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1. Jonathan Kearney: 01 November 2018 

2. Jonathan Kearney: 17 January 2019

3. Jonathan Kearney: 17 June 2019

4. Gareth Polmeer: 01 August 2019

5. Gareth Polmeer: 04 October 2019

6. Jonathan Kearney: 15 October 2019

7. Jonathan Kearney: 18 March 2020

8. Jonathan Kearney: 13 May 2020

8.2 Jonathan Kearney: 19 June 2020

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MA Journal

A journal, sketchbook and documentary record of my journey through the Visual Arts: Fine Art Digital Masters Course at the Camberwell College, University of the Arts London.

Clinging to this mass of life, of ceaseless movement, love and loss, how is each one to measure the solitude of existence against the weight of one another’s proximity?

Posts

  • Online Show Final Layout
  • Back to Earth and Waiting
  • Weightless Work
  • Distilling Essences
  • Work Progressing…
  • Ambivalence
  • Experimental Form
  • Waiting for Enshrinement
  • Group Critique
  • Online Show Update
  • Paul Caldwell on Writing for Artists
  • Critical Evaluation
  • Show Installation Guide
  • Experimenting with Logos’ Internal Voice
  • Low-Frequency Track for Logos
  • What I would have like to have done but did not
  • Creativity and Life Cycles of Artists
  • Prose Poems
  • Performance
  • The Raum Gallery: Between Spaces
  • Logos: 1/3 of a Proposal
  • Tutorial 8.2: 19 June 2020. Jonathan Kearney
  • Enshrinement: Installation Notes
  • Enshrinement: 1/3 of a Proposal
  • The Future and the Past in One Place
  • Blog Journal Summary
  • Formulation of future plans to continue my personal and professional development
  • Mitigating the Impact of Coranavirus on the Delivery of the Project Proposal
  • Residency 2020: Trying Out Drawing on New Laptop
  • Residency 2020: British Library, Qatar Foundation Project
  • Residency 2020: Letterpress Workshop
  • Residency 2020: Gallery Visits
  • Residency 2020: Group Tutorials
  • Consideration of Sound Management
  • Residency: Pure Data Workshop
  • Residency 2020: Well Being, Intellectual Property and Zines
  • Residency 2020: V&A Digital Art Collection
  • Residency 2020: Multichannel Workshop
  • Residency 2020: Group Tutorial with Kaori Homma
  • Residency 2020: Cyanotype Workshop
  • Symposium: Summary Thoughts
  • After Symposium 2: 3. Questions to Self
  • Online Show: Skype Chat with Aristotle
  • After Symposium 2: 2. Response to Questions Raised
  • After Symposium 2: 1. Script and Alternative
  • The Kiln, the Kiln, Oh the Kiln
  • WITD – Resuming and Continuing
  • Tutorial 8: 13 May 2020. Jonathan Kearney
  • Symposium 2 Video
  • Tutorial 7: 18 March 2020, Jonathan Kearney
  • Symposium Script 2 – Final Resolution
  • Symposium 2 Script Outline
  • Ideas for New Work 1
  • Day Eleven and Twelve – WITD
  • Day Ten – WITD
  • Day Nine – WITD
  • Day Eight – WITD
  • Improvement on Stand
  • Working Stand for WITD
  • Cat – Essay
  • Day Seven – WITD
  • Day Six – WITD
  • Virtual Space Work Flow
  • Day Five – WITD
  • Day Four of WITD
  • Third Day of WITD
  • Second Day and New Ideas – WITD
  • Second Phase of Third Work – WITD
  • Handling Pieces: The Tactile and the Virtual
  • It is All a Matter of Scale: the Miniature Museum and the Monumental
  • Finishing and Preparing Enshrinement
  • Blog Restoration Complete!
  • From a Small Beginning
  • Tube Clamp Suppliers
  • Process and Ritual
  • Online Show Spaces 3
  • Logos Model
  • Online Show Spaces 2
  • Green Screen Test
  • Alternative Exhibition Spaces and a Gecko
  • Creating a Binaural Headset
  • Tracking Dolly Test
  • Online Show and Spaces
  • Continuing Modelling
  • Modelling
  • “Modernism, Freedom, Sculpture: On”
  • Oracle to Logos
  • New Font Creation
  • A Moment of Change
  • Text(ure) – Millet, Allegory and Readings
  • Building the ‘Egg’ Framework for ‘What’s the Difference?’
