Authority Project
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Scissors, Paper, Rock.
As each element is has an authority over another, no element itself is supreme.
This is conveyed in the audio clip through both literal sounds of the elements and music from different global cultures.
Just like in the game scissors paper rock, each culture may perceive it's own beauty as supreme, when all have their virtues over the other.
I found it interesting playing three war sounds, which are much harder to distinguish the culture from. Perhaps in this way, war brings out the same sound and emotion from each.
Assn 2: Uncanny Photographs
The uncanny. An unresolvable, uneasy conflicting feeling to move on and to stay. To be proportionally unsettled and curious.
As each person's perception defines their reality, this feeling and very definition is often subjective to the viewer.
Through these six photographs I have tried to convey my understanding using three artifical and three naturally lit scenes.
My subject is an unfaced man who through the sequence of photos conveys a sense of the uncanny via lighting, shadows and an unresolved fate.
Through experimentation with silhouttes and back lighting, I aimed to convey a sense of isolation, darkness and coldness. The location and subject identity are intentionally ambigious, leaving the viewer to speculate.
The final three images are used in sequence to create an unresolved moment in time.
The first shows a scene of a torrential flood stirring a river violently. I decided to use a fast shutter speed to convey a sharp frozen moment. The background is saturated in green, creating a dichotomy of life and death.
The final two images capture a moment of inevitability. Like an unsolved equation, the photos aim to evoke the empathectic, uneasy and unresolving curiosity of the viewer.
Shaun Carpenter - Meda Assignment 3
"Every mouse click leaves a trace.... How do you appear to the network?"
This question, retweeted by William Gibson, was the source of my inpiration for this piece. Using screenshots of varying rhythm I have attempted to capture a Cine-roman short story.
A sketch of a man holding a computer cursor personifies an individual's clicks based on taste, style, mood etc.
The "individual" regularly deletes/clears their browsing history. In my opinion, what makes people's online activities so remarkable is how they believe they are anonymous and unidentified behind their computer monitor.
Are people aware of their recorded internet paths, and will your network's idea of who you are online ever compromise who you are in real life?
I was often tempted to animate my character, however after watching scenes from the french film "La Jetée", I have learned timing between photographic stills can be equally effective in conveying meaning, tone and entertainment.
This is conveyed in my piece using the sound cloud audio from "Hard to ignore authority" -Tan995. I used this track as I found the audio of a persons reccuring morning/daily routine relevant to an every day online user. The audio was initially intended to convey we are oblivious to authority hidden behind our day to day lives, and how we are oblivious are online footsteps being documented and stored.
Shaun Carpenter MEDA101