Multiples and Reliefs

Project Description

Reliefs

Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term relief is from the Latin verb relevo, to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane.

Using provided Slab Molds, you will use clay to design, draw, sculpt your relief and then cast in plaster. Must have at least 3 relief tiles.

Multiples

Why would you need multiples of an object? Is more always better? Why would an object need to be replicated? Think about the following definitions:

Mold - a hollow container used to give shape to molten or hot liquid material(such as wax or metal) when it cools and hardens.

Cast - an object made by shaping molten metal or similar material in a mold.

            Multiples - Having, relating to, or consisting of more than one individual, element, part, or other component.

Using mold making and casting techniques, you will you plaster or latex to make a mold from an object.

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Latex-Mold

https://snapguide.com/guides/make-a-two-part-plaster-mold/

Using what you have learned to develop concepts, come up with conceptual reasoning for making multiples of your object. You do not need to make complete reproductions of your object, but at least 3 casts.

Specifications

Your sculpture must have at least 3 multiples. There is no limitation on amount, color, or dimensions.

Use all the skills you have learned through the year, and build on these. Challenge yourself to think outside of the box... literally. 

Evaluation

You will be graded on creativity, originality, and concept and craft. You will also be graded on your process (time-management, and working through multiple ideas). 

Please note: You will need to take photos through your entire process. These will be submitted along with the final project. No project will receive an A without this documentation. Process is important. 

Lastly, your project must have a title, and you must think of how it will be displayed. Presentation is part of context, and context drives meaning. 

Schedule
Homework- Due October 10th and 15th

Your homework is to exercise the research and development stage of the creative process. You will do this by walking through the steps listed below. 

Here are the things you will need to bring to class on March 10th:

3 Objects
As I told you last class, you need to bring in 3 objects to see which you will make a mold from. The object must me no larger than 8”x8”x8” and non-porous(look it up).

For March 15th:
3 Detailed Drawings of your multiples
The drawings must be in your sketchbook using full pages(both sides when open) The drawing should show good use of the elements of design- line, form, color, texture, etc.  (Note: These are fully-resolved drawings, NOT sketches)

In addition, the drawings should be informative; they should give us helpful information. Please be sure your drawings answer the following questions:
1. How are the multiples physically organized? Show details.

2. How many multiples will be used? Be detailed and use color/texture/collage to show this.
3. What do these multiples communicate? Descriptions/diagrams in the drawings should address this.
4. What concept are you engaging? Again, descriptions/diagrams could be helpful.
5. How is the form of your multiples communicating? Scale, shape, text, etc.
6. What is the working title? This should be clearly labeled in your drawing.

Molds 100% complete
You must come prepared with all materials and tools to work. Mold must be 100% complete and ready to cast.

Read Essay: In defence of the poor image by Hito Steyerl in the dropbox

Answer Questions
https://goo.gl/forms/1cj0ojIH8tUJ9Ol03

Rubric for Homework
3 Objects = 25pts
3 Drawings = 25pts
Mold Complete = 25pts
Questions = 25pts--------------------------------
Total Possible  = 100pts

A =100 - 90
B = 89 - 80
C = 79 - 70
D = 69 - 60
F = 59 - 0 

Please be prepared at beginning of class with your own self-assessment based on the above rubric. 


Final Project Due Date October 24th

Ai Wei Wei

Chris Burden

SketchUp

SketchUp is a Free Google software which enables you to draw and model in 3D. The web based program is free to use at www.sketchup.com Your assignment is to go to the site, select "Using for Personal Projects", create a Trimble ID and create a 3D object with it. You are completely free to create whatever you like but as always need to back it up with a concept. The critique will be run as a contest, with the class voting for the best 3D drawings. The top 5 will get A’s, 6-11 get B’s and 12-15 get C’s. You will need to download your project and email me your finished .skp file to long.nwsa@gmail.com before class starts. There is no make up for this assignment, if you are going to be absent you need to still email your file for critique.

All class readings are now in the Reading Dropbox link on the right side of the class blog by the syllabus.

Critique and Homework due October 8th.

Please read Hito Steyerl: In Free Fall a thought experiment on vertical perspective 

and answer the following questions: https://goo.gl/forms/qAAitv1spdLThjCY2

Hito Steyerl

SketchUp Creations

Site Specific

Using cardboard, glue and tape, you will construct a 3 dimensional object that occupies a specific space. This object must come in contact with at least 6 surfaces and will not fit in any other location. You will have 2 class sessions to work on this project, we will critique on October 1st.

Homework- Due September 24th

Your homework is to exercise the research and development stage of the creative process. You will do this by walking through the steps listed below. Here are the things you will need to bring to class:
5 References w/descriptions
One-page typed document (printed out) with a list of 5 websites that you visited for your research. At least one of these websites must be an actual article (not a how-to, or list of pictures) that discusses some type of site specific sculpture. Examples of an appropriate article can be a newspaper story, something written for a journal/magazine, or something from Academia/industry). The one-page document must be printed out (no exceptions). It must include one-line brief descriptions for each website. This must be fully complete to receive credit for this portion.

