I have been invited to be involved an artists collective run by Gillian Wylde. It is exciting. At them moment we (6 of us) meet monthly and are showing our work. In the future we will be working towards a group show, European exchange programme, cv boot camp, making artist books, 7” singles, websites.


Last night I saw London band The Priscillas http://www.myspace.com/thepriscillas. I am so inspired to be in band again. Sian (the guitarist in Joybabe) and I have some plans. Surf Swamp blues. The performative aspect of dressing up and giving a show is a big part of it for me.

The Waiting Room by Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry at the Walsall Gallery. Set in a waiting room, the resident artists wrote storyboards whilst they waited for gallery visitors to come and participate as actors. The resulting videos are wonderful. Well shot and lit and convey at strong presence and humanity.

Maria Moreira has asked me to give technical help on her symposium ‘Carte Blanche’ This involves learning how to podcast. It would be good to make a postcast of the 2006 Digital Arts final show.

Maria and I want to a show by Layla Curtis called ‘Polar Wanderings’ http://www.polarwandering.co.uk/ which included prints from her recent residency in Antarctica. The prints (red line on white) represent her journeys at various points on her 3 month voyage. I have been thinking about line and mapping in reference to my project. A line is used to mark a journey. What am I trying to mark out by using line to represent my gestures?

Vasulka Lab at Vivid in Birmingham. Steina and Woody Vasulka give a one day masterclass in their midi based video manipulations. Steina uses a violin to control the timeline and distortions to prerecorded video. Midi notes are assigned to the notes on the strings of the violin and the open string is assigned to and ‘all off’ midi note. Another work used the midi violin to control a robot with midi notes assigned to different hydrolic movements in the robot. Brian Duffy (electronic musician and artist) gave a demonstration of his manipulated sound making toys.

John Keane exhibition Fifty Seven Hours in the House of Culure at Flowers Gallery. Large paintings taken from video stills from the Beslan Seige. Very powerful images especially as there were subtitle style text on each painting. The images were well chosen and looked filmic in their widescreen format. There was an extra level of opaque paint over the images that gave the effect of the reflection or flare you get from a television which seemed to make the images affect me less. An interesting conversations about the ethics of the images with Alex afterwards.

Tutorial with Andy
Set a timetable up until summer holidays with weekly deadlines.
Work on a sound palette and a visual palette independently for now.
Source new gestural footage from TV- ITV social trash and sport. Find crowd shots at footaball matches, these gestures hopefully will be less contaminated than the ones I have been filming.

Think about what kind of visual language I want to use.
Look at artists who have used reconstruction, even collage. Paul Klee’s lines.
Think about line. What else can I do with line. Black on white line is very defined. Inside and outside. What am I defining?
Line becomes a symbol and what do I want to say? What am I defining by the line?

Perhaps it is the movement that I am interested in, rather than the outline.
Can this movement be translated in to some other form. spacial? graphical? keyframes? sound?

Form / context / gesture / shape
Make a set of experiments. Is there a definite split between them?

What do I really want to extract from the gestures? This is the question I need to answer.
Then how do I describe this.

What do I want out of the audio?