Develop your Project Proposal to plan a challenging and self-directed programme of study.
In an attempt to better organize the information related to the MA I changed my blog site in November 2009. Before my blog was embedded in my website and now it’s hosted in a subdomain of wordpress as you can read. I believe that access to information is now easier and faster than before.
My project has evolved since the first proposal I submitted in October 2008. The central theme remains the same but I have changed the approach to focus more on the issue of loss of physical presence in certain social architectures and changes in our communication process in reference to Internet use. So I abandoned the idea of spam as the primary material for my project to focus more on the idea of gradual disembodiment of the body. By this I mean the loss of physical presence of the body in public space. This evolutionary process of my project can be seen in the second draft and the third draft proposal. Also in a post in which I redefined my intentions on the project relate more to my personal projects that I had been doing so far.
In the mid point review was where I began to change my proposal, even though the spam was still part of the project I had decided to perform an installation using the wire mesh material and creating projections through shadows.
Related links:
- the first proposal
- mid point review
- the second proposal
- redefined the project
- the third proposal
Demonstrate a critical engagement with practice-based research reflecting on the critical skills and framework presentations.
The research paper I wrote entitled David, from marble to virtual Olympus helped me to realize my goals and recognizing the body as a portion of the social mass that disappeared from the public network. The body related to the sculpture from classical times to today. My research is focused on the body as a container that is a witness to the passage of time. Since the bodies of marble static until the first generation androids.
The process in which the body becomes a subject into an object and viceversa served to me as a base to focus on sculpture. In my essay I reflected on the Greek myth of Pygmalion, the work of artists such as Orlan, David Nebreda, Stelar, Hiroshi Isiburo among others. Despite the distance separating the work of each one of them I have tried to discern the common bond that they bring to the concept of the body as something that is obsolete, or at least an existence in which the artist sculpts the body to turn it into a sculpture. Internet has become in an anthropocentric social architecture which has changed the everyday space and time. Internet is likely to sculptural body that shapes us, keeping us away from our body and keeping us static in front of the monitor. Perhaps we could say that our chair has become a new pedestal in the privacy of home. Internet has changed our habits of movement. Authors I read and quoted for my research were William J. Mitchell, Rafael Argullol, Jean Baudrillard, Robert Pepperell, Joanna Zylinska among others.
Articulate a clear understanding of methodology and context in your creative practice.
Slowly my background as a sculptor has gained ground with my digital needs. In my work I have chosen two materials that are complementary as are the mesh wire and cement. The first material is a fundamental part of the internal structure of the second one. In my case I elected to work with both materials separately.
On the one hand, with its internal structure, the mesh wire, a material that shows the body with a evanescent character, in its transparency, in its capacity to project ethereal shadows. The best example of this type of work is surely that you can see here entitled Unidentified suspect triptych. You can also find more information in a dossier here. On the other hand, in regard to its external form, concrete is the material that I chose to reflect on our physical presence with respect to nature. You can read about this in the post I published on the Cement project eclipses, the human being becomes part of the urban furniture or download a dossier with more information. Lately I’ve begun experimenting with my own photos with the Tilt-shift technique. I’ve write a post about it here.
In my research I realized compilation of work that interested me and which I have enclosed in the reference category. I would like to highlight the following post from that section:
Evaluate and present your Project.
At this time I participated in several exhibitions in London, less than I had wanted to do, in which the result of work had very positive feedback from people. Perhaps one reason for the good acceptance by the public in relation to installations that I make is that they are easy to visualize and understand the work.
I intend to investigate with motors and lights to try to create a more complex proposal. In this sense I started doing tests with the open source hardware arduino, starting to programing, in order to control the movement of engines and the on-off of the LEDs. I have used this type of engine in previous works which are related to my proposal that you can see here and here
Exhibitions:
Practical work:
Programming:
Arduino
Be aware of your own personal and professional development.
Although I have changed several times my proposal I think it has been positive since I have matured and now I have my goals more clear. I have also worked extensively with traditional processes of modeling and creating silicone molds. This does not mean I’ve neglected my progressions in reference to programming, web development, video and sound. So I believe that my skills at the professional level have been improved due to participate in the master’s workshops and personal initiatives to polish some technical shortcomings. I also consider very important to visit exhibitions and performances because London has a cultural offer outstanding. In this sense I have written several reviews on events I’ve visited and which strengthen my ability to critique about my work.
