Class 20 - Homework - March 28th

Dear Students,

The due date for your logbooks has been changed to Tuesday, April 9th.  In addition, you can click this link to get the installation contract which is due Friday, April 5th.

Additionally, you can click this link to get a project prescription that you may find helpful for the rest of the term.

Best,
Team IPC

Class 19 - Homework - March 26th

Reminder: Logbooks are due next Tuesday, April 2nd
REVISION Logbooks are due Tuesday, April 9th

Notice of Future Assignment

Installation Project Phase One - Model

Overview

So far this semester you have been asked to consider your core concepts on the flat plane (2D) and in the round (3D). Regardless of the dimensional configuration of the assignments, most often, your solutions have come in the form of discreet objects. For this assignment we want you to investigate your ideas in a format that utilizes the space surrounding forms and other compositional elements you create. Installation is a three dimensional format that considers an object or composition of objects in relationship to the space that surrounds or permeates them. Installation is more than just discreet form(s) in space; it is the object and the environment all at once. Spatial context is key to the development of any installation work. We have already talked about how your choice of materials and symbols create a context for your artwork. Now we want you to consider how location, environment, and audience interaction create and affect context in your work. At its core, installation art is a perfect marriage of object(s) and the area surrounding them. For this project, choices concerning space, environment, location, and audience engagement will be integral to building conceptual and formal strength. Start your process by brainstorming potentially successful locations or spatial contexts then consider what you might make or place in specific locations.

For this project, try to insert content into every part of the work so that you end up with a multitude of layers. Begin layering by making compositional choices one at a time in a considered and methodical manner. These carefully made choices all should refer back to your concept and direction. In your attempt to reference your ideas, consider the following elements:

Location, Material, Technique, Color, Texture, Light, Proximity, Repetition,

Gravity, Balance, Scale, Proportion, Contrast, Mass, Volume, Space, Boundaries,

Connections, Transitions, Tempo, Chronology.

Each time you make a considered choice that refers back to your concept in some way you create a layer of content and meaning. The more layers you create the richer your artwork will be. Take this opportunity to harness all of your research and experience from this semester to create a powerful, communicative installation. This project does not have to have your serial form object or other aspects of the last project.

Goals:

• Pick a real or imagined location or space that will become part of your installation. If you plan to eventually create your installation in real space at full scale, it will have to be installed on campus or in three minutes walking distance on the grounds of campus.
• Full scale installations will require that you get permission to use the space from administrators and faculty of the school. There will be forms for you to fill out once we pass through the model stage.
• If your space is at school, scale your model to represent that space as closely as possible.
• Create an installation or refined 3D model of the installation you are proposing.
• Investigate installation as a mode for communicating the ideas you have been developing all semester.
• Create content, meaning, and potency through a process of layering references

Requirements to consider for Real Space Installations:

• All work must be located on or adjacent to the college campus and its immediate grounds (3 minute walking distance max. Time it if you are unsure).
• All work must be set up by and cleaned up on the day of your critique within 30 minutes of the end of class. Students may begin the evening before critique after classes have finished, so long as their installation doesn’t impede normal college function (remember our students need wheelchair access).
• Absolutely no work can be installed without explicit written permission from your professors (and Ms. Yelvington). In addition, please review the following:

Limitations:

1. No hanging from ceilings.
2. The upper gallery, lower gallery, no exit gallery, and sleaze and slime gallery areas are off limits.
3. No artwork should impede the normal functioning of the college and its community.
4. No artwork should jeopardize the safety of the college or the community including the student body, staff, faculty, and administration.
5. You may not permanently damage school or public property in any way. Failure to do so could result in hefty monetary fines and failure of the project.
6. No paint on walls or floors
7. No nails piercing walls or floors; walls may be an exception, but each student must formally ask permission.
8. No tape on windows especially in Studio 1, 2, and 3.
9. You must leave the space you use as clean or cleaner than you found it.

WARNING!

* Students who ignore the listed stipulations and/or fail to return school spaces to their original condition within the times allotted will fail [F] the Installation Project.

