All last fall I was wracking my brain to come up with an original, cool, mind blowing presentation for my thesis show. My thesis show was in January, so the time for it has past. Not so with my brain still under the directive of come up with an awesome idea for a thesis show!
I was frankly so busy writing and creating art work that I didn't have extra energy for "what if's" and "wonder what that would look like" thinking, that is until now...
With the pressure off, the floodgates of ideas run rampant! What do you think of this idea? A body of work consisting of static pieces of 2-d work hung on a wall (ie a painting, photograph or illustration) and at the four edges of the frame, seamlessly projecting video imagery related to and dynamically extending the 2-d work. Going beyond the frame into movement and time. I envision painting and video of painted imagery together because that's my medium, other media could work.
What it would take to get those two media working together? In my mind, it looks pretty great, perfect for a thesis show or maybe not... physical reality might not bear me out.
2 comments:
Rebecca
I saw something like this not long ago in New York. There were large wall-mounted canvasses on the wall that were painting with something, but there was a projection on top of the painting... At first it was very imperceptible until you noticed the paintings sort of undulating... I remember thinking when I entered the room, boy it's a little dark in here for paintings... Can I remember the artist or gallery? Probably somewhere in my journals. I think the trickiest thing to this idea is finding just the right subject matter.
Jane Rainwater
I think the hardest part would be to figure out how to project the image from behind onto the wall where the painting hung. An LCD screen could be bright enough to see in normal daylight, so the work would not have to be in the dark...
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