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Your Tumblr should contain:

1. Clear images of your final work

2. 300 word artist statement

3. All your process images, videos, brainstorms, annotations, diagrams, notes, etc etc tracking your process

Artist: Marti Guixe

I looked at artist Marti Guixe and his book ‘Food design’, which is where I drew my inspiration. He has created geometric shapes with food, taking away the well known identity of the food and replacing it with pie chart looking shapes.

Creating inorganic shapes with organic materials:

For my first series of experiments I wanted to try using fruit, an organic substance, but somehow presenting it in an inorganic way to create juxtaposition. It was a small experiment but I really liked using the fruit as a symbol for something organic and easily changeable; I might continue on playing with it as it related back to my initial ideas about how natural objects are dismissed of having any value, until they provide some service 

I played around with the shapes and composition of the pieces of fruit, and played around with setting them up as if they were not organic objects 

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!

Sean Rafferty CARTONOGRAPHY (2014)

From Sean’s website:

The Cartonography exhibition was the installation of a collection of Australian fruit and vegetable cartons. The cartons were installed in order of their latitude (the furthest north first, and the furthest south last), to create a map of fruit carton art from across Australia.

More info on this project here: http://cartonography.com/index.php/contact/

Here is a range of examples from previous students, the works have been selected for variety and the quality varies. Remember there are no “bad” ideas, just take your idea and really invest in it, run with it.

A used pizza box becomes an ‘oil painting’, quite simply by framing a ready-made object and its positioning in the gallery context.

Steve Carr, Pizza Boxes, 2013

A Space to House Nothing 

“Elmgreen and Dragset have collaborated since 1995 and their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design. This is particularly evident in the series of works entitled Powerless Structures in which they transformed the conventions of the ‘white cube’ gallery space, creating galleries suspended from the ceiling, sunk into the ground or turned upside down.”

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/untitled-elmgreen-and-dragset

Hey guys 

As you transition into life at the university you may encounter difficulties keeping up with your study for any number of reasons. There are a range of services that are available for you to access for support. 

Some of the ones to keep in mind include: 

The Learning Centre  They run excellent programs to help you with research/ reading/ writing skills/ oral presentation skills/ referencing etc. I did so many workshops with The Learning Centre at every stages of study. Cannot recommend more utilising the resources and workshops that they have available. 

Disability Support Services 

UNSW Counselling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Transition to university study can be stressful and often accompanies a range of other changes in your life. If stress is impacting on your ability to make the most of university life please utilise these services. Or if you’re having any other problems. This is a great, free services. 

ELISE | Informing your studies Resource to help you understand the library system and improve your research skills. 

Here is a short history of some unconventional portraits. 

top to bottom:

1. Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Portrait Of Marcel Duchamp  1919

Assemblage with found objects. 

2. Felix Gonzalez-Torres

“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), 1991

Candies individually wrapped in multicolor cellophane, endless supply Dimensions vary with installation; ideal weight 175 lbs.

3. Miller Puckette

Four Sound Portraits, 2017