3:15 Pm - Section 2 Assignment 2: Mcmullen

So I was finally able to make it to the Meuseum. There was a fair amount of great works on display but I came out liking this one in particular. From afar it does look like a pair of bird wings on display but a closer look reveals it to be a book that is shaped like a wing. The pages are filled with pictures and quotes. The contents seem more of a filler than an actual piece of the art I feel. Although it seems most of the exhibits challenge the physical aesthetics of the book rather than the whole book itself. There is one other particular exhibit that does take a greater step and definitely changes the book format.
The picture on the right resembles a fruit basket (oddly with lettuce shaped pages) yet it is hodgepodge of information. Once again the artist is not concerned about the arrangement of information within but the layout itself represents more chaotic sense. By that I have hard time figuring out from what end should I start reading .

This is perhaps insignificant but I would have liked to put up a picture of the Greenline train from Copley Square. It is said that artist must suffer inorder to realise art, this single mode of public transportation is truly that. The suffering journey on this train to the meuseum to see great art.

baby with soul garment

I'm working on a seies of photos of small paintings I made of my sister's life and added a soul garment to this one. Please send comments.
Thanks, Ruth

Hi All,
I enjoyed our class very much. it's somuch fun to see all the different interpetations of an assignment.
Here's the info I promised to post. The web site that gives lots of photo tips is www.johnpaulcaponigro.com.
The adhesive I used for my book is called naripaste,which is a Japanese rice paste. I get it rom Daniel Smith art supplies.
Ruth

Lili_Assignment # 2- Interactive book

For this assignment I decided to create an interactive book. I wanted to keep the theme of my first assignment (the soul) and take it further using the same object (ice). I took about 30 pictures of ice, in different ways and on several surfaces and then found myself editing the colors of these and mainly adding red, yellow and blue hues. I wanted to show with the ice the places where the soul can end up in the afterlife (according to some religions and old literature values) : heaven, purgatory or hell. I then realized that Dante's "Divine Comedy" shows these three worlds with brilliant detail. I then decided to play around with my pictures, and represent Dante's poems with composed images and words (descriptions of these worlds according to Dante's masterpiece).

I tried to upload the quicktime file directly on here, but it's a big file and the system didn't allow me to do so. Please, if you are interested on reading my interactive book called "Divine Soul", download the file. 

It should open as a Quicktime, full screen, and you have to click on your mouse to flip each page of the book. You can use your keyboard arrows as well, and this way you can flip each page back and forth as you may like.

Click HERE  for download page

Rexon_Transformation

Jerry Assignment 2 - updated with music

Please click the below link to download file (46Mb).
Assignment 2
FYI - I had to package the Powerpoint and the audio file into a zip to make this work. So, you will be downloading a zip file to your machine - then unzipping it. This presentation was built on a PC and really only works well on a PC. Macs do not understand the "embedded" font and usually swaps it out for Helvetica/Ariel.
The music is titled "Sometimes" by the Punch Brothers.

Books As Art

 I really like the book "Green Salad" which is made by katherine. The first sight when I saw it I thought it was a real vegetable! But it is paper and there are characters on it. It is very creative and it has a good visual design because  the color it has is very match the natrual. The content is like a "love story".  We can see it is a book ,as the same time it is still a art.

Ke Collage

Kathryn, Homework Two

Assignment 2

I expanded upon the original photograph showing a transformation from one picture to another.

Artist Books

By far I think the most successful and amusing was Allison Cooke Brown's TeaTimes. All the familiar bits of a book are all there - text/editorial content, paper, imagery, a protective outer layer - yet in an assemblage entirely not typical of a book. One is compelled to wonder just what it is that she has written on each and every tea bag in the box. And since witty statements, fortunes, and Bon Mots are printed on every tag attached to every bag of Salada Tea, there is the added intrigue of wanting to know what each label says, and how it related to what the artist wrote on the bag.

My initial reaction as I approached Julie Chen's Bon Bon Lots was that it looked fat too commercial.... perhaps something you could purchase at Paper Source or some such place. After reading the provenance label on the wall, my instincts were proven right: the piece was published by Flying Fish Press (albeit in a limited run). It felt out of place to me.

My reaction to Lara Walker's Freedom: A Fable; a Curious Interpretation of the Wit of A Negress in Troubled Times, With Illustrations was certainly heightened by the description of the work and the artists work as a whole. As it stood on it's own, I thought it was a beautifully executed piece. Her cut work is exquisite.

Less successful books in the exhibit in my opionion where Nancy Leavitt's piece (it looked too much like a over sized brochure), The Green Salad piece (too sculptural), and Lois Morrison's After Water Aerobics. The last could hardly be called a book: in fact, I would be more comfortable calling it a mixed-media sculpture.

Rexon McMullen Visit

Love the exhibit, one of its kind. There were several books that I liked. Lind Smith's "Change Cube", Kazutko Wantabe "The Diary of a Sparrow", M. L. Van "Dinner with Dewey" are few of them.

