Lucy Maree Murdoch - Aren't Loose Creative Designs

BVA303 Research for Mapping of Thesis with Kathryn Blogging as a method of inquiry Q&A Why blog: record thoughts and research - up to date and good way to reflect.   How is it a way to reflect?  shows your evidence progress   - photos are a visual way of reflecting? Step by step photos with annotations - use of materials. documenting experiments time management - hopefully won't repeat the same mistake twice. A good space to gather information or a central hub to keep research and links to useful sites. Start writing about own practice - then I can cut and paste into thesis. Question 1. Explain in what sense the writers of blogs can be considered "simultaneously human, machine and text."?    A combination of input 2.  How do yo think blogging can become "an act of becoming."?  if the author is the text is willing and open 3. How do you think blogs set up relationships across time and space?  the connections betwe...

BVA312 Art History 29 July 2019 Lucy's Key Words Assemblage Found Object/Recycling Play Fantasy/make believe/Fairy Tale Collecting Diorama Museum Korea and Japan - Contemporary Art Houseofballs.com  assemblage art USA - steam punk Lots of cultural exchange since the 15th Century - • Based on keywords from your practice, use the links to the  following festivals/galleries and find artworks/artists who  relate to your practice • Answer these questions on your blog and share in class: • Name  - Memory Bottle - Myumu Kuri • Media - mixed assemblage • Themes of their work - works seals in the memories in  little bottles that also contain lights.   How it relates to you and your practice  - I like the idea of sealing in a memory - a way to store something.  the hanging bottles are visually effective for a viewer, a tangible  way to see something that is usually only a memory. Using ...

25 July 2019 THEORY https://www.widewalls.ch/artists-as-art-collectors/ Artists Collecting Art To describe an artist from a point of view of art collecting, we must first discover what makes them different from regular enthusiasts. Let’s start from a simple conclusion that artists are the best connoisseurs of art, as they’re experiencing it every day, first hand. Their sensibility and a highly subjective approach towards an artwork, whether it’s theirs of someone else’s, derives instinctively from an emotional aspect of creation and a personal process of turning inspiration into something physical. That being said, artists know that inner drive all too well, and their appreciation of an artwork comes from an entirely different level than the one of an everyday art collector, whose appeal might be led by  pure aesthetics , a big name, or an investment opportunity. Artists collect art with their hearts, not with their heads, and they collect art, not artists. Bibl...

25 July 2019 Pickles with onesie being added - to give appeal to a viewer and disguise him from Victor and his gang - Tango shaves his fur off and makes him a suit to keep him warm and safe! The suitcase in progress  Characters from the second exhibition  scale differences - going smaller to try in the suitcase - standing Tango is a good reference for remaking and keeping the design as similar as possible. Tango - creating a hero for the story - bronzed finish which I seem to go back to - it gives the characters a mythical or magical aesthetic. smallest scale so far - before flocking or fur is added - Tango and two Poogies - all have wire armature and made from baked sculpey. Suitcase experiments and layouts - adding and reviewing constantly - July 2019 Tango the modern hero - thinking she would look great on a motorcycle and not just anything - a vintage bike she has found and got going in her travels.  

BVA312 Art History - 22/7/19 Contemporary Art in Australia Biennale of Sydney started 1973 look at archives Artist at exhibition: Yukinori Yanagi  https://ocula.com/artists/yukinori-yanagi/ "Cubism and Abstract Artt " 2012 Ants, coloured sand and plastic box 55.2 x 43.2 x 2.5 cm Semiconductor analogue modelling - University of Barcelona computer generated animation - sound as a form of landscape  - the invisible made visible - the human effect on the planet - only about the now for us, the force is bigger than us. Science meets art Melbourne International Arts Festival  2-20 October 2019 Haroon Mirza -  https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/haroon-mirza Haroon Mirza Haroon Mirza has won international acclaim for installations that test the interplay and friction between sound and light waves and electric current. He devises kinetic sculptures, performances and immersive installations, such as  The National Apa...