Following my previous developments in exploration of ideas, I realised I needed to again return to the conceptual basis. I had been focusing on the idea of modern life and it's pressures realised I needed to take a viewpoint so I could make a clear statement through my work.
I came across this quote: There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi and so it was from here I starting exploring the idea of speed in modern life and the art of the futurist movement.
The futurists embraced an exciting new world which transformed by machines and technology; they loved the speed, noise, pollution and cities. They aimed to express the energetic and dynamic quality of contemporary life embodied in the motion and force of modern machinery, representing also the technological triumph of man over nature.
They adopted the Cubist technique of depicting several views of an object simultaneously and used rhythmic spatial repetitions in an attempt to convey feelings and sensations experimented in time.
Technology, time and speed have become interchangeable and ubiquitous forces in the modern life we know today; speed is not so much embraced as a given part of life to cope with. Speed is the yardstick by which we measure productivity, efficiency, distance, value. It is no longer a matter of 'how fast', but 'how much faster'.
“In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world” - Margaret Mead quotes
The more stresses, pressures, responsibilities we 'pack' into our lives increases the rate at which is passes us by. The Futurists depicted their world view through multifaceted, multidimensional shapes and multicolored and flowing brushstrokes to express their perceived world as one which is in constant movement.
So what is our world now, 100 or so years later?
Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. ~Paul Morand
But with increased speed comes a threshold, a breaking point, where there is a loss of control, a distortion in perspective, an unrealistic sense of experience. We talk about how time is going so fast and passes us by; but time is a constant and it is life as it becomes increasingly more 'modern' that is speeding up. We speed through our days and our lives until they are only a blur, reaching the end destination and remembering nothing from the journey.
My direction from here is still not completely resolved. A possible development from the timelapse which I am yet to try is to use images with longer exposures. For example, rather than the lapse ranging from an image of one car on the motorway through to an image of a traffic jam on the motorway, using images ranging from an image taken of the motorway on a fast shutter speed to it appears stationary, through to an image taken on an extended exposure to give the impression of speed and movement.
With this concept now, I need to explore ways to incorporate relationships between the different sensors and how I can integrate both the input and outputs to communicate within this conceptual framework.
I came across this quote: There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi and so it was from here I starting exploring the idea of speed in modern life and the art of the futurist movement.
The futurists embraced an exciting new world which transformed by machines and technology; they loved the speed, noise, pollution and cities. They aimed to express the energetic and dynamic quality of contemporary life embodied in the motion and force of modern machinery, representing also the technological triumph of man over nature.
They adopted the Cubist technique of depicting several views of an object simultaneously and used rhythmic spatial repetitions in an attempt to convey feelings and sensations experimented in time.
Technology, time and speed have become interchangeable and ubiquitous forces in the modern life we know today; speed is not so much embraced as a given part of life to cope with. Speed is the yardstick by which we measure productivity, efficiency, distance, value. It is no longer a matter of 'how fast', but 'how much faster'.
“In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world” - Margaret Mead quotes
The more stresses, pressures, responsibilities we 'pack' into our lives increases the rate at which is passes us by. The Futurists depicted their world view through multifaceted, multidimensional shapes and multicolored and flowing brushstrokes to express their perceived world as one which is in constant movement.
So what is our world now, 100 or so years later?
Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. ~Paul Morand
But with increased speed comes a threshold, a breaking point, where there is a loss of control, a distortion in perspective, an unrealistic sense of experience. We talk about how time is going so fast and passes us by; but time is a constant and it is life as it becomes increasingly more 'modern' that is speeding up. We speed through our days and our lives until they are only a blur, reaching the end destination and remembering nothing from the journey.
My direction from here is still not completely resolved. A possible development from the timelapse which I am yet to try is to use images with longer exposures. For example, rather than the lapse ranging from an image of one car on the motorway through to an image of a traffic jam on the motorway, using images ranging from an image taken of the motorway on a fast shutter speed to it appears stationary, through to an image taken on an extended exposure to give the impression of speed and movement.
With this concept now, I need to explore ways to incorporate relationships between the different sensors and how I can integrate both the input and outputs to communicate within this conceptual framework.
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