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Here is a little animation that I made as a development of my first semester works in COFA 1001 which responded to ideas around embracing failure, erasure and alternative mediums...I am submitting this for my drawing class which is what it has been made for.

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Assessment Task 3 - Group Presentation

Group:

Antoinette Bruce Chow, Cam Nugent, Carolyne Reck, Katherine Kennedy and Tanawat Sathapanasethe

Topic:

Everything-ness and Anarchy

Conceptual Processes:

Conceptual Mapping - As our team consists of 5 individuals, collaboration was achieved with the employment of conceptual mapping skills which we all have practiced individually and in other groups early on in the semester.

Divergent and Convergent Thinking - Our group began research in a divergent manner and we were initially looking at anarchist artist James Koehnline. However there was a shift toward convergent methods as our concept grew unexpectedly to include many other schools of thoughts surrounding Anarchy and Everythingness.

Thinking Through Media - As we moved onto Kusum Normoyle's media art works, we appreciated her synergy with Anarchy and references to punk, performance, rebelliousness etc...Her visual effects which were achieved post-production, we  attempted to replicate with hand made filters and other apparatus during the shoot. Her videos a representative as more than documentation of a past performed event but are instead the finished work of art exhibited (MCA)

Uncreativity - We have appropriated Kusum Normoyles 'Screm Amp' work and re contextualized it in the process. After studying Scream Amp, we sought the locations in her video and performed a silent scream reenactment conversely in all white clothing as opposed to her all black uniform appearance. The two posters were made uncreatively as they either represent our version of existing posters and or were shot  in the actual exhibition space.

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Okay...this is my first attempt at a poster

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Here are some existing posters for Kusum...great examples

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I had landed in Barcelona, Spain around noon on the very day of the Worldwide Photowalk, October 5.

Day of the shoot...found a great Alien Method to assist with how to conduct the video practically

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Silent scream. Cemetary.  The oval is the best shot similiar to the shot used.  Does anyone know an oval high up with a city skyline in the background.  Or will this do?

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Hi group.

Katherine and I managed to get come white shirts for the girls and white jeans for the two of us. My sons have two long sleeved white shirts that will be suitable for Cameron, although one of them is an undershirt. I understood Tanawat has his own shirt. Cameron can you please bring a...

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This is great and necessary when looking at existing posters

Some posters....

Posters don’t need to necessarily have a lot of text. I don’t need bibliographies etc but am looking for creative (or uncreative) approaches to representing and conveying your research through course concepts. Here are a few posters of various origin. You might have more text than this but check out the nice visuals.

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Anarchy Group Prep:

Definition of Anarchy:

I found thius source in our online UNSW data base but cannot as yet access the whole thing...here is the abstract though and it may offer a bit of insight into 'analytical anarchism';

Title: ANALYTICAL ANARCHISM: THE PROBLEM OF DEFINITION AND DEMARCATION

Author: Konstantinov M.s.

Is Part Of: Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2012(4)

Description: In this paper the first time in the science of our country is considered a new trend of anarchist thought - analytical anarchism. As a methodological tool used critical analysis of the key propositions of the basic versions of this trend: the anarcho- capitalist and egalitarian. The study was proposed classification of discernible trends within the analytical anarchism on the basis of value criteria, identified conceptual and methodological problems of definition analytical anarchism and its demarcation from the allied ideologies: an anarcho-capitalist libertarianism and analytical marxism. It seems that the results are not only theoretical but also practical significance, especially for specialists in political ideology, political consultants, and lecturer of political science.

