Milledge2018

ADAD1001/2 Tumblr by course convenor and teacher C.Milledge

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Desire- desire for the ‘perfect’ male body

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EXPERIMENT I experimented using icecream and brownies to convey desire. I tried first looking into the icecream container although I didnt like the way it looked so I tried in the bowl. The bowl with the brownies was much more desirable.

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Affect and senses

Above: Kathy Temin, My monument: black garden 2010-2011, AGNSW

Examples of artists and ideas relating to the senses and affect discussed today:

http://moussemagazine.it/rosenkranz-swiss-venice-2015/

http://www.pilarcorrias.com/artists/rirkrit-tiravanija/

https://archiemoore.wordpress.com/exhibitions/les-eaux-damoore-the-commercial-2014/

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/spacemakers-and-roomshakers/

Ernesto Neto Just like drops in time, nothing 2002, installation view, Art Gallery of New South Wales © Ernesto Neto

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Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

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Desire- Excursion activity

The object of desire as we discussed together was the gold, the wealth and prosperity in Australia.

Here, the object of desire seems to be the more English landscape. The desire is home, and the familiar. Beauty in natural landscape is what is desired, but it’s not a purely Australian landscape that is depicted.

Is this work of art, beauty and the myth of Pan is depicted. There seems to be a desire for the magic of myth as well as a desire for freedom of sensuality.

Artspace Works (I kind of forgot to take pictures)- also sorry for the quality of this one, I didn’t realise it was so bad at the time.

In the modern works at Artspace, the human body was distorted and depicted in many different ways by may different artists. The human body in relation to desire is explored- sometimes in more unappealing ways than others. Thus, the idea of the human body as an object of desire is changed, and allowed to be seen as more than that in many cases.

[piasadad]

Giselle Stanborough’s work raises questions about the colonisation of our social activities by large corporations and the way social media and dating apps are changing our intimate relationships.

Her new multi-platform artwork Lozein: Find the Lover You Deserve (2016) is based around a fictional match-making service and explores ‘the quantification of love in the digital age’. It includes interventions in the MCA’s digital infrastructure, such as its website and social media streams; a product launch and a conference in which the artist/entrepreneur delivers a series of lectures. In the style of corporate promotion and data visualisation, the company’s animations and slogans will promote the fictional Lozein brand throughout the gallery environment during the exhibition.

Stanborough describes her work as ‘a TED talks style tragedy addressing the hubris of a humanity that expects technology to resolve the discomfort of our existential loneliness, something that may itself be the fundamental defining characteristic of the human condition: the failed promises of language to provide meaningful access to another consciousness’.

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Some experimentation with face and light using projectors.

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some interesting tests with projected images

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AGNSW Opportunities!!!

STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES

AGNSW 2019 Youth Collective applications now open

Applications close Sunday 21 October 2018

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/education/youth-programs/youth-collective/

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS & PRIZES

Applications close on Sunday 28 October 2018

Basil and Muriel Hooper Scholarship

A $4000 scholarship to NSW fine art students to assist with the cost of fees and general living expenses.

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/about-us/opportunities-for-artists/basil-and-muriel-hooper-scholarship/

Robert Le Gay Brereton Memorial Prize

A $2000 prize awarded to an art student exhibiting skills and promise in draughtsmanship, supported by the Jocelyn Maughan Foundation.

http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/about-us/opportunities-for-artists/robert-le-gay-brereton-memorial-prize/

Elioth Gruner Prize

A $1000 prize awarded to a NSW art student for excellence in the study of a landscape in oils.

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/about-us/opportunities-for-artists/elioth-gruner-prize/

Dyason Bequest

A $5000 prize awarded to an Australian art student who has already won a travelling scholarship, to assist with the cost of overseas travel.

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/about-us/opportunities-for-artists/dyason-bequest/

Note: The Gallery has posted these opportunities all on FB so feel free to share:https://www.facebook.com/ArtGalleryofNSW/

We also have our next FOMArt program coming up at the end of October…

EVENT/ PROGRAM

FOMArt: October

Saturday 27 October 2018, 10.30am - 3.30pm

The Youth Collective are inviting passionate young creatives and youth ambassadors from arts and cultural organisations to join them for a day of lively discussion, knowledge sharing and collaborative thinking.

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/calendar/fomart-october/

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Thanks Vicky!

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exhibition Currency

Surry Hills this Sat

Lilac City Studio is pleased to present 'Currency', an exhibition including works by Ann Hirsch, Signe Pierce & Alli Coates, Marian Tubbs, and JD Reforma. These works are curated around a central theme of VALUE. This theme is explored within gender & sexuality, material & the body. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/236099853724566/

[vickybrowne10022018]

Gallery Visit Tomorrow 10th Oct

Remember  we are visiting both the AGNSW and Artspace tomorrow.

Meet at the steps of the AGNSW

My 9am class meet at 9.45am.

My 12.00pm class meet at 12.30pm

Here is a Map: https://goo.gl/maps/uGwp9TG39pH2

We will walk down to Artspace after AGNSW.

The class topic is Desire please read the resources on Moodle before class.