3 Detailed Drawings of your sculpture
The drawings must be in your sketchbook using full pages(both sides when open) The drawing should show good use of the elements of design- line, form, color, texture, etc.  (Note: These are fully-resolved drawings, NOT sketches)

In addition, the drawings should be informative; they should give us helpful information. Please be sure your drawings answer the following questions:
1. How is your sculpture physically organized? Show details.

2. How will the viewer be engaged? Be detailed and use color/texture/collage to show this.
3. What formal qualities are you focusing on? Descriptions/diagrams in the drawings should address this. (positive/negative space, weight/tension, balance, representational/abstract)
4. What concept are you engaging? Again, descriptions/diagrams could be helpful.
5. How is the form of your sculpture communicating? Scale, shape, text, etc.
6. What is the working title? This should be clearly labeled in your drawing.
Materials and project 50% complete
You must come prepared with all materials and tools to work. Project must be at least 50% complete.

Read Chapter 1: 

GENEALOGY OF SITE SPECIFICITY

Questions:
https://goo.gl/forms/CQAdwJ7g5Csi10Ui1

Rubric for Homework
5 References = 10pts
3 Drawings = 30pts
Reading and questions = 60pts
--------------------------------
Total Possible  = 100pts

A =100 - 90
B = 89 - 80
C = 79 - 70
D = 69 - 60
F = 59 - 0 

Please be prepared at beginning of class with your own self-assessment based on the above rubric. 


Final Project Due Date

October 1st - Project Due/Critique

Richard Serra

Ruben Ochoa

Valerie Hagarty

Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty

Additive Project

Each of you will be given a 24"x24" piece of Plywood. This project has been designed to let you come up with new ways of creating volume with a flat object. Each finished product must fit within a 24"x24"x24" cube and come in contact with all six sides. The focus of this project is volume and achieving 3 dimensionality from a limited amount of flat material. It is up to you to choose the subject matter, must be referential or figurative. Emphasis on round, smooth, well constructed and finished pieces.

Completely abstract pieces are not allowed. 

Homework- Due August 29th

Your homework is to exercise the research and development stage of the creative process. You will do this by walking through the steps listed below. Here are the things you will need to bring to class on August 29th:

5 References w/descriptions
One-page typed document (printed out or emailed) with a list of 5 websites that you visited for your research. At least one of these websites must be an actual article (not a how-to, or list of pictures) that discusses some type of additive sculpture. Examples of an appropriate article can be a newspaper story, something written for a journal/magazine, or something from Academia/industry). The one-page document must be printed out (no exceptions). It must include one-line brief descriptions for each website. This must be fully complete to receive credit for this portion.

3 Detailed Drawings of your sculpture
The drawings must be in your sketchbook using full pages(both sides when open) The drawing should show good use of the elements of design- line, form, color, texture, etc.  (Note: These are fully-resolved drawings, NOT sketches)

In addition, the drawings should be informative; they should give us helpful information. Please be sure your drawings answer the following questions:
1. How is your sculpture physically organized? Show details.

2. How will the viewer be engaged? Be detailed and use color/texture/collage to show this.
3. What formal qualities are you focusing on? Descriptions/diagrams in the drawings should address this. (positive/negative space, weight/tension, balance, representational/abstract)
4. What concept are you engaging? Again, descriptions/diagrams could be helpful.
5. How is the form of your sculpture communicating? Scale, shape, text, etc.
6. What is the working title? This should be clearly labeled in your drawing.

Materials and project ready to work
You must come prepared with all materials and tools to work. All sketches must be done and a plan made to execute your Project.

Essay: Large Scale of the 1960's and 70's

Read as much as you can and look at the images. Answer the questions here: https://goo.gl/forms/Qt4loFBUVCzege1k1

Rubric for Homework
5 References = 10pts
3 Drawings = 30pts
Questions = 30pts

Materials/Project = 30pts
--------------------------------
Total Possible  = 100pts

A =100 - 90
B = 89 - 80
C = 79 - 70
D = 69 - 60
F = 59 - 0 

Please be prepared at beginning of class with your own self-assessment based on the above rubric. 


Final Project Due Date

September 10th- Project Due/Critique

Tom Friedman

Mark Di Suvero

Martin Puryear

Tony Cragg

Louise Nevelson

Richard Artschwager

Readymade

Readymade - Due August 22nd

Duchamp created the first ready-made, Bicycle Wheel (1913), which consisted of a wheel mounted on a stool, as a protest against the excessive importance attached to works of art. This work was technically a “ready-made assisted,” because the artist intervened by combining two objects. Duchamp subsequently made “pure ready-mades,” each of which consisted of a single item, such asBottle Rack (1914), and the best-known ready-made, the porcelain urinal entitled Fountain (1917). By selecting mass-produced, commonplace objects, Duchamp attempted to destroy the notion of the uniqueness of the art object. The result was a new, controversial definition of art as an intellectual rather than a material process.

