Curation Elective

Camberwell College of Art.
Curation Elective Journal.

On trying to compile my notes and journal for my elective I found that it was spread across a range of different notebooks and scraps of paper.

In order to make it easier for myself and provide a record of online resources and links for further research, I have compiled it into this blog. Although not strictly a journal, in the traditional sense, it works much better for me and hopefully will also help others in their research.

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→ 20 Jan 10 at 8 am
Attempt at examining the intention and objectives

Yep will have wound a lot of you up during meeting, I’m neurotically attentive to detail and flaws in logic.

Emergence

01/03/2010

Soho Theatre - Basement Bar

Soho Theatre Company Ltd, 21 Dean Street, London W1D 3NE

A one night event/exhibition centered around interaction.

The proposed exhibition did not come directly formed at this point, but was rather moulded from Megan’s original proposal by essentially three design orientated minds to provide a stronger focus and concept.  Original concept proposal from Megan: “I was thinking that we needed a loose enough theme that we can actually get this done in time. I was thinking interaction. The way individual works interact within them selves, the process and the finished product. The was the art works interact with the space. Also interaction between different works and medias in one small space. Also interaction with audience, exhibition experience. Interaction of senses, with visual and audio.”

Taking the key words from this and stronger area of interaction with the audience and creation of an experience, it developed into a much more innovative and transformative possible experience for the viewer. Moving more towards digital media and ‘interaction design’, the artists and designers we began to research and draft contact for inclusion in the exhibition, appeared to have similar traits in their work. The majority examine exploratory, creative play, whilst also promoting and producing engagement with the works displayed.

We selected artists and designers from across this broad spectrum of participatory media; from the simple naivety of Thomas Forsyth’s ‘Aleatoric Geometry’ building blocks to the complex digital workings of the Confetti Spehere by Keetra Dean Dixon in conjunction with the Rockwell Group LAB.

A cornucopia of audio-visual delights.  Through the temporary installation of the works selected and live music and performances, we hope to encourage the exploration of creative play and produce enhanced, memorable experiences with the works.

wonder so often don’t play connecting back to surroundings a luxurious self-indulgence

(To help ground this - RCA Design Interaction Course blurb: “…focus on the expressive and communicative possibilities of digital technologies.”

“aim to design interactions (or to frame debates) of a different kind – between people and possible futures, and between design and other fields of art and science.”

“Essentially, we are interested in the social, cultural and ethical consequences of emerging technologies, and this means asking probing questions through design. To this end, we encourage students to consider the implications, as well as the applications, of new technologies, and thus to seek fresh approaches to interaction design – approaches that are meaningful and relevant today. In short, we see this field of design as a fertile way of thinking about the life around us, within us, and in the future beyond us.” - In some respects it doesn’t really apply to our intention of the exhibition, but a useful grounding for when thinking about the artists and work we have selected and perhaps analysing our choices.)

STATEMENT OF INTENT POINTS

  • Produce an off-kilter show that promotes and encourages interaction and participatory art and design.
  • Encourage the creative play and involvement with the work and each other.
  • Through the combination of a temporary event and spectacle with digital media and interaction art & design we would like to attempt to explore and encourage the exploration of enhanced, memorable experiences.
  • Bringing together a mix of unknown and more established, national and international artists and designers whose work explores interaction and participatory practice.
  • At the core of our proposal is the desire to put on a unusual and sensory event. Bringing surprise, delight, wonderment to an audience and encouraging interaction not only with art and design, but with each other.

  • Why is it that as adults we stop truly exploring and interacting with a space, objects and the world around us? Why should we? So embrace your inner child and join us for a night of creative play and interaction - a cornucopia of audio-visual delights.