5/8 Final Crit

Undergrad assignment and schedule:

Body Bridge

Create an artwork (one object, collaborative) that exists as an extension of two bodies, which bridges the space between them via a sculptural/architectural/corporeal supplement. Use your own bodies/selves as a starting point and work towards each other. Consider aspects of identity, culture, and form. Incorporate a kinetic or moving aspect within the structure of the object, and consider how you will interact interact with your body bridge in a way that significantly alters your experience of it.

4/12 Wood shop tool demo & concept workshop
4/17 Studio day, final sketches due
4/19 Presentations & studio day
4/24 Studio day
4/26 Presentations & studio day
Reading Week
5/8 Final Critique

For inspiration:

Sculptural forms by Richard Deacon
Body extension sculptors by Rebecca Horn

3/27

Discussion: Vibrant Matter chapters 3-6

AND your upcoming presentations (April 24 & 26)

Presentations:
4/19: Nader (Anish Kapoor) & Colin
4/26: Valeria, Leah & Julia (Mike Kelly)

Presentation guidelines:
20 minutes, 10 images
Power Point
Intro to artist or movement, historical references, thorough discussion of important works of art associated with artist or movement

Form? Function? Metal Sculpture crit 4/3

In the documentary Objectified, designers discussed the interrelated concepts of form and function. Using the bending, cutting and welding techniques you have learned, make a functional object not more than 4 feet in any direction, using the provided steel. You may take one of two approaches. Your aesthetic and structural choices can be dictated by the object's function, or those same decisions can subvert the object's function.

Some metalworking inspiration:

Antony Gormley sculptures
Ida Ekblad sculptures
Art cars
History of chairs

3/6 Vibrant Matter chapters 2 & 3

FYI: Actor Network Theory in Plain English

Metal Sculpture Workshop

We are going to go over the use and safety of the 110 MIG welder, and the various grinders in the shop. 

http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/learning-mig.htm
http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/wire-speed.htm
http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/power-settings.htm

Study the above tutorials. Before you start welding anything useful, spend an hour or two getting to know the welder. Practice on the recycled flat stock in the welding shop. Vary the power settings and wire speeds so you can tell what happens when the settings are wrong as well as when they are right. Try over and over until you can get a good weld.

Juried Student Show Info

CALL FOR ENTRIES!!
Annual Juried Student Competition Exhibition

Submissions due Friday, March 23, 2012 @ The CAS Gallery - 10am to 7pm

Please see attached document for details!
*Additional forms will be available at the Rainbow Building - Room 113

All works not accepted will be exhibited at the CAS Gallery in the 7th Annual Salon des Refuses exhibition!

*For questions regarding the competition please contact:
Milly Cardoso
Gallery Director
m.cardoso1@miami.edu
305.284.3161

2/28

EVERYONE: Come prepared to discuss the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Vibrant Matter: a political ecology of things

UNDERGRADS (before today): Watch Objectified in preparation for your next assignment.
You can stream it on Netflix

TEXTBOOK (please get it by mid-Feb)

We are going to read Vibrant Matter: a political ecology of things by political scientist Jane Bennett. You can get it from the library, from inter-library loan, amazon.com, etc. We'll start reading in mid-February.
Here's a good video in the mean time.

317/318 project (crit Thursday 2/23)

Hybrid Sculpture (Self Portrait)

Nader, watch this excerpt of Guy Ben Ner's video Treehouse Kit

Electronic Wasteland (60 minutes special)
a warning to take care when handling electronics
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5274959n

WATCH THIS FILM

Wasteland (feature-lenght documentary about a project by artist Vic Muniz

http://www.wastelandmovie.com/

it's on netflix

Think of an aspect of your personality that may not be readily apparent to people. Your challenge is to create a sculpture that represents that concept without illustrating it, using found or ready-made objects combined together to form a hybrid sculpture. It is not enough to simply glue several objects together. Think about how you can creatively disassemble the initial objects, and then recombine the parts to make a new object. 


Select two or more objects that, when combined, will read as a new object with a completely different meaning, sort of like a mashup. Let the materials, forms, lines, colors and materials you use speak about your concept. 


The piece should roughly take up the same amount of volume as your body. 


For inspiration, research these artists:


Nick Cave


Sarah Sze

Rachel Harrison

Tom Friedman


Studio visit with Tom Friedman from Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall on Vimeo.

Spring 2012 Intermediate & Advanced Sculpture Syllabi

Art 317 & 318 (Intermediate)
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BwmZ65ndzEDcNjlmM2E2MGEtNzQ1NC00NzVkLWI5OTEtYjY5ODZmODZjMmY0

Art 517 & 518 (Grad)
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BwmZ65ndzEDcYzZkMmIyYWItNTY3OS00ODJmLWFjNjctNWJkNDc3MmY1NDVh

Art 617 & 618 (Grad)
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BwmZ65ndzEDcOGIzMTYwMGEtZGFkMS00OGJjLTg1OGYtMDA0NDcxN2RjMWFj