08 Iterate Your Identity
Lead on this creation