I come from Warsaw,Poland where for last 7 years I live near Vistula river, the biggest river in Poland.
I added here picture from google where you can see my house/studio.
Living in this place which is only 10minutes drive by car from center of city you feel like in counryside.
Really it was the countryside 10 years ago.
It is interesting to look at world around us from google earth perspective especially when living in places changing instantly like Poland.
Now near the river is 4 line road while just 2 years ago was norrow road and near my house were build many new houses.(they just add new picture to google earth)
I mentioned about the changes and river becouse those subjects will have a lot in common with my new project.
UNFINISHED SPACES
World around us is instantly changing, sometimes we even didn’t notice it.
Unfinished spaces is a working title for series of compositions where the main research questions will be: What we could change around us?
How computer change the real world?
Mainly I would like to explore the impact which computers have for new way of seeing objects.
I would like to divide it into 2 main creative methods:
recreation – composing, multiplying objects in a new contexts
creation – creative not existing objects in 3D programs.
I am interested in idea of seeing the future today and how our imagination and computer can help us in visualization of ideas.(da Vinci – created the idea of plane long before it was possible make it technically.)
I am interested especially in developing of city landscapes (buildings, roads, cars, parks etc.) without gravity limitations.
But still I wouldn’t like my work to be to technical and I would like the viewer to have a feeling when looking at my work will be floating between past, present and future.
The series of work will develop from seeing the impact which time, developing of civilization have on us and world around us especially that sometimes we even don’t notice the changes.
Objectives
Showing the tension between 3 D (future) and reality (past and present)
Rationale
In my work I want to focus of pictures – digital high resolution photographs of London city and my picture library(from different countries) especially when I want to show the stages of development and changes of CITY.
Final work must to have the high-end finishing quality so the viewer had a feeling of seeing the real world (past, future , present)
Outcomes
First of all final show presenting my vision of changes around us.
Hardware: Apple Macintosh G4 + G5
Software: Photoshop, 3 D Studio Max and Cinema 4D
Methodologies
Theory: new media (Manovich , Lunenfeld, Cotton&Olivier),
surrealism (Breton, Freud – irrational subconscious)
Galleries (Tate Britain & Modern, Picture Gallery and many smaller) looking at final artworks but also sketches of artists
Museums (British Museums – to have wider perspective, Museum of London- history of London from prehistoric times)
looking at visualizations (3 D and drawings) showing the past
Movies – special effects, the most sophisticate methods of creating virtual realities
Contexts:
Movie
1. Blade Runner (lighting and using of color)
2. Jurassic Park (first movie with real looking 3 D characters merged into real world)
3. 5th Element ( real and 3D architecture, gravity)
4. Matrix (idea of virtual/real world, gravity)
Paintings
old masters (especially Renaissance painters, perspective)
surrealizm + cubists ( Picasso, Braque, Magritte, Chirico etc)
Photography
the history of montage/collage (bauhaus)
Uelsmann
Szurkowski
and traditional photographers ( Leibowitz , Tomaszewski etc)
Risk assessment
I have to focus in selected pictures and sketches. Creating the final piece is time taking so I have to decide which ideas I will realize.
