Final outcome
where is the utopia i was promised?
FILM*
PUBLICATION:
INTERACTIVE PUBLICATION OPTION:
INTERACTIVE OPTION FOR PUBLICATION
PRESENTATION:
These images show multiple options for the presentation of the work:
1: Lo-Fi Projection of film
2: Lo-Fi Projection of book (Audience will flick through using a laptop)
3: Film streaming among multiple tabs. (In this presentation I would allow the audience to add to a Padlet to add their thoughts, memories, anecdotes to surrender the work over the audience as this work has been artist-oriented until now)
4-5: Normal streaming of film (Lights on/off)
6: Published Book
Work in action:
This piece, used for the front cover of the publication, was also featured in Oddball Space’s A4 exhibition. It was installed, in Digbeth as a poster, by Jacob Carter et al. I was interviewed by Jacob about the piece as a highlight for the exhibition.
*Credit:
Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport, Teletubbies, Nursery Rhymes, 1998 (VHS)
Anthony Rizzo, Duck and Cover, 1952
BBC One, 24 News, September 11th 2001 (various British news coverage of 9/11)
Dave Fleischer, Betty Boop’s Big Boss, 1933
Dr. Saul Dushman, Dr. Roman Smoluchowski, Dr. David Harker, The Principles of Electricity, 1945
Elizabeth Meriwether, New Girl, 2011-2018
Harry O. Hoyt, The Lost World, 1925
Jam Handy Organisation, Reel American Wonderful World, 1959 https://archive.org/details/CSPAN3_20201126_210200_Reel_America_Wonderful_World_-_1959
James Cameron, Titantic, 1997
Matt Groenig, The Simpsons Shorts, on The Tracey Ullman Show, 1987 – 1989 (various used)
NASA, various gifs.
Otmar Gutmann and Erika Brueggemann, Pingu, 1990-1991
Roland Emmerich, 2012, 2009
Roland Emmerich, Day After Tomorrow, 2004
Various VHS collection tapes used of American media
Will Brenton and Iain Lauchlan, The Tweenies, Grumpy Max, April 9 2000
Many of these texts are not from the era of 2001-2012 to reference the influence of previous generations of childhood and most children will not grow up consuming only the media of their time.
Mads Washbrook 