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March of the Flies

https://vimeo.com/jaskasp https://vimeo.com/219810226   Sorry only just saw you wanted the vimeo link on tumblr too

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Manifesto place in relevant areas...

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Artists Please Don’t Kill the Earth - We Need It (a manifesto) The main message of this is to be aware of where your materials come from and how your art practises affect the environment, ie be more environmentally friendly when making art. Made by reusing pages from a magazine that would’ve otherwise gone in the bin, out of date coffee granules turned into ink (may as well get some more use out of it) and a brush/nib pen I made earlier in the semester as part of this unit.

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Week 12 Principle

In response to To Be of Use by Marge Piercy You must be as studious in making your art as a bowerbird is in making and maintaining his nest. Great things come with hard work and time.

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Manifesto drafts

Week 11 initial Draft

Week 12 edited/changed draft

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Week 12 historical art image

1000 Little Ice Men By Nele Azevedo 2010 (?) Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHA_T7yiyTM

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Researching Manifesto Designs

Looking into ideas for the design aspect of my manifesto.

Source: https://goinswriter.com/artist/

source: http://elleluna.com/post/86240493479/kandinskys-timeless-manifesto-speaks-beautifully

source: http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=695

Source: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/ten-game-changing-manifestos

source: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/5721/the-creative-manifesto

source: http://www.ifixit.com/blog/2010/11/09/self-repair-manifesto/

source: http://kellyexeter.com.au/free-manifesto-downloads

source: http://kellyexeter.com.au/free-manifesto-downloads

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Week 11 Principle

in response to The Localisation Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift by Raymond De Young and Thomas Princen. As our finite world begins to reach it limits due to the growth of the human population and its infinite requirements, we as artists need to consider how our work, method and use of materials will affect our current environmental circumstances in a world we all share despite the presence of boundaries.

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Historical Artwork Week 11

Listen... By Olga Ziemska 2003 Oronsko, Poland Plaster cast hands mounted on local birch logs

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Historical Art Image week 10

RiverCubes By Bob Johnson 2003 The pieces are made by collecting rubbish from local rivers and then it’s assembled into the above cubes.

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Principle Week 10

In response to Amy Young’s Creating, Culling and Caring. 

The environment is available for us to work with if we have the knowledge of how to use it. It provides everything we need for us to convey our ideas and project our humanity upon the natural world should wish to. We can alter the environment and the life within it to achieve this where required.

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Week 10 exploration - Step 1

I believe that as environmental artists we must consider the impact our art has on its environment. Artists must think about whether their method, materials and artwork will carry a positive, neutral or negative affect towards the environment in which we live and work in. For example those who build sculptures only to burn them, such as Martin Hill’s photographic piece ‘Burning Issues’, need to contemplate where the materials are taken from, the impact of removing them, how the fire will affect the surrounding area (i.e how much else will become ablaze too), the gases that will be released from burning the sculpture and their possible effects on the atmosphere and lungs of those near by. Using my manifesto the artist would use recycled timbers, so as to minimise deforestation by using materials which have been previously removed and used. They’d arrange for the burning of the sculpture to damage/burn the minimum amount of land possible whilst still achieving their goal for the art work. They’d also need to consider the wind direction and speed to know where the gaseous chemicals that’d be released from burning the sculpture will immediately spread so as to lower the number of living organisms affected by it.

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Week 9 Principle

In response to Encounters With Animal Minds by Barbara Smuts.   Not only do we need to consider how we host organisms in our surrounding environment but also how they host us in their’s and the relationships that can stem from this when producing environmental art.

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The Fly https://archive.org/details/0710_Fly_The_12_39_35_05 It provides clips from different life stages of the fly along with some close ups which could be useful in the video.

Swat the Fly!  https://archive.org/details/6007_Swat_the_Fly_aka_The_House_Fly_08_25_30_21 It provides close ups of flies in different life stages along with clips of people killing flies which would be helpful for the beginning of my video.

The Fly : A Science Picture https://archive.org/details/0921TheFlyASciencePicture Provides clear close up of parts of flies.

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Historical Art Image Week 9

Burning Issues By Martin Hill 2013 Albert Burn Saddle in Mt Aspiring National Park, New Zealand

From the Watershed Project View the project here 

Source:http://martin-hill.com/work/

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Week 8 Principle

In response to Envisioning a Sustainable World by Donella Meadows

Art and its various forms can serve as a medium in which for people to share their hopes and visions for a better world in a way that can not only transcend generations but also language barriers. 

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Historical art image week 8

2000 Circles By Martin Hill

Made from winter snow and pierced repeatedly. 1200mm in diameter 1998 Mt Ruapehu, New Zealand

Source: http://martin-hill.com/work/ephemeral-sculptures-2/2000-circles/