Stage 4

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Under Construction #2

Under Construction

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Don't forget to check out the link to the environmental art museum
see below an entry from that site about vartsist Stephan Barron


Stéphan Barron

Electronic art is matched with environmental sensibilities in French artist Stéphan Barron's "technoromantic" work. Using video, computers and community agit-prop Barron has found ways to bring abstract notions of space, gardening and urban land use to neighbors and gallery goers alike.

The challenge of much technology based work is often the distancing that occurs when presented by a computer screen. In works such as "Night and Day" Stéphan Barron brings the averaged sky tones from remote cameras in Brazil and Australia together into one computer image, creating a work that emphasises the electronic and environmental systems which unite far away lands. "Ozone" manages a similar feat by converting ozone levels in French car exhaust and Australian UV levels coming through the ozone layer into music. The abstraction and mystery provide a window into the surprising connections which connect us together.

Stéphan Barron also plants community gardens and in one piece from 1991 called "The Plants in My Garden" faxed images of his growing garden in France to a gallery in Prague echoing the growth at that time of the Czech Republic after Communism. Growth, interdependence and the effects of weather . .(Read more)

spot and shoot...whatt now????

many thanks to those who have uploaded images

as we build up a bank of images 2 questions seem to arise
1/ how do we give them meaning , place them in a context that deals with an artists response to their environment
2/ is the assemblage or collated images as a collective image bank enough of a response....perhaps what we are doing is using simple photography to identify aspects of composition that have been learnt or instilled in us over time...what else can we do?
I suggest that several methods might be employed to make final images for this section of the course...
a/ giving titles to images places them in a context
b/ altering or photoshopping images alters our reltionship as original raw data
c/ writing about them or overlaying with text can give meaning to them
I now want you to try to contextualise your photographs 9remember you should have about 10 a week to work with in the first 2 weeks and by the last week i would like to see how we can resolve this process.
Perhaps you will set photos up rather spot the image and shoot it. Perhaps you will construct the images.....

gunshot

A wintry night near fed square

















A bustling evening in Degraves Street

Carlton in neon!

Pentridge

SUMMARY - IST CLASS
so ....what you are supposed to do is
either
1/ start your own blogsite that explore an aspect of the environment through the practice of an artist in images and text, using your own images and/or net images.
You can do this by going googling blogspot and following the prompts (3 easy steps) and linking it to this site
2/ add images also to this site so that it build to a compendium of images for us all to examine.
I will respond to your assemblage of images with suggestions etc. Hopefully you can respond to each other as well.
We will discuss progress next week.
I will also start an environment based blogsite asap in which I will examine a locality from its footpaths. I will us ethese images to reference art historical motifs, pop culture, the urban environment and painting.
please contact me on my email if you have problems
phil

There will be teething problems I imagine initially but I can't forsee anything insurmounatable and we will develop the project as it goes along.
Also don't forget to find enviro-art sites on the net and add them to our links.

I have also added another blogsite 'Too much of nothing" by Greg Moncrieff whose photographic work has many environmental influences in it.

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local universe
lo

IN THE BEGINNING.....

In this exercise think how you can use a net site like a blogsite as a means for exploring and investigating art and the natural environment. This means using some contemporary technology as an artist tool. Of course, what constitutes a natural environment is pretty wide these days and perhaps it may be more useful to think of how artists interact with their environments whether urban or rural, micro or macro, external and descriptive or internal and psychological. By the latter I mean how an artist may relate to an environment as it acts as a conduit for memory and theoretical discourses.
In this section of the course you are to contribute to this blogsite, "ARTENVIRONMENT" , by
a/ uploading photography, scanned drawings etc and written words that explore ideas about the relationship between you as artist and the environment
b/ scanning the web for appropriate images and text that describe the environment we are going to construct as a collaborative group. (details in first class)

Task;- Each student is to contribute to the blogsite a series of images/video each week (10) and text
that builds an image of Melbourne/Victoria/Australia as a personal/public environment in which we live/exist/pass through. These images can be photographs, scanned images or web images.

Timeline

Week One - Tues 21st

Introduction to ARTENVIRONMENT blog.
Talk on artist use of blogsites
How to use a blogsite
Some blogsites to look at
task given to 1/sign in and contribute to the blogsite
2/ search and contribute relevant images from web
3/make own blogsite and link it to this site

Week Two - Tues 28th

review of blogsite entries so far
Discussion of uses of blogsite in this exercise.
Other blogsites discovered.

Week three - Tues May 5th

Review of blog entries and blogsites in order to make a powerpoint blog image presentation. (open for discussion).

Assessment - at least 20 entries to blogsite and powerpoint.

I will be checking the sites daily and if you have any problems email me via blogsite or at phil.edwards@rmit.edu