KRISTINA CRANFIELD

 

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Selected works

Requiem for Varna (art residency) (2012)

Detention Grounds (2012)

Falling from Heights (2012)

Gene CHP-48/0Z-378 (2012)

The Future of Mechanical Turk (2012)

The Geometry of the Crowd / One Minute Jobs (2011)

Signs (2011) photographs

Mind Control (2011)

Charlie Chaplin Ate a Shoe (2011)

Ownership of the Face (2011)

Anti-Social (2010)

The Geometry of the Crowd / One Minute Jobs

In collaboration with Anastasia Vikhornova

This project developed two major interests. At first it has started with a deep fascination by transitional spaces. Tunnels and tubes have a sign system that standardizes and organises public movement where individuals only interact with text. This system develops an anti-social and de-humanized environment – yet it also creates a structured and efficient atmosphere where social computing happens naturally and in unison.

What happens when you place these structures into highly crowded and chaotic places? Can people form their own systems and organization of social interaction? Will these systems become more organic and even playful rather then over imposing and forceful?

The second interest led to the exploration of short tasks that we can engage while in transition. What if orchestrated behaviour could turn into efficient, and even profitable, systems? Can these organised activities be transformed into one-minute jobs? It seems the idea of having a one stable profession is shifting. Having ‘no profession’ is still alien, mystical and anti-social. In recent times however, anyone can become anything, as there is no concept of a fixed identity to anchor one’s choice. Whom will you choose to be today?

Hand sketches (post office)

drawing

Hand sketches (bus stop) drawing
Concept drawings drawing
Human taxi drawing
Human signs sketches drawing
Human signs photographs mask

Human signs photographs

 

mask

SPECIAL THANKS TO ONKAR KULAR & MATT JONES