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Viral Interventions: Final Index

1. Viral Interventions: Read

2. Viral Interventions: Identify

3. Viral Interventions: Compose

4. Viral Interventions: Present (Final)

5. Viral Interventions: Barbara Kruger QCQ

6. Viral Interventions: Propose- Idea 1

Viral Interventions: Propose- Idea 2

Viral Interventions: Propose- Idea 3

7. Viral Interventions: Final Proposal

8. Viral Interventions: Tasks

9. Viral Intervention: Timeline

10. Viral Intervention: Budget

11. Viral Intervention: Process

12. Viral Intervention: Final Documentation

Viral Intervention: Final Documentation

For this project we wanted to take more of a subtle approach when showing our message. We went to a bunch of Targets and shredded pink dollar bills- we wanted to represent the fact that Target and other corporations like it are just trying to get money from us. In specific from the LGBTQ community during the month of June- and how Target in specific backs away from that very community when they get any kind of push back- thus the shredding of the pink dollars. We also wanted to represent how people are not supporting Target- thus the shredding of the money. We did not get very much interactions in public, most Target workers and shoppers kept going on with their business. Although that may be cause of disappointment, I saw it as truly representing how closed off these people are from pushing back at these corporations they have become so comfortable shopping at. Social media presence was also small, but mainly to keep this operation undercover. I feel it represents how in real life, very little people will stand up and notice a cause- many people have become tuned out to issues mainly because they feel it does not apply to them.

Materials- paper dollar bills, paper shredder, camera

Viral Interventions-Progress

Viral Interventions- Production Tasklist

Viral Interventions-Budget

Viral Interventions- Timeline

Viral Interventions- Final Presentation

For our final proposal we are going with the pink dollar idea. In order to best spread the mention we are going to create 100 dollars and with a shredder and scissors- destroy them in front of a Target. We will leave a couple intact around so people can pick up and see the message. Using sheets of paper, we will create the dollars. Our audience will be anyone who walks in and out of the target stores we selected(the ones closest to campus).

Viral Interventions Idea 3- Taped up Censorship

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For this idea we wanted to speak on the censorship of LGBTQ people of recent times. We will go into a public space like a mall and wear tape that covers up our mouths while also wearing colors of the rainbow. Companies take opportunity to make money off the LGBTQ in June but do not do anything to help with the hostility that comes to this group. Our audience would be anyone who comes into the mall and corporations.

Viral Interventions- Idea 2- shredding pink dollars

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For this idea we were thinking about shredding a bunch of pink dollars in front of a store. Pink Dollars refer to the spending power of LGBTQ, which companies try to capitalize during June. We wanted to speak on not spending our money on companies who Truly do not care about the LGBTQ. We would most likely do this in front of a store and our audience would be anyone walking to do business inside of it. We have another idea of also shredding the money on top of the mascot of said money(in the example we used the target dog).

Viral Interventions- Idea 1-Sign

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For this idea we are going to represent our message using a sign. We wanted to have the text to transition from rainbow to a black color. We wanted this to represent how LGBTQ voices are being dulled out in the companies goals to make money in June(pride month). We would most likely do this sign idea in front of a store, (our main target being Target). Our audience would be anyone walking in front of this location(we will reach corporations by standing in front of their businesses).

BARBARA KRUGER QCQ

QUOTE: "Something to really think about is what makes us who we are in the world that we live in, and how culture constructs and contains us."

COMMENT: I selected this quote because I feel it applies to the project that we are doing in class, which is all about recent news and recent events. It is very easy to forget that people are built up of many parts of their upbringing, but it can be really hard to remember that in the recent climate of the world. Culture clashes more today than it ever has in the past with the rise of the internet, and its telling that this quote from this old video still applies today.

QUESTION: How much have we really changed as a society? Are their better ways to deal with the cultural divide? Does the cultural divide still exist or has it gone away with a more globalized society?

VIRAL INTERVENTIONS- COMPOSE

Viral Interventions- Identify

Viral Interventions- Read

Looking at you, Scarlet and Violet

WORD SUMMARY- Bittersweet

VIRAL INTERVENTIONS - Present

For this project we wanted to speak on the continuous cycle that occurs on June. Our statement was "June is a large, corporate, bittersweet controversy." On June companies always turn rainbow because of Pride month, a month that celebrates LGBTQ people and voices. However, it is apparent that companies only do it to attract the pink dollar and not because they actually care about LGBTQ people. We choose napkins because they are easy to spread around and because someone will eventually pick them up. Our video was lighthearted and we emphasized that with the silly music. (The music is from a kirby game).

Second Session 2D TUMBLR PORTFOLIO

1.Plaster Process

2.Plaster ideas

3.P6.self

4.Blind contours

5. Mindfulness draft

6. P7.Mindfulness

7. Perception story board

8. P8.Perception

9. Installation ideas

10. Installation research

11. P9.Emotion

P9. EMOTION

Title- The Dragon's triumph over manufacturing.(An ode to hard labor)

Materials- various plushies.

Dragon name- Darkstalker (made of sew lush, stuffing and wire)

Dimensions- 6 feet wide and long, 2 feet tall

For this piece I wanted to highlight my plush collection. At first I wanted the piece to speak to the comfort and warmth plush provided me. But looking at my concept further it spoke to me of themes of overconsumption and the pain of labor. Plushies are the first thing that are mass produced when a piece of media gets popular. Plushies are so easily bought and then discarded, made into a big pile. I would fall into that problem of buying plushies and stacking them onto my bed. However I took the hobby of making plushies and it made me think about plushies differently. Plushies are a labor intensive process that the people who usually make barely get paid for. The large plushie is the biggest plushie I made and took a month to make. Unlike other plushies I had to will him into existence, I had to tough through the process and think constantly about how much I wanted the plush. It made him feel more valuable, thus why he is on top of everything else.

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