"Time to choose"

This post is a little delayed but i'm going to try and catch up with what has happened in Unit X over the last couple of weeks.

On the 13th March the name of the main project was revealed as "The Museum of Lost Science". This was then separated into different themes for us to choose from and focus on until the exhibition in May. I was torn between the themes "Biographical" and "Reclamation", but as I thought it would be far too easy for me to settle on a character-based narrative if I chose "Biographical" (which I always do!) I decided to step out of my comfort zone a little and chose "Reclamation".
We were instructed to spend the next week attending lectures and talks from visiting artists and scientists and beginning to conduct our own research into our theme before being divided into groups at the end of the week.    

Some of the visiting Artist lectures were brilliant and were very helpful towards my own research and ideas, especially as they incorporated aspects of science into their own work. They seemed particularly influenced by machines and engineering which I think has encouraged me to do the same. Here are some examples of the Artists' work, I love the contrast between Brendan Dawes and Jim Bonds sculptures/ objects . While Dawes visualises happiness and naivety, I find Bond's is often quite sinister. I like sinister.

                                         Jim Bond's Kinetic eye, below is Dawes's happiness machine.

                                Dawes's happiness machine.