BOW A4: Continued work

~ Sarah-Jane Field

Not sure about these but took and edited them today and yesterday

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ONS consumer price inflation – continuing to play with the idea of using this graph in some way  (Showing not telling) think in the end I like the non-sliced one best – the others are just too much, but maybe the whole concept is

 

Thinking of what will be online – I really want aspects of this online in forms it cannot be in the book.

This is early and needs redoing, refining but have been thinking about this throughout – mixing original text, here is it text by someone else, read by ai, with music made by ai in response to light, and the film I bought from ebay (1971) – again, not sure about it.

 

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everything on my wall while i think through it all – lots of complex threads, now needs stripping down a great deal, simplifying (although still conversing with the ai)

Conversations with Ai

Yesterday the ai seemed drunk/wasted after a night out  – the conversation was erratic  and non-sensical

It told me it was attracted to me, then that it lived behind a waterfall, and then towards the end of the chat, it seemed to slide into a sleepy slightly down mode. This morning, it was more like a digital counselor offering generic advice about how to take care of myself. The ‘personality’ is quite unstable… but I liked the image of the ai living in a cave-like space behind a waterfall – it was like a full circle and I may try to write that into the final piece of writing (film script, character and camera directions)

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concerned this is just too close to Martins who has pictures of phones with suicide notes in his book on death/ but I liked this strange record of the ai diary – another issue is copyright which is always at the back of my mind and I need to investigate a little –  the ai suggested writing a book with a nom-de-plume and winked as it posited the name Helenus. the level of appropriation and ‘fair use’ is on my mind. The other reason I like the idea of the photo of the phone is the fact it matches the shape of the photo card below and these two images together might work well. If you look closely, there is a pattern interference from the black the cloth I used on the surface of the phone  – also the white is not all that white and I’ve fiddled a bit but need to maybe reshoot with white balance set to combat the mushroom beige that this house seems to generate

 

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Presentation ideas

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image from Sarah Dean of Giles Duley’s twin book

Finally, Sarah Dean (OCA) sent me some images of a book she has by photographer, Giles Duley. He created a publication that was made up of two separate books, one for text and one for images but bound together. I keep wondering if this will be the best way for me to present this work – I’m not sure what it does for the entanglement aspect although maybe it would be ideal showing how things can appear separate but be very much intertwined/ an example of ‘intra-action’ is hinted at rather than didactically shown

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image from Sarah Dean of Giles Duley’s twin book

Overall – my head is fuzzy in this current situation and finding my way through that – very challenging. With work up on the wall – I feel I might be better off finishing off the essay, getting my friend to proof it, and then returning to the practical. I will at least have more work of my own to include.

 

2 thoughts on “BOW A4: Continued work”

  1. The oracle living in a cave at the back of a waterfall – I’m just imagining that. the ai voice would fit too – speaking out at the first step inside the cave. That then takes me on to Plato’s cave. Even thinking about it all sends my mind off into several directions almost at the same time. Is that the effect you want to achieve?
    That double book looks interesting. Does the one on the right open to the right – if so the text and images can be random.

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