The project "MY PRECIOUS", stone wonders started with choosing a collection, as I personally don't collect much, I chose the stone collection in our basement. My idea was to bring the lifeless stones into digital life, I wanted to bring the stones from their natural environment into a modern and exciting format.
I did this with the Colour Channel, inspired by artist Zoe Rose Schwartz. I photographed 30-50 stones and in Photoshop I cut them out and separated them in their colour layers. In order to make the stones appear alive, GIF animations followed, for which I worked out in Photoshop. In the beginning, simple, large movements were more like jumps, which over time and overwork became more flowing movements.
In the meantime, I noticed that depending on the computer settings, GIFs do not run directly when opened, but open as a series of images. This got me thinking because I couldn't present the GIFs that way. So I designed another website, which is structured like a gallery. The GIFs stand for themselves and expire indefinitely. The special thing about these GIFs is that they are not immediately recognizable as stones, because the colour levels blur the appearance.
In addition, the stone can only be seen briefly in its original colour and structure.
Therefore, another GIF was created, which can be seen at the bottom of the website. One on which each stone can be seen in the original. In addition, a YouTube video was created on request, in which the stones run one after the other.
Steinwunder Website
To work on this workshop, we mainly chose the text of Penny Sparke about Postmodernism because there was the one that Fiona and Mégane read. This text was really interesting and had a lot of different points. The Britain author talked about feminine stereotypes, patriarch, gender market, gender roles and domestic sphere.
All those points help us to start our project. We decide with humour to criticize those gender codes that designer and marketing are using to sell a product to a specific gender. We mixed products to create a new one for the opposite gender.
For example, the vacuum cleaner, which is the basic product for the women to take care of the house, is mixed with a jackhammer to make it more masculine and more virile. This machine was invented for women to clean the house and to be a good wife and housekeeper. So now, we have this vacuum machine for men.
We used stereotypes to make it like designers and marketing are doing it. In the text of Penny Sparke, she gives the example of this pink vacuum cleaner that Dyson made during the 50s. “ As ever, colour, shape and size were among the primary visual messengers of femininity and in the early 1980s postmodernism’s use of historical quotation resulted in a spate of designs aimed at women which were highly reminiscent of the pastel-couloured goods directed ate the 1950s housewife, exemplified by English designer James Dyson’s innovatory pink vacuum cleaner.” Dyson is today a big company and is very well-known for their vacuum cleaner.
The second example that we wanted to present is the pill. Today, a lot of women are taking birth control because society decided that it was the problem of women, but you don’t make a baby alone. Moreover, a man is fertile until he dies, unlike women. We know that there were some tests for men's birth control that have been made, but they didn’t commercialize it because there were too many side effects. Those side effects are quite the same that women can observe, so this is kind of ironic. Like Penny Sparke wrote in her text, men are always supported by society. “Postmodernism’s chief architectural and design practitioners were still professionalised men and the institutions that supported them”
After the creation of those strange objects, we open an Instagram account to post them and share them. We try to have an original feed and to be experimental. We decided to use this social media because in our days a lot of influencers are trying to sell products with their image to people who are following them. This social media is very used today for advertising, so it’s also a way to using this new code of advertisement. We also use the text “Made in Patriarchy: Toward a Feminist Analysis of Women and Design” of Cheryl Buckley for some quote because her text was really powerful. She talks a lot about the domestic place and gender code as well. So, to conclude, we really enjoy the workshop and to work in a pair of groups of different students. If we had more time, we would love to create better products and better images.
wo_men_ws InstagramThis Project is a part of the Bach Concert "Bach sehen" in Bielefeld, bei Sigurd Müller. We created the Tablaeu Vivant to one of his musical cello pieces.
The Concert is created to make his music, visuall with different types of Animation, and Resolume Sets. I created the Tableau Vivant in a small group and created a Audio Visuall Cello in TD soon to be featuered in Portfolio. Bach bewegt
Idea: Fiona Giljohann, Kati Lübeck
Art Direction: Fiona Giljohann
Conception: Fiona Giljohann
Sound: Sigurd Müller, Bach Cello Suite
Light: Lukas Janzing
Videography: Louis Wiemann
Cut: Kenny Comann
Setrunner: Charlotte Sülflohn, Maira Wissing
Photography: Markus Wildelau
The project, a music video, started with the song selection, which wasn't easy for me, but when I narrowed it down to THE CHAINSMOKERS and heard the song Paris, I immediately had an idea of the video in mind.
I started creating a collage with images from my own photos of past trips to Paris. In order to make the collages look alive, camera movements, panning, zoom-ins, rotations... followed to give the viewer the feeling to stand in the middle of Paris and see all the beautiful places and immerse yourself in this world.
I first set up the lip sync in Illustrator. I used a template to see how the mouth should be open and in which position. The handle with I took over the full, feminine lips from previous projects, but this had to be done from scratch and redesigned with the pen When I wanted to bring the lip sync into After Effects and enter the expression, the lips only appear at the frame of a to let the time-lapse move at a different frequency, the first problem that caused me to despair for several hours appeared when I was dealing with several tutorials sat down and did it for the 8th time, it worked, and I could start to animate the lips to match the text. I chose the chorus for the animation because I found this passage very appropriate, and it occurs three times in the song.
The further course of my work consisted of making the video coherent, and for this I asked two friends (Jacob and Femke) if they could walk through the forest for me and stretch out their arm motivating to say a hopeful and create an engaging atmosphere. More collages, lip-sync repeats, and split-screen animations followed to make the video exciting and rhythmic.
Space is an Audiovisual Music Video, created in TouchDesigner. The different Sounds are visualized with different animations.
X Live, is a Seminar at FH Bielefeld by Marcus Wildelau in his Classes we learn different aspects of Filming, Live Film on YouTube, Short Movies, Lightning, Sound, ...
Here are some of my Works in this following YouTube Playlist.
