I've just had my tutorial feedback for the last big module and I'm really pleased. Everything seems to have gone extremely well. My banners project really helped my professional development and my exploration of scale.
I am about to embark on my final Module for my Degree. In which I am supposed to come to a conclusion about my work. The conclusion that I think I have reached is that my final piece will be in large scale print and should be regarded as Public Art.
Now, there's an interesting question! What is Public Art???????
I am busy trying to get my dissertation finally ready to be bound and handed in that will be a huge weight off my shoulders and then a push at the final unit of bringing things together. I have a tutorial tomorrow and will let you all know how I get on!
At last the big assessment for Module 10 is over. During my presentation, I talked about my ideas relating to the large banners that I have had produced. I found an interesting article about billboard art and would like to share it with you all. It was entitled: 'Art, Advertising, and the Accidental Viewer'.
It stated that in the contemporary period, the billboard has been a fertile canvas for artistic experimentation. Its scale, impermanence, capacity for mass communication, and relationship to its immediate environment make it an unusual and dynamic platform for creative output. Because the billboard is conventionally a commercial format located outdoors, it is often used by artists who want to blur the boundary between art and advertising, explore commercial techniques, or respond to urban surrondings. Its audience is typically the accidental viewer – someone who happens upon an image inadvertently. This encounter between the artwork, its context, and the viewer can spark unanticipated and intriguing associations.
I felt this was a very interesting idea and it has helped me to become more aware of where and how my own work might fit in to the 'Art World'.
Only 4 days left to our assessment of this unit and so much to do. I make lists but the problem is it is replaced with a longer list!
At least the clocks haven't gone forward so it dark early in the evening to use the over head projector and that is where I am off!!
Only seven days till I have another big assessment and then the final push ready for the final show. It is really useful to blog since it gets the thoughs out of your system, out of the darkness even though if feels it is going into some sort of cyber void. Perhaps they will emerge transformed I look forward with anticipation.
