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Simulacra

Posted by Dickie Webb on Sunday, November 27, 2011, In : ECA 
I am currently writing an essay for college which is looking into the innovative ways various art practices use virtual performances within their work.  One group/collective called Igloo are of interest with regards to my interest and use of space.  In an interview with Igloo they refer to the word Simulacra, which is an idea or concept that nothing is real.  Its worth mentioning this is post modern idea as it describes the world we experience as a series of interlocking illusions, with the m...
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ROLU Blog Post

Posted by Dickie Webb on Sunday, October 9, 2011, In : ECA 
I just read these two quotes on Rolu Blog

"art is what we do. culture is what's done to us." carl andré ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "if art is what we do and culture is what's done to us - what could culture do to us if art is what we didn't do?" keith arnatt


It made me think.
As yet I have no answers. 

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Edinburgh Return, New Studio and New Motivations....

Posted by Dickie Webb on Monday, September 26, 2011, In : ECA 
Contemplating buying a clocking in machine to monitor studio work mmmm will see...




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Los Angeles Rosslyn Rooftop Hotel Sign

Posted by Dickie Webb on Thursday, April 28, 2011, In : ECA 
Up close and personal with the now famous Rosslyn Hotel Rooftop sign.  Palladium Boots short video visits the site and gives us an idea of the size and significance of one of these rooftop signs.

Click here



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25 years ago Chernobyl and now Fukushima...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, In : ECA 
Donald Weber explores these to disasters through the lens.  His approach and reasons for visiting Chernobyl and now Fukushima.  

Click here to watch..
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Reflecting on past print work...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Monday, April 4, 2011, In : ECA 
Looking back at my billboard prints done in early 2010 which was when I started thinking about what these structures present to us..

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Corine Silva

Posted by Dickie Webb on Monday, April 4, 2011, In : ECA 



Imported landscapes by Corine Silva.  http://corinnesilva.com/

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Berlin Day 4...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Sunday, March 20, 2011, In : ECA 
Day 4 in Berlin and I headed to see some of the exhibitions that were a plenty.. Firstly checking in at the Deutsche Guggenheim to see Agathe Snow - All Access World show.  This took a while to get into as by its very nature was overloading.. The vast walls covered in collages and the floor filled with movable statues or monuments, once you started to interact with the pieces it seemed to become less intense and easier to digest..  Here are a couple of photos..









Here is a link to the Guggenheim...
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Berlin Day 3... Swimming dry...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Saturday, March 19, 2011, In : ECA 
Visited Stattbad Galerie today.. Miss understanding lead to me getting locked into their gallery space.. not a bad place to be locked in as it is a disused swimming pool which made for great photo opportunity.. Shame that I did not get to see an exhibition in the space as I can only imagine how good this would work..  

 




Other than that I checked out studio spaces and galleries around Berlin.. Reynold Reynolds work Secrets Trilogy... Worth having a look as he has a special way with film making ...
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Berlin Day 2.... casual trespassing and open airports..

Posted by Dickie Webb on Thursday, March 17, 2011, In : ECA 
Today has been eventful after taking advice to visit an old listening station of the Americans called Teufelsberg.. The place is deserted and covered in graffiti, it has an end of the world air about the place with everything destroyed.  Access was by a small hole in one of the fences then just a case of carefully finding your way through the run down buildings and wreckage that lies everywhere...

Later in the day I also checked Turmkunst which is a building taken over by some street artists w...
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5 Days in Berlin.... Day 1...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Monday, March 14, 2011, In : ECA 
Arrived mid afternoon and by the time I was settled it was early eve.. Set out to get lost in the city which is not hard considering the size of Berlin.. Great evening seeing some of the sights and taking some night photos... Here are a couple of tasty ones..







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Sau Paulo to Berlin..

Posted by Dickie Webb on Sunday, March 6, 2011, In : ECA 


 It was about this time last year that I stumbled across this site about Sau Paulo and how the governor there is cleaning up the city and has taken drastic measures to do so.  He has removed all advertising from the city which as you can see from yourself in this link has had a dramatic effect of the feel to the city, I can only imagine how it must feel.

http://weburbanist.com/2010/03/06/clean-city-sao-paulo-scrubbed-of-outdoor-ads/

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Sign artists...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Monday, February 28, 2011, In : ECA 
I was introduced to artist Matt Siber a couple of days ago, with his work highlighting our saturation with advertising and isolating the information we are fed.  His works are really quite inquisitive and make you look back and forth as to what is actually being shown in our everyday lives. 