Duchamp and his ready-mades were embraced by the artists who formed the nihilistic Dada movement from 1916 to the 1920s; Duchamp became Dada’s main proponent in the United States. The ready-made continued to be an influential concept in Western art for much of the 20th century. It provided a major basis for the Pop art movement of the 1950s and ’60s, which took as its subject matter commonplace objects from popular culture. The intellectual emphasis of ready-mades also influenced the conceptual art movement that emerged in the 1960s, which considers the artist’s idea more important than the final product.

You will bring in an object changing its context from a mass produced everyday object into a art piece. Using methods such as adding a title that changes the way we think about the object or creating a new way of displaying are acceptable ways of elevating an object into art. 

In addition to bringing in your object, please read this essay: Rosalind Kraus Forms of the Readymade in the Dropbox folder and answer these questions: https://goo.gl/forms/i8OQqgjMRk56UKvK2

PDF Homework

Due May 21!

Using Word, Google Docs or any program you decide, create a .pdf file showing all the projects we have completed this semester. Find the documentation of each project in the Dropbox folder. All 8 projects must be included and presented with the image, title, and a few sentences about the project. Here is an example:

Fountain, 1917

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp is regarded as the first readymade artwork. This sculpture comprised of a found urinal signed R. Mutt, directly broke the tradition of representational sculpture. The title places the work within the historical realm of ornate fountains in city centers around Europe.


The 8 projects are as follows:
1. Readymade
2. Additive
3. Site Specific
4. SketchUp
5. Plaster Castings
6. Plaster Tile Reliefs
7. Hanging Mobile
8. Human Activated

Please email the .pdf file to long.nwsa@gmail.com and print a copy to bring to juries.

Activated Sculpture

Project Description

The Activated Sculpture is incomplete without the presence of viewer. This viewer completes the sculpture, the sculpture looks to be missing something without the viewer. The activation can be physical, theoretical and/or conceptual but must be recognizable.

Documenting your process is hugely important. These projects may not be able to be viewed at juries so it is important to show your thoughts and experiments as well as document the final product.

*Consider how your sculpture can interact with others.

*Look for objects in your everyday life that you can use as source material. You don't have to make everything. Some things can be modifications of existing things you already own (or find).

*Concept is most important

Specifications

Your sculpture can be any size. There is no limitation on materials, but it must be safe (no dangerous electricity, fire, sharp objects, etc).

Your sculpture may hang, rest on floor, or be placed on the wall.

It must be completed by a viewer.

Find materials from the world around you. Be resourceful- there are free materials everywhere. 

Use all the skills you have learned through the year, and build on these. Challenge yourself to think outside of the box... literally. 

Evaluation

You will be graded on creativity, originality, and concept and craft. You will also be graded on your process (time-management, and working through multiple ideas). 

Please note: You will need to take photos through your entire process. These will be submitted along with the final project. No project will receive an A without this documentation. Process is important. 

Lastly, your project must have a title, and you must think of how it will be displayed. Presentation is part of context, and context drives meaning. 

Schedule
Homework- Due May 7th

Your homework is to exercise the research and development stage of the creative process. You will do this by walking through the steps listed below. Here are the things you will need to bring to class:

5 References w/descriptions
One-page typed document (printed out or emailed) with a list of 5 websites that you visited for your research. At least one of these websites must be an actual article (not a how-to, or list of pictures) that discusses some type of activated sculpture. Examples of an appropriate article can be a newspaper story, something written for a journal/magazine, or something from Academia/industry). The one-page document must be printed out (no exceptions). It must include one-line brief descriptions for each website. This must be fully complete to receive credit for this portion.

3 Detailed Drawings of your sculpture
The drawings must be in your sketchbook using full pages(both sides when open) The drawing should show good use of the elements of design- line, form, color, texture, etc.  (Note: These are fully-resolved drawings, NOT sketches)

In addition, the drawings should be informative; they should give us helpful information. Please be sure your drawings answer the following questions:
1. How is your sculpture physically organized? Show details.

2. How will the viewer be engaged? Be detailed and use color/texture/collage to show this.
3. What does the viewer complete? Descriptions/diagrams in the drawings should address this.
4. What concept are you engaging? Again, descriptions/diagrams could be helpful.
5. How is the form of your sculpture communicating? Scale, shape, text, etc.
6. What is the working title? This should be clearly labeled in your drawing.
Materials and project 50% complete
You must come prepared with all materials and tools to work. Project must be at least 50% complete.

Rubric for Homework
5 References = 10pts
3 Drawings = 30pts
Materials/Project = 60pts
--------------------------------
Total Possible  = 100pts

A =100 - 90
B = 89 - 80
C = 79 - 70
D = 69 - 60
F = 59 - 0 

Please be prepared at beginning of class with your own self-assessment based on the above rubric. 


Activated Project Due Date

Before Juries - Project Due/Critique

Robert Morris

Miranda July