26/03/2020

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Tutorial with Yvonne Feng

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- meditation, consoling, self-expression, systematic language, relation to the emptiness, meditative space, conceal/hide.

- making own aesthetic language/system. E.g: Alighiero Boetti 

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- Improve, meditation, reviewing. E.g: <<Thinking Through Painting : Reflexivity and Agency Beyond the Canvas>>

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​(Summarising important key words and think about the aesthetic form/motif/language in artwork help me a lot to figure out my research thesis. E.g: aesthetic value, improvement, meditation, labour...)

 

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24/04/2020

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Group Critic with Anna Bunting Branch

 

Digital resource: StopMotion APP

- Artwork plays clear function: Emma Hart's 'Mamma Mia!' installation at Whitechapel--her research into pattern and therapy

- Reflect about COVID 19: John Walter's work on virus and meme

                                            virus as metaphor, how can your marks mutate and inhabit different spaces, both real and digital?

- Relationship to stitched pattern and embroidery: Look at Sadie Plant's Zeros and Ones which talks about early development of internet code and links it to weaving...  She thinks the idea of code is interesting too

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(I plan to make some digital work in Unit 3. Think about internet coding and how I recording my previous cellphone painting, I think it will be much more helpful to learning programming skill. E.g: HTML/Java. I am still considering.)

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28/04/2020

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Tutorial with Geraint Evans 

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- Research essay: can be compare and contrast about two artists in relation to the topic I am interested in ( Repetition and Labour intensity)   anaylze specifically. E.g: Kusama & Martin  Kusama: mental issue, what role she play in art society, live as patient work as profession, not only her dots, her sculptures, installation, invite audience into work, energy, ...  Martin: absence, settle, empty, shifting, discipline, quite, philosophy ...

 

- Digital work: artist as tool, median connection sprits.  E.g: artist  hilma af klint

                       Navigating cellphone/digital media  -- in gallery playing with large screen, mapping, overlapping. ( I start to think about how to use different screens with playing video to build a 3 dimension environment, affective space and media. When I think about making artwork base on digital media, especially the screen, the flat surface I always feel the flatness will weaken some sort of expression... So I might try to create dimension in relation the digital flatness. But I haven't decide what kind of dimension I will add/use in my work. ) 

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 - Article about abstract painting and the digital by Alex Bacon: 

             https://rhizome.org/editorial/2016/may/24/surface-image-reception-painting-in-a-digital-age/   

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13/05/2020

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Seminar: On Paint, Materiality and Meaning

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​Simon Callery & Sam Gilliam: idea about physical dimension, physical aspect. 

(​I get very fresh aspect about dimension in their artworks: the physical dimension. Their works not only build up a physical relationship between artwork & viewer but also artwork & exhibition venue. Gilliam's drape painting moving painting from wall to space which reflect the contemporary idea about connection between painting, drawing and sculpture. A new aspect to interact, appreciate painting. The physical relation with viewer also show the natural gravity strength. )