Week 12
This is my final written submission. It is hard to believe that we’re already at Week 12. I have completed my second assignment and I will briefly break down my process below. This final projection project consists of five sequences which were designed with Itten’s fundamental categories of contrast in mind.
“The kingdom of colors has within it multidimensional possibilities only partly to be reduced to simple order. Each individual color is a universe in itself” —Johannes Itten
Sequence 1: Complimentary Contrast I
Sequence 2: Light-Dark Contrast
Sequence 3: Complimentary Contrast II
Sequence 4: Cold-Warm Contrast
Sequence 5: Complimentary Contrast III
Palettes were created using Adobe Colour. Custom motion graphics were rendered using Adobe After Effects. Isadora actors used for this creation include movie-player, picture-player, alpha mask, jump, shuffle, and comparator.
I am looking forward to further exploring project activism after this course. I have considered three potential routes where I could take this endeavor.
1) Installation: Creating a projection-based installation that would incorporate motion sensors and movement. This would allow for meaningful collaboration with other multimedia and experimental artists. Funding applications to the Ontario Arts Council or Canada Arts Council could support this financially.
2) Academic: Findings as it relates to projection activism and its historical and contemporary uses could be transformed into an academic presentation, in collaboration, with the Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought. There are also course-building opportunities as well at the college and university levels whether that is its own individual course, or scaffolded into existing courses curriculums offered at X University such as experimental media and design or social justice media.
3) Community workshops: For many, projection mapping may seem as an inaccessible medium to explore. I would love to offer programming and workshops for youth to highlight this form of expression in collaboration with non-profit organizations who serve youth communities.
Projection as a tool for activism #9
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Projection as a tool for activism #9 〰️
In 2014, the Illuminator, a group of artists and activists hit the streets of Montreal to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the 2012 Quebec student protests — a series of protests led by student unions against a proposal by the Quebec Cabinet to raise university tuition prices. Demonstrations involved over 300,000 students (“CTV News Montreal”)
Many spectators were surprised and excited to see the projections throughout the city of Montreal which included photos and videos from 2012 actions. When explaining the need for publicly projected images, Illuminator member, Clay Rogers, stated, “we need a critical dialogue and the potential use of public space to be a meeting ground of art and politics is essential to me […] as a result of privatization, corporate ownership, media advertising or social media, this meeting ground is diminishing” (Kerr, 2012).
Take care everyone, and until next time!
References
Kerr, S. (2015, March 16). Public space and video projections: A conversation with the illuminator art collective. WITNESS Blog. Retrieved April 15, 2022, from https://blog.witness.org/2015/03/video-projections-illuminator-art-collective/
The Quebec student protests, 10 years later. Montreal. (2022, February 14). Retrieved April 9, 2022, from https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/the-quebec-student-protests-10-years-later-1.5779970