Research Project Identity - Research

WHAT IS IDENTITY?

Sexual 

Historical 

Cultural 

Philosophical

Physical

Psychological 

1a : the distinguishing character or personality of an individual : individuality. b : the relation established by psychological identification. 2 : the condition of being the same with something described or asserted establish the identity of stolen goods.

Identity is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person (self-identity as emphasized in psychology) or group (collective identity as pre-eminent in sociology). 

A psychological identity relates to self-image (one's mental model of oneself), self-esteem, and individuality.

> Who are you to you?

> Who are you to other people? 

> How does this perception change between these different people? 

personality tests

- what kind of bread roll are you?

- whole designs around me as a bread roll

whole book about narcissism 

- book about me, for me, by me 

> Funny questions and options that really have no relevance 

> type of sitcom character are you? how is this related to bread?

> find this nonsensical way of identifying people as objects funny 

> almost like star signs? 

Loads of these types of quizzes 

- digital identity? 

- identity is a term used in many disciplines and in computer science:

Digital identity, representation of a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject

• Online identity, social identity that an internet user establishes in online communities and websites
• Self-sovereign identity (SSI), the user has a means of generating and controlling unique identifiers as well as some facility to store identity data

IDENTITY AS EXPLORED BY ARTISTS

Vic Lentaigne - Capturing queerness and identity

> intimate portraits of the queer community

> it “exposes a person’s identity, character and often their feelings”. She’s drawn towards the rawness and energy that her discipline provides, especially that which is achieved through the “realness” of a photographic portrait.

Dana Robinson explores youth, Black female identity, ownership and nostalgia

> abstractionism 

> blur the lines with perception 

> how does the viewer see these people? 

> investigations is on youth, Black female identity, ownership and nostalgia, topics she explores by combining, reproducing and deconstructing vintage materials, found objects and paint.

> Ebony Reprinted, a series of monoprints that present “the healing possibilities of abstraction.” To make the works, Dana used images that circulated in printed adverts and distorted them using paint to “remove traces of exploitative, white-dominated, capitalist, visual language and allow the individuals in these images to regain their agency.” She does this by smearing, pressing and adding texture to paint and, as the individuals and their faces becomes more abstract, the notion is that they also become “exponentially more present.”

Fhuiae Kim explores “the third language” in her calming graphic design works

not a written form of language, nor a pictorial one, but somewhere in between.

“It’s a new image symbol code that we can’t explain with our existing language or images,” Fhuiae tells us of this unique visual language system.

Defying dialect and continents, Fhuiae’s work makes use of abstract forms and compositions to speak universally to its viewers.

Heterophony, the primary idea behind the project was to visually interpret how critics write in the darkness during performances in a graphic system

> Abstract forms and shapes

> Play with motion, movement etc. 

> How does this abstract notion portray identity?

> Why am I drawn to abstractionism?

> There are messages being read into images and ideas, just like how people will perceive you as an individual and your identity from what they are reading about you from first meet

> first impressions? how does this play into your identity?

> how do other peoples' perceptions of you work with your 

Graphic designer Angharad Hengyu Owen on textual shapes and wandering poems

insightful book of shape poetry, Um Poema Errante / A Wandering Poem, that traces Christian’s eight-month journey from Europe to Asia during which he wrote a poem a day.

> retains some conventional features despite its experimental layout, like a contents list and thematic arrangements of the poems by country. But page numbers are largely absent from the book, except for when a new border is crossed and the poems change context. 

> These designs developed dialogically through Angharad’s careful engagement with Christian’s poems and via lengthy conversations between the two creatives. “It was important for me to develop the visualisations from the narratives themselves. This is a project where content and design hold equivalent weight and work together to convey meaning.”

> Sense of identity in the way each poem is presented 

> Both artists' identities are being moulded together through this collaboration 

> Outputs from both of them are being presented for the viewer to investigate/appreciate 

> Literal travelling done by the poet = journey = self development 

> Metaphorical travelling done by the designer = journey present in visuals 

REFLECTION 

> All seem to share a sense of journey, abstractionism 

> Humorous approach with the idea of narcissism or silly quizzes, or a more serious thoughtful approach about identity through a sense of travelling, ones journey 

> More research will show which direction I want to go in or new ideas 

> Should do some self led research on concepts??