Explorations in Creative Process MIVC 405

AY: 2013/14

Semester One: Surface Design (Tuesdays)

Semester Two: Moving Image (Mondays)

Tuesday, 24th September 2013

Schedule Today

10am – 10:45am LectureOverview of Module, Project Brief & Broad Context of Surface Design

10:45am Coffee Break (15mins, please return promptly)

11am – 3pm Inductions Printmaking Inductions with Graham Williams in A3 Printmaking WorkshopG+ Inductions with Caroline & Liz in Library’s Mac Lab CR1 (L1.08)

3 – 4pm Help SurgeryAny issues or problems please come and see us

4pm Tutors FinishStart posting in your G+ Blog

Module Operating Spaces & Learning Tools

Your University Email Account (Communication)

Blackboard (Module Specific Information)

Your University G+ Account (social network and assessed blog)

Studios and work production areas (Make, Test, Experience other’s work)

Your Tutors and fellow classmates (Audience, Feedback, Practice Critique)

Any obstacles to your using these tools and spaces...

PLEASE DO ASK FOR HELP

Project Brief: Under Surface

Create surface designs that are inspired by your exploration of creative process and that visually express the idea of ‘Under Surface’.

Aims: Create a surface design that:Attracts by engaging the viewer’s senses (aesthetic)Conveys meaning in context to a studied idea or exercised practice Evolved from your creative exploration and visual experiments

Deliverables: A final artifact that:Attempts to function within the above aims May take any form or size but is visually documented to exist in your online G+ blog and your physical A2-3 portfolio

Deadline for final submission:Time: 12pm (Midday) Thursday 9th January 2014, Location: Level 4 Studios (physical portfolio) & G+ Blog (digital)

Project Brief: Under Surface

Method and Scope:

The ideal strategy is to explore creative process as a way to generate new ideas whilst developing your visual craft

You can use any topical or experimental approaches in finding your own conceptual position of ‘Under Surface’

You will receive plenty of guidance from tutors and peers to help follow a topic of enquiry in relation to ‘Under Surface’.

Curricular set activities are planned to develop and improve your skills and practice so take full advantage of these

Use rigorous reflective thinking to drive your ideas forward. Try to explain where and how your own opinions and creative decisions were sourced and informed

Surface Design: A Broad Context

Cadeau, 1921 Man Ray

Thank you

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List of Images ShownPhilip George ‘Borderlands’ 2008Cueva de las manos (cave of hands) approx 1100 BCKatherina Grosse ‘Spray paintings’Abigail Lane ‘Bottom Wallpaper’ 1992-7 ‘Bloody Wallpaper’ 1995Forensic crime photo 1950’s AmericaRussian Prison Tatoos 1990’s photographs by Sergei VasilievWax print Textiles collection by VliscoWest African Political Textiles (ANC Nelson Mandela)Timorous Beasties ‘London Toile’ Mariane Bantjes ‘Fire’ & ‘Kittens’ wrapping paper

Further ResourcesV&A Museum‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’ Directed by Werner HerzogZaha Hadid Architect ‘Imagine’ BBC series with Alan YentobDesign Centre, Chelsea Harbour, London. http://www.dcch.co.uk/http://kategibb.co.uk/