MP3 test

100 ( or more) Materials List

1.  glass
2. plastic utensils
3. wax
4. legos
5. Play Doh
6. water
7. butter
8. mud
9. tree branches
10. metal
11. wire
12. yarn
13. paint
14. concrete
15. empty drink containers
16. leather
17. paper
18. bronze
19. rocks
20. pewter
21. soap
22. fruit
23. chocolate
24. cheese
25. ice
26. glue
27. fabric
28. bottle caps
29. Q-tips
30. fur
31. candy bar wrappers
32. wood
33. cardboard
34. string
35. clay
36. aluminum cans
37. tin foil
38. bones
39. foam
40. spray foam insulation
41. raw meat
42. plaster
43. moss
44. plastic bags
45. newspaper
46. shoes
47. fire
48. matches
49. bananas
50. chalk
51. crayons
52. light bulbs
53. electronics
54. rubber bands
55. CDs
56. cotton balls
57. shaving cream
58. vinyl
59. vegetables
60. velcro
61. fingernails
62. hair
63. coffee
64. spaghetti sauce
65. noodles
66. blue jolly ranchers
67. cherry lifesavers
68. tissue paper
69. sand
70. leaves
71. people
72. hooves
73. peanuts
74. dried beans
75. beads
76. mirrors
77. insects
78. thread
79. rubber
80. pencil
81. bricks
82. plants
83. windows
84. blankets
85. pillows
86. feathers
87. Post-It notes
88. old photos
89. paperclips
90. seashells
91. mulch
92. furniture
93. junk mail
94. credit cards
95. game pieces
96. coins
97. clothing
98. corks
99. diamonds
100. other artwork
101. crystals
102. trophies
103. jewelry
104. books
105. tools
106. garbage
107. toys
108. glue
109. macaroni
110. empty Caprisuns
111. labels
112. stamps
113. solo cups

2-minute video

This assignment will be to make a 2-minute video that utilizes one material from our 100 Materials List and one verb from Richard Serra's "Verblist" and combines them into a video translation.

This video will have a title at the beginning and be edited with iMovie as demonstrated in class.  Remember that through the medium of video you are able to frame, compose, and edit what the viewer sees. Please consider color and timing in your video.

I recommend using iMovie, but if you must use "movie maker", then be sure and save your project as a QuickTime movie or .mov as the file extension.  Look in File-export options or Share-export etc.

The videos can be posted on Vimeo first: http://vimeo.com/album/2726142

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Please title and tag your videos so they can be seen by a larger audience.  Tag appropriately.

Richard Serra's "Verblist" 1967-68, graphite on paper

Add caption

Conceptual Art Sentences

Jennifer Spetrino

Function

Prof. Kessel

14 January 2014

Sentences on Conceptual Art

Agree:

#10: The statement agrees with my personal views on art because I believe an idea can be a work of art. The term “art” covers a very broad spectrum for me. I see an idea as a process as well as a creation. You, individually, are composing a sequence of thoughts in a specific order. A creation, in my opinion, is nothing short of a work of art.

#14: Speaking with other artists when working on art is always been a helpful task for me. I find that when saying ideas aloud it allows me to construct a more concrete thought. This is one reason why this statement proves true to me. Two artists speaking about the same concept could effectively bounce ideas off one another, therefore creating an idea chain.

Disagree:

#6: I often describe myself as an indecisive person. Consequently, I am constantly changing ideas midway through my work. The statement by Sol Lewitt does not agree with my thoughts of changing ideas half way through. I can admit there have been some times where the change of direction caused me to rush and it turned out less than expected. But I have also encountered times when a change of idea formed as I created the piece and ended up turning out great.

#35 

As mentioned above, I have a very broad spectrum of thoughts on the term “art’. There are a vast amount of very different categories that could all fit characteristics of the word “art”. Sol claims the comments on conceptual art are not art but simply comments about art. I disagree because these are perceptive and meaningful sentences, especially to Sol Lewitt. These sentences are a series of individually formed ideas and would still fit into my understanding of the term “art”.

Function 1210 Week 1

Kate Gilmore, Love is an Anchor, 2004

Welcome to Function Art 1210 Spring 2014.  This blog will serve as a meeting ground for our class, ideas, responses, work, other artist's work, etc.  We will connect with each others' blogs from here, as well.

This week we will look at Sol Lewitt's Sentences on Conceptual Art, 1969- Link HERE

and post to your respective blogs your responses: 2 in agreement and why and 2 in disagreement and why.  The link that I provided is the actual letter written by Lewitt and is pretty interesting.