Tuesday, January 15, 2008

1 - who are you?

Class assignment – who are you?

Go to blogger.com and create a new blog for yourself. You need to have a gmail account in order to do this, so if you don’t, run to google.com and find the gmail icon.

Write an introduction to yourself, upload a couple of pictures and add a handful of links that we ought to visit. Tell us a little bit about yourself, things you like to do, read, see, hear—whatever. Let us know what your thoughts are about art—why you’re going to Tyler in the first place, the sorts of images that you’re attracted to, the kinds of things you’d like to accomplish as an artist. Think and write like an artist – avoid cliché, be dynamic and creative.

When you finish this up, send me an email with your name and your blog address. I’ll add them to my blog so that you can find them. Before class next week you need to create a new page element that is a list of links to all students.

Homework— truth, lies, laugh – who do you say you are?

Today you wrote about who you are. Now I want you to think about who you say you are. For next week I need you to make me an artwork/s that includes:

  1. a lie about yourself
  2. a truth about yourself
  3. a laugh—something that you write specifically to get a laugh out of the class

We’ll scope these out next week, since we need to get to know each other anyhow. This is an art project, not just a writing assignment—it’s important that you begin to think in terms of content. Don’t be afraid to have fun with it (especially the lying part), but do think about content—art isn’t worth making if there isn’t a reason. You don’t have to tell us which part of your paper (truth, lie, a laugh) is which—feel free to let us work it out…

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