Inspiration of the Week - Graham Grafx

Graham Grafx (Graham Smith) is an artist who mostly works in forms of digital media. The project of his that I am most interested in in terms of my latest project is "Digital Painting: Social Network".

In this he went around all of the friends he had on facebook and took their pulse and also a souvenir.

He used the information from their pulse to create this digital form of painting where each of his friends is represented by a 'lightening bug' which blinks at the same rate of their pulse.

In my work I want to investigate people on social media and ho they try to be noticed.

I like this piece as it is a new way to investigate portraiture and is also interesting in the fact the the source of this is digital and social media, where the most prominent and obvious form of portraiture and representation is the "selfie".

What I also like about this project is that normally people are represented by a digital image of themselves, whereas here we get to see all of the artists friends represented by something real and tangible. 

NB - all photographs here have been taken from the artists site:

http://grahamgrafx.com/
http://grahamgrafx.com/digitalpainting.php

I do not own any of the pictures on this post.


Until next time
byyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Róisín -x

Inspiration of the Week - Jim Shaw

Jim Shaw is an American artist who normally works in both painting and installation

His exhibition here deals with multiple issues and different types of imagery, mostly inspired by his childhood home of Michigan. 

What I am looking at here is not so much the imagery or themes, but more looking at how the artist has displayed his work.

One of the biggest question marks that exists in my next project is how I am going to display my final piece as it is more of a documentary style project. 

I really like this particular area here and think that this has given me the most inspiration.

I think that having images suspended from the ceiling and also on the wall would add a form of narrative to my work and make people more interested in going to see it.

NB - all photographs here have been taken from these sites:

http://www.metropicturesgallery.com/artists/jim-shaw/
http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/jim-shaw-the-end-is-here
http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/jim-shaw-the-end-is-here-review-new-museum-new-york

I do not own any of the pictures on this post.


Until next time
byyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Róisín -x