Research

So today I have taken the plunge and started the task of researching the stimuli to hopefully understand some of the concepts of what were working towards..
I started with Brian Cox, and Loved it :) not like me, but i found it fascinating and really has got my enthusiasm up again for the piece.. still not sure what i'm going to do yet, but I'm not going to get stressed and just hope that it comes to me in time?!
I've copied the link for 'Wonders of the Universe'.. just because I can! 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0101h6w/Wonders_of_the_Universe_Messengers/


As Einstein is the main part of the stimuli, It makes sense to understand him next. I didn't find much that jumped out to me to use as a performance, however I did discover as a child he used to dream about the story of the magnetic compass. The compass convinced him that there had to be ''something behind things, something deeply hidden'' I felt there was something in this that we could use, its a good starting part anyway!!
When it came to text... I thought about using some quotes from his essays or particular quotes:


"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Thats just a couple of examples, but theres a whole collection of quotes some very useless but some that are quite humorous that could work?! http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html


However, I believe the best idea for text is the book we were given in the box of stimuli. Einsteins dreams, 


''A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.

Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence''
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/101512/einsteins-dreams-by-alan-lightman/9781400077809/


however, the chapter most interested with me, and perhaps Jim if were working together is '19th April 1905' In this chapter, the love affairs of a man are described. The first woman is manipulative. The second becomes a life-long companion. In a second world, the man stays with the first woman, but their relationship is unstable and full of pain. In a third world, when he meets the first woman for the second time, their chat is curt and brief and he feels empty.
These three different scenarios are said to be occuring at the same time. Time is described as having three dimensions. It may move in any different direction of time, and will move in all directions. This leads to the idea of how people consider decisions: lightly or seriously.


This text has really enthused me and I will be sharing it with class on Tuesday :D

Visal vortex?! Ocular Synthesis??

Today we discussed the title of our piece.. even though its only a minor part of the performance, we felt a company name would bring us all together and perhaps bring some ideas to the table as such. 
well it was pretty difficult to decide on this name and the outcome varied dramatically between E=VT², Visual Vortex, Ocular Synthesis and in the end we were pretty undecided so left it out.
We then moved on to something more important and sorted the room organisation and have finally chosen the studio theater and the spaces around. I'm happy with this decision as Ive never used the dressing rooms to work in, i think with time and effort we can create something special... even though personally I'm struggling with ideas...I guess with research hopefully something will come to me?!


Ok so heres a collection of other ideas...

• Durational piece of art- what is time? (I've found out what durational art is now.. so will explain later)
• Suppressing time installation, time is not a clock.
• Brian Cox time/distance. space time
• Einsteins life - layers of time  - Einsteins time travel

well there not really my idea's.. and iv'e never watched Brian Cox, so the outcome of this lesson is..Even though Im excited for this, and the process, I need to research and get my head around this performance!!

Stimuli day..

''Josefine opening our box of stimuli''

Ok, so it did't exactly happen like that, but our box of stimuli contained objects that really got the group enthusiastic about our next piece. 

• Lego
• Balloons
• Hair rollers
• passport
• bicycle bell
• light bulb
• Einsteins dreams novel
• Flatland novel 
• an article from the book- Modernism
• Metronome 
• travel clock 
• 'Einstein is dead' Article
• E = MC2

This range of stimuli allowed us to bring forth a range of ideas for our next performance such as Time travel, Einsteins life, Einsteins on the Beach, Exploring Einsteins dreams Space and Mass, Biomechanics, other dimensions and so forth.

As I am very limited with the understating of this particular field and kind of ruled it off as impossible and an entertainment source for children. However  I went off and researched the topic of Time travel. Even from a small search I felt myself becoming really interested in it and the facts i found. 

''The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000mph. But to travel in time we'll have to go more than 2,000 times faster''

I found this article the most interesting of all, Steven Hawking made the subject easy to understand and i became really enthusiastic with the subject and the work we could create with it!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1269288/STEPHEN-HAWKING-How-build-time-machine.html#ixzz1HpyHCKnH

Overall.. Stimuli day was a success, roll on what's to come!

From the Top... ''Imagination is more important than knowledge''

I came across this quote during my research of Albert Einstein, it gave me the inspiration to create this blog, in order to... well write down and present a back up for what i'll miss out (probably) during my viva for the project.

This is my first blog, so I'm new to it all, I see it as a 'open diary' a collective of my views, Ideas and opinions on the process. Also my research, and pretty much discoveries on the way.

So here goes.