Interpretive Project

Wei Yifei interpretive project

This is only a rough draft now!

Rachel Nyanjom Interpretive Project

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Wei Yifei In class #8

In class #8
Mark Bradford is such an artist who never follow the stereotype of what art defines and require. He is a Cal art graduate with a day job as a stylist with a lot of paintings. His style sometimes is called “street style” which is rejected by so-called mainstream art realm. His paintings use a lot of vague light and color technique. My interpretive project is starting from the simple theory obtained from the articles then find the background to support the theory. It is not such a progect containing a lot of unknown and "professional" stuff. It just combines some easy things together and bring readers a direct feeling over the artist, and understand who he is, what his works want to express, and maybe why he is acceptable and popular.

Alejandro Negrete: Artist Statement on Interpretative Project

In Class # 8
Artist Statement on Interpretative Project
The Interpretive Project by Alejandro Negrete is based on Thomas Hirschhorn’s Cavemanman. He attempts to take apart the piece in a sense and reveal its various facets. He is a proponent of the idea of mass culture having incomparable effects in modern art. He used philosophical literature by Umberto Eco, Barthes, and Benjamin in order put meaning behind definition. The idea of reproducibility is the central vein from which Negrete bases his other interpretations. How is it that art has become what it is? How does Hirschhorn’s installation underscore these general view and concepts? These are some of the question that Negrete attempts to answer in his project.

cavemanman.blogspot.com

Hannah Pilling Interpretie Project Statement

This interpretive project is a web of connections based around a central theme of the relationship between urban culture and the visual community we exist in. The most significant concept being addressed is Karl Marx’s theory of Historical Materialism and the creation of understanding through social context. This project highlights the importance of ones own familiarity with the world around them. By investigating different aspects that combine to form the text of Mark Bradford’s pieces, works by Umberto Eco, Barthes, and Benjamin will be examined and applied to the creation of Across 110th Street. As Bradford does when he layers the paper onto a canvas, this investigation will be a compilation of layers that, when sewn together, expand the viewer and readers understanding of the piece. Bradford’s pieces emphasize process and personal history and are, therefore, perfect for this type of investigation.

My interpretive project

Carly's In Class 8

Carly Hopkins is attempting to tie the bridge between art, religion and politics in a way that is represented by text. She has taken this approach because she feels that this is what these three works by Umberto Eco, Barthes, and Benjamin represent. Her page has two links that all tie back to the central idea, which overall is connected to the conclusion and vice versa. In her own words, she believes that these three readings all have similar connections in which one can come to the same conclusion as her statement in the beginning. Because of this, she alludes to the ideas of Marx and Freud for back up in her ideas as she attempts to portray her statements correctly. Links to pictures finish this piece that all tie into her idea of text.

Link to Methodology

Colleen Bernhard. Interpretive Blog Statement.

In her writing, Colleen shows that interpreting art is both creative and original as well as an activity with multiple meanings and rules. Through the works of Umberto Eco, Walter Benjamin, and Roland Barthes she discusses how text can be felt in ways museumgoers have never thought of, but that each viewpoint is key to the understanding of a certain piece. The artist she focuses on, Friedrich Kunath, has tied text into his work in a literal sense by writing a phrase and illuminating it with light to catch the viewer’s attention. Colleen hopes to catch her readers’ attention by making clear concise statements that correlate what Eco, Benjamin and Barthes discuss vividly in their essays. Let the Distance Keep Us Together seems to the naked eye, a simple piece of Perspex glass with felt words tacked on, but to Colleen these words have more meaning which she talks about in her interpretive writing. 

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Ashley Nalikka Interpretive Blog Statement

Ashley Nalikka’s work focuses on the introverted character featured in Andro Wekua’s “Get Out of My Room” piece. She touches on subjects such as seclusion, narcissism, adolescence, and introspection, all topics that are a part of Wekua’s piece. She also deeply analyzes the figure’s stance and appearance and digs deep to uncover his story. While working with these terms and closely examining the piece, she has found that there is more that meets the eye in Wekua’s work.

Patrice Knight's In Class 8

In Class Assignment #8 Patrice Knight

9/29/08

IP URL: http://ganderinterpretive.pbwiki.com/

Patrice Knight’s interpretive project focuses on the fundamentals of interpreting art. She uses clean, persuasive language, and provokes her readers to challenge their own and society’s existing standards about understanding art. A goal of this project is to uphold, promote and analyze the artworks of Ryan Gander. She describes his work with a positive and almost reverent feel, there is a strong presence of respect for Gander’s art found through out her project. She writes from the perspective of a well-versed viewer of art and Gander’s art especially. Knight has been well informed, and this is evident in her wide array of knowledge about Gander’s works and art writings. Though she takes many examples from text and Gander’s presentation itself, she does add a subjective spin to her project. Knight creates ideas that are based on the information she has learned from reading art writings, visiting museums, researching Gander and his art and listening to Gander’s presentation. She then builds upon this base by adding her own beliefs and opinions.

