Books found in the libray- semiotics, the psychology behind my studio practice.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN- THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE
PAUL COBLEY- INTRODUCING SEMIOTICS
ROLAND BARTHES- IMAGE MUSIC TEXT
INTERPRETIVE INTERACTIONISM - NORMAN K.DENZIN
Monday, 26 October 2009
23.10.09 MONOGRAPH TUTORIAL WITH NICOLA
I had my tutorial with Nicola after submitting my synopsis for my monograph.
She gave me some really good feedback. I realised that I need to think about what the meaning is behind the art, behind the design. Researching indepth what signs and signals mean to me? what am I trying to say, what message am I trying to get across to the viewer?
What influences me?
what drives them to include semiotics? it may not look like my work or even be in the same context but the drive behind the work could be the same. I have emails for some of the artists I have looked at so Im going to email them and see if they wouldnt mind answering some questions on what influences them. It would be interesting to see if we have same topics in common.
Compare and contrast
I have some artists I've found whose work is similar to mine VISUALLY- the mark makings, the colours, the use of text. But I can compare and contrast the meanings behind the work to my own.
Making new signs
Nicola pointed out that I've started making my own signs, but what does i sign need to control people? a certain shape? colour? size? material? how does it communicate and make people do something they wouldnt do without the aid of that particular sign, what would happen if they didnt?
She gave me some really good feedback. I realised that I need to think about what the meaning is behind the art, behind the design. Researching indepth what signs and signals mean to me? what am I trying to say, what message am I trying to get across to the viewer?
What influences me?
- A past project?
- memories
- controlling
- influencing
- urban scenes
- what drives me to make my art?
- making my own signs?
- controlling the city?
- observing the city?
what drives them to include semiotics? it may not look like my work or even be in the same context but the drive behind the work could be the same. I have emails for some of the artists I have looked at so Im going to email them and see if they wouldnt mind answering some questions on what influences them. It would be interesting to see if we have same topics in common.
Compare and contrast
I have some artists I've found whose work is similar to mine VISUALLY- the mark makings, the colours, the use of text. But I can compare and contrast the meanings behind the work to my own.
Making new signs
Nicola pointed out that I've started making my own signs, but what does i sign need to control people? a certain shape? colour? size? material? how does it communicate and make people do something they wouldnt do without the aid of that particular sign, what would happen if they didnt?
20.10.09 GROUP TUTORIAL WITH DIONNE
STUDIO PRACTICE DISCUSSION
This was done in groups of three. We all gave out feed back on each others work, I was with two other printers (Naomi and Lizzy)
I started off by saying Id bought three big sheets of plastic that I plan to print onto. Also I had found out how much it would cost to print photographs, images, photoshops onto paper - and how big this could potentionally be.
I got a lot of very positive feed back that gave me that push to move on from the research stage to actually printing ideas and technique.
We all decided the best option was to cut one piece of plastic sheet into smaller pieces to sample on, try out and push this new material in many different ways.
This could be done by:
This was done in groups of three. We all gave out feed back on each others work, I was with two other printers (Naomi and Lizzy)
I started off by saying Id bought three big sheets of plastic that I plan to print onto. Also I had found out how much it would cost to print photographs, images, photoshops onto paper - and how big this could potentionally be.
I got a lot of very positive feed back that gave me that push to move on from the research stage to actually printing ideas and technique.
We all decided the best option was to cut one piece of plastic sheet into smaller pieces to sample on, try out and push this new material in many different ways.
This could be done by:
- wax onto the plastic, then screen print
- laser cut
- scratch into the plastic
- heat gun, soldering iron
- screen print then morph the plastic in product design
- print onto both sides the morph, then scratch
- paint with acrylics
- spray paint
- frosting
- opaque paint.block out
- bendy masking tape
- glass paint, glass pen
- thinner plastic, acetate?
19.10.09 MONOGRAPH NOTES
ROBERT CLARKE (WEEK 4)
psychogeography- is a semi-occult art and a way to learn more about the world you live in.
Robert brought this up in the lecture and gave us many websites to look at, quite a few of the printers are also looking into this topic of the city, urban environment and its quite interesting to see how they approach this topic differently to me.
http://www.enjoy-surveillance.org/
Observing and being Observed.
It fits into my subject area, im observing the city, taking photos drawing, printing and looking at how signs in the city can influence people.
About writing the monograph
short sentences
memories - pick out, remember moments in studio practice that stand out
feelings create and recreate them through art
bringing meanings toegther
images against a process - material and technique
what and how? the aim?
whats the point of technique? - desire to be different? stand out? develop a style? whats the point in style? people remember? put a style to a name?fame?
experience, looking, reading, learning...
prolog- talking about yourself
writing down what your doing/thinking analytically
psychogeography- is a semi-occult art and a way to learn more about the world you live in.
Robert brought this up in the lecture and gave us many websites to look at, quite a few of the printers are also looking into this topic of the city, urban environment and its quite interesting to see how they approach this topic differently to me.
http://www.enjoy-surveillance.org/
Observing and being Observed.
It fits into my subject area, im observing the city, taking photos drawing, printing and looking at how signs in the city can influence people.
