Category Archives: MA Photography The Image & Electronic Arts

Amber-Leigh Jordan

Amber-Leigh Jordan

χάος (kháos)

Previous slide
Next slide

Ancient Greeks believed that before the creation of the universe, the world was in a state of nothingness, they referred to this concept as “χάος” (pronounced kháos).

Through the use of traditional and contemporary technologies, this collection aims to document the void of nothingness, which once a year, engulfs Greek Islands during their off-peak season.

The project was shot on the Greek Island of Kefalonia using an analogue Hasselblad Xpan camera and modern 360-Degree camera and offers an immersive perspective of Greece, which is unseen by frequenting tourists.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Zexian Hu

Zexian Hu

Memory Distortion

Previous slide
Next slide

The photographic series “Memory Distortion” is inspired by people’s memories and experiences in memory, such memories have completely different backgrounds in time and space, and memories of things constitute our imagination of the time and space that existed in the past. We can certainly move around in space at will. But strictly speaking, we can never go back to a point we reached before, because it is already another space in another dimension of time. After all, time can stretch and fold, but not to retreat.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Jingwen Zhang

Jingwen Zhang

Fragment

Previous slide
Next slide

What exactly counts as human? And what exactly counts as nature? As humans overly pursue the beauty of urban construction on natural land, the stability of natural ecosystems is gradually being destroyed by human over-exploitation. For my project, I asked humans to hold up an image of a natural landscape and photograph it in a city that smells of steel and concrete. What happens next to this image of a natural landscape?

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Yilin Lu

Yilin Lu

Primordial given

Previous slide
Next slide

I wanted to trace the images of things that were attached to the original of consciousness, whose existence and my observation of them could be described as an unconditional occurrence. But when they intersect with photography, a certain presupposition is created. When confronted with such preconceptions I often fall into a kind of unconscious chaos, as is the norm in my life, and yes, I am always in chaos. Until one day a person who inspired me on my photographic path said to me, “You have to take the chaos, the future is going to be more pressing, so burning life.” I looked at the images again, and they seemed to make me accept the chaos.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Zhaoqi Jiang

Zhaoqi Jiang

Turritopsis dohrnii

Previous slide
Next slide

Turritopsis dohrnii is a species of small,biologically immortal jellyfish. As the materialization of Infinity, its existence is like a miracle. Its theoretically infinite life cycle is just like hydrological cycle. This video is trying to build a loop of water as a metaphor for the infinity of nature.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Sidi Li

Sidi Li

Rainy season never leave

Previous slide
Next slide

A person’s life is made up of many moments, which are usually attached to certain carriers and will record many moments and memories, which will make things that change from time to time permanent.It rarely rains in my hometown, but it often rains in London. It turns out that I have mixed feelings about the rain in London, because it is rare for me, and it carries many memories for me. I have had pink hair since I was in London and I love it. But it also fades quickly, like all “moments”. It is an experience as much as the rain, I print the pink hair on paper, let them bend, deform, fade, I cannot change them or force them not to change. Because “instant” is “eternal”, but “instant” can never be “eternal”.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Dingwen Liang

Dingwen Liang

Outside

Previous slide
Next slide

Her moving images and images are based on thinking in the context of the digital age. For the moving image,Our private lives have been unconsciously transformed by different electronic devices into a state where they can be seen and observed by others. Private life is then exposed to public view. And as we watch others, they watch us. Her current images work explores the intermediate realm between the visible and invisible when the observer is removed from the internal environment, peering inwards as a decentralised paradoxical presence, using the glass for clarity and invisibility. The presence of the subject is diminished by the use of the clarity and invisibility of the glass. They are independent of each other and con.The subject’s prominence is diminished through the strategic implementation of the transparent and concealed attributes of glass, resulting in an intriguing interplay between independence and containment within this context.Her moving images and images are based on thinking in the context of the digital age. For the moving image,Our private lives have been unconsciously transformed by different electronic devices into a state where they can be seen and observed by others. Private life is then exposed to public view. And as we watch others, they watch us. Her current images work explores the intermediate realm between the visible and invisible when the observer is removed from the internal environment, peering inwards as a decentralised paradoxical presence, using the glass for clarity and invisibility. The presence of the subject is diminished by the use of the clarity and invisibility of the glass. They are independent of each other and con.The subject’s prominence is diminished through the strategic implementation of the transparent and concealed attributes of glass, resulting in an intriguing interplay between independence and containment within this context.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Oluwasegun Wycliff Alabi

Oluwasegun
Wycliff Alabi

Mindful Disruption

Previous slide
Next slide

“Mindful disruption” refers to a concept that combines the principles of mindfulness and disruptive innovation. It involves approaching disruptions or changes in a conscious, intentional, and aware manner, with a focus on positive outcomes and sustainable transformation. Mindfulness, derived from Buddhist traditions, involves bringing one’s attention to the present moment, being aware of one’s thoughts, feelings, and surroundings without judgment. It is often practiced through meditation and other techniques to cultivate a state of heightened awareness and clarity. Disruptive innovation, on the other hand, refers to the process of introducing new products, services, or business models that significantly alter the existing market landscape. Disruptive innovations typically challenge traditional ways of doing things and often create new opportunities or reshape industries. The concept of mindful disruption brings these two ideas together. It encourages individuals and organisations to approach disruptions and innovations with a mindful mindset, emphasising qualities such as intention, awareness, and ethical considerations. By applying mindfulness to the process of disruption, one can navigate change more consciously and empathetically, minimising negative consequences and maximising positive outcomes.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Ying Yang

