Richard

Studying the philosophy of language reminded me that language in art is ripe for interpretation. “Free play” was a term coined by Kant as a… Read More »Experiment: Word games

My plan to integrate language into my outcome led me to investigate some key philosophers and other thinkers to help guide the process. A comment… Read More »Research: The philosophy of language in art – part 1

This experiment picked up a significant single phrase from the text of the letters and explored how it could be subverted, translated and skewed into… Read More »Experiment: Hieroglyphic tattoo

Both tutors gave feedback on my research and experiments to date so which I list and comment on below. Tom The blog posts read very… Read More »Crit: 3rd November

With my interest in analogue art outcomes that give a trace of a digital source it was valuable to bring together artists who have previously… Read More »Research: Artists who leave a trace of digital

The idea of slicing up the letters came to me as a way of pseudo-digitising the text and adding a new layer of meaning. I… Read More »Experiment: Slicing words & burning music

In this post I combine three separate tutor crit sessions that took place in the first three weeks of the project and provide my own… Read More »Crit: 8th October

My project has a primary source of a set of historical letters and my goal is to interrupt this history to create a contemporary narrative.… Read More »Research: Artists who interrupt history

My rediscovery of The Game of Life reminded me of its hypnotic value and the simplistic beauty of its black and white algorithm judging whether… Read More »Experiment: The stitch of life

Overview The history and variety of digital art are studied in this post. This study was important to understand the potential for integrating digital processes… Read More »Research: Digital art

Before delving into the world of digital art I thought it useful to look more generally at artists who transcode in their work. I set… Read More »Research: Artists who transcode

The previous experiment created an amorphous graph based on the sentiment analysis of a set of letters. It was an interesting reinterpretation of the source… Read More »Experiment: Alternative visualisations of the data