Virtual Seescape︎︎︎
You know that
standing in a room with an object is different from seeing that object on a
screen, and yet the difference is easy to forget. For this exercise, your raw
material will be your recent history of internet searches and saves, be they
intensely personal or aggressively mundane. You captured these images for some
reason, and now you have the chance to transform them into something more
considered–aware of their thin, digital existence–and lasting.
1. Find a screenshot you have saved to your phone that intrigues you.
2. Manipulate the photo on your phone in any way you like, using your phone’s photo editor, third-party editing, social media, or a collage app.
3. Create an artwork in real life using any material in any dimension based on your final manipulated image.
Tips:
- The idea is to work from a photo you did not create, so choose an image that someone else made, and that called you for some reason.
- Don’t seek out the beautiful or artful image. A “bad” image might be just what you want for this.
- Use any photo editing app or software as long as it is fun and easy. Fancy photo editing skills are not needed here.
- Invoke Jasper John’s 1964 note to himself in his sketchbook: “Take an object / Do something to it / Do something else to it. [Repeat]” except your object is an image. Keep going with your photo manipulation until it gets interesting.
- While you’re editing your image, think about what kinds of artwork you like to make.
1. Find a screenshot you have saved to your phone that intrigues you.
2. Manipulate the photo on your phone in any way you like, using your phone’s photo editor, third-party editing, social media, or a collage app.
3. Create an artwork in real life using any material in any dimension based on your final manipulated image.
Tips:
- The idea is to work from a photo you did not create, so choose an image that someone else made, and that called you for some reason.
- Don’t seek out the beautiful or artful image. A “bad” image might be just what you want for this.
- Use any photo editing app or software as long as it is fun and easy. Fancy photo editing skills are not needed here.
- Invoke Jasper John’s 1964 note to himself in his sketchbook: “Take an object / Do something to it / Do something else to it. [Repeat]” except your object is an image. Keep going with your photo manipulation until it gets interesting.
- While you’re editing your image, think about what kinds of artwork you like to make.
Welcome to mapping collaboration, a toolbox for workshopping and creating across disciplines...
In spite of a long history of interdisciplinary creation, from our earliest recorded arts to our present moment, artistic pedagogy has created divisions between disciplines. This has left artists in a "post-Babel" condition where we don't share the same language and definitions. It’s also encouraged artists to develop practices for devising, creating and composing work that are distinct to their disciplines.
In spite of a long history of interdisciplinary creation, from our earliest recorded arts to our present moment, artistic pedagogy has created divisions between disciplines. This has left artists in a "post-Babel" condition where we don't share the same language and definitions. It’s also encouraged artists to develop practices for devising, creating and composing work that are distinct to their disciplines.
The inspiration for this project came from faculty and students at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts where BFA, MFA and PhD programs in Dance, Theatre Production and Design, Visual Art, Film, and Music and Sound all work together in studio settings and playfully experiment with processes of art-making.
We wanted to create a database of projects, assignments and theory that we collect inside the studio and from research happening in other places. We are curious about how we collaborate and how structures reoccur, translate and deviate from one discipline to another.
Composition is central to these processes and offers a base for our approaches and experiments. We are excited about what our students are doing and inspired by the new languages in contemporary art and performance we continue to see develop.
︎︎︎select a category above to build assignments, learn more about how artists process ideas across disciplines and to create a collaborative process of your own
︎︎︎these tools are collected and used in workshops and classes; some are resources from artists; some are quotes about art-making and how bodies think and listen; others are ideas to expand and disrupt your own training and processes.
︎︎︎Each idea is intentially short- and not meant to be executed as written, but to be adapted to your own practice and specific project/context. Some may be taken in parts or combined with others to spark new ways of training and making together.
︎︎︎submit your own ideas and tools so we can keep building this site!
︎︎︎select a category above to build assignments, learn more about how artists process ideas across disciplines and to create a collaborative process of your own
︎︎︎these tools are collected and used in workshops and classes; some are resources from artists; some are quotes about art-making and how bodies think and listen; others are ideas to expand and disrupt your own training and processes.
︎︎︎Each idea is intentially short- and not meant to be executed as written, but to be adapted to your own practice and specific project/context. Some may be taken in parts or combined with others to spark new ways of training and making together.
︎︎︎submit your own ideas and tools so we can keep building this site!
