Friday, 24 February 2012

Mini-projects

I really need to kick start my progress with this project. By this time next week, I am aiming to produce about 5 different approaches to the project.

One will hopefully be this research experiment as previously mentioned. Another will be a more extensive Isotype-style index, another a 'recipe' based off a review. I have an idea to fuse the creative aspect with the indexical, and will try and use Juan C. Dürsteler as inspiration by including frequency spectrums (famously used by Richard James of Aphex Twin in some of his songs, as pictured below) or images of the sound files themselves, as to indicate whether the songs in reviews are loud or quiet.

Aphex Twin frequency spectrum; viewable through audio editing sofware after opening up his song 'Windowlicker.' The image is Richard D. James of Aphex Twin himself.


I am interested in getting art students to paint an interpretation without any use of Google image search. Still struggling to find an actual conclusion to reach, though. My original aim was to juxtapose text with image in order to see if an image could do the same job (albeit probably with rollover captions to explain things a little better, or else there would be literally no context) but with each stage of production comes more and more problems with my approach. Not sure where to turn, really.

Need to start reading into text visualisation. Finding the search terms has become a bit of a problem though. "Reinterpreting text as image" as a quote on Google brings up literally no results. It seems a lot of the research I can do at the moment is a little too vague to really directly impact my work; I'm having to reinterpret a lot of meaning, as I felt like I was with previous research, which I'm not really too sure about in regards to using legitimate theory. Time has ran away with me a little; so much work to do on my other modules, a lot of back-and-forth between England and Scotland trying to sort out living/working arrangements for next year. This month has passed incredibly quickly and I need to pick up where I left off as fast as possible.

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