FINAL OUTPUT

For the presentation of my three works I want to have them printed on the same piece of paper (like below) making the three works one big piece.  Through doing so each of the pieces looks like its in its own space and I can add text and effects not normally seen on a final print series like the white gradient blobs. Currently this is what I am experimenting with..

3 PART SERIES

For my final presentation I am planning on producing a three part series of work presented on one single print. I am planning on creating a another  two pieces of work - one a close up portrait of someones face, duplicated like John Stezakers work showing multiple sets of eyes but half covered up with something (maybe tape, plaster or a phone) to represent how analytics control what we see with out us really understanding, giving a highly filtered version of the internet, yet we know no difference. And for my other piece of work I want to make something commenting on the amount of images we consume on a daily basis and how once original content has been repeated so many times, that even though something like a sunset which has extreme natural beauty is seen as a boring photo.

John Stezaker Blind II, 2006 Collage

Suns (from Sunsets) from Flickr, by Penelope Umbrico

DEVELOPMENT

I have continued developing my style, taking away colour, playing with composition, but mostly playing with the blending modes of my layers on photoshop to see what effects suit best for the message I'm trying to communicate. I feel like having a black background helps communicate being in a virtual space and also the darker tones of being consumed by our smart phones. I personally like the third one down with the white plastic texture and black boarder, as I think it works the best and has a style i would like to continue to my other 2 pieces of work in the series.

DEVELOPMENT

I have continued developing a style heavily influenced by a post-internet style of art, specifically artist such as Petra Cortright and Artie Vierkant. I wanted to make my work more texturalised and stylised while still conveying meaning and relevance to the topics I am speaking too such as obsession with our phones, data analytics and our over consumption of images.

At the moment I am experimenting with lots of different compositions, textures and colours trying to find a style that I feel best represents the tone of my works and the messages i am trying to communicate

STUDIO SHOOT #1

Images I took of my friends on their phones, I wasn't too concerned with how great the lighting quality was as I knew I was using them for the silhouette and not a hyper realistic, high def image. After doing the shoot and developing my ideas with these images I have decided I need to go back to the studio and take some more photos of different positions and maybe some close up shots.

DEVELOPMENT

I have gone for a stylistic change, making my work more grungy and rough than soft and pretty. I have done this by using limited colours and mainly using black and white. I warped the perspective of a flat grid to make it seem like a three dimensional space and overlaid a gradient. I then cut out an image in took of my friend and added a noise filter over him because I feel like this texture represents white noise and in ways, transitioning between reality and a virtual space. I chose to make the part of the grid where the figure is standing filled in with noise to represent the consuming nature of being on a phone and represent a disconnection with the world around them.

CORY ARCANGEL

Arcangel is a post-conceptual artist who makes work in many different media, including drawing, music, video, performance art, and video game modifications, for which he is perhaps best known. Arcangel often uses the artistic strategy of appropriation, creatively re-using existing materials such as dancing stands, Photoshop gradients and YouTube videos to create new works of art. His work explores the relationship between digital technology and pop culture.