(Above) One of Elanor’s project
Todays guest speaker was Eleanor Duffin who is currently a visual artist.
She finished college in 2003 where she studied a four-year degree in sculpture and combined media.
Although Eleanor’s course focused more fine-art, painting and graphic design her main interest where: digital sound, sound recording, video and video editing.
For her fourth year project, Duffin made an installation art named “piece of observation”. This project included videos of a still place from different angles and it was up to the people to determine whether they where photos or pictures. The main theme of this project was creation of identity and how people saw themself in relation to other people.
After completing her degree in 2003 Eleanor did an Masters in the National College Of Art which was successfully completed in 2005.
During her MA Eleanor and a group of her college mates went to the Cyber Media in Genova where she did research for the physics institute.
From her inspiration there she developed a project called withdrawn. For me this was particularly interesting for the simple reason that it had shown me how different approaches in media can affect ones understatement.
Right after Duffin completed her MA she moved to london for one year Eleanor used this year to get inspiration. The next step after this was a two-year trip to Japan where she thought english to japanese students, and although she liked her job in japan as she said ” it was really interesting”, she felt she did not get enough experience in her own career and for that reason she moved back to Dublin.
There Eleanor did an internship in capella street for one year and a half. she described her experience there as it ” accelerated great oppurtionaty to meet people”. During this time she was trying to find a starting point.
After this year and a half was completed Duffin wanted to put her experience into action so went to Reykjavik in Iceland june 2009.
Over in Iceland Eleanor created a small video about the visual perception of the panina .
Finally So far this was the brief history of Eleanor, i know that she is a person who is willing to take on every oppurtionaty she has.
At the moment Duffin is researching in the london college of communication she is also doing a series of little drawing which she hopes to develop in a finished video piece.
I am not visual artists and I can’t visualize anything from scratch , im not sure if I would do well in this career but I would definitely love to experience!!
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