- Mel Woods
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Research Summary
Mel Wood's current interest in the convergence of visual, text and sound based media combines exploration of historical and contemporary technologies, interaction and visual perception. Mel employs primarily lens based media in visual art forms through investigations of narrative, observation and illusion in a variety of contexts. She is concerned with interdisciplinary research and the overlap in art, humanities and sciences in the areas of optics, visual perception and the senses. The outcomes for projects include interactive works, traditional and digital imaging, digital video and site-specific installation with dissemination through exhibition, seminars and papers nationally and internationally.
Current project Sonic Phonic – Towards a Generative Alphabet, funded by AHRC, Alt-W and School of Media Arts & Imaging research fund, investigates interrelation between image and sound in the western alphabet, the database system and correlation of media elements and interaction of the participant within the alphabetic artwork. The work is scheduled to be exhibited and evaluated in the Visual Research Centre, DCA in 2007 and will also be disseminated through a conference paper.
The Dark Room, a new digitally enhanced Camera Obscura will juxtapose the optical projection derived form the camera obscura with a projected high definition video installation. This will open on Cairngorm Mountain, Scotland in Summer 2007, a recent paper was presented at 'the Quest for Illusion', IPC, Mesdag Panorama, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Mel has established a number of international artistic and scientific contacts in Europe and the US as part of an informal working group to examine collaborative possibilities in optics, new technologies and perception. This group includes expertise in the areas of historical and contemporary panoramic research, visual perception, lens and optics experts, narrative, illusion and technology, pre-cinematic film and related collections and experimental methods in photographic and video art.