Identifier: ISSN: 20771770

Source: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

James Koehnline's contribution to 'Anarchy' as concept:

http://modernslavery.calpress.org/?p=534 - date accessed 17/10/2013

James Koehnline is a Seattle-based artist and library worker, long-time member of Autonomedia publishing collective and contributor to Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed and other radical publications. Online gallery at: http://james119.deviantart.com/

United States

Current Residence: Seattle, WA, USA Library Worker, AFCME Local 2083, AFL-CIO. Associated with Autonomedia Publishing Collective since 1990. Drawing, painting and printmaking from 1971 to 1985. Cut and paste collage from 1985 to 1995. Digital art since 1996. In the beginning I was heavily influenced by my father's Max Ernst collection and his art library with its focus on surrealism, then by Franklin Rosemont's Chicago Surrealist group, starting with the fabulous international exhibition they mounted in Chicago in 1976. Studied art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and at Columbia College, Chicago, where I met artist, teacher, critic and radio personality, Harry Bouras. Studied with Harry privately. Started the alternative gallery, Axe Street Arena with six friends in 1985 on the top floor of a big old former department store in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. Through a show I curated there with my friend Ron Sakolsky, I connected with anarchist poet-philosopher, Hakim Bey, and began a long series of collaborations with him and the Autonomedia publishing collective in New York. In 1991 I moved to Seattle with my not-yet wife, Andrea Frank, and did the first of many CD covers for Bill Laswell. In 1992 I initiated the Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints, now in its 22nd annual edition. I came to deviantART in 2006, took over running the SurrealArts club for a year, then started the Lost Book Club here, which was a great experience. Lost Books has been given new life on Facebook by some of my old partners-in-crime, and has really taken off. In the last few years I've been laying low, working a straight job, being a father, reading and studying, and making art here and there. I think I've got a new burst of creative work coming on, so I'm updating my page here.

www.koehnline.com

  This link will take you to his marketing site for ease of purchasing postcards, books etc...however I am mpore intoerested in the writings around Anarchy so my search continues

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THIS IS FASCINATING

Adolf Wolfli

The Swiss artist Adolf Wolfli was an artist born in Feb 29, 1864 in Bern. Wolfli lived a depressing childhood as he was orphaned and sexually abused at the age of 10. Later in his life, the psychological trauma of these events influenced an led him to commit child molestations which he was imprisoned for.  After being released, he repeated the offense which caused him to be admitted into the Waldau Clinic in Bern. In the clinic he spent time in isolation which caused him to suffer but it was in this clinic where his talents and skills in his art practice were developed and recognised by a doctor at Waldau, Walter Morganthaler. His art was made using materials provided for him and also where he could scavenge materials such as pencils given to him which will be completely used after two days and packaging paper and other materials he can find or ask for from the clinic’s guards. In conclusion, he’s regarded as an outside artist because his work was created and presented some of the smaller works within the clinical institution often selling them to visitors for pencils and required materials. In addition, he received his materials and equipments from supporting medical staffs. Through his doctor, his name gained publicity and reputation in the arts world. He lived his life within the hospital walls until his passing in November 6, 1930 at the age of 66.

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Assessment 3 - Group Work - make a poster

Although Assessment three is not a Tumblr exercise, we as a group have decided to use it for ease of participation and transparency for ourselves and the teacher simultaneously.

Assessment Brief:

A Poster is a visual approach to presenting research. Create an A0 sized poster to display your groups research in a visual and graphic manner.

Drawing upon the semester’s research, each group must collaborate on a poster, taking either “nothing-ness” or  “everything-ness” as the prompt and devise a way to successfully represent this. 

Students will be given 6 minutes to present the work with the poster acting as visual aid.

The poster will articulate the conceptual bases and research methods the group has undertaken to develop the project.

Groups should look to historical and contemporary examples of conceptual process and critically engage their findings to create a poster and presentation.

Following on, the group will devise and propose an event, taking the poster’s representation of “nothing-ness” or “everything-ness” as its theme.

The event can be purely imaginary (impossible) or something quite possible, it can be virtual or real.

The group should focus on the theme of the event and use the poster and presentation to outline a conceptual research approach to developing the theme

Group Brief:

Team: Antoinette, Tanawat and myself

We have decided to break our research into three categories for ease of group participation. Each of us will work on this privately then come together next lesson and share our findings. During this private research we will be concerned with how it relates to the course themes thus far such as;

Map Making

Convergent and Divergent Thinking

Alien Methods

Uncreativity

Thinking through Media

Unfinished Business

The artist we have chosen is James Kdehnline for how he relates to 'Everything-ness'. We have decided to look specifically at 'Anarchy' as a philosophy and how James has approached this as a major inspiration for his work. Research has been divided as follows;

Tanawat: Philosophy of 'Anarchy' through history....who were the primary voices in the study of anarchy from an intellectual perspective.

