Assignments

Assignment 1: Oblique Strategies
(February 2)

    Oblique Strategies Artwork

    Quotes on Creativity, Process, and Personal Artwork

Assignment 2: Fusion Exercise 1 - Stamps
(February 9)

Tutorial Stamp

Custom Stamp - Chicken Drumstick

Assignment 3: Reading 1 - Systems
(February 21)

    Reading Questions

    • Systems
    • Modularity and Tesselation
    • Complexity (aperiodic) VS. Uniform (periodic)
    • System Diagram VS. Exploded View Drawing
    • System Diagram Examples

    Revised Diagrams with System Concepts

SPRING BREAK


Assignment 5: Reading 2 - Site Specific Art
(April 4)

    Artists (Walter De Maria, Banksy, Robert Montgomery, Hayat Nazer)

    Artist Interventions

    Site Specific Art, Signs, Street Art

Assignment 6: Signs

    Phase One: Location Scouting and Brainstorming Designs

    (April 6)
    • Part 1: Location Scouting
    • Part 2: Photo Documentation and Description
    • Part 3: Site Map

    Phase Two: CAD Modeling Objects and Making Stamps

    (April 11)

    Phase Three: Toolpaths

    (April 11)

    Phase Four: Project Overview

    (April 11)

    • Part 1: One CNC Stamp
    • Part 2: Two Simulated Signs


    Phase Five: Rough Drafts of Simulated Signs and CNC Stamp

    (April 13)

    Phase Six: Final Stamps

    (April 18)

    Phase Seven-Nine: Google Maps, Photos, Video, Artist Statement

    (May 2)
    • Part 1: Google Maps
    • Part 2: Photo Documentation - My Stamp
    • Part 3: Photo Documentation - Classmate Location with my Stamp
    • Part 4: Video Presentation
    • Part 5: Artist Statement

Assignment 7: Fusion Exercise 2 - Teapots
(May 2)

    Decorative Teapot Tutorial

    Custom Teapot

Assignment 8: Reading 3 - Artifacts
(May 9)

    Dinosaurs and How Hhey are Portrayed

    Other Disciplines that Use John Conway's Interpretation

    Material Speculation

    "In a world ..." Brainstorming

Assignment 9: Artifacts and Speculative Object
(May 24)

    Part 1: Find, Modify, Slice and Print a Thingiverse Artifact

    Part 2: Printing the Test Model

    Part 3 and 4: The Artifact and Story - Project Outline

    Part 5, 6, and 7: Printing and Documentation

    Part 8: Final Documentation

    • Part 1: The Story
    • Part 2: The Model
    • Part 3: Artifact Photos
    • Part 4: Video Presentation