The book that I really enjoyed observing is Elana's "Unfinished Symphony". I love the detailed hand drawn symbols and the symmetry of visual appearance.

Wanting Assignment2

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Books in a museum!

I was very excited to see one of Kara Walkers pieces. I am a huge fan of hers and enjoy her sense of humor while taking on serious issues such as institutionalized racism and the systematic rape of a race of women. Her pop-up book was beautiful, as were most of the pop-ups which impressed me the most. I went into the exhibit with pre-conceived notions about what a book is and its distinction from sculpture. My views did not change, although I did enjoy the show. I liked the playing on of book conventions (not so much the changing of the defining features of a book) so, for example, one of my favorites was Genie Shenk's "Dreaming" which played with the idea that the thickness of a book should always be less than its height (this piece was a long rectangle). Kellner's "My 9 Migraine Cures" was nice with its added interactivity. A book traditional book, Watson's "Who to Attract Birds?", with pages the shape of wings was aesthetically really well done. The most experimental piece I enjoyed was Sharoff's "The Great Wall"--a piece of paper standing up, wrapped around itself, challenging our Western-centric views on what art/ books should be.

530 Jeremy Assignment 2

McMullen

I went to the McMullen Museum today. I was so impressed and really enjoyed it. My Most favorite artist’s book is the “Teatime”. The artist makes her diary from teabags.
I think most of the artists make their books from something that came to their life or want to keep some special memories by writing them in the book such as “Teatime”, “Eight Slices of Pie” and “Volo-Volume”. Also the artists use the book to keep some poem or some ideas from people that they are impressed (“Dinner with Mr. Dewey” or “To Malherbe”. I like the idea that they make the book from many materials such as teabags, onyx, paper, leather, and other things. At last I really like their ideas and how they created their work. So, I would like to create my own art book and show you the ideas that I have got for my work from visiting the museum.

Museum

I managed to get back into the city on Saturday thanks to what can only be called serendipity. I was pretty sure I was not going to make it. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed the exhibit though, like the others who have posted their reactions, I came away a bit unsure of what exactly constitutes an artist's book. The books there ranged from books, to fold-outs, to paper sculptures, to things that were most definitely not books by any traditional definition of the term. There is, however, a less-used definition of the word that means "anything that serves for the recording of facts or events" which I guess applies here.

I have never been so frustrated by "do not touch" signs in my life. Some of the books I desperately wanted to open or interact with, like the shadow puppets. My favorite was "Dinner with Dewey" in the downstairs gallery which made me smile. The logic of the Dewey Decimal system as applied to things outside book cataloguing, very clever.

My Book

This is my art book. I will show you guys in class hope you will like it.

Just got back from the artistbook exhibit. I really enjoyed it.I thought it was so exciting the range of books exhibited. Some so intimate you wanted to hold them and others so huge.I wasn't able to pick a favorite.But these are a few of my favorites Tosemarie Chiculone's book bed.I wanted to open those sheets and seewhat was hidden.Kumi Kor's silk I found very beautiful.Allison Cook Tea times that spoke to the importance of ritual and memory.,Tantana Kellinger 's powerful, moving book with the numbered arm from the holocost. I gues the brath of feelins from whimsical to horrific were all there

Museum

So I went to see the exhibit of artist's books at the museum and was pretty impressed. I must say though, that I am still some what fuzzy on what actually constitutes a "book" since some of them did not seem like books at all. It seems like you can pretty much call anything an artist book. Some of my favorites included "The Legacy of Scherazade" by Donatella Franchi. I really liked the story behind this one and she had made shoes out of paper and wrote on them. "After Water Aerobics" by Lois Morrison was one of my favorites. It was in a case but it looked like you could turn a nob and have the people and words rotate around. I thought it was cute. "Green Salad" by Katherine Glover made me laugh because it really did look like green salad. The one I was very impressed with was "Unfinished Symphony" by Elena Presser. The detail in the piece was amazing and I stared at it for a long time. I really liked how in the middle you could see through it to another layer behind it. It was very cool. Alright, that's it! All in all I liked the exhibit. I also liked that the man at the front said I could leave my iced tea with him instead of having to throw it out since I had just gotten it. :)

Took four of my pictures of the graveyard in different lights and arranged them into "one" image. Mostly experimental, but I liked the result.

Assignment for April 28

1. If you haven't gone to see the exhibit at the McMullen, do so. Write a post on the class blog with your reactions. Tag them as "mcmullen".

2. If you haven't been tagging your posts with your appropriate class tags (ie. '315' or '530', please do so).

3. Create an assemblage of your images in one of the following formats:

• Collage or multiple image composition(s)
• Book (artist's book or not)
• Presentation (slide show)
• Surprise me!

Book techniques

Japanese stab binding

Five-stitch binding

Inventory of book tools at Blick.

