up the mess
Today was about documenting and wrapping up loose ends – making our experiments with touch screens into more resolved works that could be presented in contexts beyond the Lab. With the help of Ben Dalton, Bob Levene and I got the code for the dirty hob piece finished, so that now when you rub the screen the ‘clean’ image is revealed in a more subtle way, not with the blocky... Read More
Day 4: What have you done today?
Today we began with a tour of the Wilberforce Health Centre, where we spotted the slogan “What have you done today that was world class?” in the staff sign-in area. Something to keep in mind when writing these blog summaries I think… Back in the lab I decided to continue with the scratch card project. I scratched-off and filmed the remainder of the six scratch cards I... Read More
Day 3: The Cultural Void
Today was a bit of a slow day in comparison to the first two. I began by being sucked back into the real world, with 50+ emails that took my the whole morning to clear. In the afternoon we had a weird presentation by a guy called Peter Eyres – loosely based around exploring ‘alternative funding strategies’. We split into two groups to role-play a future without public funding... Read More
Day 2: Scratch Card
Today we begun with introductions to a number of different programming tools including Quartz Composer, VVVV and Processing. I began to think more about the act of touching the touch screen – about the conceptual shift that occurs when you imagine the tip of your finger interacting with the computer screen rather than the mouse cursor. No doubt influenced by my role as Syndicate... Read More
Day 1: Visualising Scale
Today we were introduced to the web-based presentation software Prezi. It can be used to make very flashy-looking presentations which can zoom in-and-out and move around different spatial planes, enabling the viewer to focus in on different details. Bob Levene mentioned the similarities between Prezi’s zoom affect and the groundbreaking Charles and Ray Eames film Powers of Ten... Read More
Introduction: Ellie Harrison
I am an artist based in Glasgow. I have just graduated from the Master of Fine Art (MFA) programme at Glasgow School of Art. My recent work seeks to react and respond to our political, economic and environmental climate, to consider our contemporary situation in light of developments in human history, whilst questioning the ethical implications of the role of the artist within this.... Read More
