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

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)

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.

Download and bring handoutField Trip to MFAH & CAMHFriday, March 11

Download and bring handout

Houston Field Trip
Friday, March 11

Museum of Fine Arts Houston
promptly @ 10 am (conclude ~3pm)
free when attending with our class
1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX (map)

Park across street in Methodist church parking lot (free)
Carpool with students returning to Huntsville.
Spring Break begins March 12 

Lunch at Cafe Express in MFAH(~$15)
(may brown bag it)

We will also be visiting:
Cullen Sculpture Garden
Contemporary Art Museum Houston CAMH
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Assignment sheet to be posted soon.

Uncomfortable video project parameters

3D Project 3.2 Uncomfortable Video [4D]

1. Theme: Uncomfortable
2. Sixty second [or less] video

No-Nos
-editing via computer
-exceed 60 seconds

Yes-Yeses
-cuts (turn camera off; make necessary changes; restart camera. no digital editing)
-language but it should only play a support role (keep it to a minimum)
-shoot, review, refine, reshoot; again and again
-dependent on content set youtube settings to UNLISTED; after we have reviewed piece you may choose to set it to private.

DUE

1. Youtube upload and link emailed to kk no later than Sunday, March 6, 4 pm
2. Create link on blog to video (or if private); create post Uncomfortable Video that indicates private content sent to KK via email
3. Burn to CD or DVD
4. Turn in CD/DVD at 9:30 am Monday morning to TAs
5. CRIT MONDAY. Don't miss.

Grading criteria

1. Degree to which audience is made uncomfortable
2. Visual content (background, framing of shot, lighting, body language)
3. Audio content (sound quality, ambient noise, voice usage)
4. Narrative (storyline, script, theme)
5. Work within parameters (if parameters bypassed; does the work significantly justify the bypass)

Mapping instructions that are a little less confusing

For your artful mapping pleasure I have updated handout so it is less confusing. Hopefully. Must have because many of you are putting up good lists. Those lost, visit your fellow WASHers' blogs and check out what they are writing (listing) about.

Lecture Project

1. READ in the making pgs 120-149.
2. Diagram a 2d or 3d Autobiographical Internal/Private World via mapping/painting/collaging/ constructing/assembling

Consider an overarching theme or method to unify the work. This is to be an art piece.

Step ONE

Generate a series of self reflective/life lists for the following (post to blog or if of a private nature email to your professor). Due Friday, February 24

Lived locations [birth to current]
    significant memories of spaces in or around your different homes

Significant relationships in each location
    The nature of the relationship

1. Physical
2. Emotional
3. Spiritual

    How those relationships changed from location to location and as you aged

Significant things said to you that you can almost still hear in your head.
    Both positive and negative

Educational experiences--schools
    considering early childhood, late, pre adolescence, adolescence, early adulthood –
    may project into your future – adulthood, old, not dead yet, dead

1. Significant peers [why?] both positive/negative
2. Significant adults [why?] both p/n
3. Significant things said to you that you can almost still hear in your head. Both p/n
4. Significant objects [why?]
5. Significant cause [why?]

Experiences of loss or absence
Experiences of joy or belonging
Career

1. Significant peers [why?] both positive/negative
2. Significant adults [why?] both p/n
3. Significant things said to you that you can almost still hear in your head. Both p/n
4. Significant objects [why?]
5. Significant cause [why?]

Spiritual evolution/path. Changes over time? [why? who influenced changes?]
Sexuality or gender evolution/path or relationship to the body
Achievements
Pain or crisis or losses
Dreams, hopes or desires
Other threads to possibly also explore in terms of the evolution of these things in your life
1. Character
2. Limitations
3. Passion
4. Strengths
5. Abilities and competencies
6. Fears
7. Calling
8. Understanding of people
9. Understanding of culture
10. Understanding of heritage
11. Ancestral heritage
12. Materialism
13. Goals
14. Why do you want to be an artist, animator, designer
(when did that desire begin; what fanned the flame and kept it going)
15. Within your field what specific things are you interested in?
(when did the desire or compulsion begin; what fanned the flame and kept it going)
Are these changing? How so?
16. Personal narrative, quotes, journal entries, poetry, song lyrics, etc

Step TWO

Create some experimental diagrams of information from lists--possible directions of diagrams: chronological, relational, geographical, spiritual, educational, ancestral. Try to overlay all info within each system tested

Step THREE

Explore and develop signle thematic systems for diagramming or presenting information. Some samples from other fields to consider: scientific--periodic table, insect collections, molecular structure, solar system maps, constellation maps, globe, cellular structure, etc; medical--body diagrams, surgical procedures, diagnostic flow charts, etc; architectural--residential blueprints, ship design blueprints, etc; industrial design; electrical engineering; geophysical--maps of earth’s layers, sonic maps of oil fields, ocean floor maps; consumer culture, ikea assembly procedures, concert online ticket seating selection, menu, package ingredients, game board (ie monoply), mall store locator map, etc; other--family tree,

Show for relationships and connections; cause and effect.

