Homework #10 (4) Share your experiences, thoughts, notes, learning about the workshop with Deren - Intro to Electronics for Art Teachers/Artists.
UNFORTUNATELY, I was only able to attend part of the Intro to Electronics for Art Teachers/Artists seminar, yet what I did experience while I was there was inspiring. It was great having the opportunity to meet Deren and be exposed to the type of work she does in her program, it is always beneficial to have the opportunity to learn how others employ different media into art.
Although creating origami is not in my skill set, it was very interesting making and watching my peers create creatures and other 3d objects out of paper. Watching these creatures and objects come to life through the addition of motors and lights was incredible. Just seeing the expressions on all of our faces was priceless, I can only imagine how excited children would be to do an activity like this. Although I definitely appreciated this seminar, if it occurs again, I think it would be more efficient of people attending the seminar brought with them origami pieces they made at home, this would not only shorten the time of the seminar, it would give people who do not have experience with origami the opportunity to experiment on their own at their own pace. This would additionally allocate more time to the remaining projects.
The second project I took part in was experimenting with the positive and negatively charged play-doh. This was an interesting project and I think if there were different colors of the play-doh it could really be interesting in an art classroom. It would be a great collaboration with a science teacher, and if planned well, a project could be arranged to take place while the children are learning about positive and negative charge and its' effect on electricity. Additionally this gave me the idea that it could be a class project, to create a giant christmas tree and giant menorah that light up using the clay and lights. I believe there is a lot of room in school curriculums for projects that combine art and science. They are both very focused on experimenting and a joint project between the two classes could be mutually beneficial.
After being filled in by other class members about what they had experienced during the remainder of the seminar I feel like I really missed out, but thankfully they gave me a pretty detailed overview and I hope to explore drawdio own time!!
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
progress with final project
Homework #10 (1) Further define and work on your final project. Due date: Dec 10. Add a paragraph about it’s current state on your blog.
Dec 4:
I currently am unsure what I am doing for my final project. When I rolled the dice, I landed on painting, video and environment. I am a little bit more comfortable with video after my previous project exploring the medium, yet I am still hesitant to use video in my final project. I was originally thinking about making a video of myself making a splatter painting, documenting the visual progression. I am currently vacillating between this idea and a few other ideas that would employ these three themes.
Dec 8:
Our conversation in class regarding plagiarism and how artists can manipulate other artists' work, making it their own, inspired a concept for the final project. I have posters of John French's photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, I love them because they are black and white, simply depicting fashion models in couture against a white background. I want to manipulate these photographs and make them my own. I plan to take pieces of transparent paper or mylar and place them over the posters. Using the mylar as my canvas with the posters visible I want to paint adding details and background to the existing composition. I want to use many colors of acrylic paint and paint in a cartoon-like, childish aesthetic. I plan to keep the models as my subject, yet making them my own.
Dec 9:
I have decided to add a photographic/video element to my project, I plan to take pictures as I progress, documenting the visual progression of the piece to ultimately create a stop animation film of the painting. In an ideal exhibit I would display the film next to the painting or series of paintings so that the viewers could experience not only the final work, but also the process, to better engage in my work.
Dec 10:
This is taking much longer than I anticipated, I think I am only going to paint one poster and make one video, as opposed to my original plan of doing three. I have also decided that I want to add a narrative element to my painting, by doing this I will not only manipulate the aesthetic of the photograph, I will give the painting/photgraph character and personality.
Dec 4:
I currently am unsure what I am doing for my final project. When I rolled the dice, I landed on painting, video and environment. I am a little bit more comfortable with video after my previous project exploring the medium, yet I am still hesitant to use video in my final project. I was originally thinking about making a video of myself making a splatter painting, documenting the visual progression. I am currently vacillating between this idea and a few other ideas that would employ these three themes.
Dec 8:
Our conversation in class regarding plagiarism and how artists can manipulate other artists' work, making it their own, inspired a concept for the final project. I have posters of John French's photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, I love them because they are black and white, simply depicting fashion models in couture against a white background. I want to manipulate these photographs and make them my own. I plan to take pieces of transparent paper or mylar and place them over the posters. Using the mylar as my canvas with the posters visible I want to paint adding details and background to the existing composition. I want to use many colors of acrylic paint and paint in a cartoon-like, childish aesthetic. I plan to keep the models as my subject, yet making them my own.
Dec 9:
I have decided to add a photographic/video element to my project, I plan to take pictures as I progress, documenting the visual progression of the piece to ultimately create a stop animation film of the painting. In an ideal exhibit I would display the film next to the painting or series of paintings so that the viewers could experience not only the final work, but also the process, to better engage in my work.
