Carlin Wright
Lightscapes
Influenced by the artistic technique of defamilarisation, the work slows the viewer down and enables scanned ordinary objects to be represented in different or unusual ways. This problematises the audience's perception of the familiar. Personal experience with seizures and temporary blindness when I was younger has led to this year’s experimentation with the manipulation of forms as a way to control and complicate a physical experience. My altered physiological response to the world (through seizures and blindness) has set the framework for an ongoing interest in light and colour.
This installation aims to show navigations through digital environments; one that contains disrupting digital effects, such as computer glitches and speed intrusions intended to interrupt the audience’s automatic sensory reactions. These final videos have transformative qualities as they have originally been derived from photographs. This ability to have photographic images presented as videos show the repurposing qualities that photography as a medium possesses. This iterative quality that is inherent to image making is a core influence to this project.
