Peter Forde

Warp VJ Mix

2007-11-21T08:00:00.000-08:00

My Work at The Final Show

2006-07-10T16:08:00.000-07:00

Ahhh it arrived... First of all I had many difficulties with adjusting my work to the dynamics of a new environment but after a while I sorted it. The two works are a success in my eyes. The microwave piece is a development from the heartbeat detector piece I planned but I feel it is still on the same level. It is a performance piece, a microwave performance.

Alterations

2006-06-28T20:25:00.000-07:00

Someone has cut out the insides of my frames and added a little cartoon inside. At a distance I was raging that someone had vandalized my vandalism but then I found it to be a collaboration. Thanks......

Domestic Frames Done

2006-06-25T23:51:00.000-07:00

I have completed the series of stencils onto wall paper. The next step is to paste them up.

These were pasted up on Cremer St., east London on a beautiful white wall. this has given me the idea to keep it just to white walls as if they were gallery space. Maybe a CCTV stencil on top could be great.

Cellular Photo

2006-06-11T04:11:00.000-07:00

At last I got around to shooting this series of photographs. The idea would be to present this in a cement/concrete frame but I don't know if this is possible at this time of year.
If you can't tell, it is a photo for every block of the flats and so spliting them up into their own cellular frame in the form of a single camera shot.

From Hell

2006-05-21T07:19:00.000-07:00

I have another performance with my PerformanceCompany friends at the CSM site at Back Hill beside Faringdon tube station. THursday 25th May. Seems to be at 5. May need to book tickets, I'll find out the info....... I think it's going to be a great performance and I am confident in the strengths of the whole crew.....

Thermal Flyers

2006-05-18T05:06:00.000-07:00

I will print up this flyer, when improved, and hand it out in Oxford St / Shopping district. again highlights the beauty of life. It also works to advertise this beauty without selling a product..... Maybe I could do giant LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL posters... Actually I will and post them in billboard spaces. B&W with maybe some red would have that contrast of a beautiful statement and hardcore typeface......

Heartbeat Counter

2006-05-18T04:54:00.000-07:00

I have set up the Bonk piece to create a bang on every heartbeat. This then triggers the time code to move on.... Hmmmm interesting but check this out. When your heartbeat reaches a certain tempo this triggers video in the background that is triggered on and off still by the heartbeats........ Jyyyyeah
This is developed to maybe be used in our Edinburgh Fringe Festival show...

Thermal Begger

2006-05-18T04:51:00.000-07:00

This character will be pasted up in Shoreditch where people coming and going from the place can see it. It highlights the life pumping through everyones body. Not to take life in yourself and in others for granted. Life is beautiful....

Alive in Stereo

2006-04-27T06:45:00.000-07:00

I have created another patch that uses webcams to overlap the image creating a stereoscopic image that can be perceived as 3D with special glasses. It also tracks the subject in the room, the closer they go to the right speaker the volume goes to the left, the more they go to the left it pans to the right.
It tries to bring the subject into the piece to highlight distance between reality and a work of art. They arreal in this perceptual trick.
The meaning of the piece is spoken as audio and as it pans away from the subject it prevents them from finding out the official meaning.

This has been a bit dodgy as there is a nasty scrubbing sound when the volume goes up or down. I have limited this by changing the process of volume..... could be a bit better if the hid_smooth piece worked for me.....

Private View

2006-04-27T06:40:00.000-07:00

I have created a frame stencil that can be sprayed onto wallpaper. This can then be cut out and pasted onto walls. Watch this space for the results......

Assesment of Graph

2006-04-06T01:57:00.000-07:00

For the assesment I performed Grpah to Andy and Maria. I found this to give me more confidence in a performance I was not too content with. Still some of the imagery needs to be stronger and my writing style needs to be cleaner and more graffitiesque.
I also saw new layers in that the gallery goers seem to be behind a cage in the end. Similar to the cages of our own homes. Maria suggested not to knock on the door which I accept but I waas aware that when done infront of an audience this got a good laugh and so I must question this. Audience enjoyment and intreeging involvement or artistic integrity?

Virtual Scratch

2006-04-03T08:03:00.000-07:00

I have created a turntable like instrument that uses two webcams as controlers. One controls the record and the other controls the fader. It caused many problems at first and typical of PD took for ever to solve. It needs more work but should sound good.
Propper geek stuff.....

Mutha suckas at www.v-scratch.net has created this serious piece that I love.... Grrrrrrr / Wooooow

Endometaphysics

2006-04-03T08:00:00.000-07:00

Endophysics studys how the observations are affected and limited by the observer being within the universe. Endometaphysics studys the mental state the observer is in when realising they are an observer within the universe of a work of art.