Ying Yang

Parallel Universe

Previous slide
Next slide

Parallel Universe is a development and extension of Ying Yang’s previous project ‘Peep Summer’, where she has been dedicated to discovering the beauty of everyday life from a special perspective. In this project, Ying Yang uses a mirror as a medium to observe the world in the mirror, in order to explore the new fusion point between the invisible Angle behind and the reality vision in front. From the two sides of the object, think about whether the eye betrays the essence. Are dead trees in the real world in parallel universes or alive?

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Huaqi Zhang

Huaqi Zhang

Ai

AI is similar to dreams in that it allows humans to shuttle between the real and the unreal, making all sorts of absurd, unreal and strange imaginings come true.   To explore the changes in contemporary photographic art with new image capture techniques and equipment and the rapid development of technology

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Eddie Perenyi

Eddie Perenyi

Insert Coin to Continue

Previous slide
Next slide

Insert Coin to Continue is a project about “third places”– a space that sits outside of work or the home, one built on shared communal experience; where the focus is play, not productivity. Like many other third places, arcades are at a crossroads, facing closures as technological changes and economic factors threaten their existence.

 

This series challenges their perceived obsolescence through documenting and celebrating the remaining arcades in the city, from repurposed warehouses to casino basements. Each photo aims to transport the viewer, encouraging them to place themselves in the arcade, getting lost among the bright lights and overwhelming sensory experience. The work is created using primarily analog techniques and printed on backlit durtatran material to replicate the tactile aura of each venue and machine.

 

Insert Coin to Continue is part of a larger body of work exploring the relationship between neoliberal economic ideology and its impact on communal spaces.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Jiaqi Sun

Jiaqi Sun

Wandering

Previous slide
Next slide

For this set of photos, I was inspired by a Taiwanese folk song—Wondering A raspy voice with a simple guitar accompaniment. A female singer uses the lyrics to tell the story of her wandering from her home under the mountains to Taipei. Most people here are foreigners, seeking a sense of identity, but also accompanied by contradictions and pulls, encountering hypocritical people, sad things, and wanting to escape. Sometimes I want to escape into no man’s land. I want to stand in the wilderness and feel the wind and the sun, my mind becomes hazy and I can’t think about anything in its entirety. I can only passively accept the beautiful music and the cool breeze. That’s the feeling I’m trying to express

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Eun Su Park

Eun Su Park

Untitled

Previous slide
Next slide

This work discovers and express feelings/ emotions by capturing nature. Nature has allowed me to ease my anxiety, and depression. It is a projection of internal feelings.

 

Therefore, capturing nature is not only a language as a simple sign, but a process of existence that requires replacing the whole being.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Yi-ying Lai

Yi-ying Lai

Origin

Previous slide
Next slide

This works focus on using cameraless photography to explore the relationship between humans and the environment. The work shows natural or man-made objects pro induced in the current surroundings as creative elements. The series of this project uses photogram techniques to take pictures which means placing garbage or digital negatives directly on top of the photosensitive paper for exposure. Viewers can see scattered and irregular objects in these brightly coloured series of works. These scattered translucent objects on the photographic paper are rubbish picked up from the beach in East Tilbury which is a village on the estuary that connects to the Thames. A part of the beach is also a former landfill, however. This landfill’s waste are going into the river with the tide, meanwhile, we also drink from the waters of the Thames.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Ming Li

Ming Li

Urban Vascular

Previous slide
Next slide

Reality is equal for everyone in the world, something that exists objectively, who has some rules of his own, just like there are veins and bones in the body of an animal, gravity in the world, the Roche limit. In the midst of a city there are also streets, and alleyways, connecting the different subdivisions of the city. But people perceive things differently, and everyone feels the same thing differently, just as there are 10,000 Hamlets in 10,000 people. People are bound to carry their own feelings with them as they use their eyes or tools to record their exploration of the world, so can we say this: “Everything in the world that is built and produced by humans is a product of human feelings”. What we know in the process of knowing the world is also the product of belonging to the perceptions of others. The streets of the city are everywhere; they are like veins that connect the various areas of the city. Although these streets exist objectively, it may not be entirely consistent in each person’s perception.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Zufei Hu

