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Zimoun

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

I just stumbled over this chap on Instagram and found he’d demonstrated in a short series of slides the fundamental power, for me, of sound and movement. While I love his installations for their simplicity and elegance, and I’m drawn to the movement he sets up in them which is similarly uncomplicated – there’s no clever-clever shenanigans here even though the substructure is undoubtedly a technical challenge – it was the addition of sound that fully engaged me and so much so, I could almost feel my pupils dilating like a child opening a present. Here he is: https://www.instagram.com/studiozimoun/ And … Continue reading Zimoun

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UPM postcard paintings – a video

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

I’m keen to get a better grip on my video editing software and to begin incorporating better sound tracks and so I used a selection of paintings from one of the earlier exercises to play around with transitions between images and to experiment with adding sound files. I’ve been a little bit rushed (self imposed) with previous films and as a result not really trying out anything new, so the idea was to really rummage around and see what could be achieved with this piece of kit. There’s an upgrade on the horizon, will it be worth the extra outlay? … Continue reading UPM postcard paintings – a video

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Brian Eno on art, value, and culture

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This is from my other blog and comprises a critique of Eno’s lecture to the AA School of Architecture while acknowledging the initial questions Eno asks and his stated premise. Brian Eno’s lecture to the AA School of Architecture takes on the problem of how to talk about, to write about, to classify and describe art. Or that was the plan. The lecture starts well with the idea that the arts – all of them – are everything you don’t have to do as illustrated by screwdrivers. The business end is a fixed design, functional and with no room for … Continue reading Brian Eno on art, value, and culture

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Assignment 3 – outdoor scene preparatory work

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

I think I’m working my way towards using the underneath of the bypass for this. I liked the exploratory sketches and the brutal nature of the concrete, which has nevertheless been appropriated by humans, and how it sits in the middle of a natural environment of clay, rocks, uncultivated vegetation, and water. It’s often dripping; the sounds under there echo; the traffic rumbles and thuds above. Today, I was on the far side from where I’d taken those initial photos and I could hear music. It was coming from the vicinity of a man who was sitting on the river … Continue reading Assignment 3 – outdoor scene preparatory work