Assignment one
1 semantic mapping, brain dump or list of words (whichever you're more comfortable with) that represent the best the context of your project-to-be. To help you, some keywords in this map could relate to the description of past projects that Steve asked you to write about. I say "could" because of course, your grad project can also be a complete departure from your past works.
- public space - language/text based (a picture is worth a thousand words, a word is worth a thousand pictures) - online / offline media - site specific / situation specific / event specific - collaborative (including the "users") - a platform - a tool - social experiment - an alternative media - conceptual design - activistic/critical - problem solving - problem highlighting - empowering - designer: author or an universal soldier (hyperlink as a mean of subversion) - exhibition systems - Ex Yugoslavia/Croatia/Zagreb issues
2 project review of existing works from others that relate to your project-to-be. The review is aimed to be the equivalent to the process of literature review (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature_review). In that case, I am asking you to look for existing works that are connected to your graduation project. You do not have to write anything at this point, just document and present such works.
- Lexicon of YU Mythology - Park Project - Trash Art - Letters
3
Inspirational material. This is an odd one, optional. Whatever is inspiring and connected to your grad project but is neither a keyword/concept/idea, nor an existing work/project, can be listed here.
two directions:
a - meta art (conceptual net based art) - form driven
b - specific problem solving activist project - content driven
a)
relation of a piece of art with its market value. an art piece shorn to its market value. a reaction to the space, situation and event of the final shows. the piece reflecting all this issues.
- which parameters would it include? - live feed - art market and the economical crisis - to what extet would it be interactive? - the initial 500E from PZI?
DAVID = the philosophical aspect of producing something that doesnt exist / the advantages of the new media, the digital / value related to art - the artists and pieces concerned with this subject
“Artists in the West are not lazy and therefore not artists but rather producers of something... Their involvement with matters of no importance, such as production, promotion, gallery system, museum system, competition system (who is first), their preoccupation with objects, all that drives them away form laziness, from art. Just as money is paper, so a gallery is a room. “ (Praise of Laziness, Mladen Stilinović, 1993.)
b)
- a specific social/political issue - related to the belgrade workshop?