Thursday, January 19, 2012

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
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 mashupLet 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.

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