Instead of creating work and installations to challenge perceptions and get a truer sense of Self, what if I use my MA project to systematically and directly expose and work through my own ego attachments?
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Exploring movement, depth, and disruption in moiré work
I had an impromptu 121 with Jonathan (course leader) and the conversation opened up several new directions and he introduced me to some brilliant artist references. Here are my key takeaways.
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Gallery visits: Unexpected inspiration for moiré experiments
Some highlights from my recent visits to Saatchi Gallery and The Photographers’ Gallery that provided an unexpected direction for developing my current experiments.
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Proposed system for first experiments
Enough research, here are the steps I’ll take to run my first experiments. Soto’s trajectory has inspired me—starting at pattern creation with the potential to scale up to immersive installations.
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Ryoji Ikeda at 180 Studios
Described as “a total sensory encounter that transforms vast datasets into an immersive audiovisual environment, exploring the intersection of art and physics on an unprecedented scale,” visitors lie beneath a huge LED ceiling while being enveloped by intense soundscapes.
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Space observation parallels with Kinetic art
These NASA images of the comet 3I/ATLAS appeared on my news feed yesterday and I instantly noticed a connection to the perceptual phenomena and artist research I’m doing.
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Kinetic artists that engineer perception: Carlos Cruz-Diez
Throughout his career Cruz-Díez has focused on four types of self-defined Op art categories: Physichoromies, Chromo-interferences, Chromosaturations and Transchromies.
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Kinetic artists that engineer perception: Victor Vasarely
Vasarely created “startlingly precise, often hallucinatory images producing a kind of optical vibration on the surface.”
His paintings exploit “illusion as a function of sensory response”—the work operates directly on perception through systematic manipulation of colour and geometry.
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Kinetic artists that engineer perception: Jesus Rafael Soto
According to Jesus Rafael Soto, “The immaterial is the sensory reality of the universe. Art is the sensory knowledge of the immaterial.” His mechanism: superimposed hatched surfaces producing perceptual dissolution where solid elements appear to dematerialise.
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What makes James Turrell’s work so powerful?
As one of my favourite artists, I wanted to cover this analysis early in my MA to act as an ambitious ‘north star’—not as something to replicate, but to inspire.
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