TIM BUCHANAN 

I seem to always be focused on the digital and digital realms. I am drawn to this as it offers an exploration into new spaces, layered spaces, augmented spaces and virtual spaces. I find this mode of digital expiration to be a SAFE one, thus I would like to focus on analogue processes for this semesters photo book.

I am looking over my old negatives and hunting for new spaces inside the frame.  I will also continue to shoot streetside 35mm in efforts to expand this exploratory action.

I want that disintegratory effect of spaces in-between, uncanny spaces, hints at other realities, perceptual shifts and transitory moments. This IS what I am searching for in my digital work – the search for new spaces and new frontiers is what drives me into the fringes of digital practise. But with the digital being just another medium/media I feel I should challenge myself by searching for these new spaces in areas where I am not comfortable. This fits absolutely with the drive behind exploration itself. Splashing in the kiddy-pool of digital realities will  only get me waist deep, when in fact I should be struggling to keep afloat. 

Film grain allows dissipation. Grain – like pixels show the malleability of realities. Grain - shows the perceptual drift of a subjective universe; When we see meaning conveyed through obvious materiality I feel that this shows clear construction which in turn leads to the drive to deconstruct. I’m hunting these moments, the nanosecond just before something breaks through a barrier into something else. I’m on a hunt for kinesis, I WANT that tension, for reality to expand suddenly before the mind when considering the possibilities.