PROJECT STATEMENT CRITICAL FRAME This unit requires you to create a body of work ready for public presentation. This project work will be developed from starting points made in Individual Creative Practice and may be driven by themes of 7interest, creative curiosity or technological methodologies. This work will be made in collaboration with your peers, theContinue reading “DEGREE PROJECT – Photography as a Sculpture”
Author Archives: Elzbieta Skorska
Applied Research Project II – Professional Opportunities
PRESENTATION: PRESENTATION TEXT: PROFESSIONAL FUTURE FORM: Assessment Deadline: 15/04/24 9 AM (Research Portfolio and Presentation)Presentations: 16/04/2024 and 17/04/2024 This unit requires you to identify and generate an outward facing, research project. Working with external partners, you will apply your research skills and knowledge of the wide contexts of photography within the creative and digital sectors,Continue reading “Applied Research Project II – Professional Opportunities”
MY CREATIVE PRACTICE 23/24
SUMMER PROJECT ANALOGUE ABSTRACT INTERDISCIPLINARY VISUAL ARTIST GEOMETRICAL My name is Elzbieta Skorska and I am a Polish-born cosmopolitan. After spending a few years hitch-hiking around Europe and living between France and England, I settled in the UK. I study Photography at Manchester School of Art and currently I am on a student exchange atContinue reading “MY CREATIVE PRACTICE 23/24”
COLLAB UNIT – MACHINE-BODY RELATIONSHIP: CYBORG SHORT FILM
BRIEF Within this unit you will be carrying out collaborative active research into a relevant collection, institution, object or artifact. The research undertaken will be defined by the group and may take the form of site visits, desk-based research, archival research, institution collection exploration or other approaches. You will be required to document your processContinue reading “COLLAB UNIT – MACHINE-BODY RELATIONSHIP: CYBORG SHORT FILM”
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO ART – Appropiation and Archiving
TASK: Production of a video project that incorporates at least some still or moving image from the appropriation of diverse sources of free access (photography, cinema, television, etc.), applying the technique of editing, assembly, juxtaposition, and / or cutting as a critical and deconstructive tool that causes the displacement of the original meaning of the reused images.Continue reading “PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO ART – Appropiation and Archiving”
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOART – Silence is Violence (5 minute film)
RESEARCH Womanhouse (1972) Womanhouse opened in Los Angeles as part of the first Feminist Art Program, originally established by Judy Chicago at California State University, Fresno, and later expanded at CalArts. Chicago with her co-educator, artist Miriam Schapiro, worked with a group of students and local artists to transform a dilapidated house in Los AngelesContinue reading “PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOART – Silence is Violence (5 minute film)”
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOART – single channel flat sequence video
PAREDOLIA BRIEF For this assignment we were asked to produce a single-channel video of a maximum duration of 3 minutes, whose structure must be in single sequence plane. The resulting work must record a performative action presented in real-time, without digital editing. The action must have been designed expressly for the camera, emphasizing the relationshipContinue reading “PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOART – single channel flat sequence video”
EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA – Paracinema
Expanded film work (performance with projection, film installation, interventions or paracinema) that revolves around the idea of LEAVING THE SCREEN. RESEARCH Firstly, I researched the definition of PARACINEMA/EXPANDED CINEMA and VIDEO INSTALLATION in different sources. DEFINITION: Paracinema is the mutation of high and low art: conjoining exploitation and academia, and boiling with energy, individuality andContinue reading “EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA – Paracinema”
EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA – Super 8 and 16mm
During our first lecture, we were shown around the facilities and equipment, like the Super 8 camera and 16mm, and discussed the unit and tasks. I am a big fan of some experimental cinema, especially David Lynch films, but I realised that I don’t know that much about it. Well, this is about to change.Continue reading “EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA – Super 8 and 16mm”
HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY – Photography as a Mirror
In this unit, we were asked to create work, taking as a starting point the premise of photography as a mirror. RESEARCH Texts: How Millennials Became the Selfie Generation | Annals of Obsession | The New Yorker A short but VERY interesting video that gets to the roots of the narcissism that developed over generations,Continue reading “HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY – Photography as a Mirror”
Ela Skorska 