Homework-- 11/20

BRING IN ALL OF YOUR PROJECTS FROM THIS SEMESTER NEXT WEEK! YOU WILL BE REVIEWING THIS WORK INDIVIDUALLY WITH ME.

We are close to the end of the semester, so you should be focused on your final projects and making them GLORIOUS! Remember fundamentally there is CONCEPT and there are FORMAL academic elements to be considered in the creation of this final piece. What are you doing? What are the parameters you must follow to achieve this goal? How are going about accomplishing this?

Sadly, it is not enough that you make art these days, you must be able to articulate your making it. To be successful you must have some semblance of a competent answer--even if it is exploratory art making. You may simply set up parameters or want to work within a specific medium or at a certain time of day or delve into a concept and see where it takes you. Awesome! However, you need to be able to express for a critical audience.

While we discussed early in this class the concept of AUDIENCE/ VIEWER and the conversation your work will have with them, you can always chose to ignore the audience (though you cannot be ignorant to it!!!!). 

REMEMBER: AUDIENCE and CRITIC are two separate beasts ENTIRELY! As Rabia stated in class today, critics and elitism can be some of the worst things to happen to your art, so BE AWARE of who you are making art for.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/560088 (AWESOME SAUCE!! WATCH!!)
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/weekend-update-guest-jebediah-atkinson-snarks-historys-greatest-speeches-on-snl/ 

FUNDAMENTALLY I want you to always ask who you are as an artist and why it is you make art. We will be reflecting on your own personal growth during the course of this class, ad where you hope to go from here. Make sure your artist statement for this class (minimum 1 page) needs to speak about you as a creator and your goals/ problems/ frustrations/ specific work. It does not need to be overly long, but should cover what you need to say. This is DUE with your final project.

Though we have looked at MANY examples, here are some links for you to see different artists talking about their work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aREk3XH8aGg (Lorde)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaK0YBA8Lss (M.I.A.)

http://www.therawbook.com/2013/11/18/nataliaroman/ (directed interview format)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ridley-howard/nudes-in-venice-interview_b_3437912.html