Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Final Project Part 1: RESEARCH
ARTIST STATEMENT
1. Write 3 sentences describing your weaknesses as an imagemaker (only one sentence about technical difficulties).
2. Write 3 sentences describing your strengths (only one sentence about technical strengths).
3. Use your answers to the following questions to write a statement on consistencies in your work.
A. Conceptual style and content
Are you interested in certain subjects? Do you use irony or humor in your images?
Do you use mood - are there moods that you repeatedly display?
B. What type of images do you like to create?
C. What visual approaches do you consistently employ? Which do you not employ?
Compositional, color, tone, scale, texture, etc.
Your statement is due in one hour. It must be in paragraph form, not just in Q & A format. Please think about your work as a whole, not just in this class.
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ARTIST PRESENTATION
Using what you wrote in your statement, find 3 artists whose process you admire and who share some of your interests. It is probably best not to choose a photographer. You could choose a musician or writer, they do not have to be a visual artist. But they do need to have written substantially about their process and craft. Bring your 3 choices back to class with whatever books you found - please discuss these 3 with me so we can choose one that will work for the assignment.
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Go back to the library and see what is available on the artist you chose. You can also use the internet to get an idea of what is out there. This time, widen your search - exhibition catalogs can be a great resource for writing on your artist. You can choose someone who others have written extensively on, who do not necessarily write themselves. However, it will be easier for you if they have authored essays/artist statements on their own work.
HOMEWORK DUE next week:
presentation
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Present the work of your artist and their ideas to the class (5-7 minutes). You must include the answers to the following questions:
1. Who were they inspired by? Who were their contemporaries?
2. What were they fighting against?
3. Why did they choose to make work?
4. What is their work about?
a. their point of view >> artist statements, interviews, essays
b. critics point of view >> art reviews, essays introducing exhibitions, collections of writings
c. Discuss what you have in common with this artist in terms of your own imagemaking process.
NOTE: do not want to hear story of their life, only their ideas >> you MUST have images/sound/text to support your representation of their ideas. You must have at least 10 examples in your presentation.
+ images
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include in your presentation 3 photographs in which you employ the process and ideas of your artist. These images should not look like their work, but should reflect their philosophy on making. Be prepared to explain your visual choices.
1. Write 3 sentences describing your weaknesses as an imagemaker (only one sentence about technical difficulties).
2. Write 3 sentences describing your strengths (only one sentence about technical strengths).
3. Use your answers to the following questions to write a statement on consistencies in your work.
A. Conceptual style and content
Are you interested in certain subjects? Do you use irony or humor in your images?
Do you use mood - are there moods that you repeatedly display?
B. What type of images do you like to create?
C. What visual approaches do you consistently employ? Which do you not employ?
Compositional, color, tone, scale, texture, etc.
Your statement is due in one hour. It must be in paragraph form, not just in Q & A format. Please think about your work as a whole, not just in this class.
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ARTIST PRESENTATION
Using what you wrote in your statement, find 3 artists whose process you admire and who share some of your interests. It is probably best not to choose a photographer. You could choose a musician or writer, they do not have to be a visual artist. But they do need to have written substantially about their process and craft. Bring your 3 choices back to class with whatever books you found - please discuss these 3 with me so we can choose one that will work for the assignment.
------------
Go back to the library and see what is available on the artist you chose. You can also use the internet to get an idea of what is out there. This time, widen your search - exhibition catalogs can be a great resource for writing on your artist. You can choose someone who others have written extensively on, who do not necessarily write themselves. However, it will be easier for you if they have authored essays/artist statements on their own work.
HOMEWORK DUE next week:
presentation
---------------
Present the work of your artist and their ideas to the class (5-7 minutes). You must include the answers to the following questions:
1. Who were they inspired by? Who were their contemporaries?
2. What were they fighting against?
3. Why did they choose to make work?
4. What is their work about?
a. their point of view >> artist statements, interviews, essays
b. critics point of view >> art reviews, essays introducing exhibitions, collections of writings
c. Discuss what you have in common with this artist in terms of your own imagemaking process.
NOTE: do not want to hear story of their life, only their ideas >> you MUST have images/sound/text to support your representation of their ideas. You must have at least 10 examples in your presentation.
+ images
---------------
include in your presentation 3 photographs in which you employ the process and ideas of your artist. These images should not look like their work, but should reflect their philosophy on making. Be prepared to explain your visual choices.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
colors! patterns!
as you liked Things Organized Neatly you may enjoy:
also - an interesting take on the wunderkammer - wunderboxes!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Assignment 3: TRACT
Use a narrative to persuade others to a stated
point of view. Your visual narrative should be
based in fact, but can contain fictional
elements, and can even consist of mostly
fictional images. As in parafiction, the images
should attempt to be interpreted as real rather
than immediately being perceived as false (you
may use humor to persuade but the project
should not be a joke). You should actually try to
persuade people to agree with the point of view
in your tract, no matter how outlandish. On the
most basic level, the tract should cause them
to question the validity of your idea in a serious
way. You may also use a more subtle approach
akin to magical realism, in which you bring our
attention to the uncanny in everyday life.
Due next week (16th)
20 images that act as a persuasive narrative of
your idea. Storyboard of image sequence -
printed color thumbnails.
Bring your files for us to project in class
Due the 30th
your tract: color cover, black and white inside.
need to print and give out 20, should be pocket
sized booklets, minimum 12 pages. May use no
more than 30 words of text. Either left for
someone to find or handed out: must provide
photo documentation
point of view. Your visual narrative should be
based in fact, but can contain fictional
elements, and can even consist of mostly
fictional images. As in parafiction, the images
should attempt to be interpreted as real rather
than immediately being perceived as false (you
may use humor to persuade but the project
should not be a joke). You should actually try to
persuade people to agree with the point of view
in your tract, no matter how outlandish. On the
most basic level, the tract should cause them
to question the validity of your idea in a serious
way. You may also use a more subtle approach
akin to magical realism, in which you bring our
attention to the uncanny in everyday life.
Due next week (16th)
20 images that act as a persuasive narrative of
your idea. Storyboard of image sequence -
printed color thumbnails.
Bring your files for us to project in class
Due the 30th
your tract: color cover, black and white inside.
need to print and give out 20, should be pocket
sized booklets, minimum 12 pages. May use no
more than 30 words of text. Either left for
someone to find or handed out: must provide
photo documentation
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
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