Project: Thing out of Things

Collect 20 models of objects that are all the same, or belong to the same category.
Use these objects as building blocks to create an object that in the process renders the original objects secondary (but not necessarily unimportant).
Feel free to alter the objects but keep them recognizable.
Based on Jessica Stockholder’s Open studio

– The composite object doesn’t have to be a recognizable thing, it can also be an abstract form

– The objects should not be heavily stylized, look for common items with a recognizable shape.

– Don’t create a diorama! Use the objects as raw forms, play with scale, color, visual resonances and contrasts.

– First, make 3 sketches of your ideas and post them in #assignments as separate images. Add written notes if needed.

Assigned objects:
tools, cars, jewelry, guns, ancient architecture, chairs, umbrellas, blades, suitcases, rocks, food, modern architecture, cameras, trash, plants, gym and sport equipment, bicycles, office items, kitchen items.

Tutorials

Watch the videos below by ___
Write down you questions and topics you’d like me to elaborate on.
Bring at least one question to class.

Blender: What is it? Why is the interface so weird? What are all these panels? How do I move/scale/rotate thing? What’s object mode and edit mode? How to snap to object and grids? What’s parenting? How to select things? What are vertices edges and faces?

Where do I find 3D models online? Is it cool? What should I look for? How do I import them in Blender?

Blender: Help! the model I imported is: untextured/ animated / all joined together in one object / not smooth / too detailed / too BIG / too SMALL / all messed up!

Things Made out of Things in Art

Consonance by Grant Aston
Re: On 2013-08-21, at 1:07 PM, Teplitsky, Ariel wrote: Highlights from Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2013: Plastic Bags, 2013 Pascale Marthine Tayou Forever Bicycles, 2013 Ai Weiwei Garden Tower in Toronto, 2013 Tadashi Kawamata

Forever Bicycles – Ai WeiWei

Doris Salcedo – Untitled
Mike Kelley
Controller of the Universe by Damián Ortega
Some/One by Do Ho Suh
Based on a coat of traditional Asian armor, this sculpture is composed from thousands of polished military dog tags. As the title indicates, the work juxtaposes the collective-represented by the armored sculpture-and the individual-symbolized by the dog tags, each representing a single soldier.

“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres
*González-Torres’ partner Ross Laycock was diagnosed with AIDS, and died of it the same year as “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)’s creation. pile of candies should ideally weigh 175 pounds (79 kg)—Laycock’s body weight when healthy.[3] Viewers are encouraged to take a piece and the artwork’s owner are to decide if it will be replenished.

Lynn Aldrich

Jessica Stockholder, Once upon a time

Yee soo Kyung Translated Vase_Nine Dragons in Wonderland
Yee soo Kyung Translated Vase_Nine Dragons in Wonderland

 

Sculptural Mash-Up

A different approach to the same prompt.

Make a virtual sculpture using up to 3 found models.

– Don’t create a diorama! Use the objects as raw forms, play with scale, color, visual resonances and contrasts.

– It doesn’t have to follow the laws of physics but make it “stand” on the ground (or hang from the ceiling) as if it was an actual installation.

– Find objects that are iconic, with cultural baggage, and that combined together create new visual and conceptual resonances.

Brainstorm

1- Generate a random word – select “nouns”, and don’t reroll, this is about finding unexpected things.
2- Look up the word on sketchfab, checking downloadable.
3- Find a common object (not characters, not scenes, not works displaying a personal style) that interests you due to its symbolic or iconic value. Don’t spend more than 2 minutes scrolling the results.
4- Make a sketch in which you combine it with another object (or two) to create new meanings, visual resonances, or to elicit a specific reaction in the viewer (surprise, hilarity, horror, disgust, reflection, etc…).
5- Repeat the process 3 times.

Post the 3 sketches separately in #assignment

Tutorial

Blender mashups: how do I slice, join, combine objects?

 

 

Found Objects in Art

Lobster Telephone by Salvador Dali

Shape analogy, mimicry (as in an object tries to be something else), Sculptural mashup, Natural / artificial contrast.

Bicycle Wheel by Marcel Duchamp.

Cadeau by Man Ray

Making a functional object unusable

Jana Sterbak, Sisyphus Sport

Making a non functional object “usable”

Au Naturel by Sarah Lucas

Innuendo, abstraction, “portraiture”.
Can you make a portrait with objects?

 

Dark Matter by Morehshin Allahyari (2014-2015)
Also check She Who Sees the Unknown and Material Speculations: ISIS

Shiv Integer by Plummer Fernandez (2006)

Liberator variations by Kyle McDonald

Dauphin 007 by Jonathan Monaghan (2011)