Monday 10 September 2012

Urban Exploration: the blogging journey begins

Thoughts and images have been whirring through my mind lately at a faster pace than I can keep up with, so I decided to create this site - a space where some of this mental activity can exist outside of my own head and reside in the wondrous world of cyberspace. I'm hoping that this venture into the blogosphere will allow me to express my creativity in a new and different way - allowing me explore the turns and twists of my imagination that I don't often have a chance to examine. I envision this site being a place where I can share my ideas in a less formal and more immediate way than I am normally able - most of my writing tends to be in an academic style, which was required for my doctoral thesis  (which I recently finished, finally!) or for various presentations and conference papers. As much as I enjoy academic writing, I am interested to see what this more fluid and creative platform will provoke, hopefully coaxing some more experimental forms of writing out of me and perhaps some interesting insights along the way.
I aim for this site to be a place to explore all things urban and visual - as an artist and sociologist I seek to engage with the labyrinthine metropolis from layered points of view, using montage both metaphorically and literally within my work. I hope to create layer upon layer of text, image, and possibly sound, using various vantage points depicting the everyday life of the city from close-up, from a more distanced view, and from all points in between. I hope to go on a journey, perhaps taking a few of you with me, exploring the virtual and actual city through imaginative form and content, fusing the abstract with the concrete, while incorporating inspiration from the likes of sociology, geography, art history, visual cultures, film, literature, philosophy, photography, video, digital media, and more...
And so to begin the journey... I shall post a short video I made which is part of an ongoing project exploring the relationship of light, digital technology and the perception of time...


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