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.
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.
