More to follow once i receive file from Rachel.
Monday, 14 February 2011
Idea generation
Before the project began we were told to form groups of our choice however I wanted to try and work with people I had never worked with before in class, so I teamed up with Rachel Dare & Anna Fearon. We began our idea generation as soon as we came out from Nigel's presentation and luckily enough we came up with lots of great ideas.
+Postcards in form of -text-email-post-internet.. but return in a different format to what they were sent.
+Discover the message- layered postcards, first sent with information on, second with some blocks cut out, and the third with more blocks cut out which once layered would reveal a secret message (my personal favorite which i will try out once the project idea is complete and finished)
+Someone to photograph the route in which the postcard had traveled (with a polaroid camera)
+Postman's choice- give two stamps, two addresses and see who receives it
+ Have a party and the invitees need to send in a party item which when bought together would make a good party ie party hats, drink, food, plastic cups, plates. etc
+ jigsaw to form a picture
+ Different people given a camera and to photograph themselves at the same place and in the end you would have the same landscape but from different views.
+ Fabric swatches sent to us and we create a giant blanket
+ Send in the front of your favourite book/ any book and we bind them together to create a book of say? book covers
+Weird and wonderful sandwiches
+Then and now picture book
+ Send in something Red
+yellow ribbon round an old oak tree - Send the ribbon they send us the picture and we create a college of them all
+Documenting how long the Postal system takes
+Message in a bottle ?Milk delivery?
+ We post you a scarf you wear it take a picture and send on the scarf til it returns to us
+Postcards in form of -text-email-post-internet.. but return in a different format to what they were sent.
+Discover the message- layered postcards, first sent with information on, second with some blocks cut out, and the third with more blocks cut out which once layered would reveal a secret message (my personal favorite which i will try out once the project idea is complete and finished)
+Someone to photograph the route in which the postcard had traveled (with a polaroid camera)
+Postman's choice- give two stamps, two addresses and see who receives it
+ Have a party and the invitees need to send in a party item which when bought together would make a good party ie party hats, drink, food, plastic cups, plates. etc
+ jigsaw to form a picture
+ Different people given a camera and to photograph themselves at the same place and in the end you would have the same landscape but from different views.
+ Fabric swatches sent to us and we create a giant blanket
+ Send in the front of your favourite book/ any book and we bind them together to create a book of say? book covers
+Weird and wonderful sandwiches
+Then and now picture book
+ Send in something Red
+yellow ribbon round an old oak tree - Send the ribbon they send us the picture and we create a college of them all
+Documenting how long the Postal system takes
+Message in a bottle ?Milk delivery?
+ We post you a scarf you wear it take a picture and send on the scarf til it returns to us
Notes
Before we were to begin the brief Nigel put together a presentation to sum up the Mail art concept which we all gathered in the lecture theatre to view. I was looking forward to finding out more in depth about the concept and design features within Mail art. Below are some of the notes I took down during the presentation:
1950's in America (late 50's)
Ray Johnson - Founder
Bypass the american system
Produce works of art on a free basis
They were like artist pen-friends
Mash potatoes art/posters were all mashed until you felt it was done
Quirky ideas
fluxous movement
Yoko Omo touched on it
The network grew in the 60's-70's but more in the 70's
Picture notes
Singing postman from Northfleet
Herbert Malling- Vienna - Collage and drawings
Michael Lee - Waste Paper LTD
Concrete poetry - old archive of pictures
(walking downstairs to find art on your doormat and not just in galleries)
ZERO - can be found in our college library
Complaints letters - some even made up complaints to see what reply would be
No address just circle place on a map and they amazingly received it
POST YOURSELF - Henry Tuner 1st to post himself he was escorted
Alison Wilson forged stamps for a collector and got sent to prison
Its illegal to deface a stamp (due to the queens face)
MARK PORSON- http://www.mpawson.demon.co.uk/
ROBIN CROZIER
MAIL ART
I'm a tad behind on posting for the mail art situation so here goes..
THE BRIEF.
Over the next 4 sessions you will be working in groups no larger than 3, with the task of creating a mail art project. You are to follow the standard format of the project in that you are to produce an announcment for it: this is then to be distributed through a network. The results are then to be co-ordinated, documented and then distributed to all the participents. (The concept of mail art is to be thought of in the litral sense; ie the postal system is not the sole method of communication)
THE BRIEF.
Over the next 4 sessions you will be working in groups no larger than 3, with the task of creating a mail art project. You are to follow the standard format of the project in that you are to produce an announcment for it: this is then to be distributed through a network. The results are then to be co-ordinated, documented and then distributed to all the participents. (The concept of mail art is to be thought of in the litral sense; ie the postal system is not the sole method of communication)
Friday, 11 February 2011
Poster newspaper
Recently I was in brick lane doing the usual shopping, eating and browsing at things I want but know i can't afford. I went into the big music shop there, Rough Trade, they have a giant variety of music and i came across some free mags, and newspapers as you do and one of them happened to be a newspaper made of a collection on A2 posters on newsprint. Most of the posters were really nice but out of all of them I wanted to share this one. I just think its a beautiful picture with such intricate detail and symmetry.
Bad type day out!
Before christmas we made our wooden bad type letters and the time came to take them out for a bad day out. We all gathered in the courtyard with our letters, some as big as your body and some as small as your hands palm and we set off. Joe Egan (the bright guy that he is) decided to film the day with his laaaavvvly camera and in the end he produced a really good video recording of us all and all the events that happened while we were out.
Here are a few snaps from the day and a link to Joe's short film:
http://vimeo.com/18856460
Here are a few snaps from the day and a link to Joe's short film:
http://vimeo.com/18856460
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| Bad type having a bad time |
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| Our team posing with the bundle of crap type |
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