Monday, August 12, 2013

Greetings from Scandinavia

Greetings photography students,

My apologies in advanced for missing our first few classes. I am currently in Finland doing an artist residency including working to develop the 2014 Backlight Photography Festival in addition to creating new photography.  Here is a link about the residency: http://www.backlight.fi

Scandinavia has been quite welcoming to me. While in Sweden I had the opportunity to visit the Modern Art Museum and Fotografiska in Stockholm, and the art museum in Umea.



Assignment #1: Please take a look at the three website above. I would like you to choose one artist from one of the three institutions and write a three paragraph (12-20 lines) response paper answering the who, what, where, why, and when about the artist. For example their nationality, medium, main medium, themes in the work, etc. I will collect these on Thursday of week 2.

Mapping assignment for FA 385

 Free Association mapping
Use a visual diagram system (bubble graph, line graph, etc.) to create a make
a timeline of your personal creativity. Be prepared to share in class.


Mapping Assignment for Students in FA 385/483
Subjectivity of Memory
Visually create a finished map (using collage, drawing,painting, Photoshop, wire,
string, buttons, flowers,paper, photos, markers, colored pencils, etc. that represent
your hometown/neighborhood/childhood home (choose). The finished piece
needs to be a minimum of 8.5x11. We will scan and or photograph the finished
piece in class. Remember, our goal is not so much accuracy, so much as a subject
map of who you are/where you are from.
Due end of week 2.



What is a map? (Excerpt from Community Mapping ‘zine by Hannah Lewis)
-Maps are powerful.
-Maps have interests or an argument to make.
-Maps are socially constructed.
-Maps are often conventionalized (they become seen as true or real).
-Maps are shaped by (and shape) political, economic, social, and cultural
discourses of the time.
-Maps are a means of communication that many people find appealing.
-Maps come in many forms, such as aboriginal maps of stories, songs, or dreams
showing the convergence of boundaries between realms.
-Maps have different ways of representing time.
-Maps are relational—they represent relationships between spatial or physical
elements, cultural values and abstract ideas. For example: a road map shows the
distance between physical places, but also shows cultural relationships in place
names and abstract ideas, such as wilderness or adventure.
-Maps reflect the map-maker’s worldview: the relationship between the map’s
creator and the topic is important to consider.

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