Cleaning The Surface.

Cleaning The Surface.

Complete relief. I had a really constructive day and actually made some stuff. At an unearthly hour I read the article Ellie Weir had linked to yesterdays blog about how the core material Indium that goes into making touch screen technology work is running out. I found an image of this ‘Indium’ and have started playing around with ideas that relate to this and erasing,... Read More

Free Range Artists Farms

Free Range Artists Farms

Peter Eyers visit resulted in an interesting task about funding in which we were split into two groups, private and public and had to come up with different systems of supporting an art practice. Being part of the private / corporate group was a novelty, inevitably throwing up different questions around control, ethics and selling out. The result was the ‘Free Range Artists... Read More

Sucked into the vortex of doom (for a bit).

Sucked into the vortex of doom (for a bit).

Hit a wall of questions, complications and doubts. My flipant vortex of doom (yesterdays video made with Prezi), turned out to be more poignant than intended. After struggling to ‘find content’ to fill the touch screen with, i began to question the function, purpose and potential of the medium. I was becoming fearful of being seduced by the immediacy and novelty, creating... Read More

Not quite infinity

Not quite infinity

We had our first quick go at using Prezi this morning, a web-based presentation tool using a map layout, zooming and other things. My attempt doesn’t work so well when you click on the actual words (needs tweeking) so its best you click on the play button below and imagine its a touch screen and your touching the actual words. I starting thinking about the process of touching... Read More

Bob Levene

Bob Levene

I keep trying to make sense of things by adopting pseudo-scientific strategies and anthropological methods of recording to analyse ‘how things are’. I work outdoors a lot experimenting with how far things are and how fast they move. I’m curious as to how our understanding of the physical world is shaped by the limitations of the body we inhabit and how that alters... Read More