  • Lettering Logos
  • An Icon of Change: The Kiln
  • A New Font
  • Two Things About Writing on the Sculpture
  • Technical Planning for Video Work
  • Adapting and Videoing
  • The Erosion of Words Like Memory Raises Curiosity Over Meaning
  • Logos – Title
  • Binary Vision
  • Research Discussion Videos
  • Words Without Title
  • Flesh Made Stone
  • Tabula Rasa – Again
  • Clearing the Decks and Timetabling
  • Website Disaster Averted
  • Display: Stands and Supports
  • Kant on the Infinite – Critique of Pure Reason
  • Sound from Far and Within
  • Orpheus and Eurydice
  • Research Discussion: Introductory Video
  • Thought for Implementation
  • Research Discussion Preliminaries
  • Stage by Stage
  • Segmentation and Culture
  • Helmet of the Sun God
  • Subwoofers: To Port or To Seal
  • Gesture, Imprint, Matrix
  • Light of the Fading Day: A Start
  • Alembic
  • Metamerism: Why Make It So Difficult
  • The Gut
  • Reflections on Concept Sketches
  • Passive Resistance
  • Conversation, Intersubjectivity and the Suspension of Reality
  • Mnemosyne
  • Subject-Object Relationship
  • Angles, Atoms and Rhythm: A Reference
  • More Studies and Why
  • Between Theory and Practice
  • Skype Chat 4.8: Unit 2
  • A Time for Reflection
  • Mythopoeia V – Hope
  • Randomness and Contingency
  • Assessing Nuances and Focus
  • Skype Chat 4.6: Economics of Being an Artist
  • Living Presence Response: A Description of the Ineffable?
  • Living Presence Response
  • Constructing Irretrievable Narratives to Living Presence Response
  • Flowers for Algernon
  • A Place for Tags and Categories
  • Skype Chat 4.5: Andy Lomas
  • Project Proposal V 3.1
  • Skype Chat 4.4: On Focus and Attention Span
  • Turntable Idea
  • Maquette for Suspended Sculpture
  • A Conversation With Taiyo
  • Spes Contra Spem
  • Finding a Title
  • Restarting Blender… and Making
  • Skype Chat 4.3: A Philosophical Interlude
  • Research Statement
  • Tutorial 6: 15 October 2019. Jonathan Kearney
  • Experiment 3 for Conversant Pieces
  • Experiment 1 for conversant pieces
  • Experiment 2 for conversant pieces
  • Skype Chat 4.2: Making Sense of the World
  • About to Start Unit 2
  • William Kentridge: No Need to Comment
  • Treasure
  • Tutorial 5: 04 October 2019. Gareth Polmeer
  • Palimpsest
  • Skype Chat 4.1: Unit 1 Assessment and Process & Ars Electronica
  • Wolfgang Gil: Maleable Sound as Sculpture
  • Research Statement: Draft for Tutorial and Editing
  • Iterations or Something Different?
  • Amputation
  • Evolutionary Space
  • A Correspondence: Marguerite Humeau
  • Reflection
  • Research Statement: Taking Another Direction
  • Low Residency 2019 Day 3: Morehshin Allahyaai
  • Art and Science
  • Finishing Porcelain
  • Methodology
  • Tutorial 4: 01 August 2019. Gareth Polmeer
  • First Circuit
  • Andrew Lord: A Case of Phusis
  • On Materiality
  • PD Pi Uno and Sharp
  • Constellations of the Small Make the Universe
  • Third Phase of Unit One: Continued
  • Third Phase of Unit One
  • Interim Show: On Titles
  • History and Shape-shifting Across Time: Rethinking a Tutorial
  • Idea for Sonic Circumvention
  • Details Regarding Sonic Circumvention
  • Return
  • Mythopoeia IV: Ancestor
  • Mythopoeia IV
  • “Impromptu” – 2 Girls Café Gallery
  • Impromptu: Emperor at 2 Girls Gallery
  • Skype Chat 3.5: Research Statement 2
  • Sight and Touch: Molyneux’s Problem
  • Critique on Latest Study
  • Tutorial 3: Jonathan Kearney – 17 June 2019
  • Skype Chat 3.3: Four Assumptions
  • Skype Chat 3.4: Research Statement I
  • Research Statement in Plain English
  • Initial Hypothesis: Research Statement
  • Skype Chat 3.2: Jonny Briggs
  • Research Statement: Preliminary Title
  • Why “Fine” in Art?
  • Skype Chat 3.1 – An Introduction to the Research Statement
  • Now, Then and To Come
  • For One and for the Other
