{"id":3244,"date":"2025-05-30T12:02:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schoolofdesignleeds.com\/ds25\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2025-05-30T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:02:39","slug":"ellie-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schoolofdesignleeds.com\/ds25\/ellie-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellie May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sitecontainer\">\n<div class=\"pagecontainer\">\n<h4 class=\"homepage-heading-h4\">Degree Show 2025<\/h4>\n<div class=\"postcontainer\">\n<h1 class=\"thestudentpostname\" id=\"studentpostname\">Ellie May<\/h1>\n<h3>BA Art and Design<\/h3>\n<p class=\"studentstatement\">&#8216;The Viewing Room&#8217; explores surveillance, voyeurism and media consumption, inviting viewers to reflect on their roles as both watchers and the watched. Using familiar interfaces of TV, CDs and social media, it reframes everyday passive acts as ethically ambiguous, highlighting human desires, power dynamics and society\u2019s normalisation of surveillance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"socialstack\"><span class=\"material-icons md-24\">handshake<\/span><a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connect with <span id=\"withme\"><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--FILE01 IMG--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mediafileviewer mfvimages\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading =\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.schoolofdesignleeds.com\/ds25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ellie-May-01_Eleanor-May.png\" width=\"100%\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 870px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 870\/488;\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mfv-caption\">\u2018Seen@Norwood Road: Behind Closed Doors\u2019 invites viewers to explore 5 television channels depicting \u2018live\u2019 CCTV style surveillance footage of unaware subjects in their private space, watching TV, making dinner, socialising, and relaxing in their bedrooms. The act of \u2018people watching\u2019 is reframed from a more sinister and omniscient surveillance perspective.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--FILE02 IMG--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mediafileviewer mfvimages\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading =\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.schoolofdesignleeds.com\/ds25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ellie-May-02_Eleanor-May.png\" width=\"100%\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 848px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 848\/466;\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mfv-caption\">\u2018Overheard@Norwood Road: Eavesdrop FM\u2019 invites viewers to listen to CDs through headphones, picking tracks with dramatised \u2018click-bait\u2019 titles to listen in to day-to-day life at Norwood Road.The viewer becomes a \u2018fly on the wall\u2019 choosing which room to \u2018bug\u2019, pushing the boundary of what could be seen as \u2018innocent\u2019 eavesdropping.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--FILE03 IMG--><\/p>\n<div class=\"mediafileviewer mfvimages\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading =\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.schoolofdesignleeds.com\/ds25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ellie-May-03_Eleanor-May.png\" width=\"100%\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 872px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 872\/484;\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mfv-caption\">Accessing \u2018Lives@Norwood Road: Unfiltered\u2019 the viewer can scroll through an Instagram page and \u2018stalk\u2019 the online posts, stories, comments of Norwood Road\u2019s residents, including more intimate information on their lives both inside and outside the home. 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