Mapping instructions that are a little less confusing

For your artful mapping pleasure I have updated handout so it is less confusing. Hopefully. Must have because many of you are putting up good lists. Those lost, visit your fellow WASHers’ blogs and check out what they are writing (listing) about.

Lecture Project

1. READ in the making pgs 120-149.
2. Diagram a 2d or 3d Autobiographical Internal/Private World via mapping/painting/collaging/ constructing/assembling

Consider an overarching theme or method to unify the work. This is to be an art piece.

Step ONE

Generate a series of self reflective/life lists for the following (post to blog or if of a private nature email to your professor). Due Friday, February 24

Lived locations [birth to current]
    significant memories of spaces in or around your different homes

Significant relationships in each location
    The nature of the relationship

1. Physical
2. Emotional
3. Spiritual

    How those relationships changed from location to location and as you aged

Significant things said to you that you can almost still hear in your head.
    Both positive and negative

Educational experiences–schools
    considering early childhood, late, pre adolescence, adolescence, early adulthood –
    may project into your future – adulthood, old, not dead yet, dead

1. Significant peers [why?] both positive/negative
2. Significant adults [why?] both p/n
3. Significant things said to you that you can almost still hear in your head. Both p/n
4. Significant objects [why?] 5. Significant cause [why?]

Experiences of loss or absence
Experiences of joy or belonging
Career

1. Significant peers [why?] both positive/negative
2. Significant adults [why?] both p/n
3. Significant things said to you that you can almost still hear in your head. Both p/n
4. Significant objects [why?] 5. Significant cause [why?]

Spiritual evolution/path. Changes over time? [why? who influenced changes?] Sexuality or gender evolution/path or relationship to the body
Achievements
Pain or crisis or losses
Dreams, hopes or desires
Other threads to possibly also explore in terms of the evolution of these things in your life
1. Character
2. Limitations
3. Passion
4. Strengths
5. Abilities and competencies
6. Fears
7. Calling
8. Understanding of people
9. Understanding of culture
10. Understanding of heritage
11. Ancestral heritage
12. Materialism
13. Goals
14. Why do you want to be an artist, animator, designer
(when did that desire begin; what fanned the flame and kept it going)
15. Within your field what specific things are you interested in?
(when did the desire or compulsion begin; what fanned the flame and kept it going)
Are these changing? How so?
16. Personal narrative, quotes, journal entries, poetry, song lyrics, etc

Step TWO

Create some experimental diagrams of information from lists–possible directions of diagrams: chronological, relational, geographical, spiritual, educational, ancestral. Try to overlay all info within each system tested

Step THREE

Explore and develop signle thematic systems for diagramming or presenting information. Some samples from other fields to consider: scientific–periodic table, insect collections, molecular structure, solar system maps, constellation maps, globe, cellular structure, etc; medical–body diagrams, surgical procedures, diagnostic flow charts, etc; architectural–residential blueprints, ship design blueprints, etc; industrial design; electrical engineering; geophysical–maps of earth’s layers, sonic maps of oil fields, ocean floor maps; consumer culture, ikea assembly procedures, concert online ticket seating selection, menu, package ingredients, game board (ie monoply), mall store locator map, etc; other–family tree,

Show for relationships and connections; cause and effect.

Step FOUR

Incorporate or reference visual methods or source inspirations, quotes, subject matter, etc from two to three artists we’ve studied in class or in textbook (includes all artists covered to date) that inspire you into your map. Note either in the piece itself or on back the artists you are referencing and how so. Artist list is at end of this section.

Step FIVE

Develop unified aesthetic style system of information presentation.

Step FIVE

MAKE it–can take almost any physical artform design, sculpture, painting, relief, installation, artist book, photographic series, etc

DUE DATES:

1. Post 3 images of project (one of whole and two detail shots); if it still in listing stage post all lists.
before Friday, Feb 25

2. Post 3 [more] images of project (one of whole and two detail shots) and a short narrative about what method you are using to execute this project and why you’ve chosen it before Friday, March 4

3. Post 3 [more] images of project that shows your progression from Friday, March 4. Post before
Friday, March 11

4. Actual art object DUE Monday, March21/Tuesday, March 2. Bring to Studio at 9:30 am. If it needs set up, set up the night before in WASH House.

Note this is an actual assemblage created in real space whether 2d or 3d art object based on mapping personal history; it is not a virtual structure or simply a print out of a structure created in the computer.