Transform insideOUT

Transform is an arts project which is funded by Arts Council England. The project aims to reveal new layers of history associated with Leicestershire's Heritage. The Transform project artists Andy McKeown and Peter Walker (who will be producing work to be displayed in the festival) came to our college to talk about the work they are involved in.

The main content of the lecture was to introduce the software being used, slipStream. In the Lecture the visiting artists gave us a demonstration as to how to use the software. A selection tool is used to grab certain parts of the image to be used in the project, using a square or rectangular shape. The small parts of the images are played in different orders to create an abstract view of the overall image. The more sections of different images the better as this makes for more interesting viewing. The project is designed to be projected onto the side of a large building at night, this creates another texture to the image. The images are projected on large scale, meaning a small segment of an image can be blown up to a huge size. The unique thing about this software is that the order in which the images are replayed is never the same, producing a unique viewing every time. In the software package, there is no capability to record and coincidently document this project. We asked the creator why this was and he explained that this would ruin the uniqueness of the software being a different viewing each time.

This software is a working project and it is clear that some areas could be improved. The final project does remind me of a slideshow of images (the only difference being that the order changes) which in my opinion doesn't do the software justice as it clearly is a very clever piece of software. I believe this software works well for it's purpose, however I also understand it is quite limited in it's functions beyond this aspect. Being unable to save the work created it would be hard to use this in my projects as the work needs to be documented at each stage of development. 
One thing I think that I can take from this software is the way in which the images are projected onto texture, I am very interested in texture within my images  and could think about projecting light or images onto texture and then photographing those.