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  Post your 6 sketches Was it fun? Frustrating? Do you like to draw? Will you ever try again? Do you think if you practiced for 100 hours, or 1,000, that you would get a lot better? What is your major? Can you think of ways that simple sketching could be useful in your major? Is Drawing a  Language ? Can we  say  things with drawings that are hard to say with words? Name your blog post:  Week 5 – Art Activity – Drawing It was kind of fun but also frustrating having to erase and start over when you didn't like it. The mirror image was the one I kinda gave up on because everything I was drawing was not to my liking. No, I don't like to draw because I'm very picking about my assignments. Personally, if I had a choice I would not try this again.  Of course, anyone that practices would get better at whatever it is such as sports or dance or whatever you can think of. My major is biology, something that can be useful in my major through drawings might be images o...

Describe Kara Walker’s work is it “Drawing”? what is she saying with her work? how does her style help or hurt in communicating her ideas? what does her work mean to you? Describe Russell Crotty’s work is it “Drawing”? what is he saying with his work? how does his style help or hurt in communicating his ideas? what does his work mean to you? Name your blog post:  Week 5 – Artist – Kara Walker & Russell Crotty  Kara Walker - The pieces of work she has have nothing in common with one another except for the message. Her work explores race, gender, sexuality, and violence through forms such as drawings, paintings, text, shadow puppetry, film, and so on. No, her work is not just "drawings" I would consider what I drew as "drawings" as it chose attempt but here work consists of a message and emotions that I could not show. Her work is showing what we see in today's generations and the problems that are consistently ignored. She's making sure that light is show...

  Our artists this week are Molly Soda and Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis). Describe Gregg Gillis’ work Should his work be illegal? Should it be legal? If his work is illegal, does that stifle creativity? If his work is legal, does that steal from other artist’s livelihoods? Describe Molly Soda’s work Could her be work have been done in any earlier time? Or only in our present technological moment? How are Gregg Gillis’ and Molly Soda’s oeuvres similar? How are Gregg Gillis’ and Molly Soda’s oeuvres different? Is the work that artists like Gillis and Soda do connected to work by past masters like Mozart or Picasso or Warhol? Or is it of a fundamentally different nature and not connected to past art and artists? Explain. Name your post:  Week 4 – Artist – Molly Soda & Girl Talk Gregg Michael Gilli, better known by his stage name Girl Talk, is a mashup and digital sample DJ from the United States. He makes mashup remixes, in which he uses a dozen or more unlicensed samples fro...

  Photos or videos of your project. Or audio or data or whatever is appropriate. Describe what you tried to do Do you think you were successful? Why or why not? Did your project come out somewhere other than what you expected when you started? Or did it go mostly as you envisioned? Can you think of examples of mashups you have experienced or noticed out in the world? What do you think of the  Girls Around Me  app? Is it cool? Is it creepy? Should it be illegal? If it is not illegal, who should protect us from software that many people see as predatory? Name your Medium post:  Week 4 – Art Activity – Remix Through this very bad drawing of faces, I tried to show one's outside appearance versus what is happening inside. I think it was somewhat successful as the words show the real meaning of the words one says to another, but the picture is a little shitty (not an artist lol). I wanted to show that society expects everyone to be perfect and happy, but in reality, most o...

If you complete the project, include photos or video of what you created: What was your original idea? Did it change as you went along? How? What research did you have to do? How did the execution of the project go? Was your project successful? Why? Or, why not? How do you feel about the finished project? What would you do different next time? Do you think your Major/Career can be enhanced by thinking about Art? How can Art enhance or empower your Major/Career? The original plan was to show that medication changes genes in order to improve the health of the body. No, the idea didn't change as I went along with making the picture. I researched some ideas that are related to biology and art, and I saw the DNA molecule and the idea popped up. Since I don't have any color pencils at home, I decided to use the technology available to me and drew it on my iPad. I think my project was successful because it shows that medication only alters a specific part of your gene, not all your ge...

Show a few samples of their work and discuss what they’re doing, how they work, and why you find it interesting. Compare and contrast your artists. What things do they have in common? How are their ideas or processes or media different? Eduardo Kac -   The GFP bunny - he took a rabbit and implanted it with a green fluorescent protein found in jellyfish, when it was placed under a blue light would glow bright green. He made this piece to show that the nature of an animal or plant can be altered. I found this interesting because he wanted to show that if life is more than just what nature makes, it can be changed without harm.   Genesis - he implanted base pairs of genetics into an unspecified bacterium. This piece of work was to make a statement about inherited change is not the only option. I found this interesting because most of his work involves change that can be done besides inheritance.  Stelarc -   In this piece, he had his body be controlled remotely by elect...

  Compare and contrast – discuss how each artist works. Can you characterize any core ideas or concepts or working processes for each artist? Give examples of some of their work and describe what you think they are trying to say with that work. How do zines fit in with their work? What does their work mean to you? Does it strike a chord with you? Or is it too different from your life experience to relate to? Or is it a different that affords you the chance to think about things you haven’t thought about before? Johanna Fateman - she seems like a free soul that brought attention to girl power, her work seems more like hobbies as she moved from one to the next and never really seeing one through for a long period of time. She showed her beliefs through writing, music, and as a producer. Although she did change her job she still showed the same message that women matter. ArtaudMania!!! The Diary of a Fan was the first piece of work where she was openly able to express everything she w...

What were you going for with your Zine? How successful do you think you were? What made your zine work or not work? What would you do differently next time? Can you think of other zines you might like to make someday? My goal with Zine was just to explain all the thoughts that I experienced during the pandemic and as a person of color.  I think I was able to recall and say everything that made me mad or scared during this year. My zine was just my thoughts that's why it worked because there was no right or wrong. Next time hopefully I was some color pencils. If I had to make another Zine I would most likely do it about the life of a child of immigrants.