Mona Hatoum

Rubber Mat, 1996, Silicone rubber.

Another brain like image.

Mona Hatoum

Untitled(Brain), 1999, Silicone rubber and aluminium shelf.

Mona Hatoum

Corps Etranger - Foreign Body(1994)
'Foreign Body' is a video featuring the use of two routinely used medical imaging processes: endoscopy in which fibre optics scan the upper part of the digestive system, and coloscopy for the colon and intestines. There is a sense of overwhelminng intimacy which is further heightened by a soundtrack of her own breathing and heart beat that accompanies the video through the soft black acoustic fabric lining.


"She invites the veiwer to a close up view of her own body - from the dry landscape that is her skin to the timeless, primitive, and unchanged glistening cavernous world beneath."

Fish Eye

This is a photo taken in a fish eye lens effect this is how I think the images in our video may look with the centre of the images appearing larger than the edges of the images.

Spherical Projection.

This is a photo of a spherical projection which I found whilst looking at google images.

Projection Idea 2

Projection Idea 1

The FINAL video!!!!...hopefully...

This is our final video, all the clips are how we want them (after a few alterations today) and we added the final pieces of sound which Ally had played and recorded on her piano last night. She recorded 2 different pieces for the more cheerful part in our video, one fast and one slow. We all decided that the slow happy piece of music was perfect for the part we intended it to go. I think it looks great now and I'm proud of what we have achieved I think it's pretty impressive (even if I do say so myself).
Now we just need to sort out the way in which we want to project our video. We were able to do a little experimenting with the projector this afternoon,where we projected a video onto the ball. I think projecting it this way gave a really interesting effect. Later in the week, once the ball has been covered in mod rock, we are going to go into college and see how we can suspend the ball and what height and angle both the ball and projector need to be.

Further Progress

Today we were in college for ceramics and decided that in the afternoon we would try and finish off most of the video. We have all the film clips in now and the sound is almost complete, there is one section of the video where there isn't any sound as we couldn't find a suitable piece of music to go with these particular clips. Ally, is tonight, going to try and record some music on her piano that will hopefully be perfect for this section and tomorrow we will be able to officially say that we have finished our video.

Cast/Mould

This is an updated photo of the progress on the cast for our ball. Carol has now made two half casts of her exercise ball from papier mache which she has fitted together. This will now be ready for us to experiment with on tuesday so that we can figure out how our projection is going to work. If our idea can work we can then cover the papier mache with mod rock to make it more solid.

Judith Barry

These projections give the illusion that the images are floating.

Krzysztof Wodiczko

Krzysztof Wodiczko - The Tijuana Projection

This is a projection of a womans face that is projected onto a dome building in Mexico. This projection is about the life in an area of Mexico where I think that people move for a supposedly better life than they have, however they go from one kind of hell to another. I like the way that the face is strected into a circular shape to fit the dome, I think this gives a stressed expression of dispair. I think this could be a bit like how our video might look when projected onto the ball shape, with the edges of the video/image being slightly less visible than what is seen at the centre of the ball.

A Bit More Sound

This is our video again with a bit more sound and with few alterations that we need to sort out. At this moment we can't seem to get the sound exactly how we want it, the biggest contribution to this is the fact that the sound on the Mac's is extremely quiet especially when playing an imovie, this has meant that we are having to continuously upload our video to youtube at each step so that we can properly hear the sound on our home computers; and then note down what we think so that when we go back into college we know which bits need altering.

Video with some sound!

This is our film with some sound. We have added some audio that goes with particular clips and we have also added some Sigur Ros tracks and a Kubb track which I brought in with me today, this audio helped us figure out what type of music and sound we wanted at different parts of our video. My favourite section of the film so far is the middle, this has the intro to a Kubb track called Chemical. I think it is a good piece of atmospheric music that really suits the clips that it is played along with. However I think that the other sounds we have added may make it seem like a music video. Tomorrow Ally is going to try and bring in some atmospheric music she has recorded herself playing on the piano which she tried to bring in today, but for some reason they wouldn't upload.

Projection and Tony Oursler

This is a photo off Carol's blog that is of her exercise ball covered in papier mache. We decided that for tuesdays session that we would have a cast of the ball to se see how our video would look projected onto it. This ball shape would represent the shape of an eyeball which would fit with the theme of our video 'Mind's Eye'. We need work out whether the video will look right projected onto this shape and whether we can suspend the shape from the ceiling with some kind of fishing wire, which would then hopefully give the illusion that it is floating.

Tony Oursler - Eye In The Sky

This is a fiberglass sphere, projected onto it is a single eye watching television. The fact that we only see the eye emphasises on how much important the eye is and how much information is taken in by the eye. The image and information capturing is represented by the flickering and twitching on the eye, this gives a very abstract view into our minds. "...encourages multiple interpretations, examines aspects of abstraction, self-portraiture and identity, social consciousness, popular culture and the city as a state of mind."
I would like to think that we could project our video in a similar way so that it would make people think about how you can never know what is going on in someones mind and what they actually see, as everyone sees things differently. Knowing what someone is seeing doesn't mean that you know what is going on inside their mind, someone can have many thoughts and images going around in their mind at any one time.