Project 01:
Increasing Perception
This project involves creation of the triptych based on
careful observation of the environment. Students are required to use
³criminology² methods in order to produce 3 sequences of the space-event.
The three-week project includes the following steps for
production and evaluation:
1. Weekly entries recording your thoughts, observations,
impressions on class discussions, readings and the production
2. To prepare a sketch for the works – The sketch
should clearly include and describe all production / process steps till the
final submission of the project
3.To choose a mark/trace and evaluate all the possible
observation aspects and analysis using ³criminology² strategies
4. To prepare three papers 12²x12²
5. To produce a triptych containing:
1- the study of the mark
2- plan/map of the site/event
3- photo based recreation of the event
Materials: Various types of pencil and charcoal on 3x
(12²x12²) drawing paper
Learning Outcomes:
- Increase perceptive and observation skills
- Students will gain the competence
to communicate their ideas more
clearly
- Learn to interpret experience
from various perspectives
- Increase drawing and
compositional abilities
- Replicate event, using
gesture, mapping and photographic interpretation
Deliver the final project (triptych) on fourth session; add
additional notes and sketches to give a more insight view of the creative
process.
Note: Please consult instructor in the earliest possible
state of your project plans to define the project
Project 02:
Contrast and duotone
The second project involves close collaboration between two
students. Based on exchange of ³personal preferences², students will create
each other¹s imaginary spaces.
Two-weeks collaboration consists of the following steps:
Materials: Crayons, soft pastels, charcoal, various pencils,
markers
Paper: Each student will use 18²x24² drawing paper in
vertical composition
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will use collaboration methods to increase visual
vocabulary and
transfer ideas
and messages.
- Create and clarify selection of ideas based on personal
preferences
- Test and practice new drawing skills and materials
- Learn how to use duotone, contrast and conveyance in
visual composing
Finalize project in class during the fifth session; select
sketches to emphasize the collaboration process.
Note: Please consult instructor in the earliest possible
state of your project plans to define the project and clarify details
Project 03:
Colour management
In this two-week Project students will examine the history
of the colour theories, in relation to communicate gender, culture, psychology
and other aspects of colour.
This two-week project includes the following steps for
production and evaluation:
Materials: Crayons, soft pastels, charcoal, various pencils,
markers
Paper: Collage and drawing paper in various dimensions
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand colour theory,
- Create personal visual language of form and colur
- Adopt and produce ³colour management² strategies for planning and
activities
Finalize project in class during the seventh session;
exhibit together with select sketches and notes to emphasize the production
process.
Note: Please consult instructor in the earliest possible
state of your project plans to define the project and clarify details
Project 04:
Image and text: eye to ear editing
This project is divided into two sections: first two-week
teamwork with the emphasis on image and second two-week session dedicated to
analyze combination of image and text.
This project includes the historical overview of the image
making together with chronology/aspects of style.
Team of 4 to 5 students executes the first part of the project:
1-
Students will find/choose one complex photographic image
(preferably urban landscape, marketplace, traffic) and crop and enlarge
fragments of the photo
2-
Create a series of 5 images (per student) and position them
following the cinematic sequencing to generate new meaning
3-
Opposite team(s) will ³decode² the images and create live
performance based on the ³reading²
Second part of the project involves splitting the teams in
half (2-3 students):
1-
Analyze sounds, language and signs to generate specific (personalized)
system of pictograms, icons and codes
2-
Make grid/layout for the 4-page magazine
3-
Add text and images (thumbnails and collages)
4-
Use computer, photocopies and cutouts
5-
Create zine or cartoon (your choice)
6-
Present/exhibit the work
Materials: 1st Project: Mixed techniques (using colour) on black papers 8²x8²
2nd Project: Mixed
techniques (using computer, photocopies and
cutouts) on 18²x24² paper folded in half
Learning outcomes:
- Learn hot to coordinate image and text by using ³eye to ear² editing;
- Create personalized types, signs, symbols
- Use personal imagery to publish outline for magazines/cartoons
Note: Please consult instructor in the earliest possible
state of your project plans to define the project
Project 05:
Spatial representation
The final project comprises all
works in one, by making a scale model of the exhibition space. Students will
analyze and use various natural networks to plan and make 3D model (in scale
1:12) to exhibit scaled (thumbnail) version of each project.
The three-week project includes the following steps for
production and evaluation:
1. Spatial
presentation techniques applied to design model/proposal for the presentation
space
2. Observe
and sketch natural events (wind, water, etcŠ) to create propulsion and movement
through space
3. Scale
down all previous works (in 2D or 3D) to a scale 1:12 (one inch equals twelve
inches)
4. Build
3D model out of cardboard and other building materials
5. Install
scaled works and add directions, visuals and instructions to the model
6. Exhibit
the model together with planning procedure/sketches
Materials: 3D scale model- mixed media (be free to introduce printed and reproduced materials together with hand made and authentic/natural)
Learning outcomes:
- Expand
use of scholarly journals, publications, and research methods in the study of
both traditional and digital media
- Apply
theoretical principles of visual communication to specific situations
- Increase awareness of the visual and tactile
qualities of materials
- Learn
to plan, conceptualize and exhibit works
- Acquire
communication skills by using comparative examples from nature
Note: Please consult instructor in the earliest possible
state of your project plans to define the project