Nick Vyssotsky

I presented this a couple weeks ago, forgot to get it up on the blog.

WHOOPS

Adi Shachar

This is the progression I have made in expanding on the projection surface.

I have decided to go a diffrent direction from the plans I had posted, I am not going to build a structure around it but develop a projection surface that will command the space, with a video directed at it in some way. There will be more surface area covered, it's in progress.

Invisible Cities - Calvino by adishachar

This is a few segments put together of me reading from Italo Calvino's book Invisible Cities, short essays about a fictional Marco Polo describing the cities he travels to.

I'm not really sure what I am planning to do with this format exactly but I thought of including some segments as an audio component to parts of the video....

Dylan Thadani

Colin Foster

Crates, Auto Body Filler, Gap Filler, Duct Tape

Dylan Thadani

consistently the false idea of chaos or accident imposed with structure.

Erica Sadler

Documentation from last week

After my crit last week I started thinking about surfaces that are walked on; this is more of a material study I'm not sure how I'm going to use these yet.

Materials: dirt, glue

Dirt pieces cast as a walkway or stepping stones. I haven't decided where I want to place these yet, they're just pictured where they were made here. Maybe on a brick walkway or a cement sidewalk. I'm interested in how easily the dirt will break down when walked upon, eventually I think I want to find two different materials that will wear away at each other.

Celina Leroy

I wanted this to flow nicely so i made is shorter, its under 10 minutes.

Amanda Horowitz

This week I continued with the experiments leading to a step by step process in which potential paintings, spills/cleaning, and spaces of "domestic" control and containment are created. I filmed the entire process, and will be editing down the video next week, I am posting the final piece and stills from the footage.

Jasmine

Piece in progress. Again working with the idea of personally significant materials and memories.

Colin Foster

Last week I got confused. The table I made was a replica of a bauhaus-era design. After my crit I think that there was a lot I was trying to understand both with my own ongoing theme of restoration and also with what I was trying to understand. I spent a time reading about "modernist" art. specifically looking at donald judd, serra, and others of the time as an extension of what the bauhaus seemed to start. All the movements and artist have both bored and attracted and confused me for some time. While they claim they are honest and modest with materials and craft, their finished products feel absent of the simplicity or honesty they seek. Using what I would call honest materials of our time-duct tape, plastic crates, spackle-I made this. I realized that all of those mostly escape my knowledge of production though...

I am also struggling with how this ties into what I was working on before spring break. It feels connected, but I also think of this more like a craft study than an art piece.

Jasmine

"12 Things I Hate About Her"

Mixed Medium: plexiglass, teeth, ash, IV fluid, ink, hair, etc.

The direction I was going with my work started to change and has moved slowly from material studies into a more personal realm of self realization and construction.

Newest Version.

need to work on manipulation of viewer, so its more obvious where I want them to be.

Celina Leroy

I tried to consider the shots and transitions more. Also I want the story to flow so that it will hold someones attention but still give enough truthful information about the characters personalities.

Alesha Burk

Decided to move on to metal to support the glass and mirror work. This week, I plasma cut the sheets down to size. Later this week, I'll be welding them together and sand blasting them, then a paint job. yip yip.

Colin Foster

Dylan Thadani

Adi Shachar

I have begun working on a larger piece that will be an installation space.

I was for quite some time stuck, unsure where i'd like to go from making formal structures, which spawned from an interest in architecture. I had explored it in small scale, but discovered that I would like my investigation to be done on a much larger scale which will be able to actually behave as an architectural space and have the viewer enter it.

I thought about what it is I am attracted to in terms of architecture and space. which is the space's ability to dictate our senses in a very primal way. We are instinctually aware of the architecture we enter, or see, wether it is claustrophobic, spacious, comforting etc. It creates a bodily feeling (on the senses) through the experience of the space. This thought led me to a personal interest I have with the symbolic and esthetic icon of the womb as a structure. A primal space/architecture that we have collectively experienced in a non-cognitive way, but I believe the structure has significance in relation to intimacy and collective memory/ cognition.

I have put some samples of videos that I would like to use, not necessarily in this format exactly. The imagery I am trying to use is that of movement through an emotional "blueprint" which speaks of life in terms of voyeurism and intimacy.

I apologize if the video is acting weird i'll try and repost it, but keep in mind this only samples and it has no sound.

Untitled from Adi Shachar on Vimeo.

you might have to skip around to see some parts.... opps.

Amanda Horowitz

This week I made two walls that will be used as a platform for a piece next week. I wanted to use walls because in their functional state they are used to outline and contain space, as a platform they maintain the same function but in its collapsed form. I began working with a larger paint pocket, but it ended up exploding and did not turn out the way I expected. I think next week I will either tweak this piece (an attempts to catch a contracting form with a vulnerable and contained body) or move on to another piece with non explosive paint pockets. I am beginning to understand that what I want to achieve is an archive of material's own functions and boundaries- how can a form be in a functional state and decaying/fleeting state at once- and also how does the process of creation speak to expansion and contraction. I think with these things in mind I will be able to better understand the subtle relationships and alterations that are needed to make a more holistic piece.

Annie Jackson

I've been working on collecting the keepsakes of people close to me.
Each time I proposed the concept of the project to someone they instantly knew what they wanted to give me.
I'm thinking about making the boxes more specific to each oject- mostly in the size.
An i also did anticipate how beautiful each object would be.
Before each person gave the object they held onto it and told me the whole story behind why they kept it before handing it away to me. Because of this personal portion and this responsibility i feel towards keeping this keepsakes for them i'm unsatisfied with the previous box design and am trying to reconcile with what they should actually look like now.

Anne Jackson

This is the documentation of the boxes I made the week before break.
My personal objects are boxed away insides the boxes made of plywood.