TV Meeting: 21st March

I’ve not been able to attend these meetings for some time. So I was rather glad to be able to now that it’s being held online.

Several people shared work.

1. Jonothan showed his project about the regular controlled burning of local woodlands. The group talked about spacing out the images, giving value to the strongest ones, honing in on a single narrative, and addressing the cover, which was described as tautological. I would suggest the twin narrative can be made to work but that it requires recognising each strand, then deciding how to weave them together.
2. Dawn showed us her scrolls which were made with generative deep learning AI. I am desperate to find out more about this and will chase. It was great to see how someone I know has been able to make use of this technology as it has felt out of reach. Everything I have read points to large amounts of memory required – my poor old Mac is struggling as it.
3. Catherine showed us her reconfiguring of Assignment 1. It’s been great watching her experiments with infra-red and I have sent her Hoffman’s video about seeing just in case she’s not seen it as I suspect it might be useful in some way – related to our evolutionary but parochial human view.
4. I shared BOW A2 which I plan/hope to prints as a zine and offer or sale. I am not sure I will be able to get it printed though when the lockdown happens and may need to print it myself here – in which case perhaps as postcards – or some other format; I’ll be seeing what I can order. It’s black and white so the printing is completely doable here by me – colour is a real issue on my Canon that I’ve not yet solved.  I have also looked at a postcard booklet which I could get a printer to do but they are unlikely to be operating. Will have to see what happens over the next few days but I’d like to have it ready fairly soon in any case. See separate following post about the work.
5. Nicola discussed her concern about the first assignment for documentary which requires you to look at community. I recalled this excellent project by John Clang – Being Together and sent it over. Seems this solution will really come into its own now. https://johnclang.com/being-together.
6. Pauline has the same problem – being locked inside but needing to look at community. She showed us two surreal images both of which seemed to connote separateness, being locked out, boundaries both existing and being destroyed, entropy.

It was an excellent day and I look forward to more sessions like this.