Student Work

CHARLES RODERICK

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IMAGE IDENTIFICATION LIST – STUDENT WORK Images 1–3 Open Media Studio This course investigated the way(s) in which artists can and will adopt resourceful strategies and tactics to produce works in a pragmatic, inventive and critical manner. Presented with a DIT (DoIt-Together) Landscape as a platform for a series of experimental collaborative projects, we explored art as a mixture of traditional and non-traditional practices and methodologies stemming from multiples societal spheres, pushing to redefine current DIY culture as potentially a DIT culture.

Project: Free Art – a collaboratively produced event in which students produced projects that could combat existing stereotypes about what art students produce and the value of their degree.

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A modified collection device for transporting discarded material for making art projects.

Students repackaging edible food that local businesses deem unfit to sell. the distribution of seed bombs and literature explaining guerrilla gardening.

Images 4–6 Net Art and Design The grounding conceptual framework of this course on net art includes an understanding of the psychological, social and cultural contexts of net art history, net access and distribution, net culture, network-driven collaboration and community building, hypertext and rich media narrativity, visual semiotics, identity, content delivery architectures and venue development.

Project: Appropriation and Remix – Students where asked to appropriate concepts and themes of an introduction to net art history. After researching a specific project of an artist, or work attributed to that history, students collapsed their interests with that of a relevant conversation, producing projects that adopted materials and methods similar to the genre known as Net Art, while expressing a personal interests in the world.

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A performance piece where Jennifer Schneider used discarded waste from a hot dog vendor as material to create a vending cart that provided redistributed things, knowledge and information about the production of waste. http://jenntournesol.wordpress.com Swag Swap; a community CD/DVD swap http://theswagswap.com liz breaks your api; Using the twitter api and RSS with sources included political feeds as CNN, CBS, ABC, Washington Post, Time - the Page, Newsweek, and a few others. With those feeding into a database, they’re pulled into an array of randomized tweets/headlines. http://lizbreaksyourapi.com/twitterconvo.php

Images 7-20 2D Design, 3D Design, Concepts Foundational art courses exploring a wide range of technical and conceptual approaches to 2D and 3D production, as well as introductions to performance, installation, and dynamic concerns for a contemporary art practice. Our Concepts course ended in a student organized exhibition of their final projects.

Image 7 – Project: 2D Design Exercises – Ebb and Flow, Field in Motion + Generating Shapes, Figure/Ground + Figure/Ground Reversal, Gestalt Principles Image 8 – Project: Project: Digital Narratives (Instructional Tool) – instructional booklets made from illustrations and text about a tool.

Image 9 – Project: Digital Narratives (Abstract Tool) – storyboard about tool made from abstract digital illustrations of tool.

Image 10 – Project: Band CD Insert (sign/symbol) – Create a set of symbols and/or signs for which each character holds a specific meaning and when presented together produce a story or narrative.

Image 11 – Project: Performative Mark Making – through a performative gesture students had to make a mark on paper; the image is a large piece of unfolded paper that was shot by a shotgun.

Image 12 – Project: Structural Fruit – sculptures made of cardboard representing the interior and exterior structure of a fruit.

Image 13 – Project: Multiples Narrative – plaster mold making.

Image 14 – Project: Metamorphosis – transform a 15”x15” piece of MDF. Image 15-17 – Project: Installation art – emulate an artist (their style and/or concepts) and install in for exhibition.

Image 18-19 – Project: Digital Narratives (Tool Animation) – animations made from tool illustrations and storyboard.

Image 18 – http://www.vimeo.com/18442692 Image 19 – http://www.vimeo.com/18371518 Image 20 – Project: Memorial Video – students given 2 hours to collect footage for a video they create for their own memorial. This exercise challenged them to seek what represents them in the here and now – http://vimeo.com/channels/concepts#4020541