SV David 210913
Meeting was very productive.
We discussed presentation of works and the mural walls. I have had a number of sections printed to scale on paper to test on the walls. It is important to celebrate and work with the installation space. As such, I am keen to have the display walls covered. Each wall is 6x2.4 metres. The required coverage is approximately 6 x 3 meter drops, totalling to 32 linear meters.
Ideas
Phototex: $90 per linear meter — too expensive.
Draped printed muslin: $20 per linear meter — maybe.
Draped printed georgette: $30 per linear meter — too expensive.
Tiled 80gsm printouts: Poor quality.
Wall paper: Expensive. Glues to surface. Not suitable.
Printing on tiled substrate (ie") MDF: Need to build fake wall. Time is an issue. Once the section is complete cost will equal that of the wall paper.
Too time consuming. Difficult to install. Not cost effective.
25% strength
Tests with 25% strength print on paper is very good working with the space but not overpowering the main installation of the disks.
Background/mural serves as representational figuration of memory, thought, distance, separation. All of which are directly related to topic.
100% strength
Tests with 100% strength print on paper was not successful. The wall became central and a primary point of focus, overpowering the main works.
No.
Keywords
Semester 4, Studio 4, Installation, SV, Meeting, Overture
PCP class notes 210909
Had a great talk with Martina after class today.
Website
Martina has also advised that we will be discussing this assignment in our next class. I will resubmit it after that. It would be great to talk it out beforehand.
Break down the assignment brief and briefly talk to each point.
Student site: Discuss the choice of template and workarounds to customise the site. Also, include that chosen template was released in 2012 and the template has not changed and required customisation.
Introduction and overview — what it was, what needed to change and why
Design
Aesthetic
Target audience
Community of practice
Editing
Writing style and standardisation (captions and blogs)
Images
Blog posts
URL remapping
SEO
Student site
Choosing a template and constraints
Coding
Talk to student website redesign and image display
Include workarounds such as writing custom CSS to resolve immediate issues
Professional proposal
Write the assignment based on my submissions to SLV Fellowships programs and Forty-Five Downstairs call out.
Include response to Assignment 1 feedback addressing how the feedback would inform my applications for future opportunities.
Keywords
Professional Creative Practice, PCP, Semester 4, Assignments, Feedback, Website, Proposal
210907 SV David
I am the disconnect and disruption.
Talk about the disconnect of space in relation to the works (refer Bennett R and TCCP writing)
Talk to the space
Test fabric and mural
Screens
Page 2 right no
Page 3 right yes
Page 4 right no
Page 7 revisit (show more of space)
Page 7 right yes
Page 8 left yes
Page 8 right no
Page 9 left yes
Page 9 right yes
SV meeting 210823
David
Discussed image of John (Figure 1). Include in the report.
Reference “John”
No eyes
No face
Relevance to project topic
No face and no eyes relate directly to the ephemeral nature of energy and rhythm. Opens a discussion of the contradiction in the relationship between the ephemeral and the physical. The image reflects on how energy and rhythm can be seen or articulated, yet are physical. — Restructure writing.
Articulate the relevance of including straight photography to the project.
Figure 1. “John”. Zo Damage 2021. Mockup of screen print on acetate disk from scan of original in-camera multi-exposure of John.
Mural
David suggested experimenting with stipples for the mural. I have also thought of this so it was great to have this feedback. I will make more composite mockups of the mural walls in photoshop to test.
David also suggested using the dot screen files on the mural. My thoughts are that, if applied, the images will need to be from the in-camera multi-exposure (ICX) series.
Either of these will need careful consideration.
My concern is that if not applied and treated correctly, the mural images will appear to be errors or overpower the hanging (primary) installation of screen printed acetates.
Straight photography
7–10% stipple for murals.
Note more than 15% stipple may appear to be a “mistake” in printing and be too strong thus distracting from the main installation component.
ICX
Try full strength
Links to further research in relation to the installation
Additional resource material
Franz Kafka
Characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world — "a Kafkaesque bureaucratic office".
Catching up with Ceri
“Use writing as an expressive device.”
“Am I allowed to do that?”
“For Themes in Contemporary Creative Practive? Sure.”
Note
I am very confused by parallel classes and differentiating between the nuances of what is required.
