This is to confirm that the work entitled "Shadows of Time: Content creation for the performance art installation. Without your intellectual generosity, I would not have the skills, knowledge or confidence I needed to complete the project. Thank you to all the installation team, especially the artist Jayachandran Palazhy and his team for the effort and contribution to fully fill the installation art.
Thanks to the staff, visitors of Qutb Shahi Tomb, Hyderabad for their cooperation throughout. Thanks to Asst. I thank the design department for letting me borrow the equipment needed for the project. Thank you to professors, PhD fellows, juniors in the design department, for your exceptional collegiality.
Finally, thanks to friends and parents and to all people who have contributed in one way or another to this thesis, big or small.
Abstract
I Introduction
Introduction
The thesis “Shadows of time: A video art Installation” involved designing/creating images (the technique was determined after various studies into creating images such as sketches, paintings, photography, video making, etc.) to be projected on a natural environment and shows the relationship between the surface and the moving images projected on it. When creating the video installation, the decision about choosing locations, choosing the surfaces to be projected, various experiments with fabrics, creating music related to both the plot and images, the decor, the atmosphere, the people. The script is based on the historical events of Hayat Bakshi, the most influential lady of the medieval Deccan, who presided over the affairs of the Golconda Kingdom first as daughter, then as consort and finally as queen mother during the reign of three kings of the Qutub Shahi dynasty. .
The aspect of sound design comes into play, with the script being produced as sound. The video is also an archive of the existing ancient heritage structures to reveal their history.
Methodology
II Literature Review and Live Case study
- Overview of video art
- Work of Nam June Paik
- Work of Bill Viola
- Video installation of Artist Vipin in Kochi Muziris Biennale
- Hakanai : Video installation
We have a video artist to thank for establishing the visual language of the moving image. He is actually one of the innovators of video art, began his artistic activities in connection with the German Fluxus artists who in the late 1950s. Paik emphasizes the pop cultural influences of America, the stars and stripes of the flag, and the television set while making a metaphorical statement about the dominance of technology in the twentieth century.
Their first exhibitions, held in West Germany and the United States, reflect the international dimension of the beginnings of video art. They also show how television contributed to the changing dynamics of art in the early 1960s, a process that involved a reexamination of the sacred visual tradition. Paik was able to purchase the portapak with a grant from the Third JDR Fund. Soon after, he took a position in the video department at the California Institute of the Arts and finally ended up as a professor at the Kunst Akademie in Dusseldorf, Germany.
We live in this decorated and embellished world while the old one stands full and solid beneath us,” he says. This symbolic collage is the starting point of this score for a dancer who meets images and creates a space at the edge of the imaginary and the real.
III Conceptual Frame work and form Based decisions
- Initial Concept
- Site Identification for the performance
- Theme evolution
- Image Treatment Style
The choreographed performance installation combines video projection mapping, CGI and sensors to dynamically respond to the performer's movements and proximity. They observed how things move in the world, how a leaf can fall from a tree in the fall. The process consists of first observing, then remodeling, trying to find a mathematical equation at the physics level with the right approximation, and then writing with the imagination of motion.
While others in our team were given the task of composing music, interactive installation, collection of materials for the installation, making of prototype with the materials collected, screens, projector, etc. Initially, Amphitheater area in the A block of IIT Hyderabad campus was selected by the team which was perfect in terms of setting up the video installation as well as for the audience's viewing experience. Directly after the discussion with artist Jayachandran in setting up the space, he changed the site's location to the ground floor courtyard which would eventually serve the purpose for the vent as well as for the utilization of space for the performance.
Below are the final multiple locations chosen for the installation to be located on the first floor, Academic Block. The scenario that was the catalyst for the creation of the images was provided by the guide. Aside from image creation, when you think about creating content from an architectural structure, it's best to take each sentence in the script and then try to make sense of it.
I started from the scripts and then developed in my own mind to express the time from the captured images. The site chosen was Qutb Shahi Tombs located near the famous Golconda Fort in Hyderabad. Since the site assigned to me was the tombs, I was able to study the architecture side of it and relate it to the video I am making.
The advantage was that you could fully explore and immerse yourself in the patterns and elements of the graves in detail. I have used Adobe Photoshop for the process to achieve the grainy noise effect in each image, which is taken in black and white.
IV Explorations and the process
Initial Sketches
Abstract shapes, lines, curves (artistic elements) from these paintings and create a pattern that can complement the performance.
Experiment with various surfaces
Site Visit
Under exposed images
After the photographic work was completed, the next step was to showcase everything and observe each image and then select the images that have the potential to go to the next stage. The image is displayed and discussed and finally sets a number of images to the next stage which includes the treatment or processing of image.
Treatment of images
The next step is to apply the noise effect to each image in Adobe Photoshop software. Finally the image will be treated with threshold effect on each image in Adobe Photoshop software which enhances the image.
Making of the Video
The images, processed in photoshop with hundreds of frames for a single image, were imported into Premiere Pro CC to create the video. The time of each frame, the speed, the effects, transitions and video effects were the important factor while making the video.
Music composition
Video Concept
V Final Output
Before the content creation process, what I had in mind was how I would design. This was in my head for a long time until I discovered that creating the experience along with delivering a viewing experience matters. I tried using a sheet of tulle, but due to the fact that the quality of the projector itself was lower, I ended up giving up on the idea of using fabric.
The installation work doesn't stop when the video is made, in fact that's half the work, the rest is watching and seeing what it reveals, it's all in the hands of the viewers. Yet the images also invite us to explore certain formal and compositional elements that recur. I slowly started developing different types of languages. I realized that the language of certain architectural forms can express some of the human emotions, be it happiness, lonely or chaotic.
When you look at nature, it changes its behavior every time, it is never the same. Similarly, if you look carefully at what an image can convey to you, you can actually communicate with it and feel what it wants to convey to us.
Final Output 2
The concept behind the narration is to depict what we see, what we know, what we experienced, which are actually the shadows of what we are told or taught by each other. I started shooting the objects in the environment that can represent the idea of the shadows of time, the objects that have undergone some changes.
VII Scope or Future Work
VIII Concluding Remarks
IX References
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