- Social semiotics - George Orwell. Signs and signals
- shaping and changing the city
- posters stimulated by what we see
- imaginarymuseum/archieve.org
- language and film
- guide books, maps, imaginary city
About writing the monograph
short sentences
memories - pick out, remember moments in studio practice that stand out
feelings create and recreate them through art
bringing meanings toegther
images against a process - material and technique
what and how? the aim?
whats the point of technique? - desire to be different? stand out? develop a style? whats the point in style? people remember? put a style to a name?fame?
experience, looking, reading, learning...
prolog- talking about yourself
writing down what your doing/thinking analytically
14.10.09 SYNOPSIS WITH ROBERT CLARKE
I had a tutorial with Robert about my synopsis I had written up for my monograph.
He looked through what I had noted down and looked at my work up in the studio. He said I had enough themes, questions and topics to talk about but I need to think about
He looked through what I had noted down and looked at my work up in the studio. He said I had enough themes, questions and topics to talk about but I need to think about
- other artists that use signs and signals
- how technology has an influence on my work, how it changes a drawing,a design, looks different when it comes out of a computer
- why urban scenes?
- illustration artists, graphic artists? look at jornals in library
- album covers - Radio head Don Wood
- languages
- public space- different to a gallery
- scale and perception
- computer - zoom in zoom out macro + micro
- Jasper Johns - iconic image
- Rauschenberg
- layering, techniques, different stages of my practice- Print
- limitations using the computer? using text? - lost communication with the viewer are they seeing the same thing Im trying to say?
- Hay wayne? posters?
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Tutorial with Dionne
Printing onto plastic
It was suggested that I wasn't going to be printing onto fabric for this exhibition. I was going to print most of it onto paper and maybe consider plastic.
However it was pushed forward and decided by both me and Dionne that I was going to screen print, stencil and paint my designs onto plastic.
I can print onto both sides, so it becomes a blurred image?
block bits out with collage
use vinyl lettering
glass frosting
layering plastic over photographs of urban scenes.
Im really excited about this project and the possibilites it has.
It was suggested that I wasn't going to be printing onto fabric for this exhibition. I was going to print most of it onto paper and maybe consider plastic.
However it was pushed forward and decided by both me and Dionne that I was going to screen print, stencil and paint my designs onto plastic.
I can print onto both sides, so it becomes a blurred image?
block bits out with collage
use vinyl lettering
glass frosting
layering plastic over photographs of urban scenes.
Im really excited about this project and the possibilites it has.
Design with Nicola
Today we had a task to complete within the design group.
we got paired with someone who had to same kind of idea of what it meant to research TREND. I got paired with julie who had the same inspirations, such as digital print, CAD, illustrations and advertsising. She also specialises in print.
Even though her work is very different to mine and she has different questions to answer within her drawings, prints and concepts, we worked very well together and came up with some good ideas.
We researched trends for 2010 by looking at WGSN website through blackboard. We picked out current themes within this one top that stood out for us both.
some of the themes we came up with....
Graphic design Vs vintage: we linked this with how posters have changed due to the influence of technology. Vintage posters would have been hand painted years ago, and now this has moved on to advertsing on CD covers using CAD.
Graphic design and the mix of textiles, this certain top had both graphic design influences/techniques and textile influences/techniques.
this is a current issue within my work that I want to resolve. Is my work still textile crafts? I'm not using concentional materials when it comes to textile crafts, im not working on fabric, but plastic.
It was a very insightful exercise today, to see how people could come up with so many different ideas and concepts under the topic of TREND. and how trend effects other artists works. Some people focus on colour, some a word, or some a concept theme.
The session was finished by presentations from all the groups. Each group was different and also a individual presentation was given to how we would change the group ideas on trend, to fit into our own research. So it was also a good chance to fit in some extra research for our projects :)
we got paired with someone who had to same kind of idea of what it meant to research TREND. I got paired with julie who had the same inspirations, such as digital print, CAD, illustrations and advertsising. She also specialises in print.
Even though her work is very different to mine and she has different questions to answer within her drawings, prints and concepts, we worked very well together and came up with some good ideas.
We researched trends for 2010 by looking at WGSN website through blackboard. We picked out current themes within this one top that stood out for us both.
some of the themes we came up with....
Graphic design Vs vintage: we linked this with how posters have changed due to the influence of technology. Vintage posters would have been hand painted years ago, and now this has moved on to advertsing on CD covers using CAD.
Graphic design and the mix of textiles, this certain top had both graphic design influences/techniques and textile influences/techniques.
this is a current issue within my work that I want to resolve. Is my work still textile crafts? I'm not using concentional materials when it comes to textile crafts, im not working on fabric, but plastic.
It was a very insightful exercise today, to see how people could come up with so many different ideas and concepts under the topic of TREND. and how trend effects other artists works. Some people focus on colour, some a word, or some a concept theme.
The session was finished by presentations from all the groups. Each group was different and also a individual presentation was given to how we would change the group ideas on trend, to fit into our own research. So it was also a good chance to fit in some extra research for our projects :)
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