Mikey Uphoff

Rhizome Week 2

Determine the appropriate rhizomatic vessel for your images.

Incorporate the ideas of your artist when structuring your work.

Your work should be presented in its final form - consider how it should be shown/viewed.

Post all of your final projects to the blog before next week's class.

New Romanticism

Rhizomatic Structures

“There is no difference between what a book talks about and how it is made.” Deleuze & Guattari

characteristics:

1-2 connection and heterogeneity

any point of a rhizome can be connected to anything other, and it must be

3 multiplicity

no points or positions in a rhizome, only lines

4 asignifying rupture

can be broken or shattered at a given spot, but will start up again on one of its old lines, or on new lines

5-6 cartography and decalcomania

a map and not a tracing: the map does not reproduc and unconscious closed in upon itself; it constructs the unconscious. a map has multiple entry points

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due next week:

Finish reading the article.

Present a body of work in 50 images, printed as thumbnails, 10 up.
The images must be taken by you but can be sourced online if they will eventually exist online. You will hang your images and present your plan for the rhizomatic form your images will take at the beginning of class. You must still relate this structure back to the ideas of your artist. Include a diagram of your structure that incorporates the viewer. Be prepared to work in class next week.

New Romantic Landscapes

Create a large 'new romantic' landscape using the ideas of your artist.
Landscape must be at least 24x18. Printed on the large scale xerox printer (kinkos?) it will be cheap.
If you choose to present your image in black and white, it must function without color.
If you print in color, be sure to use it to your advantage, for both cost and effect.

Your landscape can be constructed or 'real', contain figures or not, but it must be well reasoned.
This is a one week assignment so HAVE FUN.
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note: you must complete your assigned reading

unMONUMENTAL part II: vessel

EMAIL ME THE ANSWER TO NUMBER TWO BELOW.

Consider artists who use photography in 3D and 4D work. List four. Why is the transformation necessary?

Meet with a partner to discuss possibilities for your work:

Come up with three possible options for your image(s) in 2D 3D and 4D.

Choose the best option and write a few sentences detailing your proposal.

1. Why does this format make the most sense in light of what you are trying to do?

2. How is it monumental/unmonumental?

3. Do you have any technical concerns?

Discuss with me your plan and turn in the answers to your questions before the end of class.

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Please feel free to experiment. I want you to produce something you are excited about attempting and showing.