December

December sees several aspects of the practice merge. The recent commercial project has been given the go ahead. The completion will be expected prior to Christmas. This is brilliant news and its expected this will build on existing commercial experience. The commercial portfolio is beginning to build slowly. The project is intended for the commercial TV market.

News on the ident should be received by the end of December. The production will commence in February 2011 if the proposal is successful. The potential to produce work as Lye and Mclaren produced for the GPO may be possible. This may allow for experimentation and research, and could lead to a very interesting project.

The research question will be presented on 15th December. A complete review of the last 6 months research is in progress. A number of potential research questions have arisen from recent reading and the attendance of a number of exhibitions.

In attending the Len Lye exhibition at the IKON, Birmingham, the curators talk and the accompanying book, interesting light has been shed on the practice. It may be that the history and process identified within the book may help in giving some structure to the practice. New avenues of research have been identified and are being interrogated. January has been reserved from commercial practice, in order to investigate the important works exhibited at the Ikon. This has been the most important exhibition attended and potentially very influential to the research. Short experimental works could be produced in examining Lyes kinetic sculpture and moving image work.