Last week I had a very helpful critique with Coach, which has got me thinking more and more about the role that display has the potential to play in my work. Projection, particularly. In my pieces so far I've tried to include a drawn/painted/ "physical?" (I know I've been warned about using this word when talking about digital vs non digital art) piece; normally it's an element that's scanned in and then manipulated. Researching artists who use projection creatively in their work, in addition to the critique conversation, has got me thinking about projecting onto that "physical" element instead of scanning it in, i.e., what are the possibilities for that kinda of interaction outside of combination in software/ in Photoshop.
Speaking of...
Painter Albert Oehlen has used projection since the period of his “computer paintings” of the mid-1990s. In the particular 1955 piece I saw, Untitled (9 ½ Weeks) (and the one most referenced in articles relating to projections), Olmsted projected an erotic film directly over one of his abstract canvasses, saying “you want to see the movie and you forget about the painting but actually you stare at my painting for an hour and a half and it is burned into your eyes.” Interesting to think about the role focus plays in work with movement.
Not advocating for streaming erotica over my own work (on the threat of MIRS, probably, or an art department shut down). But again, I'm interested in Artists like Olmsted who explore this interaction between moving projection and a stationary "traditional art" piece.
Speaking of...
Painter Albert Oehlen has used projection since the period of his “computer paintings” of the mid-1990s. In the particular 1955 piece I saw, Untitled (9 ½ Weeks) (and the one most referenced in articles relating to projections), Olmsted projected an erotic film directly over one of his abstract canvasses, saying “you want to see the movie and you forget about the painting but actually you stare at my painting for an hour and a half and it is burned into your eyes.” Interesting to think about the role focus plays in work with movement.
Not advocating for streaming erotica over my own work (on the threat of MIRS, probably, or an art department shut down). But again, I'm interested in Artists like Olmsted who explore this interaction between moving projection and a stationary "traditional art" piece.