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