lindsay kelley | adad1002 | 2017

If I made a pun about gardening do you think anyone would carrot all?

Our newest exhibition, in conjunction with Smithsonian Gardens, Cultivating America’s Gardens is now open in @amhistorymuseum!  

It’s rooted in the rich and loamy material from the Smithsonian Libraries and the Smithsonian Gardens. We are so happy to present how gardening has evolved over time in America with books, seed catalogs, archival materials and more. 

See more gardening trade cards like this now animated carrot from the Horticultural Artifacts Collection of Smithsonian Gardens in the Gardening as Enterprise chapter of the exhibition.

Hi all, here are some high quality and diverse concept statement examples. They’ll also be uploaded on Moodle. These will help you for your final assessment task.

Assessment 2

Hello crew 

So this week is the opening of the National 2017. This is a festival happening across the MCA, AGNSW and Carriageworks which aims to highlight important Australia mid-career artists. 

The exhibition will be on for a little while but there is an excellent program of public events that started today and which is mostly concluding this weekend. If you can it’s a great idea to head to the artist talks and performances that are on offer. 

Assessment Task 1 

Transformation 

“Transformations allow us see the world differently. Art and design practices depend on the ability to transform objects, images, data and concepts into engaging creative projects.”

Transformation process

I chose to work with three transparent boxes.In this subject I wanted to transform the volume of the boxes just by adding some elements inside.In my transformation process, I wanted to experiment the repetition of the same patterns to create movement and density.

I was inspired by molecular structures.I analyse how viruses reproduce in the body and try to recreate this process through an artistic experimentation.Virus function by multiplying,the virus structure is made in a way that allows it to replicate itself.I wanted to mimicke the way nature expand, growth.I used the boxes as a constraint of this expansion .As Tara Donovan has an intuitive, organic and observant process , I decided to experiment this process to generate these three boxes.

Final Statement

For assessment task 1, I created an interactive installation resembling a bird’s wings out of what was originally a cardboard box. I chose to make a wing like structure to represent the idea of returning home. In the Philippines, we call large cardboard boxes ‘balikbayan boxes’. Balikbayan means returning to your home country. A lot of overseas Filipino workers struggle to send their families goods and necessities through these boxes because of the nature of their work or the costly travel fees and taxes. As a result, I wanted to shed some light on the plights of many Filipinos working abroad.

Hi Everyone, 

I just wanted to reiterate some important notes on this assessment coming up. Just remember that procrastination doesn’t work well for creative processes so if you are still sitting on ideas, stop thinking about them and just do them! It’s essential to have the time to step away from what you’re working on and come back to it with fresh eyes/ears/nose/brain/skin/tongue etc. 

Remembering the requirements for this assessment being:

1. Devise and carry out a series of connected experiments (at least 3) that transform a box into something new. Document the process on Tumblr. You can use different boxes for each experiment if you wish.

2. Reflecting on your experiments, transform a box into an artwork/designed object.

3. Document your final work on Tumblr and write a 200-word statement describing the transformation process (what you did, how you did it and what you ended up with). You will present your transformed box in class in Week 4.

Notice that we are asking you to “document the process”. The final result is only one part of the process so make sure you document the rest of the process! These forms of documentation could vary and could become a part of the process of transformation itself. For example, if you were to try and transform the box by recontextualising it or displacing it, perhaps your documentation of taking the box to a new environment might involve a map to the new location, a video of people observing and reacting to the box in the location, an interview with someone who has witnessed this installation, which might be transcribed, audio recorded, video recorded… there are so many different forms of documentation and this part of creation can start to be the way the work becomes interesting or playful.

If you are concerned about the difference between the experiments and the final project, maybe you need to think about how else you might document the final work. If you have made clothing out of your box, just photographing it might be effective, but what if you put on a fashion show? What if you took video of people modelling your box-clothes in an everyday environment. Look at how fashion is advertised elsewhere, do you mimic that language, or would you like to critique it? Maybe you document people’s reactions to the box-clothes as much as the wearer themselves.

If you are posting time based media eg. video, sound etc. It’s essential that you use something else to host your media outside of Tumblr, because Tumblr is not reliable! Use Youtube, Vimeo or Soundcloud etc. Link to this media or embed the media in your post.

It’s important to differentiate the content types in your submission in your blog through titling your posts eg.  Experiment 1 Experiment 2 Experiment 3 … Final Work Statement Remember you can go back and edit older posts if you need to!

Make sure you come to class next week with a unique URL for your assessment. For example “piasadad1001.tumblr.com/assessment1″. This could be by creating a new page on your tumblr blog (simple instructions here) and adding content to that page as you go along. Or you could also make a page that automatically aggregates blog content with specific tags, as I have done in my blog (video on how to do this here). Or you could also just tag everything you post for assessment 1 as #assessment1, that way your URL would be something like, http://piasadad1001.tumblr.com/tagged/assessment1 . There are sooooo many videos and websites to guide you through tumblr technicalities.

Don’t get too involved with looking or worrying about past examples of this assessment, which you can find many of that people have been posting over the last couple of weeks. These are just meant as encouragement. It’s easy to get obsessed with reworking someone elses idea and it’s just as easy to get blocked by the fact that someone has already done something you are thinking of. Believe me, it’s all been done. Just make it your own! Have a conversation with yourself about why YOU want to do it! Why is this mode of transformation or this box significant to YOU? Contemplating this and being mindful of this is what will make your process unique, always.

Remember the marking criteria for the assessment:

Experimentation (35%) Evidence of experimentation and play Creative thinking (35%) Development of the initial experiments into a final creative work through reflection and refinement Communication (30%) Documentation of process on Tumblr, and articulation of written statement

And finally, don’t stress. This is a chance to experiment and play. It’s in the marking criteria. You HAVE to play! So just use this as an opportunity to improvise and to explore the unknown. If you are stuck, or worried about whether you are doing that, just make it weirder, stranger, sillier, more bazaar, more uncomfortable, more vague!