Zufei Hu

Dancing With The Devil

Previous slide
Next slide

My project stems from my previous bulimia nervosa. It made me deeply aware of the harm of addictive behavior.Whether it’s drug addiction, internet addiction, gambling, etc.These will repeatedly lead to a rapid increase and decrease in the frequency of dopamine in people. Any factor can tease these people’s brains, making them feel like they are possessed and completely out of control. So my video imitates the psychological state of people who become addicted. The picture is sometimes accelerated with bright colors, and sometimes slowed down with a dull and gloomy tone. By using the expression of glitch art, this can increase the sense of confusion and terror, making it more dramatic. Let the audience’s heart beat faster for a while ,then feel lost and empty at times, and want to watch again. To remind people to be vigilant about the temptation and danger of addictive behavior. And I hope that the addicted population can receive more care, support, and professional treatment.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Xiao Liang

Xiao Liang

I WAS HERE

Previous slide
Next slide

Nowadays, many people spend a lot of their travel time on taking photos that are more in line with public aesthetics in order to post pictures that attract audiences on social media when they travel, and lose the meaning of photography in travel and the autonomy of shooting itself. In my opinion, this is influenced by cybernetics in communication science. Based on the black box method in cybernetics, I use a ccd cameras which cannot show images normally due to screen damage are taken as black box at every famous scenic spots and historic sites around the world to take pictures. Since this ccd camera still has the function of shooting except that the screen is damaged and the image cannot be seen, the picture in front of the lens can still be used as input. Therefore, I use this Ccd camera as a black box, and the places of interest in front of the lens are recorded into the camera as input. The act of imagining what the site should have looked like from audiences based on damaged images is output and feedback. At the same time, the camera was originally used as a tool for shooting, but it lost its meaning as a camera because it was damaged. It is as if people spend a lot of time travelling in order to take more aesthetically pleasing photos and thus gain more attention, while losing the meaning of photography in the journey itself.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Jiayuan Yu

Jiayuan Yu

Ghost Work

Previous slide
Next slide

Artificial intelligence has given rise to a new wave of workers, but compared to the Industrial Revolution era, this working class is almost invisible, akin to the existence of ghosts. Ghost workers enhance machine learning algorithms by performing repetitive tasks online such as image annotation and content moderation. Many workers have been concealed within the promotion of company automation and full automation, even replacing their identities in human society with a series of numbers. They are a marginalized workforce that is not protected by law or society. This project compiles a set of characteristics of ghost workers through extensive research and provides them to AI for visualizing their avatars and virtual work environments. The characters in green suits resemble movie green screen costumes, allowing them to be easily identified and removed by software. The majority of ghost workers’ tasks involve annotating images gathered from the internet and using them as input to train AI models. In other words, they train models with their own work, creating images as if in a Möbius loop, gradually revealing the hidden parts.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Haowei Zhang

Haowei Zhang

One path of absurdity

Previous slide
Next slide

My works are rooted in my training in photography as a documentary and art medium, which investigates the topic of life, time, and loneliness, exploring the relationship among image, text, and Experience of life. My final work has two parts, photography and video, and The main topic of my work is loneliness. I start from the “society of spectacle”(by Guy Debord). I work on the topic of people that are controlled, or oppressed by society, and loneliness. What I’m doing now is more about myself, showing the same thing, about that People can feel lonely in society, even if there are people everywhere. The second part is a video that reflects my understanding of the “experience of life”. After the first part of the photography, I developed the relationship between loneliness and life. So I realize that nihilism and existence, both are in my life experience. Sometimes humans just move forward in life in a way that is powerless but necessary, whether they know the reason or not.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Kaiyuan Deng

Kaiyuan Deng

Vibrating Void

Previous slide
Next slide

What occurs when places with visible entities are transformed into infinite void? With this doubt, I use photography to build an atmosphere in which the sense of time and space turns subtle and eccentric. The three-dimensional reality seems to collapse in it into a virtual space synthesised by Ai tools. The figures of the human being are stripped away at the visual level in a place of activity that was originally subordinated to society. Their functions are compressed, and their practical values are limited. Nevertheless, people’s judgements and evaluations of them, based on the experience of socially shared behaviour, remain as attached to such ‘non-place’ as the souls of the dead. Thus, everything begins to appear traceable and wobbly. The scent of death wafts through them, and an inner activity close to the instinct for survival reverberates violently in the silent images, penetrating my eyes and blowing a breeze.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Yuxuan Mei

Yuxuan Mei

Encounters with strangers

Human encounters encompass a blend of chance and inevitability, wherein the beginning and culmination of each relationship hold their unique destinies. The trajectory of human connections often eludes our control or foresight, leaving us as mere observers of their unfolding. Within this realm, numerous unforeseen twists and turns abound, constituting one of its most captivating facets. It was my intention to explore the pathways of destiny by forging a bond with a stranger, recognizing that the progression of this relationship rested upon the actions of that unfamiliar individual. Along this journey of connection, I also experienced a diverse array of energetic responses from others, conveyed through words or fleeting eye contact.

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points

Igor Chekachkov

Igor Chekachkov

Title of the work

Previous slide
Next slide

I will exhibit 2 projects: one consists of 3 big photographs in the frames – portraits of Ukrainian refugees. Another one is a mosaic of low res images

Contact this artist

© 2023 Goldsmiths Degree show — Inflection Points