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Welcome to my MA Visual Communication Blog! I will be posting all of the research and experimentation from my degree studies here. I hope you find it interesting, informative, even entertaining.
Happy Reading...
Contextual Essay
Possibly the most noteworthy development in social media over recent years has been the meteoric rise of the selfie.
Holli Kalina
Jan 95 min read
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Project Conclusion
Mid-project I believe that the penny finally dropped, I understood the reasoning behind this playful heterogeneous approach.
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Dec 2, 20243 min read
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A Revised Project Proposal
In 2013 the Oxford Dictionaries declared the Selfie word of the year, relating their decision to an apparent 17,000% increase in usage.
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Nov 26, 20243 min read
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Final Screen Print
The specific colour choice, International Klein Blue, reflects the controversial gender-based degradation applied by Klein in the 1950s
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Nov 21, 20243 min read
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Creating an Infographic
I planned to create an infographic that I could use as part of my work, teaching young photography.
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Nov 19, 20242 min read
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Erwin Wurm inspired sculptures
This was just a fun little experiment, but it made me consider how the cutlery could interact to create shapes
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Nov 19, 20242 min read
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First Video Shoot: Forestry Day
This was my first attempt at speaking and presenting myself on video, I was not looking forward to doing so and really struggled.
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Nov 18, 20243 min read
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Collagraphy
Inspired by the 1989 print Silence Equals Death by Keith Haring I chose to print a single triangle as a motif
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Nov 18, 20244 min read
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Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
Lichtenstein's screen printing aesthetic inspires my printing more than any other artist.
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Nov 18, 20242 min read
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International Klein Blue (IKB)
IKB has a hex colour code of #002fa7 which refers to an RGB colour value
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Nov 18, 20242 min read
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Keith Haring (1958-1990)
Keith Haring was an American artist and activist. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1958
Holli Kalina
Nov 17, 20242 min read
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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
It is Warhol’s best-known work, and process, that encouraged the choice of medium for my gendered triangle prints
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Nov 17, 20242 min read
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Photographing Triangles
"a bizarre medium, a new form of hallucination: false on the level of perception, true on the level of time" (Roland Barthes)
Holli Kalina
Nov 17, 20242 min read
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Helena Almeida (1934- 2018)
Helena Almeida was a Portuguese artist and photographer, born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1934.
Holli Kalina
Nov 16, 20243 min read
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Yves Klein (1928-1964)
Yves Klein's use of blue paint began in 1957 which he described as his “Époque bleue’”
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Nov 16, 20242 min read
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Stop Motion Video
Taking the project in a new direction, I began exploring the pervasiveness of the selfie, as a digital equivalent of traditional Snapshot.
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Nov 16, 20243 min read
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Halftone Printing
I experimented with two halftone modes: Bitmap and Colour Halftone Filter
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Nov 10, 20243 min read
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Grace Gipson: Creating and Imagining Black Futures through Afrofuturism
Dr. Grace Gipson is an academic, writer, and lecturer in the Department of African American Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Holli Kalina
Nov 4, 20243 min read
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Dr. Jussi Parikka's The Anthrobscene
Parikka uses the Arthur Conan Doyle short story, When The World Screamed as a metaphor for intensive mining.
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Nov 4, 20242 min read
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TJ Cole: Take Photo Here
Teju Cole laments the lack of originality present in a contemporary world saturated with imagery.
Holli Kalina
Nov 3, 20242 min read
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