Wealth of resources at Booklyn.

The old DIY approach.

The longest book EVER. Really cool.

Henry Darger was a recluse and was a little crazy who died as a poor janitor. After he died, while going through his apartment, investigators (or whoever did it) found a handmade artist book, more than 15,000 pages long called "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion." The book is epic and bizarre with hundreds of water colors (some many feet long requiring the reader to unfold many papers), many graphic and violent but is altogether beautiful. If you are interested there is a pretty good documentary called "The Realms of the Unreal" that is pretty easy to get. Here is a link to a site with some good images from the page and here is the Wikipedia article about Darger that has good resources at the bottom that link to other pictures, etc.

Book

From Penny Arcade

Mix Untouched

Savannah Montage

Digital Media Design Studio

If anyone is in need of equipment, recording space or software, you might want to check out Northeastern's Digital Media Design Studio. It is "a collaborative and interdisciplinary learning environment for creating course-related multimedia presentations, projects and portfolios," located on the second floor of Snell Library. (They are also friendly and helpful.) Here's the link:

http://www.lib.neu.edu/libraries_and_collections/digital_media/

3:15 class, Assignment 1 - Composition

I was at a library recently and was using my camera. Noticed something interesting about this picture. let's see if you can see what I saw.

Anything new in Blackboard..

I registered for the class on Friday and still haven't been able to access the class on Balckboard. Is there anything new uploaded on Blackboard....

Thanks,
Rexon

Mix

Assignment for April 21st

1. If you haven't completed all three parts of the first assignment, do so.

2. Extend your single composed image into a sequene of multiple images (at least 5, at most 20). Bring into class to work with (on a USB drive or CD or DVD).

3. In the next two weeks go see the show "The Book as Art" at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College and write a post about your reaction (tagged 'assignment_mcmullen') Remember to add your class specific tags.

Kathryn's Photo, Week One

I really hope this works...here is my "Transformation" photo for Week 1.

Mariam composition

04/14 Wanting "BBQ"coke

530 Sea a Bike

Fireball

The end of the day is always beautiful 8pm

Test post for 05:30 class

This post is being authored and tagged for the 05:30 class of Time-Based Media.

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Melting of Life

The transformation of our souls...

Accessories

Accessories
Originally uploaded by ravijain

03:15 group composed this lovely image.

Tagging our content

We're going to start tagging our posts for ease of content-ingestion.

The 03:15 class will tag all posts with '315'. The 05:30 class will tag all of their posts with '530'.

Please go back to your original assignment one posts and add the following tag: 'assignment_composition'.

03:15 class post

This is a post for the 03:15 class.

assignment one.

I am in the middle of a love affair with both texture and the macro setting on my camera.

Hey! Look at this!

So I'm not in class today because I'm at a video festival. Wish me luck. PLEASE COMMENT ON MY PICTURE because I want to know what you think. The idea behind the picture's composition is that I wanted to add an element of chaos (thus the girl reading a newspaper) so it would have the viewer create a unique narrative when they see it.

Week1 Assignment

Here is a picture that I took in winter while the ice was melting at the terrace of my apartment.

4.14 homework

this is called choke hold.

I feel like I should have explained this a little more. This is a tree branch being strangled by that wire. To the right the tree is alive, and to the left the tree is dead.

Week 1 Assignment - Ke

A suited man is ready to ride. I cropped the photo a bit for better positive and negative space.

Assignment 1

I merged a current photo of myself with an old one. I decided to go in for a black and white effect because it stands out far more than colour.

Assignment: Composed photograph on the subject of transformation.

Here is a shot I took of plants springing up in a pet cemetery. I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the branches around the angel statue. I worry they make the image a bit too right-heavy but I also like how they feel like bars against the viewer and a frame to the statue. My other shots weren't as strong as this one, though, the statue was always looking off somewhere. Oh well.

ALSO: I can upload images and post new posts but I can't seem to reply to posts. Logical, right? I AM IN, GUYS, I AM.

4/14 Assignment - Jerry

Transfomation Assignment - Jerry

Checking in

Glad to see some of you are posting their composed images!

Let me know if any of you have difficulty posting to the blog, else it's pretty straight forward:

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41641

I'll have confirmation about the second session of the class on Monday.

when I was smoking on the balcony, 12:40 A.M.

Budding

here's another transformation

Ruth

this is my homework for 4/14. Chrissy to dance soon

Assignment for April 14th

1. Sign onto class blog -- leave a comment on this post to confirm that you are "in"

2. Read through the following Navy manual (yes!) -- on image composition. It's many pages, but can be skimmed through pretty quickly.

3. Create a (single) composed photograph based on the theme of 'transformation'. Create a new, original work -- not something done by someone else or something you did earlier, but something you are creating for this class.

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This is the class blog for Time-Based Media, Spring 2009. Class syllabus is available here.