Final Assignment

SCLP 210 -
Baraka Final : Wednesday,  December 11 at 11:30-2:30

This assignment introduces students to the realm of performance-based art and how it relates to sculpture. Students are asked to use the other students in their class as their sculptural medium. You must use at least 5-8 students in this action. Use the movie Baraka as a place to conjure from. You must write a one page description of the piece along with what part of the movie inspired you with directions for each participant used. You may use a prop/object if needed.

Watch on Baraka Vimeo http://vimeo.com/39584545

SCLP -310

Sense of Place: Wednesday,  December 11 at 11:30-2:30

Sense of place: Contact a family member that you have never met (via internet or phone), ask them to describe an object in a room that has significant family history. You will recreate this object/conversation.  Ask basic 3D foundations questions: what color is it, what was it used for, what texture does it have, does it have a smell, is it symmetrical, does it have any negative space? 

                  
SCLP 410/480-

Crit.Final : Wednesday,  December 11 at 11:30-2:30

Critique Days

Critique Days

SCLP 210 -
Steel assignment and Trashin' Due November 7
Baraka Final (Wood Workshop)November 12, Final December 11 at 8am.

SCLP 310-
Steel  and Multiples as Meaning due November 7

Sense of Place -Final December 11 at 8am.

                  
SCLP 410/480-
Crit. October 15
Crit. November 5

Crit.Final December 11 at 8am.

Devine Felger

Henrik Mikkelsgard

Jake Brayton

Tom Letson

Jai Odyssea

Missa Cossette

Haley Gray

Luke Durkin

Devin Felger

Float or Fail Fall 2013

Float!!

Float or Fail Due on September 10!!! Come ready for the lake.

Both Sides of the Brain!!

Prezi

Sam Shear-Final Project

It's about 4 ft. long.
Has a sliding mechanism on the bottom.
Half of the object is a cylinder.
Its old and has some rust on it
Smaller objects fit inside that are transferred in and out of the object using the sliding mechanism.
It has the ability to make load noises.

Not really sure what to make from this but there are a few characteristics that i can run with. 

Stephanie's Sculpture Final Project

My phone conversation was difficult to hear, but I made out a few characteristics of my piece.
Sea foam green glass
Gold base trim
Dragonfly (also of gold) atop the entire thing
The speaker's voice was echoed and muffled

The speaker unfortunately revealed that said object was an antique perfume bottle. Nevertheless, I will use the few descriptions to mimic something of this character.

Some inspirations:

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRNxLwcAr83SkUYfWv8JyqfprGiBnzSb8-OG3uP1ov0qRs5y-iIfg

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSQ062tUqpbWAIxWGwQL4157R_RGGJdmGgylZNPuwgC650jQebFPw

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT4oESOR3SDq2lMKal38MvE4uB3P2iryyqNAfgYlk0F_W80Y6kT

Sound, and resonant singing, are for some strange reason a contributing component of my thoughts on this description. Perhaps its because I recently watched Amadeus.

Inflate!

To address all those inflatable questions:

Sam Shear

This project was an interesting one. I decided to use the shadows casted from the students to create these abstract forms. Using charcoal and water I wanted to get that same look and feel as black tar or oil, while saving the wall from damage. then using red paint i would loosely outline the head of each person.. all in all i think the project was a success, with a few happy accidents.. i learned that i don't necessarily need to think out every step and that i should just let the work happen.

Maddy Wilson

Through the process of creating the class as medium art project, I learned many things. I learned that people can be manipulated easily if they are given accurate, clear, and thorough directions. If I did not map out clear directions for each of the 5 volunteers, they may not have been in the desired places and poses. I am happy with the turnout and process of the piece. I would have liked more people to be in the library in order to have the class feel more out of place and awkward.

Rashawn Walker

Zack Schomp

Charlie Levine

Laurie Jones

Using class as Medium... so I got them to levitate.

Anza Jarschke

A Collective Memory that Never Happened

I have been continuing my exploration of concept regarding creating communal memories that didn't exist that can then be altered by interacting with the installation.

