ARTISTS TALKING

# 31 [22 February 2012]

circuare T

The CIRCUARE project continues with a new phase. Each of the twenty seven codes is now one step closer to making another leap from the virtual world into the real world. Each code now resides as a pattern for a printed T shirt.

The project now requires audience buy-in and participation.

For a relatively small fee, via the purchase of a T shirt, each code can be made manifest in the real world. The location and environment in which this happens is entirely at the discretion of the audience.

To complete the loop and make the connection back to the virtual world concept, each audience contributor is asked to publish an on-line photograph of the shirt in their own environment and link it back to either: the codedimages blog, or this artist's facebook page.

# 30 [16 February 2012]

string and words

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An early experiment in wrapping words. This time in string on a foam-board former. Despite being someone who makes copious journal entries I can't find any reference to the exact nature of the message. So, for now, this will be titled 'forgotten message'. If I should find the real message I will update this text.

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The intriguing thing about this 'stringing of words' is that there is no alphabet as such. There is no one symbol to represent a letter of the alphabet. Indeed, there are no marks or objects or anything physical until we put two or more letters together to make a word, only then will a 'string' be placed and a word represented in the physical world.

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# 29 [14 February 2012]

keeping time

If you are in or around Oxford on Sunday at 3pm, then this artist talk at Modern Art Oxford (MAO) could be worth a visit. Tamarin Norwood will be talking about her MAO residency and her intriguing work recording ink on paper as video (my simple description).

Admission is free but registration and on-line booking are required. The link to book a free ticket is near the bottom of this linked page.

http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/tamarin...

# 28 [11 February 2012]

hello world

A small diversion. Or is it?

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It has been very enjoyable few days working with the phrase hello world again.

It has me harking back to my early days as a programmer where making the computer do hello world was a right of passage when learning a new language or system.

I say 'do' because it could be written to the screen, printed on a printer, transmitted over a network, or spoken through a text to speech system. Whatever the new system, it just had to be given hello world to deal with first!

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The virtual outcomes seen here are relevant to my focus on visual codes/ cyphers and what makes an image static or kinetic. They also lead me nicely into working with bungee cord. More about that next week.

# 27 [9 February 2012]

a picture is worth a thousand words

Jane Boyer recently wrote the following as a comment to post # 23 [25 January 2012]:

"That is fascinating! For me it's 2's for you 27's - what a funny bunch we artists are. I love that you always spin around an alphabet. I think that is profound."

I am (of course) rooted in two too! My background insists I should really work in binary, however, after so many years working with the power of two, I made a conscious decision to move to the power of three. In doing so I discovered a fascination with 3 x 3 x 3 or 3^3 or 27.

Coincidentally (at first) this gave me enough combinations to cover the Roman alphabet - including one combination to represent anything that wasn't A through Z.

Now I keep returning to this idea and how it might be used to convert text into image. At some point, in the not too distant future, I am certain my exploration will yield a picture that will quite literally be a thousand words.

A thought that absolutely must spark another project!

# 26 [1 February 2012]

This 'Me' of Mine

I am proud to announce, curator, artist and fellow a-n blogger, Jane Boyer has chosen two of my physical real-world outcomes to be in her new exhibition: This 'Me' of Mine.

To find out more and track progress toward a  real-world show, please visit the exhibition blog site at:

http://thismeofmine.wordpress.com/

It is of considerable interest for me to see how a fellow artist, curator, and good friend applies their own experience to integrate my work into a theme that is quite different to the theme I had in mind while making it.

Watching the progress from idea to physical real-world exhibition is quite fascinating and a very interesting way to contextualize and receive feedback on my outcomes.

Excellent..!

# 25 [30 January 2012]

art materials

I have a burning need to use tape.

I have a need to buy tape when I see it.

Consequently,

I have many reels of tape in the studio.

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# 24 [27 January 2012]

journals

In response to discussion elsewhere about sketchbooks, here is a random selection from my own journals.

I say 'journal' rather than 'sketchbook' because my books are a record of ideas and contain a mixture of sketches, notes to self, detailed descriptions of ideas, prints of research, photographs, really anything that might help elucidate an idea.

The main aim is to allow the idea to be remembered for future use, allowing me to clear my conscious brain and move forward safe in the knowledge I cannot forget something that may yet prove to be important..

My favourite journal format holds 30cm square pages, around 100 pages per book. A secondary favourite size is 15cm square and is used when portability is required, or when a single idea might be contained within this format. The small format is often used to record code ideas including roughs for what can be quite a long series of images.

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# 23 [25 January 2012]

it always happens

Whenever I find a new way (to me) of making marks, I always come to a point where I just have to (need to) make a coherent series. My recent exploration of making marks with tape has reached that very point. Consequently, a series of twenty seven has been started and here (as a taster) is just one of the outcomes.

Indeed, making a series of twenty seven has become the common factor in much of my work. Whatever I do my thoughts return to ways of covering the alphabet and producing a new visual code.

Instead of working in a single medium I will probably still be working with a series of twenty seven until the day I die.

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# 22 [22 January 2012]

circumstances change quickly

[UPDATED 2011-01-27]

The problem with relying on others for output is that relationships can sour quickly and at very inopportune times.

Still, we can move on, take the next step and not look back.

Now searching for a new production partner...

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