Keywords
Semester 4, Studio 4, SV, Mural, Screen printing, Andy Warhol, Installation, Juxtaposition
TCCP Week 5
Themes in Contemporary Creative Practice
Week 5 — Class notes
18 August 2021
Assignment 1 Timeline
Use to explore and unpack time management and timeline of the project.
References and contemporary practice
Look to the method and or genre texts.
Intersections and dimensions
Physical and virtual encounters unfolding through time, subverting the integrity of the image. Note I am not sure what this means.
How does this relate to live music culture?
Is there a significant point of difference?
Additional notes
What is a SITE?
What is a milestone presentation?
PhD timelines.
Accidental translations.
Essay documentaries of dreams.
Digital stammers.
Sublimation in art and digital ghosts.
Narrative beneath the action. Do not illustrate the theory.
Keywords
TCCP, Themes in Contemporary Creative Practice, Semester 4, Class notes, Timeline, Method, Contemporary practice
SV meeting notes 210816
Supervisor meeting note
David
Screen prints
Revisit photos of Hana.
Keep to images of musicians.
Abstracts are good.
Remove venue facade images and keep to the musician images (including abstract and abstraction) screen print body of work (keep to wall murals).
Ensure images align with the statement.
Wall mural
Reshoot curtin if possible.
Shoot other wide shots of gardens.
Proposal
Experiment TEEL
Paragraph use?
Clarify “physicality” (relating to the body) / “embodiment” giving form to / “materiality” the quality or character of being material or being composed of matter.
Be consistent.
Look at theoretical and contemporary definitions.
Premise of project: Are rhythm and energy physical to the human experience (change “human experience” see notes below)?
Articulate in a more concise manner.
Use linking words:
Extends to neuroscience … as such/this is related to.
Topic sentence
Quote GM: answer quotes “E-xpaination of the TEEL” — be clear and state explanations.
From this we can conclude that … / it is clear that.
Talk about installation and special aspects in greater detail.
Viewer body – interact with and through the space.
Art unfolding in time.
Music unfolds in time. It’s not static.
I am exploring how photography can unfold in time through installation.
Can installation make the 2 d image unfold in time?
Can a 2 d image be activated and given kinaesthesia through installation?
Richard
The work comes before the theory
Use theory to inform or explain a point for the work
What
Questions are too general.
Create “expand” on question / introduce what I want to investigate.
Scientific theory to expand.
What scientific theory will inform the research project or particular research question?
Think about what the research question is.
Lotto
Reword , “It does activate a sense of colour theory.”
Think about:
How does lotto’s project relate to my project
Does it inform my project?
How has it informed my research.
Use the above to sit along side or align with my research.
Bring footnote (Thaut and Lotto) into body of text as direct quote — thaut and lotto support and substantiate what I am saying.
The hero of the writing is my project.
References and resource materials including theory substantiate and support my project research.
Can also use people to negate or disprove topics.
Informed argument = discussion
Who
EOI is about the next project — write as completely new project.
Needs to have research questions that have general position but have a specificity to them.
Think community, body of knowledge I am interested what is it that I want to prove or disprove.
Think of it as a scientific project in an art space/voice.
Community of practice.
Footnotes
Varga cotton award. Talk to the controversy. What’s the big deal. “winning the award and created a huge fuore because blah blah” <<direct quote from respected highly regarded news paper or magazine>>
Fresh approach
Includes restructuring and renegotiating my research leading in.
Locate the trigger that wanted me to do a PhD on rhythm and energy.
Think about the idea behind the making.
What is the concept of the project.
Talk to the content.
Why is xx being used?
Why are the images being made as xx.
What’s the point of the methods.
The content is the image.
What is the benefit of making an image to the field of neuroscience (brain / rhythm / energy).
General notes
Using tech to express and idea, or express — don’t kill the position of the art.
Think about 3 words that epitomise my current research project.
Hang other things off the three words.
Draft up an expression of interest.
New project springboards off past projects.
New project = can be same topic.
EOI / project proposal = plan = more meaningful = written with authenticity
Do not describe the obvious. Refer closing sentence of Folio Proposal.
PhD project
Write new project proposal specifically for the application, meeting the application guidelines and requirements.
Proposal must not be from masters project writing.
It can be same topic.
