Research progression for the “Collection” project

This is a blog section established specifically for documenting the progressesion of my Collection project. The blog will contain multiple sections of primary and secondary research.

• Primary Research Tasks

25 physical collection items from my display shelf at home:

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25 collections based on drawings:

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25 photograph collection aircrafts from the RAF Museum:

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Rubbish character stop motion animation outcome of the February 12th online workshop session:

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Flipbook animation outcome of the February 15th online workshop session:

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Richard’s Keith Haring Animation:

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Virtual Field Trip character creation outcome:

• Secondary Research Tasks

Definition in dictionary:

Collection, /kəˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/, noun

1. The action or process of collecting someone or something.”the collection of data”
2. A group of things or people. “a rambling collection of houses”

Reference: https://www.lexico.com/definition/collection

Research 2 different practitioners – one must be related to collections and one must be an artist or animator who uses rubbish

1, Royal Air Force Museum London Collections:

I want to paticularly mention the RAF museum because I had made two visits to it during my staying period in London.

Located in Colindale, London, and has 5 exhibition buildings in total, this location has one of largest collection of various types of aircrafts dating from as old as the pre-World War 1 period. This museum site was once part of the RAF Hendon station and prior to that, one of the first civilian airfields, acquired by Claude Grahame-White in 1911. The hangars housed 36 aircraft at opening but over the years, the collection increased. As of 2010, it had close to 100 aircraft, including the Avro Lancaster S-Sugar, which flew 137 sorties. It also includes the only complete Hawker Typhoon. Added in 2018, as part of the RAF Centenary exhibitions, were a Westland Sea King helicopter (once flown by Prince William, Duke of Cambridge), a Gnat fast jet trainer of the Red Arrows, and a full-scale mock-up of the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter.

Reference: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/about-us/default/

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2, The rubbish collector – Joshua Sofaer

Joshua Sofaer (b. 1972 Cambridge, England) is an artist who is centrally concerned with modes of collaboration and participation, which he explores through social sculpture, performance, installation, exhibition and publication.

Equally as comfortable in the clean white gallery, the dramatic curtained stage of the opera house, the carefully positioned vitrine of the museum, the shared areas of public space, and the domestic personalised rooms of private homes, what draws Sofaer’s diverse practices together is a concern with how audiences engage with the world as a place of potentiality. People’s experience is key, as are the material cultures they choose to surround themselves with.

Recurring themes of his work include ‘rubbish’: what we choose to throw away; ‘collections’: what we choose to keep; and, ‘names’: how what we are called becomes who we are.

Reference: https://www.joshuasofaer.com/about/

• Make 3 secondary research sources, one must be from the UAL library

A book from the UAL library – The Science Museum photography collection by Thomas D.B.

This is a book that consist a collection of photographs from the national science museum of Chicago. The book demostrate pictures of the exhibitions in an interesting illustration and also contains many helpful informations and history of those items. It has a total of 113 pages and was written and compiled in 1969.

Reference: https://libsearch.arts.ac.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=15751&shelfbrowse_itemnumber=21299#holdings

Rotoscoping in the Modern Age – an article written by Marian Rudnyk

In this article, the writer discussed various ideas and concept relating to the history and creating process of rotoscoping animation. A good comparison of the past and the present of this topic was explained and the writer mentioned examples such as the modern visual effects of such techniques used in Hollywood films and also about how much of an importance it had made it’s impact in the modern film industry.

Reference: https://www.awn.com/mag/issue3.2/3.2pages/3.2rudnyk.html

The Surprise and Wonder of Early Animation – an article written by Richard Brody

Explaining the magic and wonders of the animation created during the early 20th century, writer Richard Brody used a variety of animation examples that demostrate the best of its kind from a time before the existence of most of the film industry we presently known and loved. He dug deeper in to discussing the development of how these amazing creations were inspired and further progressed in to it’s advancement which led to the accomplishments of these productions.

Reference: https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/richard-brody?intcid=inline_amp

Dogfight

A dogfight, or dog fight, is a form of engagement between fighter aircraft; in particular, combat of maneuver at short range, where each side is aware of the other’s presence. Dogfighting first appeared during World War I, shortly after the invention of the airplane. Until at least 1992, it was a component in every major war, despite beliefs after World War II that increasingly greater speeds and longer range weapons would make dogfighting obsolete.^[1] Modern terminology for air-to-air combat is air combat maneuvering (ACM), which refers to tactical situations requiring the use of individual basic fighter maneuvers (BFM) to attack or evade one or more opponents. This differs from aerial warfare, which deals with the strategy involved in planning and executing various missions.

Source: https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Dogfight