Note to students planning to eventually install their work outdoors in real space:

Be aware that outdoor projects must be installed despite weather conditions. Therefore, anticipate possible weather issues so the integrity of your installation remains intact regardless of rain, cold, heat, wind, etc. What materials might be appropriate that can withstand environmental adversity?

Assignment 1 - Installation and Material Research

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Due: Thursday, April 4th

Format: Completed and indexed in your logbook by the beginning of class, 1:00pm

Find no less than three artists that do installation work. Find photo examples of their installations and written examples of their ideas (a printed interview or artist statement will do). Paste these into your logbook and let us know in writing what you think about each sample and how these examples are helping you think about your installation. Additionally, form an opinion as to whether or not you think the work is successful and why. Look to Art in America or Sculpture magazines if your Google search comes up without results. Don't forget that a lot of museum sites are also great artist information resources.

Additionally, research materials that relate to your topic and direction. Photographic evidence of these materials will suffice as proof of your efforts. If you are installing outside, remember that your search should include materials that can withstand a multitude of weather conditions. Photos of materials left outside as experiment to how they will hold up could be excellent demonstrations of the planning segment of the sequential creative process. Consider at a minimum 3 new materials.

Assignment 2 - Installation Model

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Due: Thursday, April 4th

Format: Three-Dimensional installation representation (model) that is physically present at the beginning of class, 1:00pm.

Make a small-scale model that recreates the space you propose to use for your installation project. This model should have the proportions of the space it represents as well as the colors and textures of that space as much as reasonably possible so that we can see your vision clearly. This is an opportunity for you to test your ideas about your choice of space and what you choose to do to (or do with or do in) said space. All of the details in your proposal should be apparent in the maquette (model) you bring to class.

Assignment 3 - Installation Statement Outline

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Due: Thursday, April 4th

Format: Typed in Outline form and printed

Make an outline that details what you intend your installation to communicate to viewers. This statement should include:

• Generally describe your topic or idea in such a way that is discernible to a broad audience. Be brief

• Write a brief statement that includes your opinion. In this statement, specifically and concisely define the way you think about or characterize a particular aspect of your topic that you are trying to communicate to an audience for this work.

• List in detail the series of events via research as well as the ways in which these discoveries unfolded that led you to the opinion in the statement above. This list should include things you read, experienced, and/or saw in the order that led you to form the opinion stated above.

• List how your work delivers the statement/opinion above. Beginnging with materials and juxtapositions and how they function visually and end with compositional elements.

• Briefly explain how the space surrounding your composition effects the materials within and delivers meaning that relates to your topic

• Briefly explain how viewers/audience are meant to interact, engage with, or become part of the installation. Give details as to how viewers will experience and navigate through the composition.

Assignment 4 - Installation Title and Questions

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Due:Thursday, April 4th

Format: Turned in on an index card

Create a title for your installation project. Give serious and careful thought to how this title should be worded as it certainly will add to the layers of meaning in your final presentation. Try to stay away from being too obvious, in other words, your title doesn't need to re-tell what your installation communicates. Untitled will not be an acceptable title for your work.

In an effort to get as much from your critique peers as possible, come up with at least three questions regarding your model that will help guide discussion commentary in the direction of your choice.

Class 18 - Homework - March 21st

Dear Students,

On Tuesday (March 26th) bring in early drafts of your photos of the Modular Form in Context Phase 2.    These may be (in order of preference):

1. Images posted to the "Modular Form Part 2 DRAFT IMAGES" folder in the "IPC" folder in the "classes" folder on Dali (the Lab Server)
2. as printed images
3. images on a USB drive
4. clear detailed sketches 

In addition, use the information we discussed in lecture today to develop your own projects.  What would you fill in for A, B and C in the formula we discussed?  Give several versions for C (context).  Write this information down as well as any other considerations you would like to workshop on Tuesday.  If your Modular Form Phase 1object was unresolved, bring in the remade improved version.  You may also bring in draft statements and title drafts.

