During this artist talk I presented the work Self Expanded which is going to be on display at the Mozilla Festival 2016, Ravensbourne College, London.
The series Self-Expanded uses #selfie pictures from Instagram to reflect on the commodification of the self through technology development and the networked image. The images are digitally projected onto expanded metal meshes and printed with the nineteenth century technique of wet collodion to create unique objects from ephemeral portraits. The expanded metal meshes physically represent the online nets in which digital images are developed and consumed.
September has been a quite busy month with two wet plate collodion workshops at the National Portrait Gallery in London as well as a two days course on alternative processes at the University of the Arts London. I have also joined the London Creative Network at Four Corners Gallery and prepared for future exciting projects!
Images of the workshop were taken by Andres Pantoja.
I dedicated the month of August to produce and deliver the pieces and workshops that were sold through the ticket to Tokyo campaign. This crowdfunding project aimed to raise £900 to help me to work with the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo in alternative photography related projects. This was an opportunity for me to expand my network and connect with the alternative photography community in Japan. There were many cost involved such as travel, accommodation, subsistence and materials and the museum funded many of them but I needed to complement their budget. At the end of the campaign £1,690 were raised of £900 (initial target) from 26 backers.
I have been commissioned by the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo (Japan) to deliver a series of cameraless photography workshops for their family programme. The workshops were designed as experimental gallery session in which the participants were introduced to the work of Julia Margaret Cameron and to a range of early photographic processes. After exploring the exhibition, workshop participants created their own prints using the cyanotype process.
Fantasy High Street & Team London Bridge commissioned me to produce a site specific outdoors installation responding to the theme Revealed, the piece needed to integrate nature within a urban environment.
Photogramming Nature is an interaction between photography and nature, a home for silhouettes and beautiful flower, plant and leaf outlines. Created using the early photographic cyanotype process, the silhouettes are recorded directly on the greenhouse panels through contact printing and exposure to natural UV light.
The piece was installed in Potters Field Park for the launch of Revealed Festival and it is now permanently installed in White Grounds, London Bridge.
Credit: Jonathon Vines
Image credits: Jonathon Vines & Marcelo Deguchi
