Frantic preperation is now on to get our semester's work together for our final presentation and crits. It has been interesting, even at this relatively early stage to revisit the previous two studio projects which now feel like so long ago. They had been dismissed to the back to ones mind upon completion which is perhaps is a good way to do it as the distance means you can revisit and reflect with a clearer mind and perspective. Like I mentioned in reflection of my presentation on Friday, you get so close and personal to a project whilst working on it that it is difficult to stand back, disengage and really think about it and it's implications. This is something I am intending to do in my supporting material, take just a few paragraph to look at the wider implications and potential application of what I have achieved with each project and think about their potential to take it further. In fact I think that is what James is encouraging us to do, rather than dismissing projects which didn't work out completely, to go back and rework them and make them into something you're proud to display and confident in talking about.
Each project was not without it's constraints, the most commonly identified one being time. Even some of the small feed in projects I think I'd be keen to revisit one day, even outside the context of a brief which too can act as a constraint. I don't think I'm going to do much at this point for reworking any of my projects but I do want to explore some of their future potential, even if to incorporate as part of a future project as the skills we have acquired with the software and construction are easily adaptable to different briefs.
There has been a lot of confusion around the class as to exactly what we're supposed to do for presentation and crit but I see it quite simply as a concise overview, as an answer to the question if someone asked you 'what have you done this semester?' As our grades so far have been only summative grades, I also interpret it as showing what may not have come through. As the example I gave before, such as if perhaps the final product wasn't the best possible outcome, or even the other side of that if you started at point A, the brief, and ended up at point Z, the final presentation, by winging it and making up the night before and still managing to bluff a reasonable outcome. I see this as the opportunity to show the points in between A and Z; the ideas that didn't make it to presentation, the influences, the side roads, the detours, the construction. It reminds me of the additional optional scolarship paper which accompanies Level 3 NCEA art boards, where one present 8 A3 pages of journal work alongside their 3 A1 art boards to show exactly that; their thoughts, explored ideas, artist influences.
Even though I got a fairly abismal marks on both my scholarship entries for photography and design, I am feeling pretty confident. I am looking forward to showing off my work on the open studio on the Friday night and seeing what everyone else has put together. If nothing else, it will be another integral part to our constant process of reflection and learning from each other's skills.
Each project was not without it's constraints, the most commonly identified one being time. Even some of the small feed in projects I think I'd be keen to revisit one day, even outside the context of a brief which too can act as a constraint. I don't think I'm going to do much at this point for reworking any of my projects but I do want to explore some of their future potential, even if to incorporate as part of a future project as the skills we have acquired with the software and construction are easily adaptable to different briefs.
There has been a lot of confusion around the class as to exactly what we're supposed to do for presentation and crit but I see it quite simply as a concise overview, as an answer to the question if someone asked you 'what have you done this semester?' As our grades so far have been only summative grades, I also interpret it as showing what may not have come through. As the example I gave before, such as if perhaps the final product wasn't the best possible outcome, or even the other side of that if you started at point A, the brief, and ended up at point Z, the final presentation, by winging it and making up the night before and still managing to bluff a reasonable outcome. I see this as the opportunity to show the points in between A and Z; the ideas that didn't make it to presentation, the influences, the side roads, the detours, the construction. It reminds me of the additional optional scolarship paper which accompanies Level 3 NCEA art boards, where one present 8 A3 pages of journal work alongside their 3 A1 art boards to show exactly that; their thoughts, explored ideas, artist influences.
Even though I got a fairly abismal marks on both my scholarship entries for photography and design, I am feeling pretty confident. I am looking forward to showing off my work on the open studio on the Friday night and seeing what everyone else has put together. If nothing else, it will be another integral part to our constant process of reflection and learning from each other's skills.
Mmm interesting, I concur on the correlation with NCEA art scholarship, and on the horrible marks I also got for photography schol :(
ReplyDeleteBetter luck with this one eh?