Ive been trying to work out another possible direction for my BFA project. Ive been considering several ideas involving a multi-panel/framed instillation. Here are a few descriptions of how it might work.
1. On the wall is a 5 x 5 grid of screens/monitors (25 total), all containing the same scene and sequence, but the content of each screen would be created using different materials, styles or themes. Each screen would represent a different “realm." For example, in one screen, the sequence would be hand drawn, another would contain the same landscape and subjects but made of animated fabric, another of raw, pulsating meat products, another using vector graffics, stop motion, cross-section or even video. It would be a cyclical sequence. To take it further, a table in front of the monitors may contain print versions, one on hand made paper, another of glossy computer paper etc.
• In addition, it might be interesting if one or multiple subjects moved between the screens, changing in appearance to reflect the realm in which it is temporarily inhabiting. Maybe there would be some kind of narrative to motivate the subject’s movement across panels.
2. A similar themed instillation may use the multi-frame sequence of monitors to represent an animated comic book page – each containing a short looping animation.
3. One additional possibility, is using the grid of monitors to display different things at different times. Three monitors would be used to contain a short sequence, then transition to a five frame sequence, or even short flashes of patterns across the whole grid, etc. It would not always be sequenced left to right, and could be broken up by monitors that display black, static, or whatever else works. This idea is a little more difficult to describe.
