Work. Art. Play.

Informal presentation to my fellow MA Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking students at UWE, Bristol.
Practitioners I am looking at and the work I am currently making.

Links, notes, ramblings below:

Notes

1. Work. Art. Play.
• I've noticed these 3 key areas I'm exploring in my overall work.
  
2. Influence: Rosemarie Fiore / “Smoke Painting #34” / 2013 
• Based on this theme of Work Art And Play New York based artist Rosemarie Fiore
• Smoke Drawings. Residue from Firework smoke.  
3. Process: Smoke Paintings
• Using a DIY rig to contain the fireworks while painting onto paper.
4. Influence: Rosemarie Fiore / “Scrambler Drawings” / 2004 
• Large Spirograph drawings
5. Process: Scrambler Drawings
• created using a fair ground ride called the scrambler.
6. Recap - Rosemarie Fiore
• Process is more interesting. I absolutely love Fiore's processes and methods for image making 
• Are the outcomes a necessity of the process? 
• Always required to be displayed alongside documentation of process - such as video.
• More info: See my blog about Rosemarie Fiore 
7. Pinball
• I'm interested in these types of processes when creating my own work
• My project is based around the medium of Pinball.
• This is an example of a vintage Pinball Machine from 1976 (which has been modified)
• Artwork originally by Gordon Morison who created the art for over 150+ machines) during the 70s-80s
• Pinball is a combination of art , music, sound immersing players in a story. It's a piece of artwork. 
• Retro - popular culture.
• My interests is as an example of printmaking - the backglass, playfield and plastic parts
• Also electronics + programming - to create interactivity between user (player/viewer) and the artwork (pinball)
8. Research
• Finding machines  to play - no longer arcades, so turned to the internet
• Found a community and league 
• Have now played over 50 Machines. 280th in the UK & 9042nd in world Pinball Rankings.
• Understand different types + functions of Pinball machines. 
• More on Resarch Play
  
9. Work Experience with MyPinballs
• Work experience - Understand the mechanics and electronics better. 
• Restore, Custom, Hacking, Add ons/Mods
• More of my Work Experience 
10. Pinbox
• My original aim was to build my own pinball machine. It is quite ambitious.
• Start with a smaller, toy like, game.
• Prototyping
• More on Pinbox project
11. Pinbox 2
    
    • Make multiple small scale games   
    • Processing -  making realisations for my direction focussing outcome rather than natural
    • I wrote a small part about realisations about my process on this project so far
      
12. Influence: Roxy Paine / “Intrusion” / 2014 
• The moment I saw this work by Roxy Paine I had this moment of clarity.
• Set in stone idea of making pinball game. 
• I can be more playful with the IDEA of pinball rather than recreating a familiar game
• Paine's work here is a familiar shape but pinball parts replaced by extrusion of a rock face 
• The pinball machine is carved from wood between organic and man-made environments and the processing of machines.
  
13. Influence: Ryan Gander / “Self Portrait X” / 2012 
• Another example of the process I'm interested in by British artist Ryan Gander.
• Portraits from memory. But not the actual paintings, the paintings weredestroyed. 
• What we see here are the pallets used to mix the paints
• Imagine the size from amount of paint and moods from the colours
• An idea of what painting could be if tradition is taken away
  
14. Sketches
•  Small scale test pieces when building a game.
• I almost discarded these but upon reviewing my work from the past few months these were most fun to build.
15. Sketches 2
• Thinking differently about my approach - work as an artist rather than a designer (creating and end product)
• Perhaps these are framed parts, taken out of context of the machine 
16. Ball loops
• Visualising other experiment sketches - artists impressions if you will.
• The idea of a never ending loop of balls.
17. Pin a china shop
• Based on places we are not allowed to play, why not? Lets break the rules
• The china must be smashed
  
18. Zorbinball
• It may be that the idea goes no further than this stage, but if I can communicate it effectively and properly document it, who knows I may come back to it further down the line.