Intermedia @ UI

FINAL PORTFOLIOS

Your tumblr pages should be formatted in the following manner to ensure that I can find all the items for your final portfolio...

ABOUT: this page should include your general artist statement and a separate paragraph that is brief bio about yourself

WORK: this page should include a brief introduction to the work you’ve done in this class - an image and brief description of each project - then you should link to individual pages for each project where we can see more complete documentation and project statements for each project (America’s Most Wanted & All or Nothing) - please include images here, but also feel free to link to more images/media on youtube, google drive, dropbox, etc. if necessary.

BLOG: here you should have at least 10 posts - one for each category - for your online self-guided tour of the art world project. Hopefully, you will also have many other posts that give us some insight into both your aesthetic and research interests.

These should be completes no later than wednesday 12/13 at noon!

Here are a few resources to help you in crafting your artist statements. Please read over these before you sit down to write your statement. 

- https://www.gyst-ink.com/artist-statement-guidelines/

- http://blog.creative-capital.org/2013/01/a-page-from-our-handbook-writing/

- https://www.theartleague.org/blog/2015/08/24/artist-statements-we-love/

Please read these two articles on artist statements before our class on Wednesday, 11/29. You will be writing an artist statement (in addition to your final project statement), which will be due when you submit your final portfolios.

The Anti-artist-statement Statement

In Defense of the Artist Statement

please select from the following artists:

- Francis Alÿs

- Fischli and Weiss

- Amanda Ross-Ho

- Allan Kaprow

- Joseph Kosuth

- Fiona Tan

- Anish Kapoor

- Laurel Nakadate

- Pippilotti Rist

- Martin Creed

- Carolee Schneemann

- Ugo Rondinone

- Cai Guo-Qiang

- Krzysztof Wodiczko

We will be using this book by Brian O’Doherty to jumpstart our next unit, ALL or NOTHING. Please read the chapters I & II before our class on Wednesday, 10/25. And then finish the book (chapters III & IV) before monday’s class, 10/30.