Date 20.03.26
Week number
13/313 (lol) - now I don’t think this is accurate
Do I need to do this: https://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/dept/Intranet
No date for Annual progress modelling
Booked Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies (https://miskatonicinstitute.com/)
b movie cinematic classification fan fictioning Darrio Argento Jalo remaking https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Remix-Studies/Navas-Gallagher-burrough/p/book/9781032509105 Pastiche Cindy Sherman Photography () Richard Prince Copywrite The love witch Adam Cole Rachel Mclean (James Bond) Intentionallity (pastice versus homage) Artist who copy film noir Appropriation Critique
I am interested in how fine artists use genre tropes and visual motifs in moving image work, and in photography, and what the implications of working with AI to generate moving image work are. While artists have often worked with cinematic language in moving image work and photography, this appears to be an increasing aspect of works which use prompt based ai as a tool (for making images, voice overs, scripts) without acknowledging the that they are mimicking existing works, with exceptions (Duck by Rachel McClean for instance, Adam Cole). I’m exploring how use of cinema, literary and pop culture tropes function in the context of a technologically engaged practice. While generative text, footage and voice performances enable artists to convincingly mimic, there is has been less discussion of what these factors activate in combination with each other.
Im interested in how artists approach copying, pastiche, homage, remix, appropriation, ripping etc. What are the borders between copying, remixing, reappropriation or ghost writing. What the practices of sampling, remixing, meming and theft, pastiche, fan fictioning do.
I’m also working to articulate a practice which has a Magpieish relationship with style.
Related to this, I’m also interesting in looking at how are artist’s essays and films disseminated, and via what platforms and methods? Why does it matter that these things are communal – this is an open question to me.
- I’m interested in understanding what the appeal is of using certain tropes, or memes, or rhetorical devices to emulate another person’s style, or the style of a genre.
- What does it mean to be inconsistent in voice, emulate voice?
- What can be generative about inconsistency?
- Why do we want to copy style, and what is there in a refusal to be the author in that way, a ghost writer.