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the very first part of the book as an introduction and
the whole set of typography with the cube and serif from History font

type?

need feedback on the typeface use before i start hardcore kearning!

survey...

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=uZMkBLAq8TGK_2fRIr2Wi4pw_3d_3d

i created the above survey to collect responses from sva students

so if anyone could help spread it around (especially our photographers :] ) to all majors it would be awesome

because i keep getting responses based around just graphic design!

thanks!

Idea for DeaEun's Book

DeaEun and I are working with the idea of transformation and its relation to objects that are either iconic or representational of an SVA art student. This concept is set up as a diptych; the iconic item on one side and then the other side the item would be used for something other than its purpose while referencing an artist. We want it to be fun and witty. Here are some ideas that we came up with...

1. on the left side of the page there is the ever loathed SVA bill ($50,000 DUE!) ... then on the other side the bill has transformed into some sort of origami. we thought this would be an appropriate comment on an art students mentality and how we may find inspiration anywhere.

2. on the left side there is a scene of a coffee spilled over on a white t-shirt (an accident)... on the right side the t-shirt is being sold by the masses in some high end clothing store.   

3. a photo on the left side of a Campbell soup can in the trash can or anything else for that matter... then on the right side there would be an Andy Warhol Painting or something hanging in a gallery with a hefty price tag. this is suppose to show accidental inspiration and the commodification of art and or items

We have more idea's in the works.... If anyone would like to contribute please do so.

some ideas for the video piece

here is the site someone sent me.

http://www.eternalmoonwalk.com/

I was thinking something like that with the sensitivity of the music video we currently completed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfBlUQguvyw

maybe the people are passing the name cards or something along the line, and videos are coming as in the website like left to right with new people.

examples of abstract photography that sparked my interest

these are all by ARNULF RAINER 

more by el lissitzky

a few examples of the style i'd like to go for with photography so far

these are by clarence john laughlin

new spec

I am going to make just same size book as Nicole's.

And I change the spec of the box for that.

http://showyourworkings.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/art-memory/

1) The notion of poetic form as a hiding place for autobiographical secrets, somewhere to absorb, codify and often re-imagine memories,
2) Memory becomes a synonym for art, for that which is alive forever rather than bound by mortality. It takes on the indeterminate form of a ghost.., something that has a relation to life but is...on the other side...
3) the hours diverge so much that days are journeys round, overlapping circles
4) can anything truly be communicated?

http://books.google.com/books?id=qAKOtKVFxyAC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=painting+from+memory&source=bl&ots=J5AR0tHD5U&sig=ktEuIaW226oRIVOeQLEPmjpWT1g&hl=e

"...then he should turn his back upon the whole and paint from memory he will be in a better position to say something vital about his subject than the man who must always have his 'model.'"

http://www.pbs.org/art21/series/seasonthree/memory.html#

1) metaphoric- the transparency with a hint of possible hiddenness,
2) In trauma literature the part you can't remember or the time of trauma is called 'missing time,' and then you recover it.
3) "'Educational Complex' is a model of every school I ever went to, plus the home I grew up in, with all the parts I can't remember left blank. They're all combined into a new kind of structure that looks like a kind of modernist building.
4) People are really visually illiterate. They learn to read in school, but they don't learn to decode images
5) 'I'm going to work with these particular groups of images and develop a kind of pseudo-narrative flow.'
6) that's one subject of some of my work- the fact that history is mutable,
7) art is essentially a physical remnant of a moment."
8) 'Well, are you doing a figure or are you doing this presence? You're doing the presence.' So I let go of whatever I needed to,
9) The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative of the image. And this negative comes off, and the fossil is the positive side. This is the same as the action of photography."
10) So my interest- curiosity- is if the non-artist-made object can be presented in a way that it can keep the power of art itself, without artistic intention of its making. I think it's very conceptual. Marcel Duchamp invented this readymade concept. So I'm definitely borrowing.

sources for inspiration...

http://www.pbs.org/art21/series/seasonthree/memory.html#

^^all the artists features as well as those incorporated in the slideshow created art using concepts and ideas of memory

http://books.google.com/books?id=qAKOtKVFxyAC&pg=PA137&lpg=PA137&dq=painting+from+memory&source=bl&ots=J5AR0tHD5U&sig=ktEuIaW226oRIVOeQLEPmjpWT1g&hl=en&ei=H5s_SoC_N8OntgeKzOm0Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6

^^although the author (John F. Carlson) is speaking in terms of painting as a general guide his words give much advice and inspiration

http://showyourworkings.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/art-memory/

answers for #4 INSPIRATION in the syllabus

what drew you to your topic?

i was drawn to the topic of memory by reading excerpts of Marcel Proust and the book "Earthquake" by Susan Barnes among other memoirs for a self portrait english class. i was fascinated by the authors' abilities to recall specific events in their lives, some or most of which shaped them into the people they become later in life.

is it personal or do you see it relating to a broader audience?

the gift of memory is something almost everyone can relate to, whether it is positive, negative or just indifferent. it is the memories themselves that make it personal. 

are there artists, writers, poets, scientists, issues, concerns that inspire you to work hard to unveil your topic? 

writers that inspire: Susan Barnes, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Sebastian Horsley, Albert Camus

artists: Susan Rothenberg, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Josiah McElhmy

does your inspiration come from outside yourself, inside, or a combination?

definitely a combination of my own ideas as well as others

do you see your topic as documentation of a personal event or events or as a general human existential dilemma?

the latter. because this is something every human has or will experience in their lifetime. 

list of three specific areas under your topic that you'd like to explore...

the recollection or memory or reminiscence 

the important of memories to our development as intellectuals

the accuracy or highlights of memory

inspiration

Fun & little crazy imagination