RUN BABY RUN @ Whitechapel Gallery

2006-03-22T03:21:00.000-08:00

I met up with a bunch of loonatics called the Washroom Projects throuhg the Performance Company I have been working with. Directed by Jay Rechsteiner we put on an audience interactive performance with a projection and some soundscapes. This took place at the The Wormhole Saloon 2 on the 17th March at the Whitechapel Gallery.
Although being nervous about the improvisational aspect of the work and the prestigue of the stage I found the rest of the evenings lack of happenings to make it boring and thus anything we did would be exciting. This was true but all in all it was not the greatest success. The audience reaction was mixed. Mad and weird but very unprofesional and studenty.
This is the last project held by the Washroom Projects and I am happy to have been involved in an event at Whitechapel and aslo to realise that improvisational work is not exactly my bag.
http://www.jayrechsteiner.com/twp/run_baby_run.htm

Origami Payslips

2006-03-15T06:12:00.000-08:00

Artists who have changed their art economy from Sole Traders into PLCs. Must make their moneys public. If I can source these and print them out I can make origami sculptures of the documents to comment on this development from art to commodity.

AmbientTV.net

2006-03-15T06:07:00.000-08:00

List of Television related art works.
Orchestra of Anxiety is a performance using materials of surveilance systems. A harp made from barbed wire and projections and audio of guard dogs.
I emailed these guys and they said they would be happy to involve me in future work when they return from their travels.....Sound

CMTV

2006-03-10T04:17:00.000-08:00

This is the title I will use for my CCTV related work. Closed Circuit Television becomes Closed Minded Television. This hints at the controling nature of television and the gallery system. It also refers to GMTV, and suggests about the everyday influence of TV in our lives. I do believe it is a bit negative. The work is supposed to act as a comment on culture and not an attack.
The performance piece will have two musicians. One singing Hank Marvins Heartbeat ( used by ITV for the TV show) the other will play Tony Heart's Heartbeat (kids TV artshow). The violinist will play into a mic in a dummy CCTV camera to trigger video footage of a gallery surveilance system and the signger will sing into a mic in a TV remote control to trigger video off of TV. The song refers to the nature of human life, the organic creature and the mathematical dictations of life. The geometric nature and institute of art education and the gallery compared with the beauty of innocent creation. Both shown in mediums of mass consumption, the TV and the computer screen.
This is art. Art is on the wall. Spot goes to art. Spot is happy...

Gridio

2006-02-27T02:09:00.000-08:00

Nice piece by Coldcut and Headspace.
check out www.gridio.com

PD Breakthrough

2006-02-27T01:56:00.000-08:00

Finaly I have gotten past that intensly agrivating point of trying to find yourself in a maze and I have just completed a fairly descent patch. THis patch plays the three video pieces continuosly but switches between them when triggered by different pitch frequencies by the microphone.

La France

2006-02-20T05:10:00.000-08:00

I just came back from a trip to Paris and made an effort to see some gallerys and street art but latogether was a bit disapointed. From looking at the ekosystem website I was under the impression that good artistic graffiti was prevalent in Paris but accodring to Alex One, Parisian artist it was stopped 10 years ago and any work is cleaned off immediately by the mayor, known as Notre Dame. This leaves graffiti to exist in the coffee table mannor of the gallery and pushes the real artists into the suburbs and out of the culture of the city.

The Content of My Head is Visable @ Espace Beaurpaire
As said, coffee table fashion hype graff on canvas some interesting stuff but mostly conformities to gallery art and graffiti, leaving the work with no particular purpose just a mix of two branding styles.

Permanent Collection @ Musee Du Arte Modorne
As it says on the tin. A great collection of modern greats to contemporary inginuity. Similar in style, but more contemporary and French, to the collection at Tate Modern.

Notre-Histoire @ Palais de Tokyo
Very pop, very big, very much like the fluffy popier version of the YBA movement. Large works, witty, pointless, cute, nice. Not too impressed but worth seeing.

Excerpt from Straw Dogs

2006-02-06T04:53:00.000-08:00

Very inspirational piece that talks about the unity of a system....

Gilbert & George Vs JR

2006-02-06T02:33:00.000-08:00

I went to the G&G opening at the White Cube gallery with Luisa. It was probably the most horrable piece of work I have ever seen and proved to me even further about work created solely as a comodity.
On the other hand just around the corner there is an exhibition by JR a French photographer. I was a fan of him already and een more now. He takes photographs of street artists and of the suburban French ghettos. These images are blown up on an architects printer ( as he old me himself ) and wallpaper pasted onto walls. Some big billboard sizes. Influences me to get photos printed the size of billboards and paste onto them. Take pictures of people on the streets and put them up......

www.jr-art.net

Pitch to Visuals

2006-01-31T06:00:00.000-08:00

I want to create an interactive video instalation. If I can get a microphone to pick up the voice of the audience get a programme to decipher the pitch to give a midi output I can then trigger visuals in arkaos, VJ software. I am having problems finding a free pitch to midi VST but I have it almost otherwise set up. I have dropped the latency as much as possable in Cubase and so itsshould run smoothly......
I would like to use a fake CCTV camera as the shell of the mic and allow the images off CCTV footage of that gallery space or of the Tate CCTV footage to be projected or appear on TV. Music is a product of culture yet art claims to be high culture. When someone feels the fear of the gallery space and CCTV they will be reluctant to sing but it is only in their singing can they enjoy the piece.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006-01-31T05:50:00.000-08:00

BOOKS

Banksy, Wall and Piece.

