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Project 4: mirroring and the multiple

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

I’m coming to this at a moment when a mirror made on earth is about to reach its orbital insertion point one and a half million kilometres away. Its job will be to look back through time, as they put it, examining wavelengths originating close to the beginning of the universe. Just now, it’s twiddling its individual mirrors and looking, from the graphic, as if it just invented Space Invaders, but in a few days it will arrive at Lagrange Point 2 and begin orienting, focusing, and settling into place. Astro physicists have all sorts of expectations about the meaning … Continue reading Project 4: mirroring and the multiple

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Back to Option 1 – the edit and the digital

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Project 3 focuses on Donna Haraway, an American scholar noted for many things but primarily in this context, her 1984 ‘A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist feminism in the Late 20th Century’ in which she argues that all of us in, (at the time), western societies have become so integrated with technology that the distinction between humans and machines is blurred. That was a prescient view, given the actuality of technological integration at the time. Unfortunately, none of the referenced texts is available via the links in the course materials but there is a plethora of video material, including … Continue reading Back to Option 1 – the edit and the digital

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Research point Option 1 – Gordon Cheung (1975-)

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Unfortunately, the link to a text in the course materials, this one titled Colart Loved By: Gordon Cheung, is dead but the video article is not and so I am relying on that and articles found in a search for Colart. This is from Elephant which seems to be a magazine: “London-based artist Gordon Cheung discusses his tools of choice: a computer, spray gun and paint. You can find out more about Colart’s Loved By campaign, which launches this weekend [January 2018] at Creative World in Frankfurt.” https://elephant.art/colart-loved-by-gordon-cheung/ In the video, Cheung talks about substituting other materials for paint – … Continue reading Research point Option 1 – Gordon Cheung (1975-)

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Project 2: replaced in this series by Project 1, Option 2.

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This would be assemblage but I am not best equipped for manipulating objects and so I am swapping it out for Project 1 of Option 2: narrative and appropriation. And while there is in theory an element of appropriation, the core theme is the use of a meaningful pre-existing story. This plays directly into my submission goal; a series of paintings embodying key elements of a pre-existing short story and, the task being to produce around 10 paintings for the linked exercise, it can serve as preparation and exploration for that. First, there is the research to underpin the theme, … Continue reading Project 2: replaced in this series by Project 1, Option 2.

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Project 2 Physical texture – assemblage and the reconnection of disparate parts

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) Dubuffet “advocated for “instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness”2 rather than analysis and reason, as well as closer proximity to nature and natural forms and the discarding of traditional notions of beauty. “Look at what lies at your … Continue reading Project 2 Physical texture – assemblage and the reconnection of disparate parts

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Exploring Media: level 2 (HE5), second module

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This is in effect a legacy module as the course is being re-vamped and reorganised. The last of the 60 credit courses at this level, it is in ‘teaching out’ mode until everyone enrolled on it has moved on. Hereafter, there will be three 40 credit units as there are at level 1 (HE4). Reading the course materials, it’s immediately obvious that the structure is completely different from previous modules. The Assignments are not specific to Parts but apply to progress through Options, of which there are four. We make a choice of two from these four but there is … Continue reading Exploring Media: level 2 (HE5), second module

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Extra curricular noses

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Call me weird but I’m determined not to graduate this course without making a decent painting that includes a nose. So today, having almost finished up with Studio Practice, I took the plunge and, to really give myself a get-out clause, I chose a photo of an exquisite black woman after coming up blank looking for Nish Kumar, and decided to use oils for the first time ever. Someone gave me some when I began this course, smelly solvent and all, so armed with a couple of YouTube videos, and an acute awareness of the prolonged drying time of this … Continue reading Extra curricular noses