Tag: photography

Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland is an Candian novelist and artist. His visual work looks into themes like curiosity with the corrupting and seductive dimensions of pop culture and 20th century pop art. Douglas Coupland takes great inspiration from Andy Warhol’s work.

**Due to his fascination with technology, a lot of his work appear in a stylised pixelated look.**
**“I think that the way my brain is wired, words and objects are almost exactly equal,” Coupland once explained. “I sensorily detect little difference between the two.”**

Micro Manifestos:

“Slogans for the 21st Century” by Douglas Coupland. Douglas used Copenhagen as his personal exhibition when he decided to put up 500 posters overnight. The slogans aim to challenge and describe the thoughts and ideals governing contemporary societies. Coupland also chose slogans that relate to life online and offline. With these slogans he also comments on questioning the media platforms that create our behaviours and interactions, from Facebook to Tinder.

What am I going to take from him?

His visual choice with pixelating certain bits ion his art is an really interesting choice and I would love to incorporate that style choice into my work.

Also in terms of visual, the way that he colour block his piece is definitely something that i will be considering throughout my work.

Tags photography, photomontages, reality vs internet, research

In Real Life

Mazaccio & Drowilal

Mazaccio and Drowilal are a French duo that use images from the internet and defaces them using spray paint and tape. By using these mediums there work comments on how mass media is shaping dreams and identity.

The genre of work that they produce falls into the category of “Iconology”. Iconology looks at the study of visual imagery, symbolism, and interpretation.

Elise Mazaccio and Robert Drowilal have been working as a collaborative duo since 2009 when they began creating self-published photo-books.

“The idea was to make edits, or snapshots, by collaborating and denying the concept of image authorship,”

The images are drawn from Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest.The duo work with a wide range of images, from advertising and stock imagery, to cartoons and internet memes.

“For us, the work of art is part of this huge tank of images that are shaping the imaginary. It’s all about deconstruction and parallels.”

What am I going to take from their work?

The concept that the comment in their work is interesting. I like how have two different mediums combined into one. The idea would be that I would produce photomontages that look at the internet vs reality with a brainwashing theme throughout. Hopefully. I want to blend my drawing skills with my photoshop skills this time around.

Tags photography, photomontages, reality vs internet, research

Psychogeography

Observational Writing

For this project, there were two main focuses. The writing and the physical response to the writing. Observational Writing was the first section of the rotation. For this part, I had to chose an area that I could write in great detail about.

I decided that the area that i was going to write about Oxford Street & Swansea Market. Instead of going to a specific location, I documented my journey.

At first, it was quite challenging because I couldn’t get my head around what should I be noting down. Theres no right or wrong answer on how I should approach this. As time was passing got more comfortable with writing in public.

After the hour out there, I had to come back and refine my text and get all the details down. Anthony gave the text a read over and said to get all the information down because it was still fresh in my head and trying and make my text read like a conversation.

Physical Response

The second half to this project, was to create a response to your writing. Had a talk with Anthony and he suggested that i should combine my text with some images. So from that I decided that my images were going to be continuous line drawing because I tend to gravitate towards that type of style because of how quick it is to get something on the page.

Photography Workshop

For this workshop, I had to take a digital image and convert that into a positive or negative photogram.

I did a series of photograms that helped develop the physical response a bit more. The whole experience was a bit of a trial and error. Trying to get into the rhythm of using the dark room again. For this workshop, I got explore different techniques that helped build my response.

Main influence

Tags anthony group, linework, photograms, photography, writing