Studio Gateway 1002

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Chris Jordan | Plastic Bottles, 2007

60x120" print

Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.

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Plastic ingested by an albatross on Midway Island.

by Chris Jordan

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Exposure by Antony Gormley

A giant 85 feet tall sculpture in central Netherlands that took nearly six years to complete. The artist created the piece to react to the change in environment, specifically the rise of the sea levels.

Over time, should the rising of the sea level mean that there has to be a rising of the dike, this means that there should be a progressive burying of the work - AG

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Antony Gormley. 

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Here are three PDF examples from last year. Some of the links no longer work and it is good to note they represent a range of marks. 

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3 PDF examples from last year.

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Disruption of connection - Studio exercise

Montana knocks a pencil out of my hand while I am writing. Thus a disruption of connection is achieved.

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In the Pacific Ocean north east of Hawaii a vast island of plastic trash is accumulating. Known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch this floating mass of debris is now twice the size of Texas and more than 30 metres deep. The Garbage Patch is formed by a natural confluence of ocean currents that spiral into a vast slow-moving vortex in this region. Every year humanity produces more than 100 million tons of plastic, of which it is estimated that 10% ends up in our oceans. Most plastics do not biodegrade but break up into fine particles forming a kind of part of the Hawaiian chain, beaches are periodically inundated by this toxic mess. In the ocean these particulates eventually sink to the sea floor where they will be embedded in the geological strata of our planet forming a permanent plastic layer. Meanwhile plastic trash kills an estimated million sea birds every year, along with 100,000 marine mammals.

A major element of the Crochet Coral Reef Project is its ‘plastic component’ which responds to this crisis. Where the yarn-based Reefs serve as a handicraftplastic sand. In the northern invocation of the living beauty of actual reefs, so the “Toxic Reef” is a wildly proliferating agglomeration of yarn and plastic trash. It is the ‘evil’ 21st century twin to the classical finesse of the yarn Reefs. To put this into temporal terms, we might say that where the yarn Reefs represent the past, and the exquisite creations of nature, the plastic looks to the future and to the destructive tendencies of humanity.

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The Crochet Coral Reef

Created and curated by sisters Christine & Margaret Wertheim

“A testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine world” 

Due to global warming and pollutants, scientists believe the reef will be devastated in coming years. Instigated in 2005 by just the Wertheim sisters, the crochet reef has now become a worldwide movement that engages communities across the globe. 

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This was an awareness campaign that was designed by Ogilvy New York to raise awareness about global warming (or climate change, if you like):

On the streets of New York, Joshua Allen Harris creates inflatable animals by tying plastic shopping bags to the subway grates. The polar bear inflates and deflates with the passing of subway trains, springing to life and then fading away in a vital commentary on global warming. (Source)

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Final Work II  (Details)

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How I would exhibit my work. I like that the images don’t quite line up properly just like the irregularity of a glitch.

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bibliography - Assessment 2

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Concept Statement

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Final work: part two

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Final Work: part one

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Sara Cwynar, Corinthian Column (Plastic Cups), (2014)

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Artist Research: Sara Cwynar’s Analog Glitch Abstractions

These works by Sara Cwynar are unlike traditional glitch imagery in that they use images that appear dated. Rather than sourcing her raw materials from the internet or manipulating them in text-editing software with algorithmic code, Cwynar simply uses print images. They range from biology-textbook banality to sexy pinup to politician-on-TV subject matter but each gives off an air of American antiquity.

Source: https://m.artsy.net/article/charlieambler-sara-cwynars-analog-glitch-abstractions

****How did she create the glitched photographs:

“She scans black and white pages of a darkroom manual, moving her source material mid-scan to tease out all sorts of elegant glitches.”

Source: http://www.lavalette.com/a-conversation-with-sara-cwynar/

**** Insights: This artist’s black & white technicolor glitchy photographs are fascinating. I feel them just look like a busted old TV set with the image gone blurry and jagged.