Presenting...

OK so we have another presentation and this time it's the big one, for our FMP, and one of the most trickiest due to not completely knowing what lies ahead for my project at this moment in time, although I'm not expected to. I've never been confident in presenting so don't hold much hope for this one, but it has to be done.

Dan showed us some links to help us out. Here they are:

good and bad artist proposals:http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2007/02/15/via_vaudeville_feature.shtml
http://www.viavaudeville.com/index.php?%2Farchive%2Fthe-good-the-bad--the-ugly-proposal%2F

architects
herzog tatehttp://channel.tate.org.uk/media/37994457001#media:/media/26518590001&context:/channel/most-popular


scientist/architect
sand africahttp://www.ted.com/talks/magnus_larsson_turning_dunes_into_architecture.html

materials interest / fascination
materials library
coal / aerogel (4min in)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUzAufg8bmw

architect
will alsop supercity bradford - show a proposalhttp://vimeo.com/6339971


Jeffrey Lewis was the only 'presenter' I was really familiar with. A singer /comic book artist, his approach is just to be honest about what interest's you.http://channel.tate.org.uk/media/37994457001#media:/media/64706691001&context:/channel/artist-interviews?p=2&sort=popularity

A feature on the esteemed El Bulli restaraunt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0rttp9EIE

Here are a few links of presentations I've enjoyed over recent years although don't expect me to solve a rubix cube with my nose during my FMP talk!

 

Tom Waits with many tricks up his sleeve, showing that a conventional press conferance isn't quite as it first appears.

A young Steve Job's presenting his newest innovation as if he were a magician.

And as this Animation shows, people needn't be involved. A great piece of animation showing the effects of too much work and no play.


As these distraught Liverpool fans demonstrated that you can still be hard hitting whilst keeping an ireeverant sense of humour.
Enlisting the help of some famous faces, the fan club eventually acheived their mission of hitting home to Tom Hicks that he should leave the club alone and sell up, which he did shortly after.

And how can I talk about presentation without a nod to the most famous example of all?

'I Have a Dream'

Monty Python showed how being humorous and silly can also be educational.

Below is my presentation which uses the Prezi platform, an online mind-mapping facility which creates paths which follows the flow of the presentation and allows for various media such as video, audio and pictures to be added.

Tutorial With Dan.

 

We talked briefly about both the past project and about idea's informing my recent thinking in relation to the next brief, the daunting Final Major Project.

Pressing Times.

I was recently featured on the colleges Website as part of press for the 'Pop-Up Shop', where I had the oppurtunity to meet the gentleman who had won my photograph in the events raffle.

Conclusive Statement.

This project has been different for me in many different aspects, not least the way in which I approached it.

Having had strong concept of how to tackle the 'Exhibit/Show' brief from quite early on,, I was able to experiment with a number of options and really get a lot of work done around this idea.

Originally the idea was more important to me than the actual work created, but after hitting it lucky first time round and getting great results from my felt board experiments in Ilkey it became clear that a strong visual aesthetic was equally significant in terms of how the imagery is perceived.

The problem which reared its head abut 2/3rds into the project was where to go next, I found this a difficult decision in finding viable options that would prove worthwhile and add something relevant to the body of work I had already created.

With other project's running alongside this module such as the the PPD brief, The Pop-Up Shop and the A4 Exhibition, I did get a little side-tracked in terms of focus and momentum.

If I look at the project in terms of what I have gained however, I feel I have learnt a huge amount, and whilst psychically I could have more work, the research and thought, and indeed learning from my own work has been substantiatal and these are skills that whilst I may not be marke on them for this project, they will be essential for when I commence work on my FMP in order to create the most considered and comprehensive piece of work.

PDF's for Web Presence Portfolio.

Below are copys of the PDF's which make up part of my web presence portfolio including my websites for my PPD module. The first is an overview of the current project whilst the other is a copy of my Artists CV, both are ready to print.

Web Presentation Preparation And a Major Breakthrough!

After spending all of today (Thursday) in the mac suite putting together my banner for GIDE (had more problems with Indesign than you could shake a stick at but finally managed it, as shown below), I decided whilst waiting for problems with the banner to be resolved I would have one last ditched attempt at getting onto the dreaded Indexhibit before Tuesdays Web deadline and today after weeks of attempting to both get me onto the system and also create an Indexhibit website myself and Michael Corker by some miracle finally managed to get my website up and running.