Antoinette: Research of the artist and his major three visual threads he has going - dissect all three for his diverse media approaches and basically find how he has made the images.

Katherine: Definitions of 'Anarchy' and associated terms and look to the artist himself regarding his written works on the subject and those who have inspired his musings on chaos.

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One more example of an 'outsider artist' as found by a different class team

Art works by Jean Dubuffet.

1.Monument with Standing Beast,

2.Setting Snares 1963.

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This is another good class group's research of an 'outsider artist'

Scottie Wilson (1891-1972)

Distinctive hatch marks provide texture in his works

populated by sinister ‘greedies and evils’ in his earlier pieces, later replaced serenely decorative swans and fish. (combat between the good and evil)

fascinated by a pen at a store and felt compelled to use it.

"The pen seem to make me draw, then images, the faces and designs just flowed out. i couldn’t stop - i never stopped since that day"

He doesn’t like selling his works. 

stuck mainly to a narrow range of visual elements..botanical forms, birds and animals, clowns etc. 

"When I’m working I can see what’s happening, and I can imagine what’s going to happen. I can see best when I’m finishing my pictures with a pen. When I’m making strokes; hundreds and thousands of strokes"

Later drawings are more symmetrical, coloured pencil and wax crayon were added to his tool kit, and the cross-hatching became more complex. One curator has identified 7 styles of cross-hatching angles, double shark’s fin, rope, overlapping shoals, wavy forms, saw teeth and scales. 

evolution of his style was notoriously non-existent and, because he did not date most of his works, it is very difficult to place his works in time apart from the few documentary records that exist

in 1960s, Wilson began to to create paintings on plates. 

works were initially rendered in black and white ink, later in colour. 

a favourite with the surrealists. 

compositions spread outwards from the support centre and symmetrical to that axis. 

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Outsider Artist - Henry Darger.

History: Popularly thought of as the poster child of outsider art, Darger painted and wrote for himself not breaking into the art industry in any sense until after death. He was a bit of a reclusive though not completely unsocial as he was diagnosed with autism.

His work was discovered shortly before his death 1973 and in cooperation with Kiyoko Lemer, Intuit: The centre for Intuitive and Outsider Art, dedicated the Henry Darger Room Collection 2008 as part of its collection.

The collection included, tracings, source materials and clippings from newspapers, magazines, comic books, cartoons, children’s books, coloring books, personal documents; as well as architectural elements, fixtures and furnishings from his actual residence.

So basically his research was elevated to the level of art by those who discovered and promoted it.

www.saraayers.com/darger.htm

Click here for link to ‘The story of the Vivian Girls’ novel synopsis. http://amzn.to/1adRe3v

Postthumous fame and influence whereby ‘Posthumous’ is defined as meaning arising, occurring or continuing after ones death’.

By Katherine, Tanawat and Antoinette

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Outsider Artist Henry Darger

History: Popularly thought of as the poster child of outsider art, Darger painted and wrote for himself not breaking into the art industry in any sense until after death. He was a bit of a reclusive though not completely unsocial. His work was discovered shortly before his death 1973 and in cooperation with Kiyoko Lemer, Intuit: The centre for Intuitive and Outsider Art, dedicated the Henry Darger Room Collection 2008 as part of its collection. The collection included, tracings, source materials and clippings from newspapers, magazines, comic books, cartoons, children's books, coloring books, personal documents; as well as architectural elements, fixtures and furnishings from his actual residence. So basically his research was elevated to the level of art by those who discovered and promoted it. www.saraayers.com/darger.htm Click here for link to 'The story of the Vivian Girls' novel synopsis. http://amzn.to/1adRe3v Postthumous fame and influence whereby 'Posthumous' is defined as meaning arising, occurring or continuing after ones death'.

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Class Outline for Semester 2 

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WEEK 10 - “Stranger in a strange land”

1. What are the advantages/ disadvantages of an alien perspective?