Exploring the Digital Culture Festival. (Storify wouldn’t let me upload my own images or connect to my social media so I have used my own images and words here then below I will embed my storify with youtube videos of the festival)
The first body of work we looked at when exploring Frequency Festival was the work of Daz Disley who was showcasing his work within the AAD building on campus. Bloom and Blooms was a project that is composed from thousands of photos of flowers rotating on a turntable, the results fall part-way between the artifice of computer graphics and the reality of the original organic forms.
I found the beauty of minimalism within these photographs as the subject once completed looks very simplistic yet is in fact complex in creation. I liked the sense of unknowing in a few of his images as it can sometimes be hard to see what the original subject was before being manipulated using Slitscan techniques.
Next, I went to explore Lincoln’s Drill Hall basement, where and exhibit called ‘Worldless’ took place.
This exhibit was based around the abandoned Japanese theme park Dreamland. When viewing I didn’t really understand what was going on however I was engrossed within the surroundings and immersed in the movie. But when researching into the film I discovered that it is about imagining a time when everything has fallen in war and has worn away into the universal ash. Here is the video linked below and a few photos I took of the basement that was decorated to project the abandoned theme park into the space used.
Finally I explored up at Lincoln Castle at Apparatus Florius. When talking to the people working there I discovered that the artist creates these geometric light patterns to fit the area that he is using. For example when in the Cobb Hall, the geometric lines are all reasonably close together but when exploring further into his work he has done other, wider spaced work that fills the area in different ways. Taken from Frequency Festival website – ‘Applied to Cobb Hall, the structure symbolizes the instinctive flow of a plant, in search of light to be able to grow and create natural space. It is an invasion of greenery and coloured digitally lighted triangular leaves. The work questions the balance between the human adaptation and digitalization of our natural environment.’
Here are some photos I took of the impressive structure along with another image of the artists (Tom Dekyvere) work in a wider space to fill with these patterns and shapes.
Here is my Storify post I did including some more information about other attractions within the festival and a few YouTube videos of different exhibits around Lincoln.