Beyond the Photograph
Summary/Prompt: Using Oliver Herring’s TASK parties and other artists shared in class for inspiration, take an original photograph through 10 changes. You must include the following types of actions: social, performative, digital, tactile/analogue, replicate. Some other ideas could include scaling, reinventing in another dimension, coding, animating, turning into music, cooking, etc. Play is encouraged. You will document the entire process with video so some planning is required as well as renting/using a camera with a tripod. Title your work and decide on the work’s final form to be shared with an audience. Is it the process as a performance or video document? Is it the original and final side by side? (Ex. First and last stage side by side) HOW TO SUBMIT Phase 1: Ideation Bring 3 Ideas to class and be able to clearly share with the class. (turn in on Canvas as a link to a google doc with any links, photos, sketches, and descriptions) Phase 2: Experimentation Share a progress update, what steps have you done and what do you still need to finish? (turn in by adding your own photos to google folder, place link in Canvas) FINAL: Turn in the original image and images of the final form, and other if your work includes other components. Edited video/photo documentary of the process. (under 5 minutes)
Sam Jaffe
Mei Matute
Max Dunlop
Alejandro Vasquez
Growing up in a world of shrinking privacy and increasing surveillance has definitely affected me in ways I will never know, but I can mourn the life I could’ve had. One of the ways I became the most aware of this situation was over the summer when one of my friends showed me that he had an app on his phone that had a life feed of his office that he could even speak into to send live messages. Throughout this process I tried to pick options that would be able to manifest into something greater especially considering I had to finalize the product into a documentary. The final product functions plays on a sense of dichotomy of surveilling and being surveilled; a sort of abstraction of the reality of today where we often enjoy hearing and knowing up-to-date knowledge about people in our life while also having to share all the details of your own life. Part of my journey in this product was trying to abstract this daily surveillance with many attempts being unsatisfactory or simply failures. Oliver Herring pushed me to do something that would be grounded in some real life aspect while making sure that I am focusing on the limitless of my imagination. We enjoy watching while trying to ignore the fact that we are also being watched.
