Interactivity

In addition to stop-motion animation and slide-show esque projects, 4D work can also be interactive. Here are links to two 4D artists as well as a link to Rhizome.org which hosts many multi-media artists work:

Flying Puppet

David Horvath

Rhizome

Time and Sound-based Photographic Artworks

As we continue to explore some of the foundations of artistic practice through the potential photography has for being a powerful ingredient for the visual arts, we will be moving into the territory of the fourth dimension -time. Over the next week I will be regularly posting links or small films that should inspire you to consider creatively how time and sound might be used to bring about a new expression of the idea you are working with within the context of my house and me.

Here is a preliminary link:

stop motion

Class links & 3D Projects

Here is the list of your colleagues' blogs for the 3D project. Have a look for inspiration and read the image analyses too, as the photographers/artists are interesting and many will be new to you all.

Paige
Sara M.
Peter
Sarah G.
SoYeon
Meghan
Sarah K.
Maria

3 Dimensional Photographic Art Works

In using photography to explore your ideas three dimensionally, there are a variety of approaches that can be taken. One way of working is to create something 3D out in the world and then use photography to either simply document it or to create an aesthetic photographic image using the 3D creation. These two images are by Andy Goldsworthy and are strong examples of this latter approach where the photographic properties are being thoughtfully used in combination with the 3D creation -first with the reflective qualities of the water captured in the image, and in the second, the fleeting nature of the snow is photographically captured in a way that an installation would have a hard time replicating:




Another way of working with photography is to take advantage of the photographic perspective to confuse what is 2D and 3D as is done in these two images:




Street artists use photography either as a means of documenting a work that is fleeting in nature -as in the case of this work which uses a candle for illumination to foreground the tenuous nature of the artwork's subject matter: hope in the middle east with regard to Israeli + palestinian relations.



This next artist uses photography in the alteration of 3D objects like street signs and then photographs them as a means of reaching a larger audience:



It is also possible to build 3D objects out of photographs themselves, as is the case in the next few images -some very complicated, others quite simple, yet clearly exploring an idea three dimensionally:





Here are a few more examples, some which use photography as an ingredient, and some which use a form in which a photograph could be incorporated.





Books that have a consciously heightened use of the 3 dimensionality are also possible:





Joseph Cornell is an artist whose three dimensional creations often made use of photography as a material






This artist has the absence of images as the focus in their 3D artwork where all the negative references in a newspaper have been clipped out, leaving only holes and advertisements:



Finally, objects can be used like the pixels that make up a digital image to create a 3D image, as in this example made from pencils. Although a design was made rather than an image, the practice would lend itself well to an image based creation




The key in all of these instances is to consider how three dimensionality can best be employed for a visual art work. What does it add? How does it change ones perceptions? Does working 3D have limitations that a 2D image would be free from?... In a best case scenario, your projects should be equal parts inventive in how you make the translation from 2D-3D and engaging as artworks exploring your particular ideas.

Here are a couple of links which might inspire you -the Rag and Bone features paper-based artists and Subtopia has all kinds of street art. Their archives and previous posts can be explored to no end, both of a high quality and in interesting relation to your projects:

Rag and Bone (past archives)

Subtopia: A Field Guide to Military Urbanism (previous posts)

Feminism Is For Everybody

Here are a few images to think about how they relate to the Bell Hooks reading we discussed. These first set are by Nan Goldin whose photographs were first published in a book based on a traveling slide show she was always changing called The Balled of Sexual Dependency. Nan photographed her intimate circle of friends and included herself in some of the images. Coming out as these images did in the 1980's, they were radical for their subjective perspective, color snapshot aesthetic, and for their controversial subject matter that illuminated Goldin's belief in the addictive/destructive nature of sexual relationships.

This second set of images are by Cindy Sherman who is often heralded as one of the original post-modern photographers.  Modernism espoused a value in the purity of artistic mediums, be they painting, sculpture, or photography (et al).  As a result, there was a narrow definition of who could be an "artist" leading to a heterosexual white male dominated field because they most often had the privilege to obtain the correct schooling needed for a particular media.  Post modernism championed artists from all walks of society that didn't work within the traditional definitions of media, but instead brought a fresh energy and multi-media approach to the arts that revolutionized the field.  Cindy Sherman was not trained as a photographer, was not concerned about "fine arts" prints, but instead brought an actressly approach to image-making that addressed the ways in which women's images are used in media.  These images are some of her early works, both B&W and then a little later in color.