Fall course WASH blog

new course blog is located at www.WASHfall2011.blogspot.com

predictors of artist/designer success

1. curiosity
2. work ethic
3. critical self reflection
4. creativity

stolen from multiple sources
but today i'll reference
www.integrativeteaching.com (thinktank)

MONDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

MONDAY, MAY 9 - Installation and housekeeping

9:30 am divide into install groups; install exhibition [leaving room for TTH WASHers]. You should have received an email requesting specific works and we have some we've held onto for exhibition. Please bring projects and materials to install works.

Dot cubed (newpaper 3D collage)
Human comps
Storyline (stories)
Markmaking storyline
Color
Big idea
Larger than life cardboard (will be modeled fashionshow runway like at 6:30)
Cardboard spheres
Modular madness
Monologue/Uncomfortable videos with laptops and headphones
Life or something like it (metaphor)
Life map
Big idea

Send out email/evites/facebook etc invitations to exhibition

LUNCH BREAK

1:30 pm Peer crit write up. You will positively critique each member of your table group [ONLY POSITIVE] plus three other WASHers of your choosing, anonymously. These will be submitted to me. I will type them up (with NO authors' names) and you will receive yours on Wednesday ~ 7pm. Your critique should give specific examples or experiences to support your statement. They may range from being about your peer's work, process, participation at table, personal experiences, about personality, attitudes, etc. They should be very specific. No using words like cool, sweet, awesome, etc...these are vague and actually somewhat meaningless. 

2:00 pm Exhibition discussion

Confirm all works are labeled with artist/designer/animator's name and project

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 - WASH House Exhibition

4:45 pm All laptops should be setup with headphones (bring cables)
5:00 pm All WASHers in the WASH House greeting guests, explaining projects, etc
6:15 pm Selected artists will put on their cardboard outfits
6:20 pm Cardboard fashion show runway style
6:45 pm Any works that have a performative element will be executed
7:00 pm Pick up morgue, personal crit, any work that can simply be taken off the wall

THURSDAY, MAY 12 - Deinstall and remove all work

 8:30 am - 2:00 pm

VISUAL JOURNALS: Morgues due Monday

REMINDER: your morgue should include images of your projects, process pictures, preliminary sketches, proposals, printout some crit write ups, storyline, etc. If necessary, add pages. 

Blogs should be completed with inclusion of Big idea project and crit write up. 

If I asked you to bring pictures for exhibition and they are in my possession (office), then bring white foam board, exacto with blades, and spray mount. Don't forget to bring hardware necessary to mount your work. it should be unobtrusive (not really visible). 

Now that is mark making (Tony Orrico: Penwald)

Big Ideas TODAYfrom video to installationfrom shadows to mirrorsfrom drawing to crayons

people's choice award for student showgo vote for a WASHer

go by the Gaddis Geeslin Gallery today and vote!

The awards ceremony will be Thursday, April 21 at 5pm in E108. Reception in gallery afterwards.

lecture 9 (4/15) assignment

lecture homework for April 15

Reading Assignment: In The Making: Choosing a Mission: pg.281-321 (Victoria Vesna, Wenda Gu, Tony Oursler, and Mariko Mori)

Writing Assignment:
The Dia Art Foundation's  second artists' project for the world wide web, begun in 1995, was created by the Russian emigrant artist team Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid. The Most Wanted paintings, as well as the Least Wanted paintings, reflect the artists' interpretation of a professional market research survey about aesthetic preferences and taste in painting. Intending to discover what a true "people's art" would look like, the artists, with the support of the Nation Institute, hired Marttila & Kiley, Inc. to conduct the first poll. In 1994, they began the process which resulted in America's Most Wanted and America's Least Wanted paintings, which were exhibited in New York at the Alternative Museum under the title "People's Choice."

Copy and paste survey into blog post and answer the questions in Komar and Melamid's survey about painting preferences. After you have finished, answer the following questions in thoughtful, paragraphs in your blog post:

1. Do you think that your answers  are similar or different from most Americans? In what ways are they similar, and different?

