MONDAY
Complete audio critiques
Final audio blog posts due by next week!
LECTURE:
Assignment:
Make a CONCEPTUAL PORTRAIT*
Works can be in prints, slide-show images, video, audio, or found object sculptures and installations. Consider using text in your work when needed. Maximum limit for time-based works is 3 minutes.
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“In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work… all planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art.”
Sol Lewitt, from Peter Osborne, Conceptual Art, Phaidon, Themes & Movements
“The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can’t be understood without understanding the system. It isn’t what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance. “
Sol Lewitt
For this open media project you will create a representation of someone or something – in a non-literal way. You will create your conceptual portrait by using a system – like a rule, a formula, a series of tasks, or an experiment to plan and create the work.
Your work will not be narrative or decorative – it will include only what is necessary to convey your information, follow your task, or show the results of your experiment.
Let the system be the “machine that makes the art.” For example the work might be:
- An uncommon documentation of an aspect of life, using a series of images or forms of data
- A collection of objects to make a portrait/ represent an abstract concept
- Show the results of an experiment performed, to learn surprising truths about something
Consider, how does your series, collection, or system convey an idea, or make us understand something in a new way?
On the Blog: DRAFT a proposal of your ideas for discussion in the next class
Write about an artist reference from the lecture that informs your thinking – use images and prepare to discuss your proposal in our next class meeting:
*See schedule for work time and critique dates.
WEDNESDAY
More examples of conceptual portraits.
Brainstorm ideas roundtable and discussion
Work time