Black Box for Sónar

I'm in the middle of working on a large-scale sensory installation project at the RCA in collaboration with my classmate Robert Thorpe for the Sónar festival in Barcelona in June, thanks to sponsorship from Absolut.

The project will be a 4x4 grid of plinths with a speaker inside each box, creating a vibrating floor that you can walk across whilst simultaneously changing the colours of a series of LED strips on the wall.

I'm in charge of the technical aspects of the installation while Rob is focusing on the build, and I'm currently working on the wiring of the LED strips and mapping colour to sound using Max MSP. More images to follow soon!

Easter Chickens

Some bright coloured Easter chicken patterns, trying out pastels and different colour sets... 

Work in Progress GIFs

I've got roughly 3 weeks left until my first year film at the RCA is due, 

so I'm getting fairly close to the end! 

In the meantime here are some GIFs from some of the completed shots...

Screen Printing

I got to try screen printing for the first time earlier this week at the RCA Battersea campus!
I had a full-day workshop led by screen printing technician Damon Rostron,
and drew an abstract triangle pattern onto one layer of drawing film and one layer of rubylith
before exposing both layers onto the screen.

Ready for Spring

March is just around the corner, time to start wearing less jumpers!

Starman

I had a letterpress workshop at the RCA last Tuesday, led by the brilliant Ian Gabb.
The choice of wording for my postcard seemed pretty much obvious,
after only hearing about Bowie's death the day before.

Storyboard Frames

Some rough storyboard frames for the film I'm currently working on:

Projection Mapping Workshop

We had a really interesting projection mapping workshop run by Michaela French at the RCA this afternoon. We started off by constructing a series of geometric objects using paper tubes and white tape, and then we used Anglepoise lamps and a series of different projectors to look at how the angle and the type of the projection altered the visual look of the object.

 

Robot

A little robot sculpture I made for our RCA Secret Santa event.
The inside has just a really basic wiring of two LEDs to a 9v battery,
and then I coated the outside layer with clay and painted it.

RCA Christmas Fête

The RCA Christmas Fête has just finished, and was a great success! It ran from Wednesday 2nd November to Saturday 5th December and gave the public a chance to buy all kinds of crafts created by RCA students, with all the funds going straight to us :)

My section of the table was mainly for my penguin poster, but I had a few greeting cards and postcards up for sale too! Wan and Annlin both had some gorgeous jewellery for sale, while Choco and Fang were also selling posters.