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

DATA VISUALIZATION

“As the art being made has dematerialized and the world around us is increasingly information based, using data as another medium for artistic exploration seems not only possible but culturally necessary. The same tools used by corporations and governments to track our interests, desires, locations, and personal information can and are being exploited by artists to criticize, explore, and find poetic moments within the stream of data. This panel explores current approaches being used by artists working with data but with an eye to the past and culture. Since the available data sources range widely from weather patterns to stock-market trends to GPS locations and possible output spans all types of new and traditional media, this panel does not hone in one a specific issue but works as a survey connecting conceptual and critical points within this practice.”

LINKS:
Great Book: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/database-aesthetics
Edward Tufte: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
Aaron Koblin: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work.html

Penelope Umbrico: http://www.penelopeumbrico.net/

Brendan Dawes: http://processing.org/exhibition/works/redux/index.html

George Legrady: http://www.georgelegrady.com/

Jeffery Thompson: http://www.jeffreythompson.org/
Ingrid Koenig: http://ingridkoenig.ca/projects/navigating-the-uncertainty-principle/

Information Aesthetics: http://infosthetics.com/

Visual Complexity: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

Information is Beautiful: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

Processing.org: http://processing.org/exhibition/

NYTE: http://senseable.mit.edu/nyte
Creative Agency http://jess3.com/

Thomson & Craighead: http://www.thomson-craighead.net/docs/works.html