Projects Group Work 4D - 05/07 A year long project, working with Robert Mulligan. We created a short film (as required) constructed entirely from creative common's footage, edited together, to form a plot for telling a Doomsday scenerio. Read the blog. Narrative Threads - 03/05 Working with a space at Dartington College of Arts, with a Dartington student, this project was an attempt to look at narrative threads. It originally started that we would pretend our project was a group tour, where people moved around the site we had. The other half of the group would be in a foyer area of the building opposite and both groups could trigger events to the other, without intention. In conjuction with this, we had set up a blog telling of spooky goings on. Sadly, once we figured out the costs of having so much cable and finding out that the maximum possible lengths data can travel is 10 metres, we were forced to set up two computers in the foyer area and work with webcams to trigger sound effects and images which were supposedly coming from webcams we'd set up on site. The project became a look at how the spreading of rumours with so called 'evidence' can travel and become a story told by one person to another. Organism - 11/04 A project to create something which simulates life. James Gill and I constructed a word tree. A single word was entered, and this was then searched for online, and the first five synonyms of the word were displayed, these 5 synonyms were then searched for and each returned two results. These two results were then searched for again. The theory being that you should see the first word eventually appear at the end of this tree forming. The Workbook Collection - 04/04 Three group performances (Telematic, Interactive Drama and Scratch Orchestra) compiled together for a CD-ROM. Designed as a hand drawn computer, with working menu systems, a desktop and shut down screens. More Information The Sounds Of Writing Vol. 3 - 12/03 This was the first group piece of work Sorry We're Late (then known as Gangstas) created and centred around a group performance based on the sounds and images of Plymouth. This was then turned into an interactive CD-Rom. More Information Solo Work Paignton Past and Present - 05/07 I've always been interested in the difference between our present surroundings and the past. This project created a virtual tour of Paignton, using photographs I have taken around the town and in places where it was possible, allowed the viewer to gaze into the past by creating an overlay of a photo from the past. The original aim was to be able to view it online, but this has since changed to a DVD-ROM due to my desire to keep the images at a reasonably good resolution. Impersonating a Journey - 03/07 The impersonation of a fridge was only the start, for I had to create a further project based on the idea, which led to impersonating a journey. How do I get from fridges to journeys? Well, via a ferry, a camper van and transporting the cardboard box to university. The first two are obvious forms of transport and the third had to be carefully planned. Mashing these together, I came up with the idea of impersonating the daily journey I made, from university to my home, by scaling down the journeys. I used three scales, relating to each form of transport I take. - A Lego figure scale, for my walk from the university to the train station (1:45) - A N-Guage model train scale, for the train journey from Plymouth to Totnes (1:148) - A Matchbox car scale, for the drive from Totnes train station to my home (1:64) To watch the videos I created and view some more information about the journeys, you can visit my blog, here. Impersonating a Fridge - 12/06 For the Space module at University, we were shown a site, then had to create a concept for "space". I had originally wished to dress up as Elvis, with the idea being that there are so many Elvis impersonators that some of them could be singers under their own name, but impersonating Elvis gets them further. But it's not restricted to white American males. Females and people from all over the world, impersonate Elvis. Taking a side step from this, I realised the site we had been shown, was an impersonation of a road, which at one stage had a good example of another impersonation on it - a camper van. Working on this and incorporating some theory, I decided to paint a cardboardbox white and present myself as a fridge, complete with a light that goes on and off and some food and drink inside. You can watch this impersonation on YouTube, by clicking here, with apologies for the poor sound. Negotiated Practice - 04/05 This project was started in October and ended in April, with a presentation of it. We were asked to come up with a project that was quite significant in it's make up, with references to other things we're interested in, with an intention to solve a problem, or answer a question. It was as open and a hint of what our final stage project will be like. I've been interested in alter ego's and split personalities, since I was a small boy and watched spy films and went running round primary school as if I were a spy, giving my name as 'Philip Argent'. I've always seen it as very easy to lie online about who you are, so set out to test that, and see what I could get. To summarise what I did, I had been using 'Edwin' as my name online for a while, and in 2003, Robert Mulligan and I, put some posters up for him running in the Student Elections. We added the name 'Jefferson'. A year later, using 'Edwin Jefferson', I set out to see what I could get without finding myself commiting crimes. I set up a website, and various internet accounts, including Friends Reunited (where I got invited to a reunion). This pdf lists what I did for the project in detail. If you wish to visit Edwin's website, go here. AI Assignment Part 6 - 03/05 The final artificial intelligence assignment gave us the task of mutating and 'mating' 3 objects to create 6 new ones, from a starting choice of 9. Being obsessed with pixelated drawings of myself, I designed most of my clothes and set about creating this Director based project. Each 'Stuart' is created from 5 genes (hat, t-shirt, jacket, jeans and shoes) and a background image. Click Randomise to create a new set of random Stuarts, and then select 3 you wish to 'mate', and click Mutate. Create your own Stuart AI Assignment Part 5 - 03/05 We were set 5 AI assignments. 1 - 4 tested our ability to create AI programs, and test 5 of these was to construct a tic-tac-toe game, with two settings, and a score. Play Tic-Tac-Toe. Elevator - 12/04 The simulacra was a project which needed to use 3D to create something realistic, but at the sametime not real. I decided to create an elevator and instead of having the elevator move, having your thoughts move. I tried to think what the 4 most likely things people think of in elevators are, and put them on 'different floors'. A hospital ward - for the coughs and sneezes A beach - to get far away from the office/rain A church - marriage/sex/love/lust Money - remembering why you work in a job you hate. All the distances between floors are relevant to how long it would take to get to that floor. 1st to 2nd takes less than 1st to 3rd, and so on. Elevator Stuart's First Year on MLA - 05/04 This was something that half came from the workbook, and half my own ideas of myself. The task was to create a 10 second long 'bumper', for use on a 3rd Generation mobile phone. Those 10 seconds could be animation or video. I decided on a 50/50 idea and did a video of myself, edited the background, and animated words as thoughts in Flash. For the packaging, I created a Director menu, using the image I had created before the bumper of my room, to try and see what I am. For the casing of the CD, I bought a photo album, and printed out some photos I had taken during the course of the year, then put the CD on the inside cover of the back. A read me in print is on the first and last pages of the album. To view, click on the stereo (to the right) or the TV (to the left). Stuart's First Year on MLA Workbook - 05/04 The workbook was a year long physical workbook, noting down anything I saw and liked, thought of, drew, or wrote. Creative ideas and designs were included and I have already started the second. The Crab - 02/04 The Crab was created for a Flash project, where we had to create a moving poster based on bricks, water, animals or traffic. I decided that I'd try animals (crabs can be animals..) and water, so designed a little beach and the tide coming in and out. To control the crab's pincers, click him first, then use 'A' and 'S' on your keyboard. The Crab The Sheep - 09/03 The very first piece of work in Director I made. The task was to make something user controlled, and not knowing anything about Director I designed a basic click on 'the sheep and watch it move' project. The Sheep Assimilated Masses - 09/03 First non-university work. A collection of images and words which seek to portray the real world for it's true worth. Not a completely solo piece of work as other people (mainly Robert Mulligan) have contributed their own own words. Stuart's Handwriting A small personal project to turn my handwriting into a font. It can be seen in use for the Workbook collection information.

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