It’s been somewhat more of a rollercoaster than usual. The descision was made to ditch the musoscope, as it was a bit delicate and we were expecting people to interact with it, so it’s lifespan would have been somewhat limited. Certainly a project to reprise in the future though – i think with development it could be wondrous.

But what of our other two mechanical wonders? The Red Carbuncle and the PPP? They both blossomed beautifully into more than we could have hoped for them, and earned their names.

Dynah – she’s tall and red, playing an infomercial from Shelley Smith Industries in glorious 3D!

She has an internal periscopic system, and a hand-cranked flap. After all, no-one knows what will happen to the human brain if you stare too long into Dynah’s eyes. It’s only been tested on coffee monkeys.

Kitty – the little sister, with a reel which plays the ‘menagerie of Ms Roden’

Kitty is a customised mutoscope kit from Barenpresse, an excellent German company who specialise in this kind of cut out kit. Check out their site, it’s wonderful. The images in the film represent three totems, or fetishes, related to my personality – the ET doll represents my childhood realities, the jenny haniver my childhood fantasies, and the coffee monkey is something i see as that element manifesting itself in my adulthood. i love the fact it pulses like a heartbeat, but, onto pictures!

The projection… didn’t work how we initially intended it to, like the musoscope it deserves a lot more attention than to just be a hasty add on. However, we got the effect we were after by allowing the light to spread across the wall behind the machines, rather than back projected on a screen

Vicky Roden and Tom Smith – All My Dreams Came True! (but now i have a bunch of other dreams)

It was excellent to get such a wide range of responses at the Private view – i found i was getting locked in trains of thought, as i’d been working with it for so long, so to get so much fresh perspective made it completely worthwhile. It reminded me why i enjoy art so much.

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All my dreams came true! (but now i have a bunch of other dreams)

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Vix| Leave a comment

Things have been hectic, hectic, hectic… what with the Flickernic, and college, and everything I’ve again arrived at the point where i have a months worth of half written blog posts cluttering my drafts folder…. most importantly though, the FMP piece for the exhibition at the New Art Gallery Walsall has taken tremendous shape, now being fully thought out and in the making. and it’s called…

All My Dreams Came True! (nut now i have a bunch of other dreams)

I’m working in collaboration with another student and member of the Garret, Tom Smith, who was planning a working mutoscope showing a short film. As we’re working together we’ve been given a fantastic space, so the single mutoscope has now become a trio of various sized machines, next to a backlit projection of the horizon. Two of the the mutoscopes represent the follies and fetishes of our youth, whereas the smallest is powered by a music box movement showing a spinning ouroboros. This is our bit of blurb:

Vicky Roden and Tom Smith

Anika the surveilance bot withe her new smart phone caseing for 2way vid trafik note the secondery kill cam monted on her turet

Untitled, 2010

Blacklight Installation, 2010

Blacklight Installation Detail, 2010

Flickerbook of the Flickermob

A Grand Flickernic, New Art Gallery Walsall, May 2011

Press Coverage

Invitation Postcard

The Cake

Audience Participatory Telegram

All My Dreams Came True! (but now i have a bunch of other dreams…)

Collaboration withVicky Roden, New Art Gallery Waslall, June-July 2011

In Situ at the Gallery

Dynahs ‘Ministry of Defensive Art Disciplines’ 3D Film

Manipulated CG Backdrop

In Situ at the Garret

Handle Detail

Current Projects: The Steam Golem. Construction.

It’s been somewhat more of a rollercoaster than usual. The descision was made to ditch the musoscope, as it was a bit delicate and we were expecting people to interact with it, so it’s lifespan would have been somewhat limited. Certainly a project to reprise in the future though – i think with development it could be wondrous.

But what of our other two mechanical wonders? The Red Carbuncle and the PPP? They both blossomed beautifully into more than we could have hoped for them, and earned their names.

Dynah – she’s tall and red, playing an infomercial from Shelley Smith Industries in glorious 3D!

She has an internal periscopic system, and a hand-cranked flap. After all, no-one knows what will happen to the human brain if you stare too long into Dynah’s eyes. It’s only been tested on coffee monkeys.

Kitty – the little sister, with a reel which plays the ‘menagerie of Ms Roden’

Kitty is a customised mutoscope kit from Barenpresse, an excellent German company who specialise in this kind of cut out kit. Check out their site, it’s wonderful. The images in the film represent three totems, or fetishes, related to my personality – the ET doll represents my childhood realities, the jenny haniver my childhood fantasies, and the coffee monkey is something i see as that element manifesting itself in my adulthood. i love the fact it pulses like a heartbeat, but, onto pictures!

The projection… didn’t work how we initially intended it to, like the musoscope it deserves a lot more attention than to just be a hasty add on. However, we got the effect we were after by allowing the light to spread across the wall behind the machines, rather than back projected on a screen

Vicky Roden and Tom Smith – All My Dreams Came True! (but now i have a bunch of other dreams)

It was excellent to get such a wide range of responses at the Private view – i found i was getting locked in trains of thought, as i’d been working with it for so long, so to get so much fresh perspective made it completely worthwhile. It reminded me why i enjoy art so much.

I’ll never forget the bed time tales my father used to read to me and my brother and sister, storys like the hobit and the lord of the rings.

years later when i left school barely able to read i decided that it was time i tried to read something that i wanted to, so i stared reading The Lord of the Rings. I know the book because of the bbc radio version but it still took me 6 months to read. As i read the seasons changed till after a little adventure of my own i read the last page in southampton on a beautiful sunny day. Click to view slideshow.