You are to make a 10-15 mins presentation of yourself: who you are, what you want to be or what you dream about doing, a profile of who you are as an individual or as a visual artist. Consider your influences, inspirations and aspirations (historical, cultural, tecnological etc). Overall, consider your relevance to contemporary issues.
Week 1 : SELF REALISATION AND IDEAS
The Power of Writing Things Down
I do write down things, like when I am really angry and when I do it distresses me, then I rip and throw the paper away. When I’m writing it feeling like I am explaining to myself why sometimes I feel the way I do, because I feel no one will listen or take me seriously.
The Act of Writing Helps Your Memory
Have you ever noticed that when you write a shopping list, you can remember almost all the items on it without glancing at it? Or when you have a bright idea and scribble it in your notebook, you can remember it all day? The very act of writing things down helps to get them lodged into your long-term, not short-term, memory.I start lists and often find sometimes that I am creating the same lists on a different piece of paper, I do this very often and don’t know why it is quite annoying. I think I do it because maybe I don’t want to forget and instead of finding the list I’m worried that I won’t and I don’t want to forget what was on the list so it might be a psychological.
Writing shows you’re Serious
I’m sure you’ve heard the advice “get it in writing” about business transactions; it’s much easier to weasel out of something we’ve said but writing down a promise or contract shows that you intend to honor it. This doesn’t just apply in the business world, though. What means more—saying the words “I love you” or handing your partner a beautifully-written letter? Which will they treasure for years?
Read more: http://www.divinecaroline.com/22192/64852-power-writing-things/2#ixzz1ITZ0A8Kc
I often do spider diagrams for getting ideas flowing I call them brain storms sounds better than spider diagrams or web thinking.
"Web-thinking."
Using large sheets of paper and starting in the middle, jot down some random ideas and potential projects. Start with your current interests and add fantasies, secret passions and ambitions. Let one idea lead to another and connect them with lines like a spider's web so they begin to "breed." Let your thoughts range from simple exploratory sets of works to complex mind-bending installations. You need clear time to take this task seriously so that the process becomes natural to you. Evolved artists habitually and actively bounce ideas between hemispheres. Natural to some, the art of yin-yanging can also be learned. Don't share with anyone. Live for a while in the embrace of your imagination, no matter how outrageous. Mind-test and envision but don't give in to early rejection. Associate freely. Anything goes!!Example of Web thinking
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QUESTIONS TO ASK MYSELF IN THE TRANSITION FROM STUDIES TO WORKPLACE
1. What am I able to do at the end of my studies that I was unable to do when I began?
To say I have got a degree went to university and to be able to get a career in graphic design.
2. What specific knowledge do I have now as a result of my studies?
I am dyslexic and went without knowing for years thinking I was just different.
3. What aspects /courses/type of work I am enjoying the most in my studies?
I like hands on work and community based things like what I am doing the red studio.
4. Where and when did I do my best work so far? Which classes? What sort of work? Which activities?
My best work properly has to be the Rise Up work, for Red Studio because we have a great concept, it all link together with the time and point we are at in our life now and it could be more significant. It is group work and the activities include research design and communication to produce an exhibition or change.
5. What are my strengths as a result?
I am a good communicator and believe I am a good concept designer. I handle situations fast and effective.
6. What areas do I need to develop now?
I need to develop my CV for a career in graphic design and start applying for Graphic Design jobs and internships.
7. Where do I want to be in 4 or 5 years from now?
I want to be a Graphic Designer and be a proud Home owner.
8. How will I start to go about achieving the answers to question 7?
I have already achieved some of it I just now need to be noticed and given a chance. When I am given the chance I will be paid which will mount up for a deposit on a house.
9. Who do I know to talk to about the career or work that interest me? What other resources and contacts do I already have?
10. What do I do to start to make contacts? Make a plan of the steps to take to achieve this.
Going to more events not always art galleries or a field of my choice of study but places that interest me.
The only barrier will be me if I’m not open and don’t communicate with people and networks that I am meeting.
Students who I have studied with and lectors.
14. Where else can I go?
I have networks from university, there is so many things made available to students starting education or leaving education with a degree it just knowing the right people to contact.
10. What do I do to start to make contacts? Make a plan of the steps to take to achieve this.
Going to more events not always art galleries or a field of my choice of study but places that interest me.
11. Are there any barriers I can see to getting started?
The only barrier will be me if I’m not open and don’t communicate with people and networks that I am meeting.
12. Who can I / what can I do to get beyond these barriers?
Build confidence.
13. Who can I identify as someone to talk to in order to begin my networking?
Students who I have studied with and lectors.
14. Where else can I go?
Job centre or career adviser.
Week 2- ONE'S MAN CEILING IS ANOTHER MAN'S FLOOR
GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS- WORKSHOP
- Is it Do-able? Worth it? Is it Real or is it a Fantasy?
I just want to be successful; yes it is worth it for my own morale it is real because I haven’t got an impossible mind set.
- How can this be achieved in three ways?
Get a degree at university, start my career and never look aback
- What is Stopping You/What is the most negative thing that prevents this happening?
Nothing is stopping me I just need to get out there and do it and feel full of confidence, when I receive my degree that will be the biggest confidence boast ever.
- Where do these aspirations lead in terms of others/other disciplines
To stay at what you believe and want to do even when the going gets tough, because things you want you have to work for they don’t get given to people like me on a plate.
- Who helps you to reach this goal or state?
The only person that can help me is I, I push myself for what I want and don’t get distracted from what I want in life.
How do we measure success?
Examples from creative practitioners Creative Review link.
Exercise -Identify five of what you consider to be your own failures artistic or personal. Note them in your journal for consideration and reflection.
Week 3: “KNOWING AND SHOWING: THE OBJECT”
Past memories, present experiences and future dreams of each person are inextricably to the objects that comprise his or her environment.
Moderns culture of materialism or the believe that the ultimate foals of personal life can be fulfilled by things and sensations – Resources of energy are getting less and less. Thread of the continuation of life in the planet. Need to re-evaluate our relationships to objects
How and why contemporary society relates to things in their immediate environment?
Reason to attachment to things? Part of our goals?
What objects are “special” to you and why?
The potential significance of things is realized in a process of actively cultivating a world of meanings which reflects and help create the ultimate goal of one existence. Ecological consciousness (how technology can destroy the earth)
MANA BEYOND BELIEF (DVD)
Can you tell how much Mana an object has? Find out your Mana detection strength in our MANA Exam
Mana - beyond belief, you can hear a wide variety of music and songs from different cultures and peoples.
Is Mana the same as in "Manna from Heaven"?
Week 4 : HERE AND NOW
The Virtual Revolution - 20 years of the world wide web 20 years on from the invention of the world wide web, this major new BBC Two series, produced in partnership with The Open University, takes stock of its profound impact - how, for better and for worse, the digital revolution is reshaping all our lives.
Over four themed episodes that criss-cross the globe, journalist and academic Dr
Aleks Krotoski explores the meaning of a phenomenon that is transforming everything from how we learn to how we shop, vote and make friends. The series reveals astonishing facts about how the web is rewiring our society, our economy and - drawing on a unique experiment conducted specifically for the series - maybe even our brains.
15 Minuet Presentation
