Ant Dickinson

Ant Dickinson's workshop was really inspiring and completely relevant to my work, and future aspirations. Firstly the talk covered all his previous work, and how he has fallen into different job roles and commissioned work. The projections that he had developed with his wife were amazing, and it was interesting to see how he had used different digital technologies in open spaces, for instance a castle in Conway. He labelled himself as a musician, however his work was so diverse that he could easily be categorised as a textile artist.

He gave us an insight into how to use different softwares, and tutorials on how to use them. This information was hugely useful, and I have been able to list these programs down for future use. 

I have been using audacity, which is a sound editing software, and I would love to develop this new skill and combine it with my projections. 

He also touched on projection mapping, and introduced me and Nicole to the software that he uses and how he uses it. Obviously at this stage I would be unable to incorporate this into my work, and it would take me too long to understand, and I would have to experiment with the settings and sample my ideas, however I am definitely going to use this process in the future.

Curving photography was also mentioned, and is something that I was unaware of. I am a really excited to explore this further, and would be keen to use it in future projects. It involves taking a photograph of an object, and the camera releases electronic pulses at the photograph is taken which creates beautiful halos.