Sending request for supervision
PhD EOI requires a prospective candidate to source two supervisors and show the communication. The request must be made formally, sending basic email asking if they would be prepared to be supervisors for my PhD project.
Dear Richard and Steven,
Please accept this email as a formal request for you to be my supervisors should I be successful in my application for a PhD by project in the School of Art..
SV meeting notes 210813
I am drawing on my written studio assignments for the EOI.
I have sent Steven and Richard the latest two (Semester 3 Critical Review and Semester 4 Folio Proposal) for feedback on my writing and research topic and feedback.
Steven’s response to my rock and roll gardens photographs was great. He has also given me advice on strengthening my referencing and bibliography as the format differs from the assignment structures.
Bibliography
Flesh out with academic references to artists works. Include writings on the artist and gallery catalogues.
For example, use peer-reviewed journals on 'cameraless photography' to support my research of artists and my practice.
‘Don’t reference my own work in the bibliography. Captions will suffice.
Include “proposed readings”.
Anchor the artists in academic text, for example, Danica Chappell in cameraless photography.
Art and rock and roll
Mike Kelly interview (on The Rolling Stones) (O’Brian 2008)
Darren Sylvester
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/for-you-darren-sylvesters-music/
https://www.artsy.net/artist/darren-sylvester
Alan Vega (Suicide – band)
https://www.artspace.com/artist/alan-vega
Recommended reading
Jean-Luc Godard: The Rolling Stone Interview
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/jean-luc-godard-the-rolling-stone-interview-183636/ (Interview)
Painting at the Edge of the World (Book)
https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Edge-World-Midori-Matsui/dp/0935640673
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: ART AND ROCK AND ROLL SINCE 1967Sep 29, 2007–Jan 6, 2000 (Exhibition)
8https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2007/Sympathy-For-The-Devil-Art-And-Rock-And-Roll-Since-1967
Why ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ Is Still an Essential Rolling Stones Movie
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/sympathy-for-the-devil-godard-rolling-stones-anniversary-727107/
Keywords
Academic writing, Research, Study
Bibliography
O'Brien, Glenn. 2008. "Mike Kelley". Interview Magazine. Accessed August 13, 2021. https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/mike-kelley.
PCP Week 2
Professional Creative Practice Week 2
Thursday 29 July 2021
Class notes
On Kossak Painting
Photography is often presumed "digital" and or representational over and above the idea of developing a relationship with a "medium" resonates strongly for me. The conversation leads me to think of photographic artists including Mariah Robertson, Justine Varga, Danica Chappell.
Thinking is in the doing.
One to one relationship with medium and practice.
Understanding yourself, your work, what images mean in the world.
Talking about art with artists.
Talking about art with people that are not artists.
Let life get into the work.
What is the artist responsibility with content and subject matter?
Find a way to inhabit and express moments.
To instigate and express.
Having something to do.
Make something every day.
Artists statement
An artists statement represents a basic introduction to your art. A good artists statement ensures greater understanding and appreciation in working towards informing as many people as possible about the artist and their practice or project. Be brief and specific. Aim for two to three paragraphs or approximately 150 words. Appeal to and involve viewers with what you are doing. Know your target audience. What is in it for them? Provide a connection, a reason to engage and care.
Written in plain English (without colloquialisms), an artists statement is not an academic paper and should be easily understood by experts and laymen alike.
Be personal and conversational. Inform what the art is about (signifies, intention of communication, inspiration). Explain why you make art, what inspires you, what your work signifies or represents, how you make it, what it is made out of and what it means to you. (NAVA)
CV
I am rewriting my CV, bio and artist statement as per the course recommendation, utilising the NAVA template “Writing an artist CV” (Cameron-Smith 2014).
The template is very useful, outlining the appropriate structure, citations, and general information required to create a concise and informative CV.
I have completed the Solo exhibitions, Group exhibitions, Collections, Awards and Residencies sections and am currently working on the bio. This includes referencing articles and media coverage. I am also adding curatorial roles to the CV.
CV draft. Zo Gay, 2021.
Bibliography
Cameron-Smith, Joan. 2014. "Writing An Artist CV". NAVA. Accessed July 22, 2021. https://visualarts.net.au/guides/2014/writing-artist-cv/.
NAVA. n.d. Q AND A HOW DO I WRITE AN ARTIST’S STATEMENT? WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT?. PDF. NAVA.