  • What Are My Intentions for the Third Phase?
  • Between Two Worlds
  • Can Rhythm be a thing in “Static” Visual Arts?
  • Psychological Voltage
  • What is the Difference etc?
  • Studies for H
  • Research Statement: A Start
  • Studies in Artificiality
  • Zoans: Studies in Porcelain for H
  • Talking of Origins
  • Zuihitsu – Assay – Essay – Blog
  • Zoan: H Emerges from Ambivalence
  • Instruments of Gender
  • Elusive Directions: Taxonomy and Mereology
  • Digital Mapping Workshop: Marius Simkus
  • Low Residency: Day 4 – Sound Workshop
  • Pure Data
  • Language and Shape
  • Low Residency – Day 2: Group Tutorials
  • Impromptu 2.0: Video for
  • A Decision Made
  • Grappling with the Angel
  • Significance and Meaning and the Mid Point Review
  • Mid Point Review
  • Mid-Point Review
  • Low Residency – Day 1: Collaborative Project
  • Low Residency 2019
  • Skype Chat 2.6 – Sound with Edward Kelly
  • Do Shadows Dance When There Is No Light?
  • Traces, Thoughts and Transformations
  • Logos/Oracle – only when I do do I know
  • Skype Chat 2.5 – The Anthropology of the Object
  • Dissecting Logos
  • Skype Chat 2.4: The Practice of Everyday Life
  • Oracle Respoken: Large Scale Maquette
  • As It Was, So It Is: a failure to learn from
  • Mea Culpa Restored
  • Skype Chat 2.3: Artist’s Talk – Xavier Sole Mora
  • Mythopoeia II: Worship
  • Control
  • Tutorial 2.1: 17 January 2019. Jonathan Kearney
  • Anthropology and Archaeology
  • Skype Chat: 2.2 – Interaction, Narrative and Play
  • Chat Session 2.1: Interaction, Immersion and Control
  • Opening Possibilities
  • Dimensional Thought Experiment: Worlds Imagined and Recreated
  • Uncertainty, Distance and Time or I Caught My Thumb in the Car Door
  • Labelling the World
  • Hermaphroditus
  • Uniformity, Local Conditions and Culture
  • A Reminder When Writing
  • Learning New Things
  • Mea Culpa Leads to a Unification
  • The Origin of Monsters and Imaginal Discs
  • Finished Graven Creature
  • Skype Chat 1.9: Nick Lambert – Digital Practice
  • Graven Image of Creature
  • Start of a Graphic Narrative
  • Chat Session 1.10 – Artist’s Talk
  • The Ritual of Walking
  • Mythopoeia I: post-truth-hurtling Video
  • Collaboration
  • Virtual Particles
  • Mythopoeia I: post-truth-hurtling
  • Chat Session 1.8: Elusive Taxonomies 2
  • A Seal and Its Significance
  • Ancestral II
  • Mythopoiea and Metamorphosis
  • Project Proposal Renewed
  • What is the Character of a Myth?
  • Breakthrough from the Simplest Source
  • Chat Session 1.7: Elusive Taxonomies
  • Oracle: Maquette 3 – End of a Phase
  • Fall
  • Moon walk
  • A Cyclic Return
  • Oracle: photos of maquette 2
  • Relic and Ritual
  • Oracle: Maquette 2
  • Skype Chat 1.6: Coding
  • Oracle: Maquette 1
  • Drawing 5: Ennoia
  • Impetus
  • Drawing 4: Some Sort of Story Starts to Emerge
  • Skype Chat 1.5: Unit 1 and Project Proposal
  • Leaving Breadcrumbs and Getting Lost in the Process, Outcome and Acceptance
  • Drawing Studies
  • Drawing Studies 2: The Simplicity
  • Drawing Study 1: A Friend Revisited
  • Tutorial 1: 01 November 2018. Jonathan Kearney
  • Chat Session 1.4: Library Induction
  • Long Words: short hand for smaller ones
  • Action Research and Reflection: Jonathan Kearney Lecture
  • Post Truth Hurtling
  • More on Tags
  • A Foreign Land from Familiar Things
  • Source of Motion
  • Premiere Pro
  • Unseen Cause
  • Reality and the Shadow
  • The Soul of a Shadow: Project Idea 2
  • A Sculpture Waiting for Meaning: Project Idea 1
  • Chat Session 1.3: Symposium 1 Second Week
  • What to Do with Tags?
  • Storm Callum
  • Sound Palimpsest
  • Tabula Rasa
  • Chat Session 1.2: Symposium 1 First Week
  • Art and the Machine: Thought 1
  • Ancestral
  • The Bowerbird’s Creation
  • Symposium I
  • Preparing for Symposium I
  • Skype Chat 1.1: A Beginning

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