CREATIVE RESEARCH: ARTIST As RESEARCHER

FINAL ASSIGNMENT (100POINTS) DUE DEC 3RD

Creative research helps to develop multifaceted rich layers of perspectives and concepts, which help to create intelligent design that can have multiple readings. Multiple readings that help avoid a work being instantly gettable, therefore forgettable.

Creative research is different from research you would conduct for a paper. You look for language, phrases, and visual queues that can be used a springboard of inspiration for visual elements in a work of art. Research also helps place you and your works significance in a historical - cultural context. The symbols and methods of what came before is the medium of the post modern era.

Your last assignment is to create a work of art that uses creative research to construct the visual structure of the work. It is a good idea to start with a subject a theme if you will. Think about the topics that we have talked about this semester like the body, cyborgs, sight, glitch, time, perception, icons, simulations, memes, remixing, etc. The choice of the topic is yours. See if you can narrow it down to one word like "ritual" or "impermanence". Then start with google, look in the library, find online journals, and do some reading; all the while looking for that springboard or multiple springboards to help piece together elements or metaphors you might want to communicate in your final piece. You can execute your piece as a series of GIFs (3 makes a series), video, series of images or photographs, or any other avenue that you might feel inspired to take.

SCHEDULE:

Nov. 12th - Creative Research: Concept Sculpting Lecture

Nov. 14th - Lab Day

Nov. 19th & 21st - Lab Day

Nov. 26th - Lab Day

Final Critique Dec. 3rd & 5th

Can't think of anything to research? 
Random Art Prompt Generator: http://www.magatsu.net/art/index.php