The Full Story
Processing a love story
My final project will consist of visuals created with Photoshop and Processing that will be cohesively assembled, printed, and transformed into a book. The book will then be the centrepiece of an audio-visual experience involving the entire class.
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The book content will attempt to portray the fundamental characteristic of art as possessing undivided and unconditional love for another. Told through visual communication, the story will display a love story that will be intercut with written language.
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The book will have 18 unique content pages (plus a front and back cover) of images created specifically for this project. The book will convey an artistic manifesto in the form applying Aristotle’s notion of storytelling coined in Poetics that states that every story must possess a beginning, middle, and end. However, in the concluding audio-visual experience, this classic flow of storytelling may be disrupted.
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The project presentation will take place in the barn on the S2 floor. In the barn there will be installed a Sony xr100 Handycam on a tripod, a zoom microphone, and an H1n recorder plugged into speakers that will be placed the in far corners of the barn. In the middle of the barn there will be a podium placed where the printed and bound book will lay.
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I will begin the presentation by providing a very brief overview of the project and then demonstrating reading the book into the microphone; my reading will be projected through the speakers and visually documented by the Handycam. Then, each class member will take turns entering the barn alone, closing the doors, and reading one page of the book. However, rather than following the order of the bound pages, each individual will select a page that most appeals to them and reading that page into the microphone (if no page appeals to them more than the others, they will select a page randomly.) This will thus create a completely unpredictable sequence and pattern, different to how the book was originally intended to be read and communicated.
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This spatial-temporal performance and experience will disrupt the original communication and will typically be different each time it is executed, depending on the audience/participants and their individual preferences. A question that can be asked of the audience/participants is how the newly created sequence compares in meaning and emotion to the original sequence that follows Aristotle’s rule.
