Individual Meeting Times for April 28th

Please place your name with a selected time slot as a comment on the blog. The options start at 5:30 in 10 minute increments. The meetings will be in my office 26C. Here are the time slot options:

5:00 Victoria

5:10 Brian

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Constructed Reality Photography (Mackenzie's find)

Mariel Clayton

http://www.thephotographymarielclayton.com/

http://500photographers.blogspot.com/2011/04/photographer-275-mariel-clayton.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marielclayton/

Final Project "Guidelines"

Here are some "guidelines" for your final project.

1. Your project should reveal your unique view of the world. It should be a set of images that you are passionate about so that you are invested in the process and outcome. How is this project “yours” and only “yours”? Why would no one else in the world be able to make this project?
2. Your project should be meaningful, with conceptual depth and complexity. Ask yourself whether it needs more “layers” of complexity, both visually and conceptually.
3. Your project should exhibit your technical competency.
4. Your project should push beyond the boundaries of what you have done so far this semester. Instead of merely replicating techniques or ideas of others, your project should bring your own creative perspective to the table.
5. Think big! Edit later. Start like an adventurer and dreamer.
6. Your project should be cohesive so that the images relate to one another in some important, meaningful way.

Blog Prompt #26

Brainstorms! (In an effort to expand, improve, add complexity, and push your final projects further, please pick 10 of the following to discuss.)

1. Ideas sometimes grow out of irritation. What is a negative thought you are having about your project? What is the opposite of this negative thought? How could you implement a change in your project so that this negative thought will subside?
2. What is the “opposite” of your final project? How can you rework your project to include the “opposite”?
3. What is a consistent theme/visual element in your project? What would be the opposite of this? How can you implement that into your project?
4. Type twenty words or phrases that relate to your project.
5. At the deepest core, describe why you like this project. Dig deep!
6. Expand your project. If time, money, materials, etc would not affect you, how would you expand your project?
7. Contract your project. What would it boil down to if squeezed and contracted to its simplest form?
8. Look at one of your images. Redesign it entirely.
9. Divide your project into three components. Rearrange and reassemble them in your mind.
10. List your assumptions about your project. Reverse these.
11. What would your project look like 100 years ago? What would your project look like 100 years in the future?
12. Remove something from your project. How does it change?
13. Persuade the reader that your project works well and is the most amazing project you have ever completed.
14. Persuade the reader that your project stinks. Then, persuade the reader that you will make changes so that it no longer stinks.
15. Think of one of your most memorable dreams. How could you add elements from this dreams to your project?
16. How would you convert your project into a narrative? How would you remove any narrative from your project?
17. How would you connect your images physically and conceptually? How would you make them disconnected physically and conceptually?
18. What would happen if you demolished your project and reconstructed it physically or conceptually?
19. Name an artist/photographer/designer/videographer who would love your project. Why?
20. Name an artist/photographer/designer/videographer who would hate your project. Why?
21. How would you make your project more edgy, saccharine, provocative, empty, revealing, concealing, funny, sad, mysterious, blunt, honest, disingenuous, fast, slow, playful, austere, hateful, lovable, bold, subtle, long, short, big, small, connected, disconnected?

Show about Skin

http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/hide/

Digitally Manipulated Photography

http://www.alltelleringet.com/

international photography competition

http://www.images.ch/2011/concours_photo.html

LOOKING FOR A CAREER IN THE ART WORLD?

Sotheby’s Institute of Art invites prospectives to an information
session on Monday, April 11th in Berkey Hall Room 117.

Learn about the wide range of career options a graduate degree at
Sotheby’s Institute of Art will enable you to pursue and how to
apply. Graduate level programs include Art Business,
Contemporary Art, Photography, Fine & Decorative Art, East Asian
Art and Contemporary Design.

Sotheby’s Institute of Art is among the world’s leading institutions
for graduate art studies offering master’s degree programs,
summer study programs and specialized short courses in art
scholarship, connoisseurship and art business. Campuses are
located in London, New York and Singapore.

To begin your pathway to a career in the international art world,
please join us on Monday, April 11th from 6.30 - 7.30pm.
RSVP through MySpartanCareer.com by 4:00 p.m., Monday, April
11th

[Click on Events --> Workshops --> Name of Workshop]
Contact Courtney Chapin, chapinco@msu.edu, if you need
assistance.

Find out more at www.sothebysinstitute.com
Download our brochure/catalog:
www.sothebysinstitute.com/brochures/brochure.php

Blog Prompt #25

You as Curator
Look through the list of recent entrants to this call for photography.
http://pdncuratorawards.com/entries.shtml
Pretend you are curating a show and choose 7 photographers to include in your show. Describe why you would pick those particular artists and what about their work stands out to you.

adriel's responses

Call for work!

call for work http://www.shotsmag.com/current.htm

Constructed Realities Photographers

http://www.naziftopcuoglu.com/photographs.html
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/hannah_starkey_january.htm
http://seungwooback.com/
http://www.kimiko.fr/art/thumbnails.php?album=25
http://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/luisa-lambri