untitled(connect)-2011

Facebook 2011

IRL

As we record every throwaway detail online in blogs and social networks I decided to record the users of these platforms in a more permanent medium- 35mm film. Moments of instantly forgotten net browsing captured on cellulose.
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Hopefully there will be more where these came from.

UnU

I'm working on an online/irl zine called UuU (Sad Stories From the Internet). I'm currently looking for submissions of text/photography/digital imagery.
The website submission is currently down so email me at loisphht@gmail.com
http://www.unu.org.uk

New Websites

Since I last posted I've been kinda inactive, at least that was until yesterday when I got back to uni and all my creativity hit me at once. Or something.
Anyway I went mad and bought two new domains, check it out! The first is obviously a basic homepage  to link to all my other shisse but the second is my new project which I hope will combine both "new media" and traditional stuff.

For a while I wanted to make something physical but rather than simply design an art book of my stuff I thought why not make a whole new website then publish it. I plan on first printing it zine style then hopefully getting a bound full cover booklet made.

I'm also planning to get some glossy posters of some stuff printed.

I'm excited! Art can't happen quick enough right now. 

Oh, and if anyone knows a simple way to integrate this blog into my main site (as a "news" page) please let me know

Hey how are you?

I always find new year is a massive let down. Lest we forget January 1st is only one "New year" in one of many systems of organised dates, but maybe I'm pissed cos I never get kissed at midnight.

What have I been doing? Sleeping, listening to New Order a lot, playing warcraft, making stuff. Today I went to print out some photos from an exhibition and my printer decides to break. I'm not sure why I should print out everything I do and put it in a sketchbook when it's easily archived online but I don't want to fail now.
(More on that exhibition coming up)

Anyway here is some stuff I have done over the festive period,  make your own connections and meanings etc

Written out the name of every Smiths song in black marker on white A4 paper

Web based installation.

After realising that since I'm paying for it, I should use this space as an artwork in itself rather than a poorly executed online portfolio
GIVE ME THE TURNER PRIZE
So far it's in its early stages, I decided that iWeb wasn't quite enough for what I want to do so I'm blindly fumbling in the dark trying to work dreamweaver. It's going okay so far, I think.
There's something really exciting about coding and ftp uploads, maybe I am autistic after all.

My work irl

Isolation.

Isolating one element of a photograph to become another piece of internet detritus.

a beginning

Die soziale Welt

Der online-Welt

Social World from Lois Hopwood on Vimeo.

The Moving Image

Supposed to be producing a 3-minute video/animation for one of my modules but how can it exist when everything I do is looped?
Perhaps down to the cyclical nature of our lives. We all return to the same point eventually.

I renamed this blog l$d s0unds5tyst3m. It sounds incredibly stupid but maybe that's the point of everything I do. I had an epiphany today, in a few years time will we even need galleries? The internet is the start and finish point for most of what I do. It's almost impossible to reproduce what I'm trying to do in a "real" environment.
Trying to convey a state of mind, digitally. Replicating thought processes with repetitive visual stimuli.


Here is a short video I made with my Movement Image Sound (or movement south vision as my baked mind decided to call it) project in mind. I haven't worked out how to use iVideo or whatever yet so it's pretty basic

Dolphin land from Lois Hopwood on Vimeo.

I want to make music to go with it but working out how to do that along with trying to edit anything to a decent standard is perhaps biting off more than I can chew...

animation

Somewhere in my quest for the ultimate form of low brow digital art I decided to try out some animated gifs. I have produced many of these over recent weeks, most of them merely experimental and un-noteworthy.
Part of what interests me about the Graphics Interchange Format is the range of effects available through compression and colour shifting (at least with CS5).

Alternate reality. 

SORRY

For not posting lately, and you know being a complete failure of a human being or whatever. As time goes on I'm enjoying being a recluse more and more.

I'm working on a number of things. 3D projects, a continuation of my obsession with the banal.



I'm not sure where this is all leading. I planned to print all my work as low-grade prints at the end of the summer and try to exhibit it. I'm not sure this will work with everything but it's the best I've got.
I'm also trying to work on a website. Hopefully the home of my new aesthetic.

All in all I feel utterly unprepared for returning to Uni next month.

STOP trying to plan everything. 
If you have an idea, just do it. 
STOP trying to work to a certain "style".
Just produce as much as possible, regardless of quality.
MODERATE LATER.



Another diptytch. Click to full view (nsfw). I want to do as many of these as possible.

New Diptych

Low production value, minimum amount of production time.
Click to view full size. More soon.

Low Art.

This is my latest work, fuck da police! I'm experimenting with ideas of computer art which is primarily seen as a "low" form of art, despite the fact that most of us use Photoshop these days.
This is called "Attention Span". It's the prototype for more work I hope to do- by saving and re-saving as a compressed image it gains what are known as "artifacts" which in a way adds to the image. I'm appropriating my appropriation, how mind blowing.

. I have some bold ideas. Basically I hope to use this way of working to expand on the notebook worth of anti-social cartoons I considered as research.
Aside from that, I'm interested in poor examples of 3D art, if you have or know of any get in touch.

I've given up on trying to do anything "artistic" for a while, after I realised my whole "tirade against humanity" was rather childish and unfocused. I have a sort of focused idea now, it's in it's infancy because I realised it's best not to get carried away without carrying out some sort of research.
And I fully intend to research, eventually...

I just never get around to anything. Apart from my infrequent job and thrice weekly gym visits, all I seem to do is make playlists of forgotten c86-period indie love songs and post shit on tumblr.

I need to have some sort of life to inspire me, and this isn't it. I'm spending days just staring into space and drawing shitty cartoons, I feel like I'm wasting my summer. I want to have something decent to show when I get back in September.