Step FOUR

Incorporate or reference visual methods or source inspirations, quotes, subject matter, etc from two to three artists we’ve studied in class or in textbook (includes all artists covered to date) that inspire you into your map. Note either in the piece itself or on back the artists you are referencing and how so. Artist list is at end of this section.

Step FIVE

Develop unified aesthetic style system of information presentation.

Step FIVE

MAKE it--can take almost any physical artform design, sculpture, painting, relief, installation, artist book, photographic series, etc

DUE DATES:

1. Post 3 images of project (one of whole and two detail shots); if it still in listing stage post all lists.
before Friday, Feb 25

2. Post 3 [more] images of project (one of whole and two detail shots) and a short narrative about what method you are using to execute this project and why you’ve chosen it before Friday, March 4

3. Post 3 [more] images of project that shows your progression from Friday, March 4. Post before
Friday, March 11

4. Actual art object DUE Monday, March21/Tuesday, March 2. Bring to Studio at 9:30 am. If it needs set up, set up the night before in WASH House.

Note this is an actual assemblage created in real space whether 2d or 3d art object based on mapping personal history; it is not a virtual structure or simply a print out of a structure created in the computer.

Homework assigned Monday, 2/21

2D—LINE

Mark making

1. draw 100 parallel lines with your eyes closed
2. attack the page with a mark making tool
   
   Krystal attacks the page with a sponge
   
   
   
   
   
3. draw 200 lines. 100 with each hand at the same time
4. crumple paper and smooth, then draw lines (4 minutes)
5. fold paper and smooth, then draw lines (4 minutes)
6. tape your page down, write your name 100 times with your eyes closed
7. tape your page down, write a thought over and over until the page is full (plus 10 minutes?)
8. bring drawings to class on Monday
9. photograph each carefully (no arm or camera shadow).
   Experiment with cropping and/or zooming.
   Post 5 most interesting photos before Friday.

STORY LINE – get at least 4 reviews of your story using the handout
REVISE REWRITE story line – post to blog

3D—MODULAR MADNESS

Pre crit write up for Modular Madness
needs done before Friday. See downloadable handout.

LECTURE—Read textbook in the making, chapter on inspiration

Post all mapping lists to blog.
Interpret requests per your understanding (see lecture 3 handout—mapping)

Lecture #3 (2/18) Inspiration/Creativity kathy's crazy lecture notes

1. Elmo notes (hand written)
2. Videos and slides
3. Mapping project 

Menil projects were turned in today in class.

Reminder on absences and tardies.
Three absences and grade is negatively impacted.
Six absences and you fail (excused or unexcused).
Tardies equal 1/2 absences.
A "D" in any of the three sections of WASH results in having to RE-take all three sections AGAIN!

WASH up at the Menil Friday

See you in front of the Cy Twombly Gallery of the Menil campus promptly at 11. I would leave Huntsville between 9:15 - 9:30. If you are prone to get lost, leave earlier.

 Cy Twombly Gallery

1. Download and bring handout.
2. Dress WARMLY, coat, hat, gloves if you have them. We will be walking between buildings and eating lunch picnic style outside. 
3. Bring your lunch and a drink.
4. Bring your Morgue and pencil/pen.

The Menil (main building)

CAMH and MFAH field trip will be Friday, March 11 from 10 am - 3pm.

Lecture 3 (2/4) Project

"Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to argumentations, discussion, or introductions of that sort; if it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. Allow your judgments their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened. Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion, entirely in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one’s own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating."  – Rainer Maria Rilke

The dates will be significantly altered because the corresponding lecture on internal inspiration/creativity will be on 2/18. But I thought you might want to read it and let it settle in you for a bit before we start on it. It is not a standard lecture assignment but instead an art project. Read it, think about it, feel free to ask me questions.

Lecture 3 Project--Harvesting from Life

Lecture 4 Assignment will be based on our February 11 field trip to the Menil. Download assignment sheet next week and bring it along with your Morgue. Plan to be there from 11 to at least 2. Bring a sack lunch and drink. Arrange a carpool group and exchange cell phone numbers so that no one gets left behind.

My class (MW) will meet at the Cy Twombly Gallery (1501 Branard Street Houston, TX 77006) across the street from the Menil promptly at 11 am. Bill's class (TTH) will meet at front doors of the Menil.

Other Friday field trip is March 11th and we will travel to the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

really--a frozen load!NO classes today, Friday, Feb 4.

YES! more time to work on your cardboard projects
and get your blogs up to date!!! Well and to roll over and sleep in.

I know you guys are so sad
because now you'll have to wait for my
three hour lecture on inspiration/creativity.
I am soooo feeling it!

YIPEE!