 

Here is a link to his website: http://siberart.com/

Also checkout bill boards and sign work by artist Mark Titchner that works a long similar lines I am currently investigating..
http://www.marktitchnerstud...
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Videos of interest...[black cube room]

Posted by Dickie Webb on Wednesday, January 19, 2011, In : ECA 
Paul Sharits, "Shutter Interface," 1975
 

 
  
Ernie Gehr - Serene Velocity (1970)
    

  iamblichi - sense from nonsense
 
  
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Music video which plays with similar imagery..

Posted by Dickie Webb on Wednesday, January 19, 2011, In : ECA 

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Space as a metaphor...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Wednesday, January 19, 2011, In : ECA 
The search for space is not the end.. 
The space I find is there just hidden..
Once one believes its there you are already halfway there..
However space is a metaphor....

Belief of existence opens doors to greater change.

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Circles and Squares

Posted by Dickie Webb on Wednesday, December 8, 2010, In : ECA 


 
Kazimir Malevich



Kazimir Malevich
 
 

 
Gillian Carnegie




Richard Serra

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Lost within space..

Posted by Dickie Webb on Saturday, November 20, 2010, In : ECA 
My discoveries and experiments within the last month have continued.  From these ideas and findings I have started to realise how my work looks at the idea of potential or possible potential.  On understanding what where or how much potential might lie within or exist I explore ways in which this potential can be manipulated or released.... 

Currently lots of avenues are being explored and new potentials being adopted.. 

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Next step voids and melts...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, In : ECA 
So looking at my results from these experiments I have started to bring elements together.  With the voids I am now looking to see if I can get the similar effects I have seen in the melts.  hence I am now experimenting with bleach and its common use for removing colour.  So continuing with the square paper but now creating the voids similar to the xerox paper but this time letting the medium eat away at the space whilst creating a new space.




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Void Expansion...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, In : ECA 
Whilst using the xerox paper I started thinking on how I could reverse the process, so instead of taking the ink of the paper rather trying to re-apply the ink back to the paper... Here I have used graphite and polish on paper and tracing paper to see how this transfer could work.  I was really trying to re-create some of the effects I had made in the xerox voids whilst also seeing how the new mediums could work..

            

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Xerox Process..

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, In : ECA 
This process of working with the xerox paper and its qualities and flaws allowed me to keep on discovering new ways in which to expand these ideas..  He are some drawings developed from the voids..

    

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Void Xerox..

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, In : ECA 
On duplicating my original drawings it gave me thoughts as to the use of the xerox paper.  The dusty texture it creates when scraped was similar to the dust I felt you would find within a space you could not see or access.  If you did access it would be dust that would aid the claustrophobic feeling and with its choking qualities.  I decided to use the paper and manually create duplicates through using the same size and shape piece of paper.. This in turn was the square which has been a const...
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Melting Escape...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, In : ECA 
My experiments and development of the escaping space have produced some intriguing shapes and forms.  I have played with different contents of the frozen spaces, including salt and liquid acrylic as well as ink and water.  The effects have been quite different with the salt leaving crystals as the ink and water has evaporated and the solutions that have contained more acrylic have bled less than those with more ink content.  Some of the melts have sat and left a solid shape exactly where the ...
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Space Escape..

Posted by Dickie Webb on Friday, October 29, 2010, In : ECA 


First one of a series....

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Space release...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Thursday, October 21, 2010, In : ECA 
      

Results of the inner space running out.. It's weird to see how if made its own path and sat on the paper the way it did for thirty hours.  The results seem to work so I am planning on working with this idea in further experiments.

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Free inner space..

Posted by Dickie Webb on Wednesday, October 20, 2010, In : ECA 
      

While updating my blog with these photos the inner space was continually melting and leaving its mark on the paper beneath.  I have no control over this piece and how it unfolds.  I will see in the morning as to how it finally is free.

