Project Outline

Working within the Electronic Arts department I have become interested in using projection as a tool for my installation pieces. Coming from a prodominately philosophy and film background, I enjoy the challange of making an installation piece. I love the idea of immersing the viewer in the environment. I find it easier to engage people through film, so installation for me is a lot harder. All the senses are engaged in an installation, in order for me to express my feeling, the whole environment must express the same under lying idea's to the viewer.

I recently installed a piece entitled ‘Gully’ as part of my year three electronic arts criteria. I set up a white screen in the centre of the room; I used an overhead and Mylar photograph to project an image of the pine forest in Bathune's Gully, on the other side I set up a digital projector linked to a camera filming the same side of the screen. This created a distorted feedback effect, generating endless and filtering loops of my original images. The piece also invites people to step into the installation and be part of the imagery they see on the screen. There bodies become part of the scene displayed on the screen; they are part of one of my experiences. It is important for me to draw the audience with something they recognise, while still making the familiar unusual.

This work is definitely a starting point for this drawing project. I don't feel like I have resolved that work at all, I was just coming to terms with the ideas which inspired the piece when I installed it; I wasn't able to coherently express my own feelings. With this project I want to continue to work with the same projection ideas as I have been exploring and also try and make the environment and viewer more interactive. I at least want to make the audience think about the environment they are in and hopefully understand the conclusions I have made which are reflected in the installation.