As a process for developing the found footage, I have taken some screen shots to see how well the images work alongside each other.
Starting off with this image brings the audience into the video. It's like an 'on' switch introducing the video.
To go with the 'on' switch I have coupled it with a 'powerful' image of something moving fast. The colours are bright and contrast with the previous image.
This clip I have let it play and then reversed it but on reflection I think it slows down the pace of the video, especially at the beginning so I will just let it play rather than reverse it too.
The expansion of this image works well. The colours are cool so to give a sensation of the last image as that is quite a cold image.
Children playing but contracted. Theres an ambiguity here.
Semiotics placed after the previous clip of children paying. Babies and children.
This image doesn't work well due to the fractal imagery. It doesn't flow as well as the previous abstract images. Breaks it up some how. So will take this edit out.
The circle works well. Brings the viewers attention to the waves. Makes the footage look less cliche which is what i wanted. The sensation of the waves and water on the feet is mirrored in the abstract and colours surrounding it.
The cool blues and turning motion work well. They could be sea creatures. Theres a sensual feeling to the imagery. Not sure if it works so well after the girl in the sea. Maybe though because it could give a cool sensation of the water. Ambiguity and abstraction again.
To make the shot less cliche I have worked on reversing the clip and adding in layers and changing the opaque. This gives a different sense of time and space.
The colours in this work well with the last image of sand. This could be a macro shot of sand under water. The bubble visual, gives a fizzing sensation in the body.
The sense of touch in this and anticipation. Very sensual. Works well.
This is like an explosion of pleasure straight after the touch - it works well.
The eye opening straight after the explosion works really well. It gives like a shock sensation. It would be good to find a dilating pupil to put in here because when we feel pleasure our pupils dilate.
I put this in here to morph in from the image of the eye. It works well.
I am still unsure about using this clip. It is maybe too long too. I like the birds. Its quite dreamy because of the colours.
Digital Stills of 'Sens'
By Amie Dodgson, 2022
Draft of 'Sens' by Amie Dodgson, 2022
Digital video
3 mins 26 secs
On reflection the sound of the metronome makes the viewer stand to attention and isn't relaxed. The question I am asking myself is do I want the viewers attention to be on the metronome or on what they're watching? Or a mixture of both? The haptic can be seen through the imagery and aesthetics but the brain in activated through the sound of the metronome. Do I want a duality? Mix the metronome with the diegetic sounds? I want to play around with the sound a bit more and explore and edit the sounds with the images, the diagetic sounds overlapping the unrelated imagery and vice versa.
On a technical point of view I want to take out the hand reaching to the leg under the table as it looks too fake and bad acting. The editing between the water and fire is also quite mechanical and doesn't flow as well so will look at this too and blend them a bit more to make a more flowing visual.
When thinking about the online exhibition & live screening for the video residency the group of artists got together to discuss ideas for the name and the order in which the videos will be shown online and at the round table discussion and screening in Naples. Unfortunately I am unable to make the screening in Naples but will be zoomed in for discussion at the round table.
After much discussion the order the videos will be shown will be Evelyn, Annabel, Amie and Lisa.
The name of the Exhibition will be "Becoming the Skin of the Snake". The snake sheds its skin: its dry skin can be seen as an object trouvé, as an empathic tool for relating to others and to the environment. It will be shown at SuperOtium, via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, 8 Naples.
Link to the facebook event :
Screenshot of Event on Collecttivo Damp's Website: https://www.collettivodamp.com/artwork-digital-bloom
Order of the night:
18:00
Round table: the conversations will focus on the relationship between artistic research and video support in the practice of the artists present at the meeting.
The round table will have an informal approach and is open to the public.
Language: Italian and English
guests: Collettivo Damp, Evelyn Yulin Zhou, Roxy in the Box, Lisa Moro, Annabel Miller, Guido Accampa, Clara Begliardi Ghidini, Antonio Mastrogiacomo, Tilly Collins, Moio & Sivelli
19:30
Projection: Becoming the Skin of the Snake + Digital Glue
Artists: Amie Dodgson, Evelyn Yulin Zhou, Lisa Moro, Annabel Miller, Clara Begliardi Ghidini, Dasha Konovalova, Eve Williams, Tilly Collins, Eleanor Banfield.
VVV-R Visualcontainer and Vegapunk implement a virtual and real space of critical reflection on time and on experimental audiovisual production.
On February 22, at SuperOtium, we will explore through our guests the different ways in which artists' research relates to video, both as a tool and as a work.
The round table is a moment of encounter between the people present, their artistic practices and the use of video in their research: a space to engage in reflections that will evolve throughout the evening in face-to-face conversations.
The screening will present works that interact with the video-trouvé as a tool to look at one's research through the eyes of others: a current topic to explore how human interaction and the perception of reality continually slide within the screen interfaces.
The 9 works of the young artists were created in 2021 and 2022 as part of the VVV-R residency: they interacted within a digital environment consisting of a blog, a webinar platform, digital and physical archives, a streaming platform.
VVV-R, Visualcontainer Vegapunk Videoart Residency, is a project curated by Alessandra Arnò, Visualcontainer, and Simona Da Pozzo, Vegapunk. The 2021 and 2022 editions of the residence were supported by Arts University Bournemouth.
Visualcontainer: platform dedicated to research on the curation and enhancement and dissemination of video art and new media works, founded in 2008.
VisualcontainerTV: online platform dedicated to international video art.
Vegapunk is the virtual space through which Ex-voto Association for Radical Public Culture promotes the sharing of artistic practices. The focus is to highlight artistic practice as both an intellectual and physical process guided by the dialogue between people, formats, disciplines.
SuperOtium is an art-residency space for contemporary cultures, which through a residency program for artists, designers, curators and researchers, aims to support a different narrative of the city.
Sens
by Amie Dodgson
2' 20'' video, 1920 x 1080, 16/9, colour, stereo, UK 2022
Sens in Latin means ‘to feel’ and this video is an exploration of embodiment and was born from the research question of 'how can a sense other than visual be explored through video and found footage to create a narrative?' The research began with haptic vision, which refers to the relationship between skin and screen and the sense of touch and seeing. The idea was to include macro shots and close-up frames to create a sense of tactility taking the viewer from one frame to the next on a sensory journey allowing them to navigate their own perception, memories, and sensations. Colour plays a huge part in emotions and each humanistic shot is followed by a colourful abstract movement creating a synesthetic experience.
'Sound’ in ‘video’ brings the listeners' attention and focus into what they're watching. They are free to start to create their own narrative or use collective memories attached to that sound. When the sound is different to the image, the narrative changes and is unexpected. When the sounds are unfamiliar, such as the metronome, we attach our own individual subjective experience to that sound and in turn place meaning on it such as the sound of a heartbeat. Combining this with silences and diegetic sounds, makes an interesting play between attention and focus, meaning and interpretation which in turn creates a second narrative towards what the viewer is watching. When watching the visual in silence or with the diegetic sound, the haptic sensation becomes more intense and with the distraction of the metronome it brings attention to the brain and thinking rather than into the bodily sensations and being present.
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