#ADAD1001

[kusumadad2018]

Methaven are GREAT! Thanks Sarah Rodigari! @sarahrodigariadad2018

Excellent thinking for assignment 1.

Interview with Methaven:

http://www.thefader.com/2016/05/06/metahaven-the-sprawl-propaganda-interview

Metahaven discuss aesthetics as a weapon:

https://theinfluencers.org/en/metahaven

[kianiez-blog]

Through photoshop I played around and shuffled the images between the google search of humans and plants. Now the colours are not as contrasted and kind of exists in harmony, where humans and plants are depicted in one platform mimicking how we currently co-exist with plants and nature.

[jasminemunder]

Erasure 4

[thatpretentiousfilmstudent-blog]

Assessment Task 2 - ‘Perception’ [FINAL]

“start, stop, pause / tratspotsesuap”

[adaxucofa]

Time-based Collaborative Project - Concept Statement

For this group task, we were inspired by Nam June Paik’s installation Random Access (1963/2000) and chose to address the idea of vagueness. For his installation, Nam June Paik invites the audience to interact with pieces of the tape recorder, creating random, directionless vectors. With the intention of emulating his techniques, we chose a different ordinary object—an umbrella—to portray the idea of vagueness, subverting the conventional purpose of an umbrella. To begin, we created a rough storyboard, which highlighted the main ideas we wanted to explore. The video itself, which went on to become our final artwork, showcases an engagement with the umbrella that is incredibly vague—from the very start, the umbrella is being used despite the lack of rain or sunshine. Throughout the video, this engagement becomes more and more erratic—the umbrella itself is taken apart and the different sections of it are used to create new meanings: the chaotic editing and harsh sounds combine to form an atmosphere of distress and disorder as the umbrella is deconstructed; a metal rod becomes an instrument by being dragged along a fence or along the ground; bending the umbrella wire, we replicated the shapes of the heart monitor waves; the spokes are used to stab repeatedly into the fabric so that the umbrella is effectively destroying itself, et cetera. As such, the umbrella gradually becomes a symbol for aggression and confusion—both contributing factors to the very vague emotion of sadness. This entire, complex process merges to embody the notion of vagueness, becoming a work of art in and of itself, as is the case with Random Access. 

Group members: @adaxucofa @jasminemunder @cofa-bonniekim @monikacofa

Bibliography

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2001. ‘Installing “Random Access” - Nam June Paik: Global Visionary - Time-lapse’, Nam June Paik Estate. Accessed on 10/04/2018. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVGl6DoOIVc

Tan, E. 2013. ‘Hospital Sound’. Accessed on 26/04/2018. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXCyzPMEoXM&t=149s

[piasadad]

Reminders for Assessment 2

As we’re edging our way towards Week 9 and things are gearing up for our presentations of assessment 2, it’s a good time to revisit the assessment brief in the course outline. Make sure you read it through with your group and identify what the criteria is so that you can be sure you are adhering to the requirements.

For now I wanted to point out a few things that people might be neglecting. Particularly these clear steps that have been outlined in the brief:

1. Choose an artwork or design featured in any weekly course concept resource on Moodle. 

2. Reflect on how that work or design has engaged with the weekly course concept. 

2. Develop a collaborative artwork or design in response to your chosen work. You may like to remake, refute, update, remix, extend, continue, deform, erase, or deconstruct the work.

So far, groups seemed to have developed a clear rationale about how they are responding to the weekly theme, but they haven’t done enough research about the work they are choosing to respond to. If you read the brief you will notice that the theme has little to no significance on the assessment. Some people can’t even remember the title of the work and the artist/designer who made it. Eek! It’s really important to developing an understanding about this work because you are “responding” to it. Take some responsibility for this. It might be worth doing some preliminary research on the work and the artist, just as when we present works to you in class, we give you details about its context. 

Here’s a mental exercise: Imagine that the artist/designer responsible for the work you are responding to is coming to see your presentation. They might be surprised about the connections you make, but you wouldn’t want to appear ignorant or uncaring about those connections. It’s great to take agency here and make a critique or some kind of controversial or provocative gesture against the work, if you like, but you want to be doing that with full knowledge of why. Take creative agency here, but responsibly!

You might also like to look at my page here of content related to asssessment no. 2. http://piasadad.tumblr.com/tagged/assessment2

[adad-mei-blog]

02/05/18 Assessment 2 Presentation

Artist Statement

[josephinesineux-blog]

Experiment 3: Documentation and editing 

Here, I captured some stills from the same video along Hyde Park, in another attempt at capturing movement. I really like the way these look and think they’re quite interesting visually, in the way that they seem to freeze a moment in time, showing movement as well as speed, especially for the two trucks. I want to continue looking at this idea in other experiments. 

[kellyadad-blog]

Assessment 1 Experiments: 4

Experimented more with illustrator and photoshop to duplicate and scatter the coins around. 

The contrast between the number of coins and note represent the number of poor people and rich people in the world. Over 80% of the world’s population lives on $10 a day. 

The money in the poster is a metaphor for poverty. It highlights the fact that no matter how much you try to save up, in the end, no one will be satisfied and everyone will always feel “poor” and worthless”

The use of colour in all three of these experiments are not eye- catching enough. Also, the colour harmony is lacking and the low resolution of the $50 note can be altered. 😊

[kusumadad2018]

Last week we experimented with developing a small in class exercise into a larger, group based work whilst also focusing on the power of documentation to frame something and give it a sense of intention. The results were really rewarding. We observed the space between failure and success in learning a new skill (whistling using a leaf).

