Strange Attractors

'Letterlab' Exhibition 2009, The Neverlands. Strange Attractors was founded by Ryan Pescatore Frisk and Catelijne van Middelkoop in 2001, it is an international studio that “creates innovative ideas and solutions with a view to influencing culture and commence.”

Primarily I was looking for some way to disguise the screen that my animation will be playing on within my exhibition. I want the screen to be a highlight and a section of a bigger piece/picture, not just plonked onto a table with posters hanging along side as the designs for my exhibition are rather dark in general, the crisp colours of the room doesn't quite fit.

Their use of typography, shape, form and most importantly the sense of depth through layering cardboard cuts outs has inspired me to go along the same lines to cover my screen and really engage my audience to have to spend time 'visually listening' to the layers involved in creating homosexuality.

My initial ideas for the cardboard are:

1) Quotes from Dear Boy or the statistics.

2) Compound chemicals.

3) Cut out brain for the screen?

4) Pheromone inspired glass or plastic globes to be placed in between and before the cardboard layers in various sizes - sense of distortion through the glass to communicate the change in brain function, 'blinded by love' sort of communication, a distortion of the brain.

5) Xq28 chromosome.