Year 11 Studio Art Unit 1

30 January 2014

STUDIO ART: DIGITAL & MIXED MEDIA

UNIT 1: Artistic Inspiration and techniques

This unit focuses on using sources of inspiration and individual ideas as the basis for developing artworks and exploring a wide range of materials and techniques as tools for communicating ideas, observations and experiences through art making.! Students also explore and research the ways in which artists from different times and cultures have interpreted and expressed ideas, sourced inspiration and used materials and techniques in the production of artworks.!

NEIL BROWN, DENNIS DEL FAVERO, JEFFREY SHAW AND PETER WEIBEL,!T_Visionarium, 2006, interactive installation with 100square-meter cylindrical projection screen. Copyright Shanghai eArts Festival, 2008. Courtesy the artists. http://artasiapacic.com/ Magazine/60/ BigAmbitionsForNewMedi aArtFestivalInShanghai
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Visual Diary Keep records of everything you create in studio arts, drawings,

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notes, gallery visits, and photographs all go in your visual diary. Keep all your images and test drawings etc. If you work on the computer you must do screen grabs as you go showing each stage of your process. These, printed out, will go in your visual diary. !

Saving your work If you plan to work using the computers in anyway - I suggest you set yourself up a Google Drive. It is free and very easy to set up. This means that you can save your work to a spot on the internet and you can access it on any computer anywhere. this is handy if you need to work at school and at home and means you don't have to worry about remember USB drives, or only working on one computer. It is also a good way to keep a backup copy of any of your les. It is private and only you will have access to your information - it is not visible to anyone else. If you already have a similar set up - such as a drop box or website then that is ne to use also. I would save your work online as well as in your drive at school. Losing les or computer breakdowns etc. will not get special consideration when it comes to handing in your work. ! https://drive.google.com!

The Good Vibrations storage unit by designer Ferruccio Laviani combines traditional Oriental craftsmanship and design with the visual e"ects of a digital or analog glitch. weburbanist.com

Outcome 1:

Source inspiration, identify individual ideas and use a variety of methods to translate these into visual language.

Gallery Visits During the year, you should aim to visit a variety of galleries regularly in order to help develop your ideas, concepts and to maintain an awareness of contemporary styles, concepts and techniques present in current art practices. Take notes about the works you see with particular attention paid to the way works are presented (what are they made out of, how are they framed / hanging on the wall etc, how do they t into the gallery environment) and artists whose
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works you particularly nd interesting. What is it about their work that piqued your interest: subject matter, size of work, photography, drawing, sculpture etc? The following venues are a provided as a starting point. At a minimum you should visit these galleries!
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Heide Museum of Modern Art 7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen VIC 3105 Monash Gallery of Art 860 Ferntree Gully Road Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150 www.mga.org.au!

Centre for Contemporary Photography 404 George St, Fitzroy, Vic, 3065 www.ccp.org.au! !

National Gallery of Victoria Federation Square and St Kilda Road"

Suggested Reading and Interneting:

http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au www.moma.org www.pinterest.com

Art Almanac, (www.art-almanac.com.au) Journal of Photography (http://www.bjponline.com), Photole (http://www.acp.org.au/photole) Artist Prole (http://www.artistprole.com.au)

! ! Awesome Apps: !

http://www.foam.org tate.org.uk aperture.org blindspot.com lenscratch.com https://www.lensculture.com http://designobserver.com http://artdaily.com http://au.blouinartinfo.com http://www.deviantart.com http://www.thisiscolossal.com http://www.whitechapelgallery.org http://www.anat.org.au

Flixel - makes cinemagraphs, basic version is free. Glitche - makes photos into giltch art with various lter options, makes animated glitchy gifs you can upload and email etc. basic version is free. Stop Motion - makes time lapse videos. free Hipstamatic - retro camera styles, not free. Snapseed - not free but amazing. Like photoshop for your iThing, lots of lters, editing tools and very easy to use. Highly recommended. There is a desktop version for mac but no longer supported.

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Daniel Crooks

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! Tasks
This is what you will be doing in Unit 1. There will be specic instructions and demonstrations as we get to each stage. Use this list to ensure all tasks are completed and included in your visual diary by the end of the Unit.

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1. Visual Diary front cover: ensure it has your name clearly visible on it and identies your book as Unit 1 Studio Art: Digital & Mixed Media. !! 2. Mind Map: your initial brainstorming session to help you start thinking about future themes. !! 3. Drawing from observation using pencil, ink, watercolour, pastel etc 4 double pages of Visual Diary!! 4. Self Portraiture themed Collage / Glitch Task: create a self portrait using paper collage or using digital methods create a self portrait that utilises the style of glitch art.!! 5. Research and artist presentation Theory Task!! 6. Compare and Contrast written response portraiture artist Theory task!! 7. Alberto Seveso Project: self portraiture using computer or hand drawn - you will get further instructions!! 8. David Hockney / Laith Macgregor style drawing task!!

Wooden Mirror 1999# 830 square pieces of wood, 830 servo motors, control electronics, video camera, computer, wood frame.# This piece explores the line between digital and physical, using a warm and natural material such as wood to portray the abstract notion of digital pixels. http:// www.smoothware.c om/danny/ woodenmirror.html

9. Animation Task - you will create your own 20 second animation either using traditional paper mediums and then transferring to computer or you can create it wholly using digital methods!! 10. Scanner Project / Sun Prints !!

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11. Self Portrait without a face project!! 12. Personal Project - you will get further instructions, project will be broken down into smaller tasks !!

Ideas can come from all sorts of resources"

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Magazines ! Newspapers ! Artworks ! Poetry ! Television ! Music! Radio ! Dreams ! Fashion ! Novels! Real life events! Family and friends !

Personal photos ! Feelings and emotions ! Cultures and societies! Politics! Objects around you ! The Environment ! Internet! Your Diary! Videos/films/DVD ! Galleries ! Cartoons! Computer games

Rick Amor, Je"rey Smart

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