Week 1. Daniel Pryde-Jarman and Sam Butler
Daniel Pryde Jarman is an independent artists who runs a gallery called the Grey area which is situated in Brighton. He put forward some of his own thoughts about art and culture which led to a discussion about high and low culture, pooterism(self indulgent, mundane), street art and conceptual art. Some very interesting points came out of the discussion. We talked about Banksy's art work which is located outside a pub near Brighton station. Banksy's work is cultural, controversial and taboo,
Robert Smithson (Cultural Confinement 1972)
"When placed in a gallery it loses its charge, and becomes a portable subject or surface disengaged with the outside world".
Sam Butler works for a web technology group in the corporate and public sector, the budget his company has to work with is usually between £100.000 and £1000.000.
The elements of the user experience diagram is an overview of what Sam does.
I found Sam's session very helpful, he gave us some very useful tips about design in general and also specifically for the web, he discussed the language which is used in the web design industry and gave us some very useful websites. del.icio.us.com / www.fwa.com
N.M.A- magazine. Top 100 New Media Age - jobs.
We discussed Web 2.0 styling
- Using a site is more like a piece of software
- Everything should serve a purpose, don't overcrowd a page
- Every graphic should represent something
- Less is more
evolutionaryart.co.uk
Genetic Artwork
CAT
William Latham
Hardware interfacing
Immersive installation
Computer-controlled Air Pump
Phidgets
Arduino
Physical installation
Infra red sensors
Above are terms and areas which Mike has worked in.
Principles
- The idea is king
- Technology should be transparent
- Technically keep it simple
- Be critical of work, especially your own.
- Be prepared to justify your artistic decisions
- Collaboration (with artist and industry) can enable you to achieve results you could not do on your own.
Rona Inness
Moshimachine.com
Rona Innes is a sole trader, she has her own company and works from her studio in Brighton. Her work is flashed based and designs for the web.
Rona provided us with some useful advice and tips about setting up our own company, she discussed tax issues concerning company's and also the benefits that we would be entitled to.
She gave us advice about the presentation and content of our show reels and some usefull websites to search for jobs.
- Epic
- Wired Sussex
- BANG
- Curb
- Littelab
- Workmedia
- Chinwag.com
- Creative catapult/wiredsussex
Angie Taylor's work includes Animation, Illustration, Motion Graphics Design,
Visual Effects for film, Tv and New Media.
She is currently working for Apple as a demo artist. She has a book called creative after effects 7 which is one of the most successful books concerning after effects on the open market today.
Angie has worked with Chris Cunningham on the Aphex Twin video, her job was to morph the characters.
She feels that you should be diverse as a designer to become a successful freelancer and that your show reel should show a range of techniques and styles which would appeal to a range of people, however she does think that you should specialize with one tool such as after effects as its impossible to learn multiple software applications and be able to work to a high standard. She said that you should know your limitations, don't take on a job that you don't think you can do. Always share your ideas, you get what you give.
Angie concluded with a tutorial in after effects which was great, we learnt new skills and tricks of the software. We looked at expressions and adjustment layers.
Angie Taylor's Future Idea
Software to be made modular.
mobstar.com
LSM
Moderntoss
We were also given Some useful sights to look at which include information about expressions after effects.
JJ Gifford.com (good at expressions)
AENHANCERS.com
Other sights:
Zaswerks.com
Creativeaftereffects.com
Bliptv/angietaylor
Creativecommons.org
Book recomendation- How to cheat in photoshop
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