Artist Statement / Bio Sketch

 
Week 2

M 19-Jan                 No Class—Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

 
Due (post by Tues­day): Blog entry 1 (100–200 words)

• prompt 1: artist state­ment draft — your approach to medium, form, praxis, per­for­mance, etc. to-date
  –or–
• prompt 2: recall an art project recent or past; reflect and describe the role of tech­nol­ogy in your cre­at­ing (in terms of hardware/device, soft­ware, plat­form, etc. be specific!)

 
 
W 21-Jan                Dis­cuss: Artists Papers from Women, Art, and Tech­nol­ogy (2003) — PDF shared in Drive

• Choose one Artist Paper to read & dis­cuss
  (for exam­ple Barry, “Reflec­tions on Some Instal­la­tion Projects”; Hegedu, “My Auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal Media His­tory”; Rapa­port, “Process(ing) Inter­ac­tive Art”)
  — feel free to select based on your inter­est, medium, field!
• Class activ­ity: Using Artist­Pa­per & Blog Entry for “Bio.Sketch” warm-up

* Look­ing ahead: groups focus & sites

 
 
F 23-Jan                   Due: Exer­cise 1 — Artist BioS­ketch (Instruc­tions below)
 
 

Exer­cise 1: Bio-Sketch (with media)

Due F 23-Jan (10pm); 10 points, 500 words (min­i­mum; 700 max.); media: 1 image min­i­mum

» Prompt:
Present a “Bio­graph­i­cal Sketch” of your­self as artist (presently),
dis­cussing suc­cinctly sev­eral aspects of life and work:
as an enhanced per­sonal nar­ra­tive, use a com­bi­na­tion of anecdotes/stories, ref­er­ences, spe­cial­ized terms, con­crete details, and media.
Addi­tion­ally, inte­grate into the dis­cus­sion your expe­ri­ence with and use of tech­nol­ogy in both per­sonal and professional/artistic realms.

 
» Objec­tive: present a “panoramic sketch,” well-rounded por­trait of your­self as an artist to-date
for an imag­ined audi­ence of prospec­tive view­ers of your work.

— tip: use a current/future (imag­ined) project — art­work, exhibit event —
in order to con­sider a con­crete rhetor­i­cal sit­u­a­tion (con­text, pur­pose, audience)

→ No con­clu­sion or explicit con­nec­tion is nec­es­sary; how­ever, you might end with a spec­u­la­tive or prospec­tive (forward-looking) proposal.

» Guide / Notes:
 
Method: “sam­ple” mate­r­ial from (draw upon) sev­eral — if not all — of your “per­sonal data­bases”:

1. auto­bi­og­ra­phy, fam­ily, child­hood; 2. dis­ci­pline, field (courses + prac­tice);
3. com­mu­nity (past/present) & social net­work; 4. enter­tain­ment, pop cul­ture, dig­i­tal media

 
→ Use spe­cific details from each data­base, with the respec­tive mode and spe­cial­ized dis­course (lan­guage, phrases, for­mal­ity, mood, con­cepts, etc).
To form your “com­pos­ite sketch,” incor­po­rate stories/anecdotes (brief), ref­er­ences, terms, mate­ri­als, exam­ples, objects, images
— selected from any/all of the 4 per­sonal data­bases.
 

» Form: although a “Bio­graph­i­cal Sketch” with per­sonal nar­ra­tive, this can (and prob­a­bly should) be frag­mented (non-linear).

— reminder: in any case, be sure to con­sider your orga­ni­za­tion and sequence prior to writ­ing
(in other words, not sim­ply pre­sent­ing a first-idea stream-of-consciousness draft).

 
Reminder: remem­ber to include media/images (1 minimum).

— these can com­ple­ment and sup­ple­ment your text, effi­ciently and effec­tively
(for instance, given the con­cise length and direct pre­sen­ta­tion, you might include media with­out nec­es­sar­ily dis­cussing in the paragraphs)

 

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