I am presenting a paper at the DIVERSE conference:

http://www.aber.ac.uk/diverse

Drawing with Light: an exploration in the use and application of digital projection technologies for the teaching of embodied drawing.

Abstract

I am committed to delivering art workshops and residencies, which are about enabling participants to engage with their creativity through engaging in the processes I use as a professional artist.
On 21st March 2009 I delivered a Masterclass for Criw Celf (Gwynedd Arts Agency) to young people on “Performative Drawing”.

The methods I employ are part of my new practice to marry traditional modes of drawing and contemporary digital technology.

The Masterclass comprised of screening film footage I had made as part of my own work onto a large piece of heavy weight drawing paper. The young people were invited to draw directly onto the paper whist the film was being projected. The projection onto large paper was then repeated, but using a video mixer linked to a camera on an easel (with paper on board). The camera fed into a data projector and whilst drawing took place on the easel paper, the image and the hand doing the drawing was seen in the large projection on the screen. In the re-screening the participants experienced drawing in the film in a different way. It was still a “trace” of a moving image, but done in an entirely new way.

In order to visualise this process please view the film Tone Line Colour on my website: www.mariahayes.info

I will present my findings from the Masterclass using documentation of the workshop and will contextualize the role I see for the use of digital technology in the teaching of traditional drawing.