Julie Kepics Interpretive Project Statement

The vision of the interpretive project is built around Rivane Neunschwander’s piece of artwork I Wish Your Wish, in which text plays a key function in helping to express the work in its entirety. The physical work is made up of individual text and each piece of text has a special meaning. The meanings are connected to two people, the one who created the wish and the one who chose to wear the wish. The interpretive project clearly displays the theme of text being part of the whole, and uses examples from three different essays by three different authors to help justify the point. Direct quotes and summaries from these essays help by giving concrete thoughts made by the authors that make a direct connection with what the author herself is saying. Examples, images, and hyperlinks give the reader more insight into the piece by allowing for more detailed information to be discovered on certain areas. Connecting to blog posts and other wiki pages, the author also allows the reader to view previous thoughts she had on the various essays and their authors.

Ariel Fisher's Artist Statement Regarding her Interpretive Blog

This piece was originally ordered to be created. However, as she became immersed in my Wiki-style platform, she began to realize how she wanted to mold this essay to her liking. She began with an exposition of the style in which the art was created, a little bit of background on the artist and the piece itself. She then went back to incorporate more meaningful quotations from texts to add to a more inclusive interpretation of this work. She created several different Wiki pages to separate (but keep together) ideas and stories. There are links embedded within each page to connect to another page to create the whole story.

Sarah Rifkind Interpretive project

Sarah Rifkind’s interpretive project is a series of explanations and ways of looking at the piece I Wish your Wish. This project is meant to inform and present new ways of looking at the same piece. Rifkind creates links within the text and through pictures to provide a more specialized content area. She uses a wide variety of media, from photos to text to video. Each different style is meant to provide a different outlook on the piece. This work came from Sarah’s fascination and mesmerism of the ribbons when she visited the Carnegie International. This work is exploring the relationship I Wish your Wish has with the current society. This work can be found here: http://sarahrifkind.pbwiki.com/Rough-Draft

Jenna Palmer Interpretive Project Statement

Jenna Palmer uses different readings and authors to provide support for her interpretive project. By incorporating various materials, she is able to frame her ideas and provide an overall message. The network of links offer a second look into the examples and illustrations she talks about in her piece. The matter-of-fact way she relates diverse authors to one artist is precise and factual. By providing examples, Palmer is able to lend support to her ideas.

http://jennapalmer.pbwiki.com/Methodolgy-Interpretation-Project

Jarrett Eakins, inclass essay 9-29

In this multimedia essay, Jarrett Eakins attempts to assert a clear and elaborate argument concerning the work of artist Mike Kelley. He delves deep into the artist’s use of irony and humor and how each of these aspects is reflected in specific pieces of work, as well as how each of these aspects fits into the various themes explored by the artist and elaborates further on many of the more prominent themes. He also integrates an understanding of essays by Walter Benjamin, Umberto Eco and Roland Barthes by detailing how the assertions expressed in each of these works is demonstrated by the art of Mike Kelley. This is all accomplished through the use of myriad hyperlinks, pictures and sound.

http://jarretteakinsintrepertive.pbwiki.com/FrontPage

Gillian Schuyler Interpretive Project Statement

Gillian Schuyler dissects A Mallarmé , a work by Mario Merz in great detail regarding perception by the masses. Utilizing a great deal of engaging readings she has previous pondered upon and a touch of her own dry humor, Schuyler discusses an audience’s own specific ‘lens’ through which they view all things and its effect on art, and A Mallarmé specifically. Her inability to keep her personality out of her writing gives the piece an air of interest that engages the audience and demands that they take a moment to discover their own ‘lens’ and what aspects of their lives created it.

A Mallarmé Interpretive

Emily Doerfler interpretive project statement

Emily Doerfler’s interpretive project is focused upon the work of Bruce Conner, specifically his Angel series. The project links the ideas of interpreting Bruce Conner’s Angel series with the ideas in Umberto Eco’s Travels in Hyperreality, Roland Barthes “From Work to Text,” and Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and how these works help interpret Bruce Conner’s. The main piece that Emily Doerfler focused her interpretations on was Night Angel. Emily Doerfler used a wiki to establish the bulk of her project and then made use of several different types of multimedia to combine different features of the project and link them together. She used a wiki to create a center area where the reader would be able to begin their journey through the interpretive project and return at any time. Next, she made use of hiding links in images, adding links to different pages in the wiki, and offering links to outside sources.

http://bruceconner-nightangel.pbwiki.com/

Katie Capri: Interpretive Project Statement

A textual wiki page sprinkled with blue font forms the center of a tree with blue branches full of leaflets of information. Katie Capri’s multi-mediated narrative approaches the realm of Internet narration with cohesiveness in mind. Without the constant jumping and back tracking through cyberspace, Capri’s narration keeps the definition of the term in mind, story telling. There is no absence of color, effect or branched pages in Capri’s piece but there is one place, in one internet site that keeps the idea of an essay in tact with the addition of modern technology to aid in the expressive process without detracting from the narratives story telling intentions.
Interpretive Project Rough Draft