Thomas Yeomans

    

• Video ‘Kony’ 2012 - 99 million views online, about the african warlord Joseph Kony.
• Got a lot of criticism for ‘Kony’ due to the feeling of it not being objective and for it being filled with Propaganda.
• Makes videos from found footage and audio.
• Post-cinematic - contemporary cubism.
• Themes of identity and self empowerment (A common future).
• Narrative trying to link the protagonist to others.
• Clickbait - “if you can watch this…”.
• Audience pressure to conform to an emotional response.

• Idea of emotion - if it’s possible to be happy or sad in such a condensed space (X-Factor Crowd.
• Now focusing on music.
• EDM - soundtrack to a lifestyle ‘Nowism’
• Cinema - characters are familiar (DC/Marvel): do we feel more comfortable?
• Digital Maximalism - appears everywhere now even in advertising.
• Easier to sell the lifestyle than the product.
• Everything is competing for our attention.
• Ideas get cultured into the mainstream much faster.
• ‘Health Goth’ - microgenre.
• ‘Seapunk’ - micro-trend in fashion (1990’s influenced).
• ‘Eternal September’ - very distopian, the sad reality we live in, “New way of being alone together”.Mesmerising but also flooded with visual information.
• Appropriation - pre-existing material used for our own purpose.
• Authorship/collaboration - who owns it really?
• Mainstream culture - MEME’s etc.
• “It already exists to it must have value” - his philosophy on using existing material to create his work.

Question: With the over use of cinematic glossy imagery, do you think as an artist you are pressured to produce this type of work?

Answer:

• Not personally.
• Many contemporary artists with access to this advanced technology are doing really well.
• Don’t think I would want to make that type of work, would it have the same impact if I filmed it myself and didn't use found imagery?

http://www.thomasyeomans.com/work.html

David Clegg

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  Issues of memory and fracturing time.
• Time and loss are his subject matter. 
• He works with people who have dementia - how does that person see time (do they get bored?).
• Stories told by people with memory loss.
• Amazing how people think about their first memory (common between people) - memory changes over time, it goes through neuron pathways everytime we ‘remember’.
• First memories are sensory.
• Our memories are different to others experiencing the same event.
• Gap in photographs = gap in memory.
• Avant-garde (12-13 years old) music played same notes over and over - repetition.
• Got job in a care home after art college - arts and crafts.
• Alot of his work includes peoples last words.
• Losing the concept of space - loosing ‘in’.
• Where stories loop.
• Quite comedic to listen to - often the content isn’t.
• How to present/edit it and make it accessible.
• ‘Room 21’ - “I’ve been here before…” Dementia and the perception of space (how stories become the same due to the space).
• Looking at the overlooked - stories are being lost.

http://www.trebusprojects.org/

Sophie Molins

• Music box- Sophia Berrick (wedding present) - monkey  music box.
• Commission on animals roles in the household.
• Regency cartoons - first research point.
• Mothers possessions - photographed them (shoelaces and shoes).
• Made shoes into butterflies - symbolises the soul.
• Mother loved horses - http://www.deepdowndarkhorse.com
• Climate change charity - don’t forget the monkey website (where have we come from and where are we going to?).
• Another web world (based on monkey music box).
• House - separation of females and males. http://www.sundialinmoonlight.com
• Regency sexuality.
• ‘He’ - book about masculinity.
• St Bernards monastery - inspired a project (photographic only currently, wants to make a film).
• Web work lasts forever unlike exhibitions.
• Successful courtesans - men wanted to share them (culture was less monogamous and more playful).

http://www.sophiemolins.com/

Dawn Mellor

• Time in relation to an object: Michael Jackson and other men (Book)
  

  
  

  

Teenage years 1980’s (13-16):

• Magazines were the only source of info/reference for the drawings.
• Holding onto the connection (Can’t play YouTube on repeat!).
• Race riots across the country - music videos such as ‘Thriller’ were used as scapegoats for the violence.
• Trying to understand what was going on - political ignorance? Upon reflection looks like an american celebrity obsession.

Adult Years:

• Constructed personas (120 people)- endless transformation of yourself into various characters.
• Derail good/bad misconceptions (Political: Right wing and left wing).
• Dorothy paintings - Iraq war based (Trying to demonstrate conflict), the complexities of hating the war. Is it self created (hatred)?
• Children represent innocence usually.
• Paint first, problems later!
• 16 Painting series - gallery asked for but she did paintings of women in films.
• Horror film idea - used architecture to enhance the exhibition.
• Introduced female queer idea - galleries didn’t like it.
• People interpreted images badly - feminist concerns.
• Lost enjoyments - pushed away from what she wanted to do by gallerist.
• Chose to leave the gallerist.
• Service imagery - ‘teddyboys/teddygirls’.
• Not shown in many public spaces (such as the Tate)due to age restriction? (Female artists have this problem more than men. Antifeminist?Sexism?).
• The shock factor (controversy) didn’t occur to her.

Time - Introduction

• Michael Gladwell - You need 10,000 hours of practice to become a master of anything and everything.
• Making art is a love affair.
• It is entirely normal to feel despair.
• If you make an exhibition of your failures you will probably pass.
• Being nostalgic is a disease.
• The future is on hold, we are getting the 20th century repackaged in HD. It is not progress!
• Thinking ahead not behind.

Painting Time - Gary Simmonds

• Jane Harris - Recognising the amount of work that goes into someones work.
• “Slow, Fast, Modern” - Neon Dayglow paint