Everyone should have at least 3 originals.
Once they have dried, (dried all the way), xerox them to make 15-20 copies.
Place them creatively around campus, keeping your target audience in mind.
SAVE THE DATE: a very important workshop with activist artists Keith and Mendi Obadike
APRIL 11, Wed, 3pm BC142a- we'll be making electronic art together!
Homework due Monday, April 9
Look at Mendi & Keith's work,
pick a piece to write about- (not blackness for sale since we will have discussed that piece already)
write a paragraph describing how the work could fit the definition of activist art. Be sure to include what the message is, how it is conveyed, and who the audience is.
Mendi and Keith's piece called African Metropole: Sonic City Lagos can be considered activist art. This piece was shown at our gallery. It is a sound installation from the streets of Nigeria. The message in this piece is the industrialization of African cities. Since it is entirely sound based, you can grasp the noise pollution from the city. Yet, the voice speaks of islands, lakes, and towns. The audience is board because it is a video on the internet. The internet allows everyone to view this artwork.
ReplyDeleteMendi and Keith Obadike use a masquerade pong game against the United States in which the ball is titled mercy. The message being conveyed in "You Can’t View a Masquerade by Standing in One Place" is a Nigerian email scam that uses African tradgedy to create empathy. It examines the idea of a scam through African portral on the web. It targets internet users by portraying tradgedy, exploring identities online, and the reaction to scams.
ReplyDeleteMendi and Keith’s 4 Electric Ghosts is the story of the four ghosts from Pac Man and their journey. The story is told by the use of dance, narration, and music. It is the story of the four ghosts as they travel through different lands and what happens when they forget where they came from.
ReplyDeleteAndrew Nye
CEC
ReplyDeleteKeith and Mendi Obadike are two local artists. Their work includes activism. At the workshop, they discuss one of their processes. It involves collecting color data from the surrounding environment. For example, we collected color samples from plant life. Keith and Mendi took photographs of a lemon orchard. Then the data was used to find the hex codes. Each tree in the orchard received a color code. The final result was a score of the changes in our ecology.
Another project Keith and Mendi performed also uses this process. We discussed identity and race through color. Everyone took a quiz and we talked about discrimination. Certian skin colors do not have the same freedoms as others even though we are all in the same country. Discrimination based on race and ethnicity still occur today. At different placed throughout the country, one individual may identity differently. Your identity defines who you are but it should not limit who you become.
At the end we talked about the final result of this process. Our color collections resulted in an activism piece. The color we chose from the hex codes was light pink. This color had an immediate
relation to gender. This led to a current issue of gender discrimination in the workplace. The objective was to make a color association with another issue or idea. There are so many different concepts that can come from a small color sample.