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DEGREE PROJECT – Photography as a Sculpture
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, the…
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,…
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 at…
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 process…
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.…
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 Angeles…
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 relationship…
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 and…
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.…
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,…
HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY – Index
Index in photography “Any reflection of any medium of expression must raise the fundamental question of the specific relationship that exists between the external referent and the message produced by that medium. It is the question of modes of representation of the real or, if you like, the question of realism.” (Philippe Duboise, The photographic…
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOART – Fictitious Document Photography project
In this unit we were asked to create an artistic project that questions the photographic image as a mere reflection or unaltered record of reality. FIRST LECTURE First lecture covered a variety of artists that played with the concept of fiction and truth in photography. https://www.juanmagonzalez.com/fontcuberta/fauna.html Also known as “Dr. Ameisenhaufen’s Fauna” or “Secret Fauna”,…
Axial Spondyloarthritis pain project
I think it was 2020 or 2021 when we first discussed this project. I met Sarah as we were moving into the New Mills Marina, and she was moving out. I just started studying photography at Manchester School of Art, yes, at the peak of Covid, and when Sarah found out I am a photographer,…
EXHIBIT IN THE CITY
MONDAY 14.03 On Monday, we had a unit brief full of valuable information and talks from people who will lead us with their knowledge and skills towards a successful exhibition in the city. Apart from the technical facts, we had a lecture from the fantastic Mishka Henner. Mishka talked about his practice, progress, bookmaking and…
EXPLORE AND EXPERIMENT II – Book Project
DECEMBER – JANUARY Throughout December and January, I thought about ideas for my book project. I brainstormed a few of them and concluded to progress with the chosen project. When thinking about THE BOOK PROJECT, I considered the following: My CP2 essay: In the essay, I discussed the problem we face in today’s society of…
EXPLORE AND EXPERIMENT
SUMMER PROJECT Abstract, Surrealist, Experimental Photography and DaDa I was pleased to discover that our summertime project is precisely what I intended to accomplish as my creative development this summer! I planned to investigate new artists within specific genres of photography, and art movements, curate a mini-exhibition based on the artists I discovered, explore, experiment…
Multi/double exposure portrait photoshoot
Multiple exposures is a technique in which the camera shutter is opened more than once to expose the film many times, usually to different images. The resulting picture contains the subsequent image/s superimposed over the original. I was extremely excited upon discovering this technique during other photographic research. Immediately drawn to it, I began experimenting…
UNIT X RELOADED
Research I began my research by investigating artists and articles recommended in the unit brief, seeing it as a starting point in my further endeavours into Unit X. https://artreview.com/how-covid-19-created-an-existential-dilemma-for-the-fashion-world-abloh-off-white-louis-vuitton/ The first feature reports how COVID-19 created an existential dilemma for the fashion world with $1000 face masks epitomising an industry consumed by systemic inequality, unchecked…
STUDIO PROJECT – Ovelooked Objects
Contemplating my creative space and the objects within it I determined to explore limitations and embrace the challenge. What is the studio? A creative space in which I work, meaning that it could be anywhere, I just need to put my imagination into practice. In this case, my home, the boat, is my studio. It…
STREET PHOTOGRAPHY – The lost reality
The Concept First of all, in the current situation, I am not allowed to go very far, which initially was a source of negative emotions, I struggled with the idea of street photography without the street and the people! Limitations, limitations… I concluded that the marina in which I live and the river bank are…
Studio/ Objects, Still Life, Self Portrait
This week we learned about several artists who work with objects, sculpture, and representation in photography. The brief carried an important lesson, that ”even the most seemingly insignificant objects at home can become interesting when appropriated and/or reconsidered through art-making and photography.” The artists we explored are as follows. Pieter Claesz, Still Life with a…
AI Street View
For the weekly task of Street View, we were asked to look through any images and create a theme (space /place / colour/ urban / rural), choosing 6-8 images to create a narrative (non) /theme within any genre, fashion, documentary, surreal, abstract, voyeur, domestic POP. We were introduced to a few arists that create in…
Flâneur
This weeks task was on the concept of Flâneur. It’s a French term meaning ‘stroller’ or ‘loafer’ used by nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire (9 April 1821-31 August 1867) to identify an observer of modern urban life. A couple of notions new to me arouse during the meeting. First, is the idea of the flâneur,…
Presentation IRVING PENN
For my presentation, I selected a range of photographs representative for an incredibly versatile, pioneering, and ever-evolving photographer Irving Penn. Upon discovering his art, immediately drawn to his vision and the emotion emanating from his images, I connected with it at an instance. What attracts and fascinates me, is the melange of a classical approach…
Portrait of a Stranger
I commenced this weeks assignment with my routine method, starting with the research. I studied the works of Louis Daguerre and his famous The Boulevard du Temple photograph of 1838 (considered to be the first photograph to include an image of people), Andre Kertesz – Pictures from my Window (1954), Diane Arbus – Central Park…
Creating a narrative, utilising the image to raise questions.
In preparation for the second assignment, I investigated the following artist: Christopher Nun, Hannah Starkey, Gregory Crewdson, Walker Evans, Tracy Emin, Cindy Sherman, and Tom Hunter. I really value the various works of the aforementioned artists which I found inspiring and original. Additionally, I read Hunter’s essay: Under the Influence, which was very encouraging and…
THE FIGURE AND PHOTOGRAPH – Self-portrait assignment
Conceptualizing for a self-portrait. In preparation, I researched a range of self-portraits (through Google image search), which stimulated my imagination and inspired numerous ideas. Additionally, I watched several YouTube videos on creative self-portraits that are easy to execute at home. This is one of many which I found helpful. Pro Photographer Takes Photos of Himself!…
Lectures and additional research
Over the first module of our course, we attended a series of very intriguing, thought-provoking, and insightful lectures. Our first lecture was by Sarah Howe ( http://sarahhowe.co.uk/), who explained her artistic process. I found it very useful to observe the development and growth of her style. She explained in a really compelling way how every…
Assemblage
I approached this project by investigating further artists, Kurt Schwitters, Pablo Picasso, Tom Lovelace, Lorenzo Vitturi, Robert Rauschenberg, Sarah Sze, Betye Sarr, as well as searching the web for assemblage work and watching videos on Youtube regarding it.I am a massive fan of color. Naturally, I particularly appreciated the practice of Lorenzo Vitturi. I adore…
Ready Made workshop
Today we explored the ‘Ready Made’ during our workshop. I commenced by looking at a few artists for inspiration, Joseph Cornell, Jeff Koons, Hanna Huges (my new favorite), and Joseph Cornell, as well as searching online for orphaned objects art. I wandered around the boat and examined for potential orphaned objects that I could utilize…
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Photographing the Unsee-able
I commenced the project by completing tasks preceding the assignment.I played the composition by Gyorgy Ligeti: Lux Aeterna, and equipped with a large piece of paper and colorful pens, I tuned in and let everything happen.I drew whatever came to me while listening to this beautiful piece. It was an unusual experience as I have…
Sound and photography workshop
Today’s two-hour workshop was on sound expressed through photography and explorations of the visceral memory. We had to try and represent a sound with images, choosing three out of seven options. I decided on: pain, blue, and silence. I called the first image ”Scream of pain’. I created it using a voice recorder on my…
Minimalism and Collage
The more I researched the collage artist, the more I was fascinated and inspired by the minimal work that I discovered. Four, sometimes even only two images can create an impressive and powerful art when put together right in a composition. I found particularly stimulating and intriguing the works of Man Ray, John Steazaker, Mari…
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