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WEEKLY MENTAL EXERCISE

Blog Entries - 6/13 – 7/2

- Students will post a blog entry every day. Your post could be about an exhibition, performance, food, films, observation about the surroundings, thoughts, poetry, your experience being in NYC.

1. Date and title each entry for example 6/13/The Village tour
2. Write down thoughtful observations about your experience.

3. Write about the artist that we visit during the course. What type of artist? Did you like the work? Observation about their process? Observation of the studio?
4. Post images/video or both (3)

Students will post 3 images a day, the photograph you post should be of your experience in New York. It is important that this photograph looks at the world around you without mimicking tourist photography. These photographs can be made using your cell phone, do not crop the images, do not use filters.

- Students can have an option to post 1 30 sec video instead photographs, the video can be an interview with strangers about art, food, or culture or a video can be a poetic observation. These can be made using your cell phone, do not crop the images, do not use filters.

Assignment 1: The Alec Soth Assignment: A news reporter for a day.

Due: June 18 at 4 pm

1. Watch the link to Art Assignment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APRRQ7z75x0

2. Pick one story simple story/ of someone you meet/birthday party/chess playing/Central park/subway trip/pizza owner…

3. Take several images that describe the situation. Find something moving, that describe your subject, and aesthetically interesting. Choose two great images from your pool to attach in your blog.

4. Create a goal by getting access to the depth of the story. Find something that connects the unsuspected.

5. Write a statement that is not entirely obvious. The statement has to be at least two paragraphs or more.

6. Choose a clever and great title for your entry.

7. Upload your article and images in your blog.

Example:

http://thedewabides.com/

http://www.humansofnewyork.com/

http://www.petemarovichimages.com/

http://jackgruber.com/gallery/california-same-sex-marriage/

ASSIGNMENT 2

Assignment 2: Why Murals?

Due: June 26 at 4 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1oPqP2qyY

1. In this assignment after watching the brief history of murals, go out and find out modern murals or graphic murals that identifies with the landscape or area that it’s in. How does it change the way you perceive the environment? Is it making a huge impact? Who’s or are the artist/s? Interview people about the mural? Research the history behind the artwork.

2. Take lots of images of the public art.

3. Choose 5 from your findings. Write a couple of paragraphs describing your experience or findings.

4. Note 3 mural artists that you find interesting.

5. Upload your article and images in your blog.

ASSIGNMENT 3

Assignment 3: Selfies in NYC

Due: July 1 at 4 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfoPJnVrBNM

1. Watch the Art Assignment on the Art History of Selfies. Over the period of three weeks create a photo collage in your blog that provides or sites your presence in different places in NYC. This doesn’t have to be your face only but can be your hands, reflections, feet, etc…

2. In your blog create a pictorial narrative using 20 images of the self. Through this series of imagery I want you to focus on how the connections between the self and other and the “real” and the “imagined” is captured during the period of three weeks in the city.

FINAL PAPER

Course Paper: Due July 5 by 4 pm

ARTH 3555 – Choose from one of the following topics:

The Artist in the Studio/ In the history of the Artists in the Studio I mentioned that there are differences in how artists use their studio to create and think. Choose two artists one from our Studio Visit Series and one from art history and compare and contrast their way of using the studio as a conceptual space, philosophical space and a maker space. Some artists for example like Damien Hirst or Jeff Koons use the studio like a workshop space similar to what the Rennaisance artists called the Bottega.

Write a 5 page paper double-spaced, times new roman, (See guidelines for more information).
Compare and contrast one artist from our Studio Visit Series (Hank Willis Thomas, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Yeon Jin Kim, Joel Carrero) and an artist from Art History for example, Damien Hirst, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, etc…
The paper should have a work cite page
Include images
Email me the paper no later than 4 pm July 5.

The Artist in the Gallery

This paper should be a comparison between 2 different gallery exhibitions. You must visit the galleries with some time to look and think about what you are seeing. We will visit some galleries in class, but it will be better if you come back when you have time and full freedom to observe. These are not museum exhibitions, but should be found in galleries in Chelsea, Downtown, Uptown, Midtown or Brooklyn. There will be over 50 exhibitions to pick from. Use the ones listed below as a starting point, the exhibition must feature photography. You can choose any work would like. Paper should be a minimum of 4 pages.

Paper should look at and compare the following:

Why are you comparing these two exhibitions of all the options you have to choose from?

When was the work made? What is the context for the work?

Artist intentions – What is the point? Do you see it in the work?

Presentations differences – How are they framed? What is the size? How many total pieces?

Image differences – What are the photographs of? Quality of light? Color? Black and White?

Gallery Differences – How big are the galleries? Which part of town?

What do you think – was the exhibition successful? Is there anything you would

have done differently?

These are just some questions too think about, feel free to investigate further.

Research will need to be completed while in New York. Paper (must be emailed) due July 5 BY 4 PM.

Course Paper: Due July 5 by 4 pm

ITDS 1145 Comparative Arts – Choose one from the topics below.

The Artist in the Studio/ In the history of the Artists in the Studio I mentioned that there are differences in how artists use their studio to create and think. Choose two artists one from our Studio Visit Series and one from art history and compare and contrast their way of using the studio as a conceptual space, philosophical space and a maker space. Some artists for example like Damien Hirst or Jeff Koons use the studio like a workshop space similar to what the Rennaisance artists called the Bottega.

Write a 3 page paper double-spaced, times new roman, (See guidelines for more information).
Compare and contrast one artist from our Studio Visit Series (Hank Willis Thomas, Alison Elizabeth Taylor, Yeon Jin Kim, Joel Carrero) and an artist from Art History for example, Damien Hirst, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, etc…
The paper should have a work cite page
Include images
5. Email me the paper no later than 4 pm July 5.

Artist in the Gallery

This paper should be a comparison between 2 different gallery exhibitions. You must visit the galleries with some time to look and think about what you are seeing. We will visit some galleries in class, but it will be better if you come back when you have time and full freedom to observe. These are not museum exhibitions, but should be found in galleries in Chelsea, Downtown, Uptown, Midtown or Brooklyn. There will be over 50 exhibitions to pick from. You can choose any work you like. Paper should be a minimum of 3 pages.