Batty, M. & Longley, P Fractal Cities

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Becker, H.S. Art Worlds

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GRAPH at Human - Being - Human 2

2006-01-31T05:26:00.000-08:00

On the 29/1/06 The Performance Company of UAL put on another performance art show at Nolia's Gallery on the Old Kent Road. Here I show my old work Cellular and a new work Graph. Graph entails a projection onto a sheet of paper hanging on the wall. I draw on the paper around the projection and do minimum performance. The basic ideas are the same. Gallery and residentail flat control. Here the aesthetic nature of the frame is compared to the aesthetics of appartment gates. Gates create a lack of communication between the public but attempt to hide this by trying to be ornate. I feel the same for the gallery frame. This piece also relates to how graffiti has been brought into the gallery and the artmarket.

Antenna

2006-01-16T04:52:00.000-08:00

I have just sent off a copy of my music video to Antenna www.antennapromo.co.uk where hopefully it may get shown at the NFT on the 23rd February. Fingers crossed but no breath held.

SATISFACTION

2005-12-07T01:42:00.000-08:00

Although I am pushing on a bit more now I still feel I have a lot more to offer. I feel some of my wok is under par and some of my ideas are too cliche or simply straight from research. I am happy with the performance event and I am looking forward to the next one on 29th January. This event really pushed me on to finishing a piece of work. I need more results on a weekly basis. I like to feel pressure, it keeps me motivated......

FURTHER CELL

2005-12-07T01:34:00.000-08:00

All live together within areas. This image does suggest more hierarchy....

ARTISTS

2005-12-07T01:26:00.000-08:00

Kelly Mark
50 TVs all tuned to the same chanel in one suburban home giving an alien like glimmer at night. Would be a beautiful and disturbing image.Would love to see it in real life. Public art yet private residency....

Banksy

Taking the piss out of traditional art. Paintings in ornate frames

KATIE DEEPWELL LECTURE

2005-12-07T00:59:00.000-08:00

I found how Katie described the different art publicaions very interesting. She described how the art audience is broken up into seperate groups. Frieze has it's own agenda, such as the promotion of all the galleries it presents in its art fair. But there is no media monopoly in the art journal market.

24 HOUR DRAMA

2005-12-05T03:29:00.000-08:00

The Performance Company stayed in The Ivy House pub by Holborne Tube station from 8 pm on Friday the 2nd December until 8 pm Saterday the 3rd and we then performed a piece of work together in front of an audience. I worked with Mia who performed a piece with Peter Bond at Nolia's Gallery for our other event. We stuck mouths o our bellys and talked as if we were two random people meetin in a pub. While talking absolute crap in a way of trying to convince the other of your coolness and therefore sexual hierarchy we got closer as if we were excited by the subject. We then became perverse in how we described the subject. We then immediately fell back into bullshit chat. It releated to sexual exhaustion of meeting people without actually getting to know them.
Great experience
Another Nolia's Gallery Event has been arranged for Sunday 29th January.

NEWSPAPERS

2005-12-02T05:02:00.000-08:00

Scanned in Metro cover and changed the name. Still need to work on the articles.

TELOVISION DOCUMENTATION

2005-12-02T04:58:00.000-08:00

Performed at Nolia's Gallery. 24th November 2005 as part of Human-Being-Human a live art platform.

TELOVISION

2005-12-02T03:57:00.000-08:00

This is a performance\video piece that I will perform again on Wednsday at 11.
I have already performed it at a live art event which is further described in my proposal. Here is image documentation of the piece and I will talk through all the different parts. PLEASE VIEW THE PIECE FIRST AND THEN READ THIS FOR CLARIFICATION.

Opens with television giving the orders. Demonstrates control.
Screen shows white noise-style agitation and then a flicering light. Suggests an interest in light buy the individual. People always zone towrds screens because they are bright no matter what is going on around them.

Cooking programmes are popular with famous characters such as Jamie Oliver. Here I begin to focus on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Physiological....hunger

Bass frequencies remind us of the womb from their warm vibrations. Mother as the person who traditionaly stayed at home and watched television with the children. A comfortable and loving person.

Father, the authorative character who teaches you by understanding the difficulties of this world.

