The first is to continue building my hyperbolic photographs. I'll make a new, longer, but not larger version of my last. I think 8" is a good diameter, the 24" hyperbole was too much to put together and transport. The size, contrary to my predictions did not improve the object as a whole.
I would show motion as a panoramic where the subject moves from picture to picture, the images would be turned into circles and stitched together using the same method. The viewer could rotate the object to see the consecutive images, but the backgrounds would be seamlessly stitched together. I think this music video from Sigur Ros shows the kind of look I'd go for. Probably a self portrait, I think it might be interesting to do it in the dark too. Maybe the whole project or half would be in the dark.
Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook from Sigur Rós on Vimeo.
This is the style/type of photograph I'd project onto the hyperbolic plane:
My second idea comes from philosophy. We've been discussing reductionism in science, if it is possible and if it is good or bad. While reductionism can lead to a deeper understand of a concept, the focus must, as a consequence become smaller. This would take the form of a flip book. It would show the reduction of a photograph into its basic parts - pixels, color values, then to 1's & 0's of binary. Another reduction, which could possibly go on the back side, would keep the scale the same, but reduce the objects, turning them to black & white, then to outlines, then to text, which would then to reduce to "image". Through this reductionistic journey, the viewer would see the photograph broken down into it's basic parts.
This would be a visual representation analogous to the reduction of psychology to physics. The viewer would see, first hand how detail is lost as it is gained. The goal would be to increase the viewers awareness of reductionism in society and to prevent the misuse of it.
This is the style/type of photograph I'd project onto the hyperbolic plane:
My second idea comes from philosophy. We've been discussing reductionism in science, if it is possible and if it is good or bad. While reductionism can lead to a deeper understand of a concept, the focus must, as a consequence become smaller. This would take the form of a flip book. It would show the reduction of a photograph into its basic parts - pixels, color values, then to 1's & 0's of binary. Another reduction, which could possibly go on the back side, would keep the scale the same, but reduce the objects, turning them to black & white, then to outlines, then to text, which would then to reduce to "image". Through this reductionistic journey, the viewer would see the photograph broken down into it's basic parts.
This would be a visual representation analogous to the reduction of psychology to physics. The viewer would see, first hand how detail is lost as it is gained. The goal would be to increase the viewers awareness of reductionism in society and to prevent the misuse of it.
