virtual student artshow on the virtual university campus

 

5 years ago I had the opportunity to work with Google glasses. I suggested that art students could use this device for curating their artwork for a student degree show. 

The student would select suitable buildings and campus locations to 'pin' their work. Outside walls, inside gallery spaces... anything that could associate the work in a campus-based location allowing anyone to enjoy the work using a suitable VR headset. 

Now more than ever this seems so relevant.

What do you think? Get in touch giraf87projects@goooglemail.com

Lockdown action: Madelvic Wire Works and that dinner

During lockdown, I came across a photograph on the Living Memory Association Facebook page of a large group of Madelvic Wire Works employees - all male - taken at a formal dinner event in 1965. The photo had a cinematographic quality which reminded me of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

For this new video I reused photographs I took a few years of the derelict car factory, as well as video of a mixed media work entitled ‘The Works’ I created last year. I added the new soundscape ‘Husk’ created by musician/composer Harry Bongo with whom I have collaborated on numerous occasions.

The video evokes the eeriness this derelict building represents, grasping the forgotten sounds of workers’ conversations and the drafts blowing through the broken windows and doors, now all boarded up.  

The Madelvic Factory is on the ‘at risk register’ of Buildings in Scotland, and a ‘Listed’ building on the national register.