Here is the Gallery Task:

Working in your allocated groups for assignment three collaborate to do the following task

At the AGNSW: 

Staying on the entrance floor study the European and Australian 19th and 20th Century Art (on the right side as you enter the Gallery).

Identify three different ways Desire is playing out within 19th and 20th century painting. Create three separate image montages to demonstrate your research, you can also use text or sound within your montages.

You have 40 mins to complete this task, then meet out the front (Vicky will give you a time) to walk to Artspace which is 10 mins away.

At Artspace repeat the above task to engage with works in the exhibition.

How has Desire as a theme or topic changed from 19 and 20th century readings?

Post everything on your Tumblr.

Confidences Georges Croegaert 1889.

Patricia Piccinini‘s Eagle Egg Men in the Grotto 2018.

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Dear Wednesday class 2543, I’m reblogging this blog by Vicky as it is relevant to our activity. See you at 9:45am outside the AGNSW Wed 10 October. 

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An updated version of what the website looks like. I have added the logo to every page that isn’t the front page. I’ve included facts about the inequality between women & mens sport in the second page. 

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Stand-out work here from Amelia who created a website about gender inequality in sport.

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Minecraft glitch

Minecraft glitch by Morten

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ADAD - Week 6 - Context And Time In our week 6 work ‘Golden Hour’ we wanted to explore ways in which light can represent time and its ever-changing nature. the reflection through fragments of the sunlight and its lack of distinction captures the essence of time being an ever-changing measurement upon the temporary stages of our lives. 

[piasadad]

Beautiful experiments from week 6 exploring context and time through sunlight.

[felixmedia]

Assessment 2 Final Work + Concept Statement

My final work is based on the constructed binary of Sound versus Music (which is slightly altered from my last assessments focus which was Sound versus Silence. Through the process of creating this work, I wanted to explore whether ‘random’, ‘everyday’ sounds are inherently musical or not and also to find the delineation between sound and song. I did this through recording a multitude of everyday sounds, manipulating them in different ways (explored below) and remixing them together to create a track of music. Alongside this, I videoed myself creating and recording the sounds and created a video collage as a kind of music video to examine this idea more.

The manipulation of the recorded samples was an interesting and learning process as I have not really done a lot of it before (In my sound works, I mainly work with MIDI rather than audio samples). It involved first taking the recorded stems out of Cubase, into Ableton Live, then cutting it to the point in each sample I was going to use. I then laid these out in a row (kind of like a sound bank) so I could figure out which sounds to use where and have them quickly accessible, visible and playable. 

(The recording setup)

(Recorded Stems in Cubase) 

(Samples laid out in Ableton Live)

Next, I started off with the squeaky sound - which was me rubbing a vinyl case against the table - as I pretty much already heard a rhythm out of the sound. After this, I warped the transients of the sample (the high amplitude, short-duration sounds at the beginning of a waveform) to get it in time and launched the rest of the song off that. 

(Warping the waveforms of the vinyl squeak)

I altered each sample differently. For the more percussion based sounds (this ended up being the majority of the samples) I put filters on them and increased the resonance of a certain frequency within them. For example, for the sample which involved me flicking a tin was put into a drum rack and turned it into both a hi-hat and snare by using different filters and transposing two of the same sample in different ways. 

(Drum rack and both a Midi arrangement and audio sample in Ableton Live)

For the more melodic-sounding samples, I pulled a singular hit from the recorded rhythm and pulled that sample into a sampler. What a sampler allows me to do is basically record midi data and play the sample in different keys and lengths, depending on what values I enter. However, within this process, I am still editing the frequencies and envelope as well; it just adds an extra element to the mix.

(The advanced sampler in Ableton Live with changes to frequency, resonance, and envelope along with the Midi Arrangement for the melodic lid drop)

The video element was a little bit tricky as I am not as versed in video editing as I am in sound editing. The process for each individual video was: first finding the corresponding sample in Ableton Live, finding which part of the sample I used, and then cutting the video down to a little bit before the hit (So you can see me create the sound/impact in the video rather than just the impact itself) and a little bit after. I then marked out where in the video the sound was created and then pressed the ‘m’ key in time with that particular sample to create markers to mark out where it would go within the timeline. In addition to this, for some clips I lined up the audio that was captured on my camera (as the audio I used in the music track was captured by a different mic), to the audio from my track to make the process a little bit easier. After this, I cropped at positioned all the recordings to create the collage. 

(Markers and edits in Adobe Premiere Pro)

This process took a lot longer than I first anticipated purely due to the number of layers I ended up using. Even after finishing this task, I didn’t end up getting to include every recording I used in the video element as I just ran out of space and by the end of the video it was already a bit too cluttered.

(Editing in the DB07 Video Suite)

So after going through the process of researching what defines a sound and what defines music as well as creating a piece of music and video from said sounds, I have come to the conclusion that an everyday sound is not usually inherently musical. However, by changing the context of these noises and combining them in a rhythmic and melodic way, they can easily be considered music.

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Ball, P, “Why dissonant music strikes the wrong chord in the brain.”. in nature, , 2012, <https://www.nature.com/news/why-dissonant-music-strikes-the-wrong-chord-in-the-brain-1.11791> [accessed 15 September 2018].

