Time is often not in one’s hand, as the clichéd saying goes. In fact, moments in time – in this case those represented by newspapers from across the world – frequently prove that time remains unpredictable. Though serene, even, and orderly in theory, time often betrays the hand from which it feeds.
The conceptualization of time as a singular event breaks with the rationalized conception of time as a linear progression. The event signifies the culmination of all time as one happening; a monstrous view of advance as eternity in a single totalized form. This concepts bears importance after the transition into modernity as man faces bodily abstraction by and through time, especially within the modern prison and factory systems. These functions as sites of the mechanization of the body and its abstraction from the organic into a constructed alterity.
A collage about time, past, present, future and the transformations between each phase.
Exercises from the first day dealing with time (non linear time in particular).
Most of your pieces are thoughtful and provocative with attention to texture, contrast and depth.
By next class 2/4 I would like you to complete the following tasks. (Please note that you DO NOT have to complete your blog post.)
1. Assignment #2 – Time in Stop Motion
This week I would like to you to focus the majority of your time on Assignment #2. Your animation should take you 8-10 hours minimum to complete. Please see below for details. The assignment is posted on the blog for your reference.
2. A high resolution digital Photoshop file (.psd) of your collage from Assignment #1
This is trickier than it seems. Please finish scanning your collage and tile them together as well as you can. You may automatically merge them or do it by hand. Save your file as a high resolution .psd file and bring it to our next class.
Have fun!
DUE JAN 28
Make a 18 x 24 inch composition addressing the concept of time using the following method. Your composition must be black and white only.
1. Write down a word or two that describes your approach to the concept of time. This step is meant to get you thinking in a particular direction. Do it quickly, and move on to the next step.
2. Collect a series of 25 images that relate to your chosen approach. The original images can be print or digital. Make a set of black and white copies of your collected images. If your originals are from magazines, newspapers, etc., make a black and white photocopy of each image. If the originals are digital, make a black and white print of each image. You should now have two sets of the same 25 images, one color set and one b/w set.
3. Make composition related to your concept combining drawing and collage using the images that you collected in black and white. It is fair to use elements more than once by making multiple copies of a single image. You do not have to use all 25 collected images in your final composition.
Bring your compositions, original word/s, and remaining set of images to class on Jan 28. Be prepared to present your work during class.
In class exercise: Create a series of compositions about time.
1. Make a drawing about time. Consider concepts associated with time like change, growth, decay, memory, history, movement or a process.
(15 minutes)
2. Make a second drawing about time. Redo the first drawing, but make it feel slower than the first. Use contrast, scale, repetition and pace as techniques to accomplish this. Think of the entire page.
(25 minutes)
3. Pick a partner. Write a set of instructions that your partner will use to construct a drawing about time. Indicate how long this drawing should take to create. Trade instructions and follow your partners instructions to create a drawing.
(45 minutes)
4. Choose the one of the last two drawings (yours or your partner’s). Recreate your the selected drawing as a collage, using Wired Magazines and Technology Review as your source material. You may also draw as part of the collage.
(45 minutes)
Review and document all work.