Projects
Learning Skills. Exploring Potential.
Learning Skills. Exploring Potential.
Andrew’s project will see him learn new technical skills and digital crafts, exploring the potential applications within contemporary art and curatorial practice.
Andrew’s Explore project is tech heavy as he intends to spend hours using Unity Learn, but he often finds the more he learns a craft, the more it positively impacts the art. They feed each other.
Focusing on researching 360° video workflows and learning the software, Unity, he will examine the potential of extended reality in contemporary art. He is curious as to what the auteur could achieve within this area and keen to discover its applications in curatorial and community art projects.
Explore
£5,000
Aims of the project
He plans to explore the established digital art trail but wants to go beyond the art trail and see what is possible within community, participation and performance. “I am thinking about non-digital participatory works such as Roman Ondák’s ‘Measuring the Universe.’
I am thinking about Readymades. I am a digital fly-tipper, discarding the digital sofa that DFS encouraged me to “view in my home” on the banks of Loch Ness. Can existing everyday AR applications be used in new artworks? I am thinking about the structure and mechanics of AR and VR games and their potential as art. I am thinking of Yoko Ono’s performative instructions and Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies. I am thinking about Agent Smith from The Matrix franchise – can something from the digital reality enter ours? I am thinking how I often form new ideas by new understandings and wonder where my new skill set could lead?”
Meet the artist
Andrew Lawson Maclean
Lead Artist
he/him
A graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, Andrew also worked at DJCAD as an AV technician until 2022. He has recently moved to the Highlands, where he is a Creative Arts technician at UHI Inverness. Andrew was the founder of Yuck ‘n Yum, a quarterly art zine and collective, and is a digital artist, cameraman, director, producer and editor. He is currently devising new work exploring community, environment, video, new and old technology, immersive experiences, collage, sampling, and moving image.