I set up a cassette recorder and microphone in a small locker bay and asked each individual to share something important. There was so lack of clarity as to where the recorder was, which was the major weakness of the piece. Once recorded, I created a loop on the cassette tape that could then be played, and manipulated.

I am still working out the best way to preface individuals to play and push buttons, without having an explicit sign or instructions.

From this project, I am very interested in doing more projects that combine different interactions onto one physical recording device.

Bianca Del Ciopio

Amanda Dabel

This project was so much fun. I wanted everyone to make an imaginary animal then switch with the person to the right. The second person had to write a story about the animal. The stories were so creative and funny. I want to do this project again with a different group.

Bryant Davis

Evan Cook

Stephanie Campbell

 

I had intended for teamwork to be a required effort of this project/performance. Each group, with it's various participants, were challenged by the time restrictions and guidelines of materials, some following the instructions, some not. I hope that instructions will be followed more thoroughly next time, or that the team's members will think outside of the box, when it comes to freedom of painting or textural utensils used. Overall, I was content with the outcome of this assignment.

Molly Allen

In this project I am thinking about connection and tension. I aim to make the participants a little uneasy, but also have a dialog that they might not have in any other circumstances. The strings are not meant to be binding but rather connecting. They hold you in the moment and prevent distractions. The conversations are strangely intimate because what is more intimate than your subconscious? People withdraw or holdback information about themselves everyday because of what other people might think about them. On the other hand, sharing subconscious thoughts people don’t even know what to hold back, let alone what these imaginings even mean. So it makes the individual contemplate exactly how much they trust the other person and think of what would be appropriate to share.
In making this project i was pleasantly surprised by what the visual outcome. I thought it was great that when viewing the project from a distance that one could not see the string (or the connection). It looked like everyone was standing the exact distance away from their partner then everyone else.
I did have a little trouble ending the project, because i forgot to say in the beginning instruction what to do when the percipient is finished. So the ending point could have been a little awkward.

3/13 - 210 Plaster/Color Due
          310 Steel and Skin
          410 Projects Due 

I will be grading these on 3/14!!!!! Please leave work on the sculpture tables or leave me a note where you installed them.

3/25 Class as Medium Proposal Due   Beginning you may use a prop if you like.  Intermediate and Advanced students must use some kind of prop.

4/1 Class a Medium Due (performance based sculpture)

Sam Shear- Recycled Artist

Recycled Artist

1. Team Makita and the power drill Ad.
MAKITA AD USES 20,081 HOLES TO DRILL MESSAGE HOME…

2. Franco Recchia
Franco's Photos

Recycled Artists

The artist Gabriel Dishaw creates sculptures out of recycles materials and calls his projects "upcycled."
More about Gabriel can be found at http://gabrieldishaw.com/.

These shoe sculptures are made from recycles electronics. 

Another interesting artist is Pat McGowan who created a piece of art out of traffic cones. 

here is a link to the video http://vimeo.com/49156450

More information can be found about Pat on http://www.foggybottomassociation.com/arts/current-exhibit/artist-bios/ (half way down the page)

Let it Slide!  

Running The Numbers / An American Portrait

http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#unsinkable

Jordan digitally fabricates landscapes and familiar images to create uncomfortable realities.

Plastic Bottles looks like a vast arctic landscape that up close is a composition of two million plastic bottles - the number used in the United States every five minutes.

Barbie Dolls depicts 32,000 Barbies equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006

Skull With Cigarette 2007

Unsinkable 2013

EGG DROP #1

Fail ! 

Garbage.

A great resource for finding artists working with trash found materials is the San Francisco Dump (Recology) Artist in Residency Program. Here is a list of all the artists with links to their work: http://www.sunsetscavenger.com/AIR/artists.htm

One of my favorite artists, Lauren DiCioccio, did a residency there and created embroidered copies of what she found. She takes everyday found objects and brings them into attention by making them out of fabric and thread. I think her work is interesting and exciting.

Another artist I have found working with found objects/trash, is Jean Shin. Jean Shin also works with taking the everyday object and brings it into a new light. 

 

Anza Jarschke "Advanced Sculpture"

Things that slide