Post it note art

Final Critique Day

Wednesday Dec. 14th from 1130 to 2pm

sketchbook assignment

1. Write down the basic idea for your project, and how it relates to the idea of a self portrait.

2. Write down the major material you will need for the project, how much of it you need to obtain to make a life size piece, and where you will get it.

3.At the final critique, I want you to find two living artists whose work has inspired you for this piece. I want you to talk about how they define themselves through the material they use and the piece they make out of that material.

art from post it notes

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Project 4: Self Portrait as Utilitarian Object

Build an life sized self portrait using 1 material that you have never seen used in a sculpture before and/or you have a lot of them lying around. The content of your sculpture most show a conceptual link to the material you have choosen. Whatever material you choose, you must have enough of it to create something that can be life size, however the sculpture does not have to be figurative. The material you select must be the only visible material used to construct your piece, with the exception of skeletal, adhesive, or presentation materials such as hanging wires or supports.


You must work on the projects in class. Your grade will go down with each unexcused absense, or if you come in unprepared to build.

Definitions

Self Portrait: a portrait of oneself done by oneself. This does not have to be a literal representation of your body.
Found Objects/Assemblage: a sculptural technique of organizing or composing into a unified whole a group of unrelated and often fragmentary or discarded objects. How can you use found objects to represent yourself?
Utilitarian: pertaining to or consisting in utility, having regard to utility or usefulness rather than beauty, ornamentation, etc. What utilitarian objects best defines you? Try to think about what a specific utilitarian object is meant for, what job does it perform? For example, a light bulb is meant for illuminating darkness, whereas a recliner chair is meant for relaxation and comfort, and a hammer is meant for repair, but has a forceful element to it.

Artists

Adel Abdessemed
Tara Donovan
Cai Guo-Quiang
Rebecah Murtagh
Valerie Powell
Jean Shin
Chiharu Shiota
Ai Weiwei

Downloading Youtube video/audio using Safari

Steps for downloading youtube videos/audio

Visit the specific Youtube page for the video, for this you must use the Safari browser.
Open the Safari Activity window (window - activities on the upper toolbar)

Look for the biggest file in the list of files that open up, probably the only MB file.
Open your Downloads folder and control - click on this get video .flv file then "Open With..." and choose MPEG Streamclip.
Export the video to Quicktime for video files, and Audio for audio files (duh).
If you do Audio, it will save as an .aiff file, which you can later edit in Audacity.

If you do this at home, you might have to install the Perian plugin to get the .flv files to play in Mpeg Streamclip.