Dec 10:
This is taking much longer than I anticipated, I think I am only going to paint one poster and make one video, as opposed to my original plan of doing three. I have also decided that I want to add a narrative element to my painting, by doing this I will not only manipulate the aesthetic of the photograph, I will give the painting/photgraph character and personality.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
how I would like to continue to work with video creatively
Homework #10 (3) Revisit our video class and your notes about it. Come up with 2 ideas about how you would like to introduce video through lesson plans in an art class (age: your choice); alternatively: 1 or 2 paragraphs describing how you would like to continue to work with video creatively; alternatively: what you have been able to learn about video as a creative material.
I would definitely be eager to explore video further, I really liked the end results of this project and would be interested to take my "minutes in nature" a step further. I would like to create a "video collage," I am unsure how to go about this but I would be interested in creating a split screen with several of theses "minutes" playing simultaneously, creating a more comprehensive "minute." I think it is interesting that in one minute so many different elements of nature in one back yard are affected. I imaging combining perhaps 10 of these minutes into one video could be powerful, although they each have a different subject and a different composition they are all from the same environment. Conceptually it would be ideal to film multiple locations at the same time, yet this is most likely not a feasible option, recording these videos sequentially (like the project I did this week) seems like an effective alternative. I do not have experience in video editing, but I think this would give me the opportunity to explore what video editing has to offer.
Another way that I would like to explore video creatively is through time-lapse. I am always so captivated by time-lapse films, and aspire to be able to create my own one day. Although it has been done many times before I love the idea of creating my own time-lapse of cars in the city streets, or even clouds in the sky. Maybe I could create a time-lapse version of "minutes in nature" capturing an assortment of subjects in nature and how they are visually effected by the wind, sun, rain clouds and shadows.
"Minutes in Nature" video project
Homework #9 (4) Our next class session will focus on video. As we have spoken in class, there are 2 ways of how you can approach this. The first: Find a video online that you would like to use as your template. Choose a sequence or the entire video and redo it. If you feel comfortable go ahead and create the video. Or just present your idea in next class. The second possibility: Create a video or idea of a video which consists of a single 1 minute shot that you don't have to edit or change. If you feel comfortable with the technology involved, go ahead and create the video. Or just present your idea in our next class.
When beginning my exploration of video I was eager, I came up with two ideas rather quickly, to record the sink as I was washing brushes, and to record my family's thanksgiving table. Both these ideas came to me through thinking conceptually, my first concept revolved around the idea of capturing the natural transformation and interaction of various colors and water. The thanksgiving dinner concept revolved around capturing the spirit of my family during the holiday through their candid actions and interactions with food. Being that I do not have experience with video, I encountered several issues that I did not anticipate. The most significant of these challenges was the idea that a camera when recording for long periods of time has a short battery life and a limited memory card, and the fact that it is hard to manipulate a scenario to appear the way you envisioned, especially with film.
After struggling with this project I began to think about the videos we had seen in class. I was very inspired by Laia's film of the caution tape blowing in the wind. Being that I believe natural occurrences are more aesthetically enticing than those planned or constructed, I decided nature would be my subject, and similar to Laia I focused on how the wind effected my subject. Through this exploration I captured a multitude of "minutes in nature" on my camera and iPhone and chose to post several of my favorites.
When beginning my exploration of video I was eager, I came up with two ideas rather quickly, to record the sink as I was washing brushes, and to record my family's thanksgiving table. Both these ideas came to me through thinking conceptually, my first concept revolved around the idea of capturing the natural transformation and interaction of various colors and water. The thanksgiving dinner concept revolved around capturing the spirit of my family during the holiday through their candid actions and interactions with food. Being that I do not have experience with video, I encountered several issues that I did not anticipate. The most significant of these challenges was the idea that a camera when recording for long periods of time has a short battery life and a limited memory card, and the fact that it is hard to manipulate a scenario to appear the way you envisioned, especially with film.
After struggling with this project I began to think about the videos we had seen in class. I was very inspired by Laia's film of the caution tape blowing in the wind. Being that I believe natural occurrences are more aesthetically enticing than those planned or constructed, I decided nature would be my subject, and similar to Laia I focused on how the wind effected my subject. Through this exploration I captured a multitude of "minutes in nature" on my camera and iPhone and chose to post several of my favorites.
I was struggling to keep my hand steady while recording, I do not happen to have a tripod. As a solution to this problem I placed my iPhone on the ground and recorded these two videos. The end results happened to be my favorites, because they captured the fleeting clouds and my curios dog sniffing the phone.
