Rough Draft Notes

We decided on making a brochure on quotes and images full of negativity

• the template
• quotes
• images (maybe digital)
• maybe a video that show us giving the brochures out to random people

I will include more in the final draft because we are still planning and getting more ideas.

Sonja Hinrichsen viewing

I thought that the her pieces are very good and very well thought out. I can almost guarantee that I would have never came up with some of the ideas that she has done. I liked how she showed us her resume to understand how artist should have their resumes. She had a lot of exhibitions and awards that made her credentials very impressive. I liked her piece of her walking with the text in the puddle, it was very unique that the text would ripple when it would leave.

Text Notes 3

Daniel Joseph Martinez notes
Before reading
Why is politics such a dangerous field for artist?
What is a "Tactical Media Strategist"?
Are those tags real or digitally made?
During reading
Martinez created the job title of "Tactical Media Stategist," which I think that his job is to defy rules and disrupt conventions.
He is a freelance artist-activist. (very political)
He really made people believe that he hurt himself in his photographs. I think that it was pretty cool that some artist can create virtual wounds, scars, stitches, and organs that were all over his body.
After reading
How long will he wait to be a respected artist?
Does he enjoy teaching art?
Why does have shows to not try to sell his work?

Wenda Gu notes
Before reading
Is that really blood in his enigma of blood piece?
How big is that font in the Temple of heaven piece?
What is on the floor in that beyond joy and sin piece?
During reading
I think that his Oedipus Refound pieces are symbolic to Oepidus Rex.
Gu has devoted his career to unifying the planet beset without quarrels and conflicts. (wow)
He has a smart idea in becoming friends first with your collectors because art is a business and in order to make money, people buy your work; for Gu it may be an easier sale because he may have some idea in what the collectors want because of that relationship.
After reading
Can I live in 2 countries to make better art?
Why doesn't he do work most of the time in his studios or maybe is it less or more convenient to have those studios?
Is his mission in life a fantasy or could it be a reality?

Self Evaluation 2 and Class Evaluation

I feel like that this piece turned out good for the most part but there are things that I could do to make it better. I probably could have made the images blend into one image instead of the 7 blocks that made up the figure. Also I thought that I could have added a phrase for each image that could have made it more understandable. I really liked the "Bandwagon" piece because of the innocence it shows towards the younger generation who don't know about cigarettes and the harm it could cause. The rest were good, I thought that the class as a whole did good because of all time and effort that was seen in the work, it shows how serious we took the project and the subject matter. At first, I thought that the project was confusing and I could not finish in time but it worked out okay, so I just look at as a way for me to improve with my overall creative thinking process.

Final Draft Notes for Consumption

The root of all material consumption is money, images will include:

• money
• DVDs
• CDs
• basketball
• cell phone
• car
• shoes

Actions toward the images: All these image have hands holding or involved in them because we consume them(in general). 6 Images will be around the main image, Money
Media: digital camera and posterboard