12/11/2010: London

Escaped to London for a few nights during the week to visit Ben. Monty came down midway through and stayed a night too – in the daytime we visited Jenny Lomax’s Camden Arts Centre, as featured predominantly in the talk she gave at the Whitworth recently. Monty wanted to enquire about potential work-experience/networking possibilities but it turned out there were no positions at present. Nice building, good cafe, some interesting books in the bookshop. Artwork was bullshit though.

Went into the Royal College with Ben one afternoon to do some tests for his work with a digital projector based on the notion of the Dreamachine – we projected animated flashing videos directly onto our closed eyelids for the Dreamachine effect and tried the same method using a sheet of paper curved round our open eyes, which produced a different effect totally; certainly less headache inducing than the first.

I also had a good talk to Ben about my work and current uncertainty with regards to direction; we brainstormed and reasoned my thoughts for an hour or so.

Below: Top - Dreamachine simulation using digital projector
Bottom - Problematic Brainstorming