Modular Form in Context Phase 2

Quick Summary

1. Write a statement of intent for your Modular Form In Context Project.
2. Continue to further develop and improve your Modular Form Object. Put your finished form/object in a context (environment/constructed backdrop) and photograph it. Use the compositional tools (points of control) from our Rapid Idea Sketching exercise to help you photograph your object in a manner that helps communicate your ideas/intention.
3. Create title(s) for each of your Modular Form in Context photographs. Print them and cut them out so that you can place them by the photo they reference. Cutting should be done so that your labels look professional and clean.
4. Print your photographs in a finished and professional manner. Use quality paper and print in color.
5. Write two questions to ask your critique group. Keep in mind that the purpose of these questions is to have your group focus on specific areas of your work. The scope and breadth of these questions may address whatever you choose including, but not limited to: changing, strengthening, adding to, and editing, the work you present in photographs.
6. Hand in your printed statement, 4 finished photographs with printed titles, and 2 printed questions on Thursday, March 28th at the beginning of class


Assignment 1 - Statement of Intent
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Due: Thursday, March 28th, at the beginning of class
Format: as a typed printed document with the proper heading as outlined in the syllabus

• First, as plainly as possible, describe the topic and line of inquiry of your modular form project (in no more than three sentences).
• Second, list the readymade used to build the overall form and describe how it relates to your topic and direction.
• Next, list the overall object that the readymades form and describe how this 3D object relates to your topic and direction.
• Finally, describe the relevance of your chosen context(s) [environments, settings, backdrops, etc].

The purpose of a statement of intent is to articulate in writing what you are attempting to express (or have expressed) visually in your work. After writing a first draft, rewrite this statement until your references and intentions become clear and concise. Feel free to elaborate with elements from your research and personal experience.

Assignment 2 - Modular Form in Context (Images)
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Due: Thursday, March 28th, at the beginning of class
Format: 4 printed photographs (see dimensions below and put your name on the back of each photo)

The final format of the Modular Form project is two-dimensional. The setting, surrounding, or context you choose should help clarify and develop the content of the work for the audience, reinforcing what your object of readymades communicates. You may use a field made of objects, a real life setting or scenario, material field, or a small-scale model to create a context or environment. Just be sure that the object you made remains a main character or focus of the photographic composition. Use the points of control learned in rapid idea sketching to guide the final output of this work. You are in control of what the audience views. Experiment using different perspectives and different contexts.

In an attempt to clearly communicate your message, you will need to make four photographs. After you have printed these four photos, pick the image you feel most strongly delivers your content. When you display the work in class place the strongest photo apart from the three other images. Be sure to print and cut out the title for each work and your name for each image presented. Likewise, write your name on the back of each photograph.

Most likely, color will play a part in delivering your message, the photos you submit should be printed in color unless you have good reason to print in black and white. Printed photos should be 8” x 10" format (unless you choose a different aspect ratio of similar overall size). If you decide to present the work using a mat, be sure the mat is cut straight and clean. Your images should to be printed on photo paper or high quality inkjet paper, not copier paper. Capture your images at a high enough resolution so that your prints do not appear pixelated.

Assignment 3 - Modular Form Titles
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Due: Thursday, March 28th, at the beginning of class
Format: Print them and cut them out so that you can place them by the photo they reference.

Your Modular Form in Context photos need to have titles and your name. A title is an opportunity to create an additional layer of meaning, content, or context. Titles should compliment or be in contrast to the work you develop. It should not be obvious, redundant, or simply restate what the audience can easily figure out by viewing the work. Each title should also include your name like the example below:

Title
Your Name

Assignment 4 - Critique Questions
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Due: Thursday, March 28th, at the beginning of class
Format: as a typed printed document with the proper heading as outlined in the syllabus

Develop two questions to ask the critique group. These questions should be direct and specific, addressing areas of the work that can either be more fully expanded or that need further resolution. The questions you develop should require responses beyond yes and no. Likewise, they should not be a ploy to convince your audience to agree with your point of view or opinion.

Class 17 - Homework - March 19th

Dear Students,

No new work today.  We will finish the Modular Form critiques next class.

Best,
Team IPC

Class 16 - Homework - March 7th

Dear Students,

Again, no new homework today.  Keep working on Modular Form Project and logbook assignments.

Best,
Team IPC

Class 15 - Homework - March 5th

Dear Students,

There is no new homework today.  Keep working on your Modular Form Project and logbook assignments.

Best,
Team IPC