Untitled, Installation Project
Overview
I propose to build an installation that creates a type of illusion. I would use the hands of anonymous workers to transform photographs into hand drawings at a large scale. These transformed images would depict tools in positions that suggests a type of anthropomorphism.
I expect these drawings to have a house of mirrors type of distorted effect and may be accompanied by a sculptural element that includes mirrors, or fake mirrors by mirroring the objects I've placed in the room and building large frames that mimic the mirror objects.
Notes & Sketches
Starting with a simple photo of a mirror, chair or ladder in a room.
Break the photo into 36 panels (A3 size). Then distribute the panels individually to be copied by hand using the crowdsourcing resource of the Mechanical Turk. Eventually each of the 36 panels are re-assembled to piece together the image again.
An example of a wheat pasted photo. 36 A3 Xerox prints wheat pasted to cardboard boxes, acrylic paint black frame.
Selected Research Notes
Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing marketplace
Ontology, the structure of reality
Herwig Weiser – Lucid Phantom Messenger
Roman Kirschner
Ralf Baecker
Ralf Baecker - Rechnender Raum (vimeo)
John Bock
C.P. Snow – The Two Cultures
Étant donnés, Marcel Duchamps Last Major Artwork
knowbotic Research Media Art Group
Richard Prince
Dziga Vertov – film director
Contemporary Art Daily - Website