2. Which questions do you think  would be the most helpful if  one was using market research to design new paintings for sale? What questions would you ask differently, or leave out entirely?

3. Would this work? Why or why not?

Post (title: lecture 9 assignment) your completed survey, and your answers before Friday, April 29

The BIG IDEA [final project]

Download your BIG IDEA handout and thoroughly verse yourself with the handout and begin your brainstorming.

Lecture 8 [4/8] reading and writing assignmentdue Monday, April 18

Download handout

Lecture homework for April 8: Fantasy
Due Monday, April 18, posted to blog.

Reading:
In The Making: Relating to The Audience: pg.74- 119
(Charles Ray, Will Schade, Arnaldo Morales, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Gillian Wearing)

Writing:
Research the work of Survival Research Laboratories and
answer the following questions in a 600 word essay [your own words]:

1. Looking at the work of SRL as fantasy, what fantasies does it fulfill?
2. Compare SRL's performances to more mainstream events/entertainment that articulate the same kinds of fantasy. How are they alike, what key elements are different?
3. Is SRL "yanks with tanks" as the Dutch protesters said? Does SRL's work promote or critique mechanized violence? or both?
4. Who is SRL's audience? Why were they staging a big event in Amsterdam, rather than Tripoli, Libya or Kandahar, Afghanistan?

Artists mentioned in the lecture:
Thomas Kinkade, Thomas Cole, Carl Jung, Tibetan Buddhist monks, sand mandala, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France, George Lucas et al. Star wars, Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Want, Bernardo Bett, life of Saint Bernardino of Siena, Odilon Redon, The Buddha, 1905, Mariko Mori, WAVE ship, Roger Dean, fantastic landscape (album cover), James Cameron, Avatar (film still), Survival Research Laboratories, Albert Pinkham Ryder, The Race Track, H.R. Giger, DOOM II video game still, The Laocoon Group, 1st c B.C., Chiho Aoshima, Aubrey Beardsley, Salome: The Dancers Reward, 1894, Tibetan demon mask, carved wood, 17th c., Takashi Murakami, DOB inflatable, 2008
Eugene Delacroix, Death of Sardanapolis, 1827, William Kentridge, Mine, 1985, Rene Magritte, Rape, Edvard Munch, The Scream, Paul McCarthy, Spaghetti Man, 1993, Kara Walker, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Raymond Pettibon, cover of Pig cupid, 1985

your IDENTITY ESSENTIALS should be posted today

and your inflatable model images, proposal boards and crit write up should show up before Monday.

Here are a few IDENTITY ESSENTIALS (don't forget to include what category you are working within). Plus, don't know if it is my connection, but a number of your links are broken to a few of your images. Please fix if applicable to you.



Body as a site of conflict
Be sure to go see Chinny's entire series. The cutting off of the face yet revealing the expression of the mouth reveals the actual emotion/attitude/statement that lies behind her question.

Body as landscape
Emily H has created a nice cohesive series

Janna

 
Body [metaphor] as essence of  gender
Jackie

Katy combined essence of gender, body as landscape and
used Georgia O'Keefe's work to determine color palette.

Essence of gender (metaphor/humor)
Maggi and she shot these in the grocery story (guts for breaking social mores/norms)

Crit guide for Inflatatopia Models

Here is the guide we will be using to review your models and proposal boards.
You may use it now to be sure you've addressed everything requested.

Model/Proposal crit guide

MW Performance Schedule WASHey Awards

Monday's 4/4 Performance Schedule
MORNING	AFTERNOON
1.     Martin	1.     Donovan
2.     Brian	2.     Krystal
3.     Malicia	3.     Ollie
4.     Kevin	4.     Jackie
5.     Josh	5.     Keenan
6.     Chinedu	6.     Emily T
7.     Nic	7.     Naomi
8.     Kim	8.     Dante
9.     Casey	9.     Hannah
10. Wendy	10. Hannah
11. Emily H	11. Katy
12. Sarah	12. Brittnie
13. Selina	13. Danielle
14. Zach	14. Allison
15. Jada	15. Ryan
16. Mirella	16. Carlos
17. Jeremy	17. Tayler
18. Lee Ann	18. JP
19. Lauren	19. Janna
20. David	20. Shelby
21. Tray	21. Alex
22. Brandon	22. Maggie
LUNCH

most excellent inflatable teams

Emily H

Hannah

Emily T

Naomi

Malicia

...