[ellie-kallmier-blog]

ASSESSMENT 3: 

PLOT

Repetition is so pervasive in contemporary culture, examples of it can be found in just about everything we experience. It has been described as “the power of beginning and beginning again” [Deleuze, 1994]. It can be used as a tool to strengthen memory, a method of production and reproduction, an aesthetic device, or a mechanism for communication. I have found myself continually fascinated with the concept of repetition and its many functions in art making, especially using it as a “boring” process that leads to surprising results.

Often the more I think about something, the more I repeat the same thought patterns, the more those thoughts shift out of focus and slide into something else. Whilst undertaking the experiments that lead to this final piece, the word “repetition” itself got stuck on loop running through my head, and eventually became so blurred that new patterns started to emerge. Plot is my attempt at communicating an experience of this cycle. It started with drawing lines on a page, that lead to a study of the relationship between paper and what we put onto it; as the lines became unfocused, different waveforms surfaced and sparked a new line of inquiry into natural resonance of materials. In repeating those waves as both literal plots and the formulas that describe them, I was finally able to create these textural, visual responses to what I saw as the interaction between the surface and the subject.

Deleuze, Gilles. Difference and Repetition. Trans. by Paul Patton. London : Athlone Press 1994.

[ariane-m]

assessment 3 experiment 6

As ‘The Little Mermaid’ is an animated film, I thought I could look into animation

I’m not very skilled with animation and so I went to research for other ways of presenting something similar

Looking at Randy Haycock, an animator for Disney, and some of his animation tests, I thought I could possibly make my final work into an animatic

Haycock’s work includes him drawing frame by frame creating a smooth transition between each drawing and so making it look animated

I did a very very very rough test of an animatic which I want to look into for the final work

For the final work, I want to grab a clip from ‘The Little Mermaid’ and possibly make it into an animatic made from some of my erasure drawings

It will be put together in iMovie or Premiere Pro and some edited audio will accompany it

[katriyang]

Experiment #3

Inspired by the repetitive series of images created by the infinity mirror effect in my first experiment, I decided to further explore this trippy and psychedelic pattern on photoshop.

Through making a work path from the head of the subject, it auto-traces an outline and continually made scaled up copies of the outline. They actually remind me of hologram waves or topographical maps which is interesting.

I photoshop my friends’ faces that appear uncomfortable or neutral in order to pair it with the ‘trippy’ aesthetic I aim to create. I realised that by the arrangement of only lines, it almost appears as though it is in the process of creating a three-dimensional form, almost as if it were a hologram. I wonder if I can make these images move in order to reinforce the illusion of a still form coming to life...

[jasminemunder]

FINAL BODY OF WORK

Consists of a 1min 53sec video capturing engaging digital code errors.

Link to the full video - https://youtu.be/Wt4sV2vD158

CONCEPT STATEMENT - ERASURE

We often believe that ‘erasure’ is a form of removal or the deleting of a subject. I wanted to take this further and test the concept’s potential. My final artwork explores the finding of ‘unpredictable’ aesthetics in digital code errors. Most mediums of technology produce clever illusions of perfection, which to us is faultless. However, we don’t see the errors and mistakes that they hold. So, using this notion, I wanted to bring out the flaws of technologies but in a visually engaging approach. My process of experimentation involved editing and playing around with various Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premiere effects. Each experiment had the aim of erasing through series of distortion, destruction, cutting and wiping techniques. My first experiment consisted of multiple sliced images joined together to create an unfamiliar landscape. The second experiment is the manipulation of a scenery image, which makes it artistically unrecognisable. My third experiment is a short clip that really demonstrates the main techniques used in my final work. It is the altering and deforming of people walking on a runway, which removes their identity. The clips used have no relation to each other, which creates the erasing of purpose yet also creating a purposeful meaning of aesthetics. This ‘glitch’ effect is continued in experiment four, where moments of the image are overwritten and erased with a digital error. My final work implements these techniques in various ways, developing an appealing appearance of ‘errors’ or ‘defects’. By using a series of editing techniques, the final work encompasses the idea of aesthetics through the purposeful distorting and glitch creating.

[maddie-l-blog]

Assignment 3 Class experiment 

[sabrina-unsw]

Artists statement

It is often said “there are no mistakes in nature”, but the human understanding of perfections proves to contradict this statement as it varies with each individual. Within my finial work, ‘You ruined it’, I expressed the concept of failure through this exploration of natural beauty and personal evaluation. My artwork consists of three separate pieces, each depicting the same Australian landscape scene, largely from memory of the photograph alone, with a black felt tip pen to utilise the details of a line-based style. I explored this concept of failure by creating each of these works in different, challenging circumstances; first while on a moving train, then trying to replicate this scene upside down, and finally repeating the same landscape using my non-dominate hand. The final result are three monochromatic, imperfect landscapes, left bare and beside each other to further emphasise their mistakes. To continue to explore this concept and the human evaluation of beauty, I then left these pictures on display in a more public area, simply taped to an easily accessible hallway wall. When showed to the audience I then handed out an array of multicoloured markers, with the instructions to critic the work in the value of its perfection. If finding an aspect of the work they deem imperfect I will then ask them to circle, trace, cross out or otherwise deface the work using the markers, highlighting this failure through their own, personal ideals. The finial product will leave my artwork ‘ruined’ through evaluation, with contrasting bright colours permanently emphasising my own failures, but through their addition had arguably left my work more interesting and therefore beautiful, through its personal expression and celebrated honesty in its unique appearance.