CEI 2007
Bill GORCICA
Personal/Contemporary Themes through Sculpture and Digital Installation

Class Member Projects

Berel Lutsky's WIKI

USE COURAGE AND HUMOR (my reminder link!)

OUR GOOGLE LIST

Some Themes you might explore could be:

• Personal Identity
• Our Relationship with the Natural World
• Our Sense of Place

Some Methods you might considering using to express your theme might be:

• Installation with Photoshop Collage Elements
• Found Object Art in Sculptural Space
• Digital Storytelling in Flash or IMovie

Your Goals are to:

• Develop your own ideas through brainstorming/discussion.
• Create art using a combination of traditional and digital media, or perhaps using digital means only.
• Display the final projects during the final session.

Your Delicate Balance of a Challenge:
Have Fun, Take Chances, Explore but Get Something Done by Friday

What is Feasible to accomplish in one week?

Previous CEI Examples from Human Culture and the Natural World: Digital Explorations (2002, 2003)

• Room Installation: Manifest Destiny with Text and Viewfinder
• Participatory Path/Wall Installation with Tiled Imagery: Sunflower
• Found Objects to Animation with Signage: Progress
• Digital Assemblage/Collage: Mandalas

A few of my Pieces

• Digital Video and Sculpture Installation: Rabbit Piece
  
• Sound and Acetate Outdoor Performance: Eyes and Ears
• Sculpture from Laser Prints of Video of a Process: A Cultivated 'Pseudonatural' Experience
• Flash Interactive: Flora and Fauna at Maiden Rock

How can I get to where I want to be in one week?

• Work with the technology but don't get bogged down in it.
• Use the Design Process: Research>Sketches/Storyboards/Models, Roughs, Refinements
• Move From Many General Ideas to One Specific Idea
• Use Found Object Art and Collage as Quick Methods to Get your Ideas Across
• Reference a Literary Quote to Get Ideas Flowing
• Consider How Your Work Will Be Displayed Early-On
• Manage your Time Well

Student Work Examples to Show Process

• Process through to Final Execution in Flash: Andrew Enninga, The Stone Cutter
• Flash: Su's Swahili Tale
• Process through to Final Execution in IMovie: Irene Ixtantiou, Suzanne Torguson
• Process of Using Animatics to Build a Short Film in IMovie: Emily Udenhoff, Suzanne Torguson
• AfterEffects Examples: Nick Lee, The Eels (Using a Soundtrack for Structure)
  
• QuickTime Narrative: Andrew Neher, Val Snobeck, Christa Dalien (Working Collaboratively on a Narrative, Writing, Performing, Acting, Filming, Editing)

My Ice-Fishing House Mini-Golf Hole (Walker Art Center, Summer 2004)

• Actual Work
• Maquettes, Models and Diagrams
• Original Sketch
• Organization of Ideas and Materials

Software Learning

• Photoshop Tips
• Photoshop Layers
• Illustrator Pen Tool
• Flash Templates
• Flash Links
  
• After Effects Basics
• Multimedia Links
  
• Free Movies Fallen out of Copyright (Public Domain)

Contemporary Artworks from Minnesota

• Profile: MAEP
  • The Seven Artist Panelists' Works
    • Tina Maria O'Brien Steamroller Print Event, Dios De Los Muertos and Xavier Tavera
    • Gerry Smith
    • Jenny Schmid
    • Gina Dabrowski
    • Bill Gorcica
    • Matt Bakkhom
    • Bob Finkler
      
• WIKI
• Some Shows we curated together
  • Mesa/Rock
  • Chris Larson
  • Denomie/Carlson
    Denomie Large Image
  • Alexa Horochowski

mnartists.org

Paul Shambroom

FlashBelt conference

• Jeremy Thorp Plumage
• Craig Swann Light Painter
• Jared Terbull Levitated.net

Contemporary Art Examples

Meret Oppenheim Fur-Lined Teacup
Fred Wilson Mining the Museum
Nam Jun Paik
Mathew Barney
Jeff Wall
Barbara Kruger
Mike Kelley
Tony Oursler
Zoe Leonard
Edward Muybridge
Scaled Image

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