Maslows theory of safety and security comes next. This is used in a controlling method by instilling fear and convincing people to stay inside and consume more.
From the atomic bomb information packet given to kids "duck and cover" I have taken out all the other words to leave only Duck or Cover. The constant repetition shows a brainwash style.

As the man on TV transends through advertising to art the bomb becomes beautifull. Like the shock value advertising style of the YBAs the Union Jack is Shown to highlight the B part of YBA. A sense of nationality was given to these artists improving their support. A sense of community.

This sense of nationalism is increased as the news speaks on a totaly national level. The sense of community is given by dsescribing local, national and international news. Seperating us from the rest of the world and uniting us with the rest of our city and country. God Save the Queen is played in the background with Brass and String hits that the news programmes begin with. The sense of authority is similar to the father figure.

Like the current trial of Saddam Husein, many political leaders have been censored in the media to sty and convince the audience of a particular opinion. I chant Swine, Swine, Swine. A quote from Orwell's 1984 where drones hurl abuse at a character on TV who they are unsure why they hate, a scapegoat for unified hatered. My line in Spanish refers to Gearge Bush's television advert that makes an effort to win the latino vote. The ad uses images of familiy life. All Bush's ads have the slogan "I am G.W. Bush and I approve this mesage."

Soap operas create the sense of communtity by creating an image that one is part of that area. Experiencing the woes of each family. Through dayly watching the charaters become as much a part of our lives as our genuine family. Maslows need for love/acceptance.

Kids are also made to feel loved and part of a family. Barney even states this in his song. Childrens programmes such as Playground and Blue Peter create a community \ family spirit but alienate the child infront of the TV. Learning social interactions is mediated by this machine.

Ending off with the disturbing hugging of the pure screen with a horrable high pitched noise coming off......mmmmmm

CELLULAR LIFE

2005-12-02T03:08:00.000-08:00

From the photographs of appartment blocks I took, I edited it into a film and placed these geometric living quaters inside a frame. I then shaved a rectangular space in my head and projected the video onto this. Apparently it looks a lot better in real life and work better as a living sculpture. The video documentation is not as strong.

People live in geometric spaces that restrict their perception of life in this world\infinite universe. Paintings hang in galleries within the same constrictions. Religion controled art for many years and here this is represented by the shaved patch of which a monk might have. Monks live in cells and this gives an impression of control. Now the gallery controls art and we are like the drones who bought penance for their sins but now buy paintings of "big name" artists at the Frieze Fair.

Feedback

2005-11-08T03:00:00.000-08:00

I feel I am not getting enough criticism or feedback from my work. I am not pushing myself to the extremes I can work and could do with some criticism, please.

Cellular Gallery Life

2005-10-26T05:51:00.000-07:00

Mind constrictions of geometric places are equaled by the art constrictions of geometric spaces, in a geometric image. Tate Briton will be better as sun shines onto north front side and no big turret. Plus more frames.......

Billboard Stuff

2005-10-19T03:54:00.000-07:00

Dont know what it is but looks nice. Good location....

Artists taking a piece of the pie. Comercial art or just commercial..

Serious. Grid, billboard, no permission. I absolutley love this piece. Mosaic styles........

Frieze Art Supermarket

2005-10-19T02:42:00.000-07:00

Idea :
1 Get shopping trolley
2 Paint handles white
3 Stencil on Frieze Art Fair logo
4 Place in sculpture area at the fair
5 Laugh

Couldn't find ashopping trolley so a rubbish bag had to do

Andreas Gursky : Influence

2005-10-19T02:29:00.000-07:00

Images are not directly linked but are under his main theme.

Cellular Life

2005-10-11T12:37:00.000-07:00

Photographs were taken of council flats. When printing a contact sheet I noticed that the contact sheet resembled the council blocks aswell. I may take shots in a selected order and then print the contact sheet to simulate a council block. This image could then be framed in either an ornate or bland frame. This would suggest how our mental development is influenced by the geometric structures we live in and even how our view of art is influenced by the geometric structures we place it in i.e. gallery/frame.

Performance Links

2005-10-11T09:21:00.000-07:00

www.telebody.ws

Very close to what I am planing on doing. Live performance with live video. i.e. Midi instruments controling the visuals.
Seriouse Ting
Steve Gibons the main artist.

2005-09-28T02:34:00.000-07:00

Frames
I took photographs of frames in my local fraame/mouldings shop and edited them in photoshop to have a billboard inside. I may also use this as a template to make a video piece in.

Friday 23 Sept

2005-09-23T14:56:00.000-07:00

Set up blog.

Idea for video piece
Record myself waiting for about five minutes. Break this down frame by frame and reshoot it to be the same time from timelapse photography.

performance and Live Visuals
I started learning ArKaos and it seems to be very useful but I still need to find out how to trigger the images live. Maybe touchepads.

Music Video
Coming close to finishing music video for Shane O'Donovan.