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Art + Artists, Concepts, Weekly Summary

4th Meeting – September 24

We checked in about the experience of collaborating on the first team project, a wiki on Light + Space art.

Next we framed the frottage, series of five rubbings.

A second session of ink painting, this time with a tool of our own making.

We watched a film on James Turrell. In addition, please also watch this video with him, describing a visit to his Roden Crater project (link provided by Team Boyle).

We talked about about the meaning of having a true, visceral experience, inspired by John Dewey’s book, “Art as Experience.” This introduces a two week individual project that begins this week, and concludes on October 8th.

VOICETHREAD >>

Of course we have VoiceThread this week. There are four slides. Please leave your comments by midnight, Wednesday, September 29th.

Assignments, Weekly Summary

First Meeting – September 3rd

Light + Space Sculpture

INTRO & SURVEY – definitions, and use of Visual Thinking

SYLLABUS – format of course, grading methods, contacts, due dates, supplies.

THE USE OF WEB 2.0 – step one, we’ll be using VoiceThread a lot. It’s an informal way to share thoughts and opinions about images. In class practice with a sample thread.

EXPERIMENT WITH SEEING-DRAWING PROCESS – It’s all about relaxing deeply, in order to see better.

FOR NEXT WEEK:

  1. A second seeing-drawing, compare and contrast with in-class experience.
  2. VoiceThread practice: respond to questions about creativity, and early art-making experience.

Here is a link to a basic introduction to VoiceThread.