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In and Outer Space...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Wednesday, October 20, 2010, In : ECA 
  

These two forms were once one and once apart they change and operate differently.  The outer shell needs and require the inner space to be there to support and consume the space within.  The inner form needs the outer space to maintain its form, without who knows how the inner space will survive and whether it is fair or safe to let this space be released.

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Current Cube Experiments: Space within Space..

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, In : ECA 
  

These acetate cubes have been filled with water and frozen.  The idea is to now let the inner space escape and leave its mark to see its full potential if it is not contained.  I have also frozen cubes like these now with ink.  I will post the results as and when.

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Crit..

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, In : ECA 
   

The critique was really interesting with other students all showing work from their drawing residencies.  The work covered all approaches with work in sound, video photo, performance and of course drawing. 

My two pieces caused discussion in a few ways firstly my choice to attach the drawings to the wall using black electrical tape and secondly whether they were a pair or not.

The tape happened due to a 50/50 decision as it was either drawing pins or tape.. The pins bent when I tried to put ...
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3D to 2D forms.

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, In : ECA 
The 3D cubes I had made I thought worked well representing the balance or not so between inner and outer space.  I thought it would be good to return these to 2D format and work with them from there..
 
          

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Inner Cube..

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, In : ECA 
Cube inside the greater elevator cube inside the main building cube inside the city cube inside the country cube inside the continent cube inside the hemisphere cube inside the world cube the atmosphere the solar system and galaxy.  

What about the reverse?



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Paternal Cubes:

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, In : ECA 
    

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Space from 2D to 3D...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, In : ECA 
The drawings spawned ideas of the inner space escaping the outer space.  Whilst also there was a dialogue about how the outer space try's to control the inner space kinda like a teenager and parents.  So I thought it might be worth seeing how a 3D form could represent this paternal idea whilst still keeping elements of drawing:

      

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Drawings Continued...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, In : ECA 
      

These drawings are all done using a combination of graphite, marker, charcoal and xerox.
As I do not know where the end is or for that matter the start these drawings keep on evolving, the use of the xerox machine is to create multiples without using a computer.  This allows for reference points to go different directions even though they share the same starting point.

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More Drawings From The Inside...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, In : ECA 
  

These drawings were done using graphite, bic biro and xerox...
 

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House of Leaves. Mark Z.Danielewski

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, In : ECA 


This novel by Mark Z.Danielewski is a book that I read about eight years ago.  I am not one for reading much however this book kept me reading from start to finish with little or no effort.  My current residency made me revisit this book and think about one of the three stories that runs through the book.  The story of a photo journalist and his family moving into a house that on the outside is normal just like any other houses built of its time.  However the story unravels when members of th...
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Space within space.

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, In : ECA 
 
Initial drawings of inner spaces being bigger than those that surround..  I am trying to draw something that I cannot see and in some ways does not exist, however by the same reason is there and is ever present.  The idea of the outside looking in and inside looking out and how the eyes try to adjust to comprehend.  Then the next step is for the brain to then accept that this space may be there and this opens the door to what is in there or what could be in there... Adventure, escape, knowle...
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From within... Inside looking out...

Posted by Dickie Webb on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, In : ECA 
The lift itself is functional and all the information on the inside reflects its purpose... Stripped back, basic function...

Three floors:

Basement
Ground 
1st

Number of persons: 21
Weight: 1598 kg

Doors Open

Alarm Bell

One Fluorescent Light

One Emergency Light

I hear the phrase, 'move along nothing to see here....' 
However maybe it is the space itself and what it can contain that I should be looking at:

The space alone says it can handle 21 people however on just looking alone you can see the space is n...
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ECA Drawing Residency: Sculpture Court Elevator.

Posted by Dickie Webb on Monday, October 18, 2010, In : ECA 


Functional Elevator shaft hidden away in the corner of the sculpture court in the main building at the Edinburgh College of Art.  I have chosen this site for my residency due to its purpose and function within the college.  It is not designed for looks or to enhance the building rather more to work behind the scenes and allow the three levels it serves to operate and function purposefully.
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