Gallery Day

so.. back from holliday and iv only been to one exhibition, so i went on spoonfed.com to find a load of galleries to go to. after about an hour of prining off maps and directions i had 8 galleries to try and get to in 1 day.

a 15 minute walk, one travelcard and a snickers bar later i was at the science museum to see the listening post. by mark hansen and ben rubin. in the piece they pull snippets of real time conversations from chatrooms, for computer synthesised coicews to read and LED screens to display.

rubbish photos, but you get the idea.

it was amasing how people thinking they were having a bit of fun chatting away to some random person theyl never meet, were actually broadcasting comments to the exhibition for thousands of people to witness.

as i was in south kensington already i thought i may aswell go to the V&A as i hadnt been in ages and i never know what i might find. although there was nothing realy graphicsy or directly related to my project there was some realy cool stuff in the glass room.

as i had decided to persue the idea of coding, and that i was probably going to use colour this piece stood out for me. although the artist arranges the colours only to look visually apealing, the structure of this sculprute reminded me of a 3d graph or table. if i wanted to i could create something very similar to this for my rinal piece, but with the colours each meaning a different task. i could either do this by what task i did the most, or chronologically showing what i was doing at each moment of april

the layering technique kept coming up in the glass room, convincing me more and more that this should be the aproach i take when coding my data. it is apealing, but has structure and if i use a key or include some kind of instructions people will be able to easily understand what i did in my month.

there was also this realy cool piece that was basically a mummy, but instead of contunuous bandages, it was bricks. i could make a mould of myself and fill it with colours showing what i did. or if i made it transparent i could reflect something through it.

another exhibition i went to was 'i could have been anyone' at SEA gallery in st johns street. it was realy cool because it was about how people percieve themselves, and looking at your surroundings through someone elces eyes, but i dont know how i would apply this to my project.

Idea generation gallery was realy cool too. there was an exhibition on called the art of conversation, where a group of artists created a chain mail type effect where each created a piece of art and the next person had to make a response to it.. the concept was interesting as it was focusing on the use of internet and communication over technology, but again there was nothing that i could directly apply to my project

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'experiments' at GV art gallery in chiltern street was interesting, as there was such a wide range of work. there was one piece that didnt have a name or artist listed near it that was the cloud formations recorded by lazering them into the glass. obviously i dont have the funds to do this for my own project, but the idea of recording something in an alternative methid like this is something that i could apply