Third Year Practice - My Work

Third Year Practice - Collecting Data

After collecting a visual representation of movement and data with my bus drawings. I decided I wanted a literal version of my movement, a very simple document and way of showing where I travelled too. I found an app, which is a version of a pedometer. This app runs in the background of my phone and counts the steps that I take everyday. I have decided to have this app running throughout my whole practice brief as an ongoing account of movement and data. I like this literal translation of data as you can see the movement without seeing the travelling. It's the opposite of my bus drawings, one is the amount of steps and one is the travelling. I would like to incorporate this idea within to my brief and perhaps use it as a side line during unit x as a way of displaying all the travelling that I have done throughout the whole third year.

Third Year Practice - My Work

Third Year Practice - Collecting Data

This is the starting point of my work. I have started collecting all manor of things in order to have as much variety a possible. My collection seem to focus a lot on travel and transport, as I travel into university, so it was suggested to me that I focus my work towards documenting travel and movement, something which interested me. I was set the task of collecting data and then trying to find a way of during that data into a visual representation of what I had collected.

I created some recordings of movement whilst I was on the bus, holding a pen on a piece of paper and letting it feely move according to when the bus moved. I really like these recordings, as it is a different way of capturing travel, rather than just creating a drawing of what I see. What interests me about these images, is that you can see what was happening whilst I was creating them, for example, the small, tight images show that there was a lot of traffic that day and I wasn’t really moving, whereas the large, free drawings show that the bus was moving fast.