Exhibitions Visits

I have to say there isn't much shown in art galleries/museums, relating to my chosen GARP topic. However, there are a few exhibitons that arose my interest and coloud be beneficial to me and help my research process.

Walker Art Gallery - Showcases a Riley paining, although not one of her black and whiter series.
Tate Britain info - Info
Tate Blog - Blog
Manchester Whitworth Gallery - Wallpaper/patterns

Various Links

Op Art explained 1
Op ART

Applied with Music

Found image here from Ashleigh Barron who has produced a typographic piece of work inspired from 'Digital' - Joy Division

I have found various examples of this style of work / optical design used in relation to music (covers/promotion flyers) does this pattern tend to work more appropriately with music themed products/work?

Does it relationship with mathematics also work alongside the notion of music/repetition/rhythm?

The Responsive Eye

The Responsive Eye was an exhibition in 1965 created by William C Seitz for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York.
The exhibition explored art that created illusions of movement that tricked the human eye.

Below shows a short DVD of the exhibition itself.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Interviews / Questions

Whilst being in the summer, I thought now would be a good oppourtunity to email some artists / designers work that I could use as part of my research for my GARP.
This allows for plenty of notice and also I can see who will participate and who wont.

So far, I emailed Simon C. Page, Melvin Galapon and Give Up Art...whom all replied back to me with a yes!
However, three people haven't replied back to me.

Books / References

Bridget Riley : Flashback - Hayward Publishing (2009)
Bridget Riley by Maurice de Sausmarez - Studio Vista Limited (1970)
Bridget Riley : Paintings & Drawings 1961-2004 - Ridinghaus, London (2004)
Bridget Riley : Selected Paintings 1961-99 - Hatje Cantz Publishers (2000)
Bridget Riley : Paintings 1982-2000 and Early Works on Paper - PaceWildenstein (2000)
Bridget Riley edited by Paul Moorhouse - Tate Publishing (2003)
Bridget Riley : Works 1959-78 - The Britsh Coucnil, London (1978)
Bridget Riley - Kunsthalle Nurnberg & The South Bank Centre (1992)
Bridget Riley : Reconnaissance - Distributed Art Publishing, New York (2001)

The above show some books I have looked through to help me with my section based on Riley and her Black and White paintings.

Idea Sorted?

From having many, if not too many ideas and routes to venture down after begining with hardly any...I think I may have finally pinned down a path to follow.

From my initial interest of black and white, I have decided to use this as a starting point. I will begin by looking at Bridget Riley's Black and White paintings - her use of optics (optical art)
This will then be explored within typography of today and it's imapct/appeal of the design.

This is a rough guideline, hopefully the more I explore, the clearer my intentions will be!