Lecture Six - 11th March - Time Based Art, Guerrilla Art, Wearable Technology

This lecture consisted of three weeks worth of sujects into one week.

We firstly looked at Blast Theory "Can You See Me Now?" This links in with all three subject areas. "Can You See Me Now" is a game which happens on the street and online. "Tracked by satellites, Blast Theory's runners appear online next to your player on a map of the city. On the streets, handheld computers showing the positions of online players guide the runners in tracking you down." (http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/bt/work_cysmn.html)

Time-Based Art

This is an image of Andy Goldsworthy's artwork. He's concidered a Land Artist, but some of his work is also concidered Time-Based art.

Time Based Art is also known as Art and New-Media or Multimedia Art. Time-Based art is a newer term for atists using technology in their work, such as computers, photography, film.

Muybridge who was an English photographer, is known for his early use of multiple cameras to capture motion.
He looked at the movement of animals . He used a device to project motion pictures, that used the celluloid filme strip, which is still used today. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge)

Another artist we looked at who uses Time-Based Art is Tony Oursler. "Oursler is best known for his sculptural video installations where faces are projected onto ball-like screens to present faces that talk, scream, watch and engage their audience in the gallery."


As I'm carrying out a project on dolls at the moment, I found this interesting, as a different approach to the project and research. I won't be using it for my final, but it will help with research.

Guerrilla Art

Guerrilla Art is also known as Street Art, which is any art that have been developed in a public area. This can include such art as graffiti art and street poster art. The artists who produce this type of artwork have different reasons behind them. They are usually politically related, and because of this they remain anonymous as most of their work is illegal.



One well known group who practice Guerrilla Art are the Guerrilla Girls. They are a group of feminist artists who are known for promoting women and people of colour in the arts through creative posters.

Banksy is another artist we looked at. Banksy is an anonymous Britsh street artist. His street art combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique. "Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti or mount exhibitions of sceenprints in commercial galleries. Art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street work on location and leave the problem of of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy)

I'm not sure how Guerrilla Art would link in with my work. As these artists work on different materials such as brick walls, it may inspire me to create some drawings and images on unusal materials, such as fabrics with acrylic paint.

Wearable Technology

For this part of the lecture, we looked at Pac-Lan. "Pac-Lan is a noval version of the video game Pac-Man in which human players play the game on a maze based on Alexandra Park at Lancaster University campus. To play the game, the Pac-Lan player collects pills using the mobile which are in the form of coloured plastic discs containing RFID tags placed around the maze. Four other players take the role of the ghosts who attempt to hunt down the Pac-Lan." (http://www.pac-lan.com/about.htm)

Again, I'm not quite sure how this would link into or inspire my work.