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Darman, N, “Noise vs. Music: It’s All in the Physics! | Fiat Physica Blog.”. in Fiatphysica, , 2015, <https://www.fiatphysica.com/blog/everyday-physics/physics-of-music-vs-noise/> [accessed 14 September 2018].

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Metcalfe-Davies, S, “The Reality and Truth of Existence – by Stephen Metcalfe-Davies | The Magic Happens (TMH).”. in Themagichappensnow.com, , 2016, <http://themagichappensnow.com/the-reality-and-truth-of-existence/> [accessed 16 September 2018].

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awesome work Felix! Well edited and executed :)

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Concept Statement

God Is An Asian Woman (2018) , ink on watercolour paper, hand cut

Contemporary art and design often looks at the idea of constructed binaries, such as man/woman, soft/hard, straight/gay, dirty/clean, organic/synthetic. Considering the history of these ‘pairs’, how can art and design interrogate these binaries and offers new insights?

As a Vietnamese – Australian woman, I have gained an awareness of the stereotypes associated with my culture, gender and the intersection of the two. We are expected to be obedient wives and daughters, to be docile and submissive to the patriarch of our family, and in a broader sense, of society. From a Western perspective, we may be perceived as fragile dolls that WANT to be dominated. As a result, many Western men will pursue us, in the haze of their “yellow fever”. And although, these advances are unwanted, we may not be able to say ‘no’ since our culture has trained us to be obedient, to be quiet, to always make the other comfortable, and to always be helpful and polite.

God Is An Asian Woman (2018) attempts to subvert these underlying binaries through the depiction of the Asian woman as the all-powerful deity. The work is ultimately inspired by Asian cultural and gender expectations that often restrict Asian women’s opportunities in life and can be destructive to the mind and body. I wanted to bring light onto the issue from an Asian, female, perspective as white feminism often overshadows the struggles of women of colour. This is particularly evident in media as there is a growing amount of representation of powerful, influential women in popular culture, there is still sparse representation of Asian women in power, and when there is, it often plays into stereotypes (such as the rebel Asian with dyed hair, or the tigress). I believe it is important to address this intersectionality of feminism due to the permeance of gender expectation in cultures beyond the Western world.

The omni-potence of the woman is suggested through the halo that surrounds her head. The halo signifies that she is a holy figure, particularly God. Her sacred status can be perceived as a reference to Christianity where there is believed to be one god, whom is the Supreme Being, the creator and sustainer of the universe. Additionally, the woman maintains a steady gaze with the viewer, emphasising her all-mighty status as she does not appear docile or submissive. Furthermore, the red-yellow ink wash is reflective of traditional Asian colours (specifically, Vietnamese and Chinese culture, which were my strongest influences growing up). Red is symbolic of fortune, fertility, love and celebration whist yellow (or gold) stands for wealth, prosperity and happiness. Overall, these colours are warm and passionate, thus challenging the idea of docility and submissiveness in Asian women. Moreover, the white spots that disrupt the ink wash mimics spots of light, speckled on top of the woman. These spots of lights highlight the woman’s brilliance as she appears to be bathed in swathes of light, emphasising her warmth and goodness. Finally, the work is hand-cut on watercolour paper. The process for the artwork was labour-intensive yet ritualistic. In papercutting, it was as if I was carving my devotion and faith to God, who is an Asian woman, as opposed to a digital medium where there isn’t the exact experience of being ‘hands-on’ with the material.

Drawing off the first assessment, my research was more into experimenting with materials to portray my concept. As I explored the art of paper cutting, it took multiple attempts for me to achieve the aesthetics that I wanted. My process involved creating a design on Photoshop, keeping awareness of which areas I wanted to keep and omit so that the structure wouldn’t fall apart. I looked at references from East-Asian fashion models to help create my design. Then I applied masking fluid onto my paper and created an ink-wash on top of the fluid, to create a sun-speckled effect. Then, I printed out my design and traced it onto tracing paper, and then re-traced it on the back of the paper. Finally, I used an arts knife to cut out the negative space. In my research, I was inspired by many paper cutting artists, particularly Bovey Lee, who is a Chinese artist bridges East and West in her intricate hand-cut paper compositions.

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On rebellion and symbols

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/13/imagine-being-so-threatened-by-non-conformism-youd-bully-a-child

[shiyaoc]

Artist Research: Pattern Matters

Interactive calendars design by pattern matters

Pattern Matters is a graphic design-based project inquiring on possible ways to augment the role of pattern by looking into the design process and tactile exploration through pattern making. It demonstrates the way of how this design element of pattern can be adopted differently on various platforms in graphic design. The main objective of this project is to inspire designers to look at pattern in every possible angles. Pattern Matters also aims to demonstrate that pattern is a crucial form of design element in graphic design which eventually evident that pattern is not merely a decorating tool.

(images and introduction source: https://cargocollective.com/patternmatters/ABOUT-PATTERN-MATTERS)

[milledge2018]

Some excellent examples of design here Shiyao!