Adam Griffiths is a designer, curator and lecturer at Manchester school of art. He describes his work as being very varied and having no parameters and he focuses on the idea of ‘exploring the space between the physical and digital worlds’. Griffiths is the designer behind Transient Space in Manchester; he describes it as a digital gallery exploring the concepts of time, space and the culture of the transient screen. He has experimented greatly with what to display on the 4 projectors in Manchester Metropolitan university, including the 17 second pieces for the design festival, and a sound reactive poem.
As a product of the task to create a 5-10 second animation based on the theme of disruption, this gif focuses on the accidental emergency text message in Hawaii, which obviously in itself was a massive disruption, but the whole gif looks at the idea of editing and disrupting an authoritative message to the point where it is no longer authoritative.
I really enjoyed Adam Griffiths workshop today; firstly I liked hearing about the process of his work and how he can generate work through systems or set rules, for example how he created a random grid system for a publication based on how the images where laid out on tumblr, and his google images piece, where he photographed work in an exhibition and put them through a google program to find the most similar photo, often with odd results. I also enjoyed experimenting with making a gif as I don’t tend to do make animations, it will be a helpful skill to utilise in this current design for screen brief.
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