Instead of working individually on our final major projects, this week instead I, and the rest of the Lens based media and media production was teamed up with members of the Graphics class. We would spent the week in a small group, exploring a selection of ideas and bouncing of others to produce a final piece for a presentation in the crit at the end of the week. The purpose of this week is to get our creative fluids going - soon i will be approaching the development stage of my final major project - I'm going to have to come up with many ideas in a small amount of time. By doing workshops like this i can prepare myself and maybe even get some ideas for my final outcome to my FMP.
After gathering our small group of four (two graphic and two LBM students,) we decided to talk about our individual FMPS and what they had in common in order to aid our research (and potential ideas and influences) - after discussing we realized that our projects all had the idea of change - in my case the 'fear' of changes and what makes a person change. I liked this concept as I am looking into 'anxiety and the subconscious', and although i have researched into this neurosis, i have not thought much about how people can change and the difficulty that people face with anxiety when they decide to face their fears. I wanted to reflect anxiety somewhere into this piece. Therefore this concept of the fear of 'change' already has generated possible ideas for my FMP.
For the first day we were asked to bring the following materials (which we had to use in some way for our final piece at the end of the week) - sponge, torch, paperclips, elastic bands, sock, buttons, box, map, ball, blue tak and string. In our group we brainstormed as many ideas that we could think of to do with these materials and our chosen subject. We produced many ideas - some we couldn't do however it all helped our creative flow of ideas - the larger and stranger the idea the better. Throughout this brainstorming session we were also experimenting some of our more basic ideas to see the result. An idea that we came u with was could we change/ transform the item that we had been given into something else. From this we experimented with bending paperclips until they snapped apart and pulling an elastic band until it snapped. Although this exercise was helpful in sparking a new route for our finished idea we were still no closer. We decided here that we wanted to create a mechanism which would change one of our items completely.
We then thought about using the buttons as a clockwork to transform an item by turning the mechanism - however this was very difficult and we didn't have the time factor. Another idea was to create a small metal creature or type made from metal to be put inside of a sponge, which we would burn - leaving only the hidden sculpture. Although we found that burning sponge is actually quite dangerous and so we returned to our brainstorms. We then came up with the idea of a puzzle - this meant that the audience would have to interact and 'change' the object/puzzle themselves. Which worked better for our concept of being afraid of change. The audience would have to do something physically to the object to see the change (just as they would in real life.)
The final idea was a puzzle - that looks like a pyramid box that will be covered completely in paperclips. On every side there will be one paperclip that if pulled will open the box to reveal a completely white inside. Within will be a small sculpture or type that would reveal the idea of 'change.' The main idea is that the outside looks really menacing and intimidating in the same way that people can sometimes 'fear' change. We made the piece an interactive puzzle because people have to make the change in order to change. They have to be apart of what is happening otherwise it will not happen (they have to pull the right paperclip for the puzzle to open up.) When the puzzle is opened, inside will reveal something completely different to what they imagined from the outside. When we thing about change it can be scary and worrying however when we actually do something to change - it is another story. And normally not as bad as first thought. This could also be used to describe anxiety and the subconscious - not many people realize how serious anxieties can be for a person until they look closer.
For the first day we were asked to bring the following materials (which we had to use in some way for our final piece at the end of the week) - sponge, torch, paperclips, elastic bands, sock, buttons, box, map, ball, blue tak and string. In our group we brainstormed as many ideas that we could think of to do with these materials and our chosen subject. We produced many ideas - some we couldn't do however it all helped our creative flow of ideas - the larger and stranger the idea the better. Throughout this brainstorming session we were also experimenting some of our more basic ideas to see the result. An idea that we came u with was could we change/ transform the item that we had been given into something else. From this we experimented with bending paperclips until they snapped apart and pulling an elastic band until it snapped. Although this exercise was helpful in sparking a new route for our finished idea we were still no closer. We decided here that we wanted to create a mechanism which would change one of our items completely.We then thought about using the buttons as a clockwork to transform an item by turning the mechanism - however this was very difficult and we didn't have the time factor. Another idea was to create a small metal creature or type made from metal to be put inside of a sponge, which we would burn - leaving only the hidden sculpture. Although we found that burning sponge is actually quite dangerous and so we returned to our brainstorms. We then came up with the idea of a puzzle - this meant that the audience would have to interact and 'change' the object/puzzle themselves. Which worked better for our concept of being afraid of change. The audience would have to do something physically to the object to see the change (just as they would in real life.)
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