The Brief
The objective is to encourage contributions for a week long, non profit pop up print exhibition and shop that will be held at the Leeds Corn Exchange between March 28th and April 4th 2014.
The theme of the exhibition is 'dialogue' where each creative will submit a design that will be used in a blind collaboration. Contributors must be open to their submissions being manipulated through the use of print and the match making process, that will pair the two submissions together. This will create a series of screen-printed artworks that will be displayed throughout the running of the exhibition.
Response
My first port of call is to initially research further into the words dialogue and communication looking further afield.
Dialogue
A literary and theatrical form consisting of a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people.
Communication
The activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behaviour. It is the meaningful exchange of information between two or more living creatures.
From these two definitions and the basic understanding I have of the words and subject, I decided to create a spider diagram that acted as a word association to see how far I can push the subject and how far the word communication would lead me.
I felt the words I came up with through this exercise were kind of generic and obvious, I think something more obscure would work better and enable me to create a response that's more unique to the responses they'll already be receiving.
As opposed to looking at what communication is, I had the idea of looking at the issues and problems of communication/ dialogue we face in modern living such as; censorship, hacking, manipulation, broken communication and how it misguides people.
North Korea
There is a curious quirk on every official North Korean website. A piece of programming that must be included in each page's code. Its function is straightforward but important. Whenever leader Kim Jong-un is mentioned, his name is automatically displayed ever so slightly bigger than the text around it. Not by much, but just enough to make it stand out.
George Orwell 1984
"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past"
I feel this quote relates highly to the dictatorship of Kim Jong-un and what is happening in North Korea with censorship and control over the dialogue and communication.
The plan is to manipulate/censor images or text to misguide the viewer similar to what happens in North Korea