Tutorial III

Due to the lack of response from my request to photograph my chosen industrial interiors I discussed some changes in my project with Andy.

The overall idea for my project is to capture some of what remains from the functional architecture of the industrial era in an attempt to represent this period of time trough modern digital technology and in this way make a connection between our current digital revolution and the 19th-20th centuries industrial revolution.

My visualization of the project was to document functional architecture from the inside out; documenting the machines and the spaces where the machines are housed, as well as making a connection not only to the outside but also to an element with which all these inventions/technological advances depend upon: water.

I have documented machinery, water and some industrial interiors, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to gain permission to access THE interiors that I really wanted to show for the exhibition. I have written numerous letters, but I haven’t had any positive feedback. Most of the buildings I was hoping to gain access to belong to Thames Water and they are very difficult to reach.

So, the nature of my exhibition prototype has changed slightly. I will be concentrating on the valves piece and the time lapse piece. In some ways this has its positive side as I’ll be able to dedicate more time to the intaglio printing and the video compositing. Of course in an ideal world I would have liked to go into these places and document the architectural space. This still may happen although I don’t think it will be within the duration of this course.

I also discussed the digital nature of my project. The typology composition fits in with the archival desire of my project and at the same time, approaching typologies from a digital art perspective, I could see how it would fit within the concept of bringing industrialism forward as my intention is to create a parallel between the typology concept and the way that information is sought and presented in digital environments, for instance on a Google search. I could also extend this concept of typology to the chronophotography footage as it consists of image after image of water where you can see the development of the image through time.

I think that to make a further connection to the digital and to give a stronger contextualization I will name my pieces using meta-words.

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