Brief: The Screens

Well, here it is. I have been thinking of working as an artist slash designer for some time, and now is the time to stop thinking and start acting. All creative work needs a purpose, some structure - a brief. I have been inspired by lots of different themes and ideas. But finally, they have all come together as one.

So, here dear reader is my brief.

My studies in Architecture and in New Media had parallel themes. In architecture we were interested in the division of space (internal/external, private/public etc) and of the framing of views. In New Media, my thesis dealt with the mediation of emotion, particulary relating to global media events such as the war on terrorism. Persitent in all of these themes were the presence of screens.

Be they a fly screen, a tv screen. The screen is a multi media interface. It represents a shift in thought, evokes a shift in feeling and hence in behaviour.

At the essence a screen will filter light (information). But we have a multitude of uses of them. Sometimes we project onto screens, sometimes we use them as protection, or as devices of deception, as smoke screens. Sometimes screening is a process of interrogation.

The brief is to develop screens that challenge people's thinking of the screen as interface. To work across media - be it mesh or glass or light or sound or vapour or timber or cord or fabric or material. It is also to work with the idea of art enmeshed with the everyday. So to create beautiful, attainable, useful works producable for lots of different people.

Time to get to work! This is just a draft, so expect it to get updated..

This pic is of a page in a magazine, Art Review. I should have more details of the artist.. But I don't. Naughty!