Dave’s Art Project - the wreckers February 7, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : Art, Music, UK, web2.0 , trackback
Dave left a comment about his art project which includes drawings and text about the Branscombe beach shipwreck.
This is a project I’ve just completed:
http://dev2.manme.org.uk/~davem/wreckers/
It’s an interactive work on the subject of the Devonshire ‘wreckers’.
My idea with this is to make what I call a ‘debate drawing’. I wanted to make drawings that were more connected to a subject, and I wanted to have a debate going on inside a picture - or even a debate that creates a picture. So I wrote a computer script and hooked it up to web feeds. The comments you post are mixed in with other comments from a web feed, and then converted into shapes and lines. Please have a go and post a comment, as every comment is added to the system and makes the pictures more interesting. The best pictures will be printed big, and I’m also thinking of doing T-shirts, if anyone’s interested - please email me.
Hi Dave,
Thanks for your comment on my blog bringing attention to your
interesting art project. I’ve had a look and generated a few pictures.
I did manage to break the URL system for the .png files though, by
including punctuation I think. I tried pasting in the lyrics to my
song, which I’m guessing is what brought you to my blog in the first
place.
I do like your idea of using mashups with RSS to create art, and I
like the original drawings. It made me question the way in which
combined media are used, for example as a writer, I normally consider
the meaning of words to be primary and their visual impact unimportant
as long as the reader can understand. But here you are taking people’s thoughts
and arguments and turning them into almost random patterns, with just
little hints of meaning. Like a conversation out of earshot.
I would also expect the conversations, here represented by overlaid
text areas, to be dynamic, flowing across the images. An animation or
movie other words, and with sound too!
If you are interested, there is now some music to the “wreckers
prayer” song - only existing as a home demo for now, but I intend to
record it again next week.
See if you think there may be scope for further mashups.
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