GERVIN PINEDA work on view !
Fall 2021 Senior Thesis Exhibitions / Visual Communication and Design
December 1-4
Reception: Wednesday, December 1, 5-7pm
Montserrat Gallery and Carol Schlosberg Gallery
process books
Lulu printed books are not required (by me, for the first semester of Seminar); however, some may prefer to use that service. See their website to obtain the Design Guide Bundle for your preferred size (it includes InDesign templates and PDF export settings, at
https://www.lulu.com/create/print-books
The process book, in addition to documenting the development of your work over the semester (and from the initial proposal in May last year), can be a way of “rehearsing” (so to speak) ways of bringing disparate elements together. Quick thumbnails are always the fastest way to think through many ideas, however.
The last day of class is 14 December; process books might be submitted on that day; the final final due date is 20 December. If you are producing via lulu and the hard copy has not arrived yet, send me a pdf of the volume, and confirmation that lulu has received your file.
handle with care
Jessica wondered how to bind her antique store cut-out volume... John suggested to leave it essentially as it is now, and install in a box designed/built specifically for it, perhaps incorporating some kind of “book cradle.”
Some books are best experienced slowly, with careful handling and viewing. This volume is one of them. Importantly, it is one unit in a growing array of objects — the walks/maps; the new work in which image and text are broken down/up (collaged) together; even the idea of a store/installation. John pointed to the work of Dan Kelm (alchemist, book artist), and particularly to his Neo Emblemata Nova (2005) that can be viewed at his wide awake garage website :
http://www.danielkelm.com/core/wideawake/3#/galleries/2
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Thursday, Jessica showed a book (16 pages?), that incorporated handwriting from her notebook, as well as images (carousel horse, from antique store). The handwriting on some pages/spreads was scribble and abstract; it reminded John of David Seymour’s
photograph captioned “A girl draws a picture of home in a center for disturbed children, Poland” (1948),
here. (The same image is included in the selection of Seymour’s photographs at davidseymour.com/portfolio-photos; see also the wikipedia page for Seymour, who was also known as “Chim”.)
participation art / relational aesthetics
Henry’s map squiggles, and the responses/alterations/insults/desecrations/vandalisms etc etc that he is seeing, brought to mind the idea of "participation art," that is practiced by many, but often tethered to the work of Nicolas Bourriaud and his writings on “relational aesthetics.” See wikipedia for its entry on relational art.
Claire Bishop, ed., Participation (in the Documents on Contemporary Art series; 2006)
NX 46.5 P37 2006
See the work of Katerina Seda, in particular her “It Doesn’t Matter” (2005-07), linked at https://www.katerinaseda.cz/en/
(John will bring in this publication on Thursday; it concerns some memory aids for the artist’s grandmother, and thus might interest Jessica as well).
language
The question of what language might be brought into visual work, and how, has come up frequently, and on Tuesday in relation to work presented by Will and Eileen. Language need not be thought of as an explanatory caption, but in a more poetic or associative way. One might source language from a single place (e.g., one book), or from several. Notes taken by our respective “scribes” in seminar, might provide some language.
and language (source language) can be transformed; am thinking here of the redactions (to her journal page) solicited by Emily.
infrastructure
We recently noticed that there are no overhead utility lines in the Hardie Building (and downtown Beverly) areas, but encountered them down in the Rantoul industrial area (Park and Dane) that Brooke has been walking/photographing.
So what’s up with that ?
undergrounding
“Undergrounding can increase the initial costs of electric power transmission and distribution but may decrease operational costs over the lifetime of the cables.”
utility poles
“Today, underground distribution lines are increasingly used as an alternative to utility poles in residential neighborhoods, due to poles’ perceived ugliness, as well as safety concerns in areas with large amounts of snow or ice build up.”
John believes that telegraph lines were buried in England (and elsewhere) where failure might have large consequences (e.g., signalling for single-track railroads).
infrastructure (more)
The Roman Roads of Britain Visualized as a Subway Map
designed by Sasha Trubetskoy (@sasha_trub)
https://www.openculture.com/2017/08/the-roman-roads-of-britain-visualized-as-a-subway-map.html
high quality (printable) file available via https://sashamaps.net/store/
infrastructure (still more)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (German, 1886–1969),
Werkbund Exhibition: Weissenhof-Siedlung, Stuttgart. View from southeast. First building model. October 1925.
Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Photography: H. A. Rühl) , 1925
http://www.artnet.com/artists/ludwig-mies-van-der-rohe/werkbund-exhibition-weissenhof-siedlung-stuttgart-aKDvRdR9rrY4ElzN0cXSlA2
mobile home
Peter Garfield (American, b. 1961, Stamford, CT, USA) - Mobile Home (Prairie), 1995
https://workman.tumblr.com/post/669836185439535104/redlipstickresurrected-peter-garfield
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