I created a QR code for the group to allow us to give a quick an easy link out to our visitors who would scan the code using a 3rd generation phone which would directly link them to our web page and useful information about our project.
Saturday 5 February 2011
Web Page: 05.01.11
http://www.opusetherea.co.uk/
I created a QR code for the group to allow us to give a quick an easy link out to our visitors who would scan the code using a 3rd generation phone which would directly link them to our web page and useful information about our project.
I created a QR code for the group to allow us to give a quick an easy link out to our visitors who would scan the code using a 3rd generation phone which would directly link them to our web page and useful information about our project.
Friday 4 February 2011
Postcard: 03.02.11
Sally from our group put together a quick postcard of information about our installation the day of our private view as the night before we had no information available for visitors to take away, Thank you sally.
Business Card: 03.02.11
A design i quickly whipped up for the private view night after the night before having lots of interest and no info to give.
Thursday 3 February 2011
Wall Plaque: 03.02.11
A plaque design to put on the wall next to our piece to give visitors a little insight into the background of our work.
Wednesday 2 February 2011
Press & Private View: 03.02.11
The private view night was buzzing with people with lots of questions, the press also visited that day and Namak was able to give a short interview about our work, we have yet to see this and looking forward to seeing if we make it into any papers or art threads.
Feelings: 02.02.11
After battling with the light source we finally settled with the mains powered LED which gave us the best results for the conditions we were working in, ambient lighting.
I think as a whole we were really pleased we had managed to complete our installation ready for the art collectors view and really pleased with our end results.
This project for us is an ongoing experiment of natural forms, light, motion, wind, balance and reflections and as it stands in the Kinetica Arts fair we are definatly happy with its overall feel there are definatly a few things we would like to tinker with to give a greater result to what we are looking for , to allow the viewing to we mesmerised my its beauty and inquisitiveness of our such an kinetic sculpture works.
The mobile we would like to improve to allow more free motion, currently the wind and sail allow the LED light to bounce gently up and down but as the mains power cable restricts any circular motion we are not seeing the full potential of the light reflection, the shapes and evolving shapes that come with the up, down, left, right motion.
Comments:
Kinetica Viewer "One of the nicest pieces in here"
Kinetica Viewer "By Far the best piece in here"
We also had a visit from a photographer who was very keen for us to visit his studio to experiment with our installation on a larger scale in his warehouse. He works as a fashion photographer and his studio space had very large white curved walls which would be ideal to project our light onto. We passed on his details to Ray, i think this would be a lovely extension to our project.
Another visitor expressed how he could imagine Candy and Candy loving our work as they are property developers and he could imagine our work in the corner of a show room.
Overall the comments were very positive people seemed mesmerised by the whole installation almost to a point of not understanding how such results are possible as if we had projected our 3D like image on to the canvas.
I think as a whole we were really pleased we had managed to complete our installation ready for the art collectors view and really pleased with our end results.
This project for us is an ongoing experiment of natural forms, light, motion, wind, balance and reflections and as it stands in the Kinetica Arts fair we are definatly happy with its overall feel there are definatly a few things we would like to tinker with to give a greater result to what we are looking for , to allow the viewing to we mesmerised my its beauty and inquisitiveness of our such an kinetic sculpture works.
The mobile we would like to improve to allow more free motion, currently the wind and sail allow the LED light to bounce gently up and down but as the mains power cable restricts any circular motion we are not seeing the full potential of the light reflection, the shapes and evolving shapes that come with the up, down, left, right motion.
Comments:
Kinetica Viewer "One of the nicest pieces in here"
Kinetica Viewer "By Far the best piece in here"
We also had a visit from a photographer who was very keen for us to visit his studio to experiment with our installation on a larger scale in his warehouse. He works as a fashion photographer and his studio space had very large white curved walls which would be ideal to project our light onto. We passed on his details to Ray, i think this would be a lovely extension to our project.
Another visitor expressed how he could imagine Candy and Candy loving our work as they are property developers and he could imagine our work in the corner of a show room.
Overall the comments were very positive people seemed mesmerised by the whole installation almost to a point of not understanding how such results are possible as if we had projected our 3D like image on to the canvas.
Tuesday 1 February 2011
Exhibition Installation:
An annotated version of our exhibition layout please click the image to enlarge
The image above shows the final layout for our installation at the Kinetica Art Fair.
This diagram shows the mobile design we choose for our installation for the exhibition which relies on mains power, we used a 3v Super bright LED, Nylon line, Power cables, Silk organza for the sail, 11 small weights, cotton thread to attach the sail to the nylon, a bike spoke for the axes of the mobile and a small cylinder tube to incase the LED.
The images below show the start of the mobile being constructed we ended up using a spoke from an old bike wheel which gave us a very stream line piece of strong metal that we could then suspend from nylon directly below our silk and above our mirror.
We tested out the new idea of using a battery for our LED but unfortunately the results were not what we where hoping for, the image was not bright enough which meant us going back to our original idea of using a mains power via a volt changer.
We did not bring with us the equipment we needed to complete or installation in day one so we needed to return tomorrow and finish off the mobile and run a cable in for the LED and set up our fans which would blow the sail attached to the mobile giving the evolving shaped from the reflection we were looking for.
We altered the height of the mirror carefully balanced on tubs and boxes from around us to find the perfect position to give us maximum effect. We used our iphone 4s to reflect into the mirror to check the results each time we adjusted the height.
We had to work out the focal height and throw the other side to give us the kind of shape from the reflection we were looking for and the best quality and size.
Once the position was agreed we began hanging the mirror using nylon line attached to screw in white hocks in various positions.
The images below show the new and improved silk organza hanging arrangement, i feel the new position plays with the constrains of the three walls surrounding us and looks more like a sail than a projection screen, much happier. We go onto experiment with the positioning of the mirror height to give us the largest and the highest quality reflection possible.
The pictures below show the first stage of the installation for our exhibition at the Kinetica Art Fair.
We started to hang the silk organza after sewing the lops on all four of the corners with heavy duty nylon line attached to screw in hocks on the walls of our space.
We hung the silk as we had planned in our final meeting pria to this day, but something didn't feel right it looked to geometric and to ordinary, Thanks to Ray we started to think outside of the box and started to re think the angle at which we would hand the organza.
Monday 31 January 2011
Installation:
Prep for Installation of Exhibition:
Via facebook we communicated with each other on what we need to bring after our final meeting last week in the basement.
I gathered potential items to make the mobile for our installation and ribbon and threads to enable us to hang our sail like canvas.
We still needed to work out whether we will be powering the light source with batteries or a power source, Immo is investigating batteries as we feel this will give us the minimal and as invisible feel we are aiming for.
Via facebook we communicated with each other on what we need to bring after our final meeting last week in the basement.
I gathered potential items to make the mobile for our installation and ribbon and threads to enable us to hang our sail like canvas.
We still needed to work out whether we will be powering the light source with batteries or a power source, Immo is investigating batteries as we feel this will give us the minimal and as invisible feel we are aiming for.
Method statement:
Method Statement for installation of Exhibition:
Kinetica Art Fair - "Each exhibiter MUST supply a method Statement on how the work is to be installed."
Statement:
"Light weight mobile installation requiring small hooks attached to walls to suspend individual items"
Kinetica Art Fair - "Each exhibiter MUST supply a method Statement on how the work is to be installed."
Statement:
"Light weight mobile installation requiring small hooks attached to walls to suspend individual items"
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