Better late than never I suppose, I just wish I'd been able to get on earlier to be able to create a better website and put more time into it. My aims this weekend whilst cracking on with my dissertation and creating some form of PDF, are to get all relevant information about current/past projects onto the website and catch up with the people who have had their sites set up for weeks.

At least this means that I will have a substantial web portfolio even if the website by the time of hand in is still not super fancy, so long as the content is up to standard I can have no complaints, alongside my Carbonmade, Cargo and of course my trusty blog I have at least got a web presence established ready for future projects to be added to.

In terms of the interactive PDF document I feel it relevant to create it around the base of this project, there are many ways of which I could create this, ISSUU being one of them as this test piece below shows.

Relevant Reading.

Another architecturally orientated piece of journalism.

Das is Wunderbar.

Just found out I'm to go to Magdeburg in Germany for the 2011 Gide event!

I'm really pleased at this and after thoroughly enjoying this years event in Lugano, this is a really great surprise and will also give me the pressure I need to ensure that my final results for the conclusion of this brief are up to the highest of standard.

I am now off home for the festive break and to crack on with my dissertation writing, see you in the new year.

The Future.

Ominous I know but I feel that if I don't look beyond beery celebration and Christmas Pudding I might just forget that my work for the 'Exhibit/Show' needs to be given a fitting conclusion and how to achieve this needs to be achieved by the time I return for the start of term, ready for hand in.

in order to not let the project stagnate, i need to give it more focus instead of getting bogged down too much with dissertation writing and future ideas. 

A4 Exhibition Opening.

After a weeks worth of setting up, myself and the rest of the curation/construction team are suitably exhausted yet pleased with our efforts, and opened the A4 only show today with a preview and refreshments courtesy of Alex and Lauren.

The floors were sleek and shiny, the shelves looked sturdy and most importantly the work looked great.

I felt both rooms as well as the connecting corridor, offered something different and in terms of curation allowed both close inspection as well as reflection on the works whilst not feeling too open or cramped and also hosted a variety of media to explore.

Each exhibit was intended to be a unique individualistic interpretation of the term A4, and it certainly proved to be, with very few exhibits looking obvious to their origin.

From April Comer's porcelein cup telephone with connecting string the length of the area of A4 and Joanna Geldards iconagraphy laden work on an 'A4' plinth to the more obvious yet nonetheless appealing origami of James Smart, above, the works I feel will make the exhibition a success, and although proving a challenge to get the balance right in curation, have made for a great end of term exhibition.

 

It was also a great oppurtuity to get the chance to see our tutors practices on show  with all Interdisciplinary tutors submitting as well as members of staff including Roger Berry, Bridget March, James Smart and Simon Harrison.
I found Joanna Geldards work particularly interesting, especially as she spoke to me about how 'rediculous' she intended it to be whislt I helped her set it up.
I seemed to like it more on an aesthetic scale anyway even if it's content was deliberatly 'baffling', as it's iconography was reminiscent of the 'Neon Bible' cover by Arcade Fire.

 

One of the great challenges for the curation team was how to exhibit the shows more delicate work such as 's paper shoes and the slip cast paper birds of Natalie Fyfe.
I was wary of someone standing on Natalies work, not because they don't know exhinition etiquitte, jsut that we accidents do happen and in a busy environment this could be a risk.
But to this day (Tuesday) the birds are still centre stage with no harm done and I have think they add a really nice touch to the exhibition, and feel standalone works like these were needed to draw attention to the whole room, and lets face it the room would look quite bland if all works were on shelves, after all this is an exhibition not a newsagents.

After accidentally destroying Becky's mirror, that reflects her work to the floor, midweek I felt I owed her to take a few photo's of it, so here you are Beck's.

And here are the poster's in their rightful place. 

I was really pleased with how they turned out and was glad to have screen printed work as I feel that it adds so much more in terms of posterity and will serve as a great keep-sake to remind us of our hard graft in setting up this exhibition and remind us of the work's exhibited.