Little People

All of these models we are making and their scale people are reminding me of this blog: http://little-people.blogspot.com/ and this dead fly art.. for some reason.

Forum Photos

MIdterm Presentation Specifications

As we keep contributing to our blog, please make sure you don't miss the specifications outlined 2 posts below (for you midterm). And along these lines I wanted to add one further detail: for the visual narrative I'd like to see a minimum of 15 images (plus objective pics / process and other)

Looking forward! have a great weekend
c

christina: we'll need a projector and an extension cable / plus laptop, so let's plan on getting there 10 minutes prior to set things up.

Resources

hello,

Here are some resources for interesting supplies

acrylic - solter plastics
wood- rockler
Michael Levine - cloth
other- sci-arc store

looking forward to seeing you on tuesday!

Christina

Jinsuk & Patty

here's the video I was thinking of today
watched it again and it relates to your work, but not exactly...so take a look
I think your direction is great so I would not accommodate to this, this is just a reference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdTWxvO_o2I

Midterm Presentation & Specifications

Dear all,

Great session today, I was impressed with your achievements this week. You are all on track with your projects and I am delighted to see you push yourselves, the results of which are visible. If you continue this way you will all emerge with excellent work, and I accept no less than that :-* So keep going as we head towards our midterm next week.

Below please find specifications for what's due for your midterm presentation, as discussed today:

PHYSICAL MODEL:
— bring in your models / remember: materials, context (where it is situated), scale (relationship of installation to scale figures, aka: little people), lighting conditions.

OBJECTIVE MODEL SHOTS:
— photograph your model in this manner:
- top view
- side views
- interior views (from afar / mid ground and details (macros)
- exterior views (from afar / mid ground and details (macros)

VISUAL & IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING: (SUBJECTIVE SHOTS i.e. INHABITED)
— Generate a series of sequential images that guide us through your whole installation, step by step, from multiple points of view (what happens when i get there, what happens when I am in it, how does it feel to be there, how does media contribute to the material sensation of being there)
— Think of it this way: you are presenting to someone who has no idea what your project is about, you need to guide them through it and make them feel like they are inhabiting and living that space in all its material, structural, psychological, emotional and narrative properties.
— Use photography and photoshop to storyboard this visual storytelling; cinematic in how it unveils a story from beginning, middle and end.
—I need to feel that I am moving through it, that I am in it, that I am seeing it respond to my presence and that IT in turn, responds to me.
— Best way to generate realistic points of view to scale is to do this: photograph you model as if you were the "little people" yourself.
— The camera sees what we cannot see, particularly in a model
— Explore every component: light / projections onto space itself / location(s) / transformation (responsiveness) etc
— Include every component, if you have video studies bring those in

PROJECT NAMES:
— bring ideas for your project name
— if you have this begin typographic studies for your "logo"

ARTIST STATEMENT:
— bring a draft of your artist statement. Here is where you describe the piece objectively: what is it, what it sets out to do, how it does it.

PROCESS PICS:
—Alongside your visual & immersive storytelling bring process pictures (studies that culminated in your final direction, photographs / documentation of your construction etc
— I value process tremendously (plus, it is very fun to watch)

Jinsuk & Patty
you won't have a model based on your project's concept, this is perfectly fine, bring in your videos with variations on sound as discussed today
think of places / locations where it could be projected. What if it is projected onto a building downtown? or a wall in a suburban neighbourhood?
Your site then would be where the projection itself takes place / comp this up in photoshop and include that in your presentation.

We look forward to your beautiful work!
questions welcome

thank you
Carolina & Christina

Raisa Ree Eric

Beijing GreenPix Wall, solar powered led wall that emulates the responds to the climate around it. 

check it out.  Light as a catalyst.

For Dominque and Andrea

I mentioned a few weeks ago an artist who casts the negative space in objects. I remember her name. it is Rachel Whiteread. You should check her out.

DEPTH light projection

For John and Mindy

This is something I ran into and thought it might inspire you:

Neil Dawson's Horizons

For Ree, Raiza, and Eric

We were talking about light and sound as liquid today. I found this clip and I thought it was relevant. The movement  of the creatures emulates an intentional shift in space within liquid. What if light became your vehicle for movement.


http://motionographer.com/media/ilp/ilp_oscar.mov

Next week & Today

Dear all,

Great progress today, very happy to see you immerse yourselves in your project, that's what its about. Let's keep posting on our blog & sharing ideas through the week, this is invaluable as we build our thought & praxis community.

For our next meeting pls make sure you have the parameters I wrote on the board studied:
—What is it?
—What does it do? (its intention / aka: your intention as embodied through your work / piece)
—How does it do it? (includes method, media, materials, responsiveness etc—INTER-ACTION of piece with viewer, how does the viewer "complete" the piece through perception, how does she / he intersect the meaning of the piece by inhabiting it, observing it)

Bring all component of piece to class in actual media, meaning: if you are working with sound, bring sound files, same with projections, video, documentation (photo / video) etc. Bring all components to class in actual media. PLAY INTELLIGENTLY & WITH INTENTION & be OPEN TO THAT WHICH SURPRISES YOU.

— look at the location of your piece: where it takes-place / what place it takes.
— think of names for your piece, next step is a draft of your artist statement (where you use language to describe the what and the how)

Any questions welcome.
Christina and I look forward to our next meeting.

cheers /
cc

NB: participate in our discussions! no comment is good or bad or stupid, assert yourselves in your observation, what you see and how you see it, the beauty lies in sharing how we perceive, and it only helps our understanding of the subject matter at hand. The more points of reference (POV: points-of-view) the more we can approximate a view of the whole.
"perception requires participation"—read the Venice Biennale some years ago

light up my ears!!!

Something that might help everyone with sound/light etc...

LIGHT


SOUND
http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix

For Dominique's group

Studying the negative space:

Watch this. This American Life

Cameraman This American Life

check out:

Art 21

Yearbook flashbaack!