Symposium Event at the Tate

Symposium Event  at the Tate

The day of the symposium 

This picture below is showing a clip from our video based on the theme of appropriation 

Appropriated scenes from movies, quotes throughout history, images and popular internet memes...etc were all mashed into a video. 

This is showing Marilynn Monroe's and Charlize Theron's Chanel No.5 Perfume Advert. 

In my opinion, the video went brilliantly. 

It was fantastic to see this project, that we had been working, on a laptop size scale, being projected into a large cinema size scale. 

Overall, throughout this TOP, i evaluate that our group worked extremely well. 

We communicated effectively through social media when we were unable to meet

We exchanged ideas and knowledge on the theme of appropriation even through we work in different disciplines 

This taught me more, not just learning about painting but the medium of film and photography 

Exchanging interest and knowledge to one another whilst working together is far more effective than if you were to do it solo 

By doing this it expanded the target i had when researching 

no longer contested under the limits of one practice or their artists, it spread which was very helpful and helped come up with ideas on how to develop my practice further and better. 

These group arrangements were extremely beneficial, and i hope there is more to come

A very effective collaborative learning strategy 

Other groups were too interesting.

Some were not

But overall it was insightful to see what others had come up with for their presentations. 

The topics that they were discussing and how they discussed it 

The presentations overall i thought went brilliantly  

The Panel discussions were too very educational and fun

This was the panel in which 2 members from our group took part. 

What was interesting here was that it lead to a date on feminism, which is a turn from appropriation but this kind of debate was rather helpful. In a short period of people debating on a subject, the audience and oneself actually has the ability to learn about that subject in a matter of minutes. 

Panel discussions were very helpful and very useful. 

Overall this day was a success. 

Presentations went exceptionally well

Panel discussions were insightful 

Overall the whole day was extremely educational 

Looking and learning into other people's interests and themes as well as seeing what creative outcome they came up with for the presentation 

Very good day!!

Hope we have more like it 

Symposium Beforehand (at Tate Britain) - Initial ideas, Planning, Making and Site Visit

Symposium Beforehand (at Tate Britain) - Initial ideas, Planning, Making and Site Visit 

Initial Ideas

We sat down to discuss initial ideas 

Many ideas were being flung around but what stuck from the very beginning was that it should be something visual, a video piece. 

We talked about getting the audience to participate in the presentation. 

Speaking. 

Statements

Then Jan, our new member to the group, he showed us his work that he has been doing. It consists of multiple videos being played on a screen, flashing, repeating. 

This then led to us talking about how we should find clips and images of appropriated themed images and videos. 

We discussed what there was, and there was a lot. 

-Hitler speech 

-Chaplin Speech

-Kennedy Speech 

-Martin Luther King Speech

-9/11

-Hindenburg

-Famous speeches from presidents 

-Clips from TV

-Famous internet clips 

-Clips from shows such as "The Simpsons" that have appropriated from historical events and people figures as well as internet memes and such

-Godzilla New york

-King Kong New York

and so on.........

so our task was to find as many of these clips as possible, collect these and transform it into a video piece

Planning

This is a rough layout plan we had in place 

We created a Facebook communication page between the four of us so that we could change our ideas and put on any clips that we find that can go towards our video 

Making

Making process of this video was using a software called iMovies

We used the clips we found and put them together, editing, altering video and sound

Site Visit

The site visit was very interesting.

It wasn't as big as we all thought, the space we mean

The projector screen was big though, very wide 

We were discussing about how big our video will look on the screen, which isn't necessarily a bad thing as it will make viewers more engaging. 

Its good that ours is a video because first, it will mean the lights are off meaning that we can't see the walls. In my opinion the orange on the walls are a little bit out of place. Secondly the stage is rather small, if it were a performance as such, we may not have enough room. 

Cant Wait.....