Wk 7: Rapid Prototype

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Artist OTW 7: Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller

Janet Cardiff from Glenn Zucman on Vimeo.

Activity #7: Rapid Prototype

This week you get to design something. Quick. Cheap. And use it already! By taking your simple prototype into the field (your life) you can get a quick feel for how it functions, what’s desirable, and how strong your use case is.

Full Rapid Prototype Activity details here!

Discussion Questions

ONE
Rapid Prototype
Share with your discussion groupmates:

The area you thought about, like Aerospace or Nursing, like Cars or Cosplay
The “need” you wanted to address
The “device” you prototyped
What your experience of using it has been so far

TWO
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller create site specific works or experiences. Have you seen or thought about site specific installations or public art before? What do you think of this idea? Versus, say a painting or sculpture, that can go anywhere?

THREE
Aesthetics & Beauty
In the 4 paintings from Bouguereau, Manet-Meurent, Picasso & de Kooning, I argue that the works get progressively less pretty, but also more honest or truthful about people, experiences, and attitudes. And that if beauty is truth, then the less pretty paintings are perhaps more “beautiful.” What do you think?

I mention briefly that there is also a gendered component to many of our ideas of beauty. What do you think about beauty and gender?

FOUR
Realism & Romanticism
In the video I ask,

If you had a dial from 100% Realism & 0% Romanticism… to… 0% Realism & 100% Romanticism, where would you set your personal life dial?

What’s your answer?

Buffy is upset with Willow because she has rejected Halloween’s invitation to “Role Play.” Our Artist OTW last week, Nikki S. Lee, did a lot of role play. Pablo Picasso once said,

Everything you can imagine is real.

What do you think of imagination and role play? Is it just idle fantasy for the affluent and bored? Or do we create our own reality?

Art Talk 7a: Aesthetics & Beauty

Art Talk #7a – Aesthetics & Beauty from Glenn Zucman on Vimeo.

Art Talk 7b: Realism & Romanticism

Art Talk #7b – Realism & Romanticism from Glenn Zucman on Vimeo.

Discussion Groups

Group 1 – Tue 9p – Heather

Heather Bencivengo – Heather Michelle Photography.net << Organizer
Sung Hyun Han – Sung Hyun Han.com
Polly Nguyen – xPolly Nguyen.com
Albert Le – Albert Le123.com
Soo Kyung “Emilie” Kim – Emilie Soo Kim.com

Group 2 – Wed 9p – Jennifer

Jennifer Solis – JennsLife22.com << Organizer
Glenn Zucman – Mixed Reality.me
Andrew Jimenez – Drew Jimenez.com
Amanda Peck – Amanda Peck.com
Taryn Rescigno – Taryn Rescigno.com

Group 3 – Thu 6p – Ricki

Ricki Cline – Ricki Cline.com << Organizer
Sadie Soto – Sadie Soto.com
Shivam Mehta – Shiv Mehta.com
Kaitlin Krumwiede – Kaitlin Krum.net
Julia Meinen – Julia Meinen.com

Group 4 – Sat 2p – Shamir

Mohamed Mohideen – Shamir Mohideen.com << Organizer
Juston Couch – JustonKaceBlog.com
Justin Guiu – Justin Guiu.com
Kate Brogan – Kate Brogan.com
Siraj Aboulhosn – Siraj Aboulhosn.com

Group 5+

Kelsey, Emily A., & Sami did fill out the Doodle, but only gave us 1 hour out of the week and unfortunately I couldn’t match you with a group. Jessica, Jorge & Li-Ren didn’t fill out the Doodle. For all 6 of you, you can:

Join any one of the 4 groups above if you can do that time slot.
or
email each other and find a time that works. It doesn’t need to be all 6 of you together, but if groups of 2 or 3 of you can “Hangout,” that’ll be great.