3d model x concepts

3D Model x Design Concepts

Below macro and micro design decisions are explained interactively. Use the model viewer to toggle between lamps and explore the prototype piece.

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site compressed-136 — Life of a People is an evolving sociovisual project by area.sarj. A prototype was shown at Eastside Projects in Birmingham, UK in 2022. A moment in exchange for a print. A twisted commodification.

site compressed-137 — Over three years photos and connections were exchanged between photographer and subject via a P210R portable printer, in North Birmingham, UK. A 3d model can be accessed via the site menu.

site compressed-138 — These small 2.1 x 3.4 inch mementos, arranged in an overwhelming cascade on the artist's own table, act as process art and commentary on the commodification of art and community. A twisted commodification of an otherwise humanistic exchange – a bribe in exchange for a kodak moment.

site compressed-152 — The project aims to shed light on the recognisable effects of Marxian alienation on the human psyche, in a community under siege from gentrification and capital accumulation in class society.

site compressed-157 — Through interviews, accounts and poems were gathered, building a picture of SPIRALING escapism, NOSTALGIC lost youth, and TOWERING community resistance to exploitation.

site compressed-154 — Some of these reflections are shared in the piece, including job and healthcare precarity, racism, housing precarity...

site compressed-153 — ...lost culture, sexual pressures of income inequality, drug spirals...

site compressed-139 — ...exclusion from the commonwealth games...

site compressed-155 — ...and forced imperial labour migration.

site compressed-147 — These reflections are highlighted by UV light, which is just off the spectrum of visible light. Only those with aphakia can see it, reflecting the special access the artist has within the community of North Birmingham.

site compressed-156 — Poem 'spirals' relating to skunk abuse and psychosis. Every hotboxed car feels the same...memories sway and mangle into one.

site compressed-141 — Thirty feeling forty. The juxtaposition between UV and normal light parallels the day/night cycle of labour and leisure: profits privatised/ tragedy socialised.

site compressed-150 — Front row depicting rigidity of class society and the exhaustion felt by the human. Layout choices explained in 3d model viewer.

site compressed-144 — Community resistance in progress.

site compressed-145 — Focal length design parameters: ≤40mm. Anti-voyeuristic. Intimate, claustrophic.

site compressed-130 — Butter chicken isn't the same as in Kolkata.

Production Parameters

Attempted style, philosophy: ~worker photography, social documentary and environmental portrait. Materialism, anti-voyeurism, intimate, claustrophobic.

Focal lengths ≤ 40mm.

Shot size ≥ MCU.

Composition: posed, semi-posed, candid, staged. Minority of contextual architecture and close up allowed for exhibition purposes.

Focus: mid-to-deep.

Spatial boundaries (subjects and site): North Birmingham ~Handsworth Wood, Handsworth, Cape Hill, Aston, Winson Green, Perry Barr, Great Barr, Kingstanding, Erdington, in Birmingham, UK.

3d model x concepts

3D Model x Design Concepts

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Production Parameters

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