Chinedu

Janna

Shelby

Wendy

Casey

...

Lauren

Mirella

Selena

Ollie

Kim

...

Maggie

Allison

Lee Ann

Megan

Alex

...

Krystal

Jackie

Brittani

Danielle

Jada

...

Josh

JP

Tray

Donovan

...

Martin

Tayler

Dante

Ryan

David

...

Jeremy

Carlos

Brandon

Brian

Keenan

...

Sarah

Katy

Zach

Kevin

Nic

Inflatatopia Happening

Please download and read the Inflatatopia Happening handout (project parameters).
Read carefully.

Inflatatopia Happening teams will be announced tomorrow in class.

MUST HAVE TOMORROW...stuffed animal to dissect performance brainstorming lists color supplies

Initiation into inflatables

bring two (or more) stuffed animals--one to share with a table-mate! I didn't get by store to get you one = bring your own plus extra to share if you have some.

what else for 3D:

1. scissors/exacto (something to rip seams with)
   
2. iron
   
3. one box of aluminum foil per table
4. office clips
   

Art Performances

To be presented Monday, April 4 (am and pm)
Assignment: create a one-minute live performance in our 10x10 "blue line theater," using one prop, one word and yourself. You will perform and crit.

Phase 1: Ideation/Brainstorming (post to blog and bring printout Monday to class):

1. List of fifty words that you think might be part of a good one-minute performance, record them in your morgue and publish to your blog.
2. For each word, list ten possible props. List them as well.
3. Choose five words. For each word describe 5 possible performance options--that is a total of 25 ideas. 
4. Consider
   

   What would be compelling for the audience to watch?
   What would you like to perform?
   What is technically possible?
   Feel free to make up new props or words
   as ideas occur to you until you get two or three good prospects.
   Write a storyboard/script of what will happen in your piece,
   what the audience will see.
   What will you do with your face? your posture? your arms?
   your hands? your legs? your feet? your butt? your eyes? etc?
   How will you enter the space, walk, schooch, crawl, gallop, roll, hop, slither?
   How will you project your voice? will it vary?
   What will you wear? on your head, in your nose, on your lips, on your torso, on your legs, on your feet, on your butt?
   ETC

Part 2: The pitch:

Pitch your ideas at someone else in class on Monday while dissecting your stuffed animal; try to present a complete, descriptive summary of your one minute performance idea. Imagine they were a Hollywood movie executive, and you're trying to sell them your idea for their next big movie. Get their feedback and use it to sharpen your ideas.

Part 3: In class performance Monday, April 4.

2D Project 3 -- Color
See handout for details and schedule.

BLOG POSTS
Your MAPPING project AND
your images of your METAPHOR project AND
your performance BRAINSTORMING LISTS
your potential IMAGES for COLOR project
should be posted to your blog before tomorrow.

Post final images of your Metaphor project before Monday.

People's [WASHers'] Choice Award

METAPHOR: Life or something like it

Sarah

Uncomfortable Video People's [WASHers'] Choice Awards

The YUCK award
Jackie


The EEEK award
Ryan



The AWWW award
Casey


The MAKE IT STOP award
Janna

Post your Story LINE crit and 4 images

Also post imageS of your map titled MAP grade me. These need to be up before the end of the week.

Metaphor: Life or something like it should be installed before 9:15 tomorrow.

1. Morning Crit.
2. Afternoon intro to Color and five students will present their mapping projects (more later)

Am looking forward to seeing your metaphor projects.