Unfortunately due to illness overtaking some of our project leaders we had to delay the first meeting about this project till next week. In the meantime however my group and I have organized ourselves into a Whatsapp group for communication and compiled a mood board for our ‘Low-fi’ project. The idea is to create a new room in the university inspired by this specific aesthetic and then track that and incorporate it into real footage filmed by the staff.
The link to that mood board is here: https://artslondon.padlet.org/tschweizer0620221/cassette-punk-os5o010dkt45zbf9
After talking with Christos, our course leader acting as our ‘client’ for this project, we determined that what he meant as ‘Low-fi’ is what has colloquially now been referred to as ‘Cassette Punk’ ‘Cassette Futurism’ or ‘Retro-futurism’. This references the particular era of sci-fi found in the late 70s through the 80s with films such as Blade Runner and Alien. With that in mind we compiled a list of screenshots from media of, and inspired by, this period to serve as inspiration.
We have also since compiled and early asset list of what we will be undertaking in creating this room.