I Love My Trucking Group

[Lauren Hirsh]

I don't remember if we came up with a specific title/reference for our project. We're exploring Abstract Expressionism using a toy truck with LED and proximity sensors.  It drives around an environment of audio-triggering sensors while trailing some paint-ish medium that will throughout the course of the experience become a visual image.  Don't forget, though, that Abstract Expressionism is the concept here- It's not about the image! It's all about the process!

http://cratel.wichita.edu/blogs/lauren/2007/02/27/brainstorminginspiration-1/


Group:
We said we'd blog on Friday, but I went ahead and did one for a few reasons:
1) I felt that if I wrote it out, I could commit it to memory and see if there were parts I didn't get.
2) YOU can see if there are parts I didn't get.
3) I remembered there was something said in class today about having some up by Wednesday.

I wasn't incredibly specific about some areas... it could use a bit of beefing-up.  We can revise my version in lab Friday at 230.  New things may also become clear by that time.

I also had the idea that the "arms" Kendra suggested coming from the vehicle could be operated by motors (randomly, of course). Just an idea.


Lauren

[Jeffrey Bennett]

Are these definitions of Abstract Expressionism and Action Painting support
the ideas you are drawing from?

Is there a particular Abstract Expressionist's style that will influence
your work in any way?

Main Entry: abstract expressionism

Function: noun

: an artistic movement of the mid-20th century comprising diverse styles and
techniques and
emphasizing especially an artist's liberty to convey attitudes and emotions
through nontraditional and
usually nonrepresentational means.

Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of
painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto
the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.

[1] The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself
as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its artist.

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[Steve Wilson]

We're actually exploring conceptual art. We're interested in the
process of artistic creation, so that will be the focus of our piece.
The tie-in with abstract expressionism is secondary. Basically, we're
expecting the result produced by our project to look similar to Robert
Motherwell's work. The only reason that we're even mentioning abstract
expressionism is that we're using some quotations and comments about
that particular style of painting.

While the work is being produced, we're using audible comments (read
by a team member) on abstract expressionism as a Brechtian alienation
device, serving to remind the spectator that they are witnessing the
creative act, rather than waiting for the little truck to finish
"drawing the picture". This use of reflexivity clearly aligns us with
the postmodernist camp even though the finished product (again, not
the focus) will seem more modernist.

--
Steve

[gmcumb...@wichita.edu]

Here's a link to Beige, an art collective everyone should check out.

http://www.post-data.org/beige/