Weather Update

www.shsu.edu

Sam Houston State University has canceled Thursday evening classes – those beginning after 5 p.m. – due to anticipated deteriorating weather conditions. Other university functions, such as the library and dining facilities, will remain open until 8 p.m.

It is a great night to get your 

WASH blog posts up to date and your morgue!

SHSU officials will continue to monitor the weather situation through the evening and into the morning hours. Notices regarding any cancellations, if warranted, will be posted by 5:30 a.m. Friday morning. Check the SHSU website and Today@Sam for details.

Here is a rough of what should be on your blog to date:

2D-surface

1. first day write up
2. P1.1a thumbnails, 15, final three
3. P1.1a habit critique and meaning critique (plus images)
4. P1.1b Square 8 final plus description of your process and learning
5. Photos – 5 dots photos and process
6. Post including understanding of repetition/rhythm
7. Interest area between collage/assemblage/pop up and artist samples
8. Interest area between Lance Letscher, Kurt Schwitters (collage), or Robert Rauschenberg (assemblages) and why. Plus art images
9. Dot SQUARED Photo Crit write up; be thorough.

3D-space

1. Spheres and write up of building process should be posted to blog
2. Image of object set of Q&A from handout
3. Three proposals should be posted to blog 
4. Process pictures and write up of adaptions, things that worked, things that didn't, eeeek moments, awwwwe moments, etc.

Lecture-mind

1. Lecture/Reading Response #1
   (please post images of sketches to your blog)
2. Lecture/Reading/Assignment Response #2
   (please post sketches to your blog)

First weekend studio to do list -- prior to Monday, January 24

first day performances--nightmare or daydream!

2D (am)

1. acquire textbook and supplies
2. make 30 thumbnail sketches in visual journal
3. read download from blog Theory of Human Perception
4. respond to first day activities, talk/discussions (tension, composition, elements, perception) and reading in visual online journal (your blog)
5. setup your visual online journal (blog) and email kathy your blog address (kas045 at shsu.edu)
6. Monday must have materials—tracing paper, white paper, lots of sharpies, pencils, black construction paper, ream of white paper, ream of what cardstock, compass and/or circle template, morgue-sketchbook, laptop.
7. review (google) and look at images of topographic contour map and magnetic field maps.

performing visual elements (point) auditorily first day of class
(nightmare or daydream)

3D (pm)

1. download to your computer and read
   3D project 1 — Larger than Life handout 
2. make three basketball-sized spheres out of cardboard. For two, you may use hot glue—one focused on surface, the other on internal structure. The third must be built with cardboard alone—NO glue or fixative of any kind.
3. write up a response to activities and discussions from today and post to blog…images as well if possible. A response includes things you learned, the big idea, things you had a reaction to positively or negatively, things you agree with disagree with. It is kind of like if someone asked what happened in WASH today…
4. Monday must have materials—cardboard, box cutter, extra blades, exacto, extra blades, ruler, clips, hot glue gun, glue sticks, wood glue, morgue-sketchbook, pencils, laptop.
5. Read all handouts/downloads—syllabus, visual journal, supplies, reading schedule, 2D Project 1.1a DOT, 3D Project 1-Larger than Life,
6. Review Google imaes of work by Claes Oldenburg, Ron Mueck, Katharina Fritsch, Osker Schemmler (youtube)

performing visual elements (texture) auditorily (nightmare or daydream)


Finish up listening to Janine Antoni and questions. For each work Antoni discusses, listen for what materials she is using, what she did to or with them, and all the whys? Make a list of her whats and whys. Identify the sources of her ideas. How does she speak about her audience? What of their response? What does she want from them? Why does she love being an artist?

Bring lists/answers with you to class Monday, we will be discussing her work in terms of its sources of inspiration, materiality, process, interaction with viewer and why she loves being an artist.

performing visual elements (an unexpected translation of value) auditorily (nightmare or daydream). i was listening so hard to hear it in the manipulation of sound that i missed the symbolic sound execution of value.


Lecture #1 with Bill

1. Lecture 1 (1/21) assignment and reading. Due Friday, January 28 beginning of class.
2.  TBA in class 1/21.

And we finished with the little moody element of color in the auditory range





Hey! Wait a minute that last one wasn't sound! Now that was music! We've mixed in a vocal artist with our visuals! YES! MIXing it up is good.

Well and then their was our first day of class
student nightmare or fantasy!

images from Keenen

Danielle and Carlos

Megan

Jada

Tray

 Krystal

 Emily (pic by Lee Ann)

WASH Required Textbook (ONE)--order now and start reading!

In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art

by Linda Weintraub

ISBN13: 9781891024597

Order now from

Amazon
Barnes & Nobles

Artbook.com 

Pick up from store:
Bearkat Books, 1108 16th Street, (936) 295-5771
Bookstore in SHSU student center has a handful of copies.