Visual Communication - Bachelors

Motion Capture

Motion Capture is a visual adaptation of a sci-fi story, communicated through detail of physically-fabricated clothing prototypes, stylistically exploiting the artefacting inherent to current and emerging technologies. ‘Motion Capture’ denotes a capture of cultural information transferred between one reality and another, metamorphosed as an advanced, self-aware corporate identity. Consumer practise, behaviour and identity have been reshaped due to the literal collision of the past and the future, eclipsing the sentience of technology and reflected as confusing and fever-dreamish manifestations of clothing.

Harry Jones

Clothing has been Jailbroken. Environmental collapse has forced social transposition and the revaluation of relationships with material belongings. On their knees, society beseeched Corpo-governmental entities to forgive them for their crimes of pollution and carbon footprints.

The age of ReThreading introduced mandatory reconstruction of disposed garments. Individuals distributed unwanted clothes through a subscription service and created ingenious solutions for convenient and fashionable new wear. Each morsel of thread being pushed beyond its limit, facilitating unprecedented potential. Washed, rinsed and left outside to dry one summer, the residual of detergent-water was siphoned into high-fashion uniforms.

In the reality of Motion Capture, corporate entities are heavily identified, treated as individuals with desires and dreams. These entities collaborate and transform tirelessly in bureaucratic formation, tessellating outwards to create conglomerate institutions. To help ease the mental toll and compartmentalise these everchanging connections, every aspect of daily life came attached with a logo and brand identity – emotions, ideas, concepts.

Obsolete technologies are sentient and return metamorphosed in unrecognizable forms. Sometimes hostile and occasionally friendly, these entities take on personas of the present: technologies cosplay as influencers, not for profit or innovation, but out of a desire for survival.

Convenience is choking on its own miasma, permeating flow with a prevailing sentiment of absolute passivity. Superimpositions of archaic technological trends from the past and emerging hardware innovation provide framework for the realtime output of randomly generated clothing. Designs created for the wants and needs of this very instant…

Harry Jones

Harry Jones is a multidisciplinary artist whose visual work generates a digitally-saturated world, characterized by use of vibrant hues, obsolescent design motifs and excessive artefacting. Playfully examining consumption, online subcultures and surveillance, he constructs visions of speculative fiction to cogitate the omnipresence of virtual realities and constant overstimulation.