For the next 10 week, you will assume the role of a MODERN MEDIA ARTIST. The project for this module is to create an art installation over several weeks of research, making, and testing.
Project work is split into 3 phases:
1. CONCEPTUAL EXPLORATION 2. TRIAL 3. STAGING
In the conceptual exploration phase you will work on your artistic statement without yet thinking about how an installation could be created or made! This first phase is about gathering material and thoughts that you can use as source of inspiration and meaning in the following two phases.
The trial phase is about prototyping ideas for your final installation and testing them out. These tests can be about feasibility or how individual ideas impact a potential audience.
At the end, you will exhibit your work in an end-of-module art installation.
CONTENTS
For this project you will be arranged into groups of 5-6 people to form an art collective.
The art installation that you will make with your collective should be based on an artistic statement. Your statement should be both opinionated and informed by your exploration. It is not about explaining something but taking a position, and arguing for it.
You will develop your statement on the basis of three guiding concepts:
▶︎ TECHNOLOGY Your statement should express an opinion about a technology. This opinion should be based on personal research into non-obvious, surprising aspects.
▶︎ “THE OTHER SIDE” Your statement can interpret this from many perspectives, but it needs to be a reasoned interpretation. This could be about finding the positive in the negative, understanding other people or species, or bridging a geographical divide, to name a few examples.
▶︎ “CRINGE” OR “ALONE”
The statement should express one of two concepts: “Cringe” or “Alone”. Either pick will be a seed to explore your associations in the context of a technology, and should also include reflections on “the other side” of it. If you decide to explore “Alone” as a concept, there are different ways to look at it. As for “Cringe”; consider the following quote from The Internet™ (20XX):
“Life is an eternal battle between Cringe and Based. You can't be Based until you're willing to risk being Cringe. The fear of being Cringe holds you back. It is only when you can embrace the possibility of being Cringe, that you can become Based. Remember these words.”
The development of the statement is the first phase of your project. In the the first week you indicate your top-5 preference for a technology. We will use your preference ranking to assign groups. Unless you are looking to collaborate with the … well … ‘other side’ (see the next point to learn more about that!), you will be grouped with other students from your study location, but will not be able to pick your group!
If you want to form a group with specific people, you can join the “Cross-Country Collab” (CCC). This means you form a group of 3 people within your study location and are paired up with a group of 3 from the other study location to form a VU-UT group. Groups that choose this option and get selected for such a grouping (if a matching group can be organized) receive the following benefits:
<aside> ℹ️ To register for the CCC, mail the course lecturers or let us know via MS Teams!
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During the development of the art installation you have requirements to fulfill:
✅ Logistics: The final exhibition is in the Design Lab of the UT. You have some time to build it there, but your installation needs to fit the available space, comply with regulations of the building, and be deconstructable (or transportable) within half a day.