Creative Theories: Thinking and Making

 Below is a copy of my poster of my artefact: Todays presentations went well and I received very helpful feedback; Look into Bricolage  Redundancy of functions – Broken / not wanted  Thinking about theatrical interaction with Wymering – stage sets / installations in the rooms – fragmentations/parts of the manor/historical? – response to ruination and how it is.  Sarah Sze, ruined site work - the last garden. See Adhocism Bricolage is the construction or creation of a piece of work from a diverse range of objects or materials that happen to be available, or a work constructed using mixed media. Its applied in an art context to artists who use a diverse range of non-traditional art materials. This approach became popular in the early twentieth century when resources were scarce, and aspects of surrealism, dada and cubism have a bricolage character. ( 1 ) I believe that my artefact is a strong example of bricolage and adhocism. Sarah Sze's The Last Garden is a very ins...

Below are some better quality photos I have taken of my artefact, S.A.H.R. ;

I am very pleased to present my finished artefact; S.A.H.R. (Scenography, Architecture, History, Representation).  Inspired by Nam June Paik, S.A.H.R. is a combination of technology and architecture in the form of a stage set, presenting Wymering Manor as a stage. S.A.H.R. focuses on layering and creating depth, producing a layered performance space with the elements of the TV and Wymering Manor. Similar to Sarah Sze, S.A.H.R. is made mainly from an object (a TV) that is designed for human scale, producing a sense of familiarity and nostalgia. These senses are increased for those who have visited the manor, as some of the layering have design elements from the manor and some memorable parts of the manor presented in an artistic or architectural way. Like the Collective Network City Model, S.A.H.R. has a clear distinction between the materials used, with this artefact I challenged myself to reuse as much of the TV as possible before adding new materials to it, totalling at three dif...

For the next stage of our project, we are starting to develop a poster of our artefact which includes; Photos of our artefact 300 words on our artefact Start considering a title for our artefact Three artists/ architects that we are inspired by Below are some designers that I am inspired by: Nam June Paik Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. His method of combining art and technology (in terms of physical technology) is very inspiring as they are very diverse, I also like that his work can be interpreted in different ways, as well as that is it an unconventional way to use technology.  Photos and information obtained from; www.cobosocial.com news.artnet.com The Collective Network City Model; Roger Kemp, Raphael Kilpatrick & Anthony Fryatt The Collective Network City Model is a collaborative model of an imagined city / urban condition constructed by 20 students. I like the clear 'territori...

Once printing the plans and elevations of Wymering Manor in scale 1:20, I found that if I made my model of the manor in this scale it would not fit into the set space within the artefact, so I decided to work in scale 1:50 instead. I decided to use Balsa wood as it was cheap, I had an abundance of it, as well as it was the right colour wood I wanted to use as it creates a contrast between the model and the rest of the artefact. I started off by drawing the floor plans of the manor on cardboard and started assembling each floor individually, then adding a 'tech' element - a part of the TV - into each of the rooms, and then gluing the three floors together, bringing the sectional model together as a whole.  Below are photos of ground and first floor of the manor before I glued them together; I really enjoyed making the manor in this scale as it allowed me to spend more time in making smaller details of the manor that I initially overlooked; I also found that working from the floo...