iphone 4: LED

Throughout our testing, researching and experimenting with light sources we always seem to come back to using Apples iphone4 flash light. The results using this LED flash light which can be set to have a constant beam gives us the brightest of results and an incredible amount of depth and detail of our reflection of what we like to calla parabolic star.

We have decided that we could not use the iphone itself in our artwork as it is of a large clumpy size, so we have now set out to research the type of LED the iphone uses as a single LED suspended in our artwork would look a lot more subtle.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

Hans Haacke: Blue Sail

Hans Haacke, 1964-1965, installation. chiffon, oscillating fan, fishing weights, and thread

German artist Hans Haacke has lived and worked in New York since traveling to the U.S. on a Fulbright grant in the early 1960s. Although his early works dealt with natural processes (such as water's thawing and condensation, or the movement of air currents), Haacke is best known as a pioneer of institutional critique.

Many of his works attempt to expose the connections between money, politics, and art — for instance, corporations' financial support of museum exhibitions as a means of whitewashing politically questionable organization policies. For Haacke, the institutions of the art world have too long hidden behind mollifying myths of disinterested beauty and "art for art's sake." His work insists that artists and viewers alike have a responsibility to acknowledge their position on the global stage.

http://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/120791#

Meeting: 12.01.11

We discussed and debated how the final look of our exhibition might be, whether to view the piece horizontally or vertically.

We meet with Andrew our tutor and Ray the lead member of the UK Kinetics Research Centre and showed them how far our project had come and the direction we are thinking of taking it.

We decided we would arrange our art work horizontally by suspending the light source from the sides of our exhibition space placing the mirror at ground level possibly suspended and to have a sail like cloth to project the image onto.

I know feel that the project has got to were it needs to be and now we can spend the next couple of weeks refining and polishing the the look and feel of the art work, which is still titled 'Opus Etheres'.

We will next be meeting on Saturday the 15.01.11

Research for next meeting:

- Sails




- kites

- Light Sculptures

- Lasers




- Correspondence between the three objects ( Light, Mirror & Projection screen )

Meeting: 08.01.11

I missed this meeting due to illness.

Progressed made from others at meeting:

Meeting: 05.01.11