3D santa!!
Homework #9 (1) Sign up for a tinkercad.com account and create a 3D model of your liking that you could later on (you don't have to) print with our Makerbot-Replicator. Tinkercad has a very good start-tutorial which will make it easy for you to get first-hand experiences. Push this as far as you would like it to. The goal of this assignment is to have an experience, to intrigue your imagination and include 3D printing in the repertoire of your creative thinking.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Charlie Behrens
Homework# 9 (5) Research an artist who uses video creatively and write a blog entry about it.
On Charlie Behrens's about page on his website this information is provided..
"Charlie Behrens came to graphic design and video art via a background in the music industry. Since graduating from the FdA Design for Graphic Communication at the London College of Communication with Distinction in 2012, his work has been twice featured by It's Nice That, IdN, Computer Arts and The Polis Blog. He was also featured on the Boston Globe's blog.
His video art pieces were screened at the prestigious CGAI cinema in A Coruña, Spain in November 2012 and he will be featured on Canal+ TV Show l'Oeil de Links, in December 2012. In early 2013Poejazzi are releasing a smartphone app of poems visualised by acclaimed video artists which will include a piece by Behrens. He is currently editing the Brighton-set feature film My Accomplice which is due for release in early 2014.
He lives and works in Hackney, London."
http://www.charliebehrens.com/About-Contact
Similar to the ideas of creating art using the glitches in Skype that Jesse mentioned, in Behrens's video "Algorithmic Architecture" creates a video featuring the glitches in google earth.
Algorithmic Architecture from Charlie Behrens on Vimeo.
He explains:
"This short film is inspired by Kevin Slavin’s talk at the Geneva Lift conference last year Those Algorithms Which Govern Our Lives. It uses the weird nuances of when Google Earth doesn’t register 3D images correctly as a metaphor for how our cities’ architectural landscapes are being altered to suit the agendas of a myriad of computer algorithms…"
3D Printing
HOMEWORK #9 (2) Think of possibilities of what one can do creatively with 3D printing and create a blog entry that focuses on it.
3D Printing gives artists, designers, and everyday people ranging from extensive to no computer skills at all, the opportunity to create three dimensional objects with the click of a button. With the abundance of easy to use, affordable, 3D software it is easier than ever to print as long as you have access to a 3D printer. Those with a comprehensive understanding of software are able to create intricate designs on the computer, and those who lack skill are able to download templates manipulate them, or even print them as they are. Regardless of skill the 3D printers allow people to make objects without having to carve, sculpt, glue, cut or chisel. This new media is almost the modern day sculptor, physically producing the designs we the "artist" create.
The possibilities are endless. As long as the printer is large enough and the 3D model is created accurately in the software, any object can be created. Children can print their own legos, fathers can print their own replacement parts, mothers can print their own cookie cutters, if every family had a 3D printer in their homes in the future it could change the role of shopping in our country. People could potentially print the objects they need, instead of going to a store and buying them. Potentially with the use of 3D scanners a faster way of inputing a design in the software opposed to creating manually, average americans could reproduce anything in their home, pick a color print it, then assemble or add wiring if necessary.
It is very important to include 3D printing in the art classrooms today, because it is an emerging media that's boundaries are yet to be pushed. Children need to be able to utile to software and the printers in order to fully explore the potential this media has.
3D Printing gives artists, designers, and everyday people ranging from extensive to no computer skills at all, the opportunity to create three dimensional objects with the click of a button. With the abundance of easy to use, affordable, 3D software it is easier than ever to print as long as you have access to a 3D printer. Those with a comprehensive understanding of software are able to create intricate designs on the computer, and those who lack skill are able to download templates manipulate them, or even print them as they are. Regardless of skill the 3D printers allow people to make objects without having to carve, sculpt, glue, cut or chisel. This new media is almost the modern day sculptor, physically producing the designs we the "artist" create.
The possibilities are endless. As long as the printer is large enough and the 3D model is created accurately in the software, any object can be created. Children can print their own legos, fathers can print their own replacement parts, mothers can print their own cookie cutters, if every family had a 3D printer in their homes in the future it could change the role of shopping in our country. People could potentially print the objects they need, instead of going to a store and buying them. Potentially with the use of 3D scanners a faster way of inputing a design in the software opposed to creating manually, average americans could reproduce anything in their home, pick a color print it, then assemble or add wiring if necessary.
It is very important to include 3D printing in the art classrooms today, because it is an emerging media that's boundaries are yet to be pushed. Children need to be able to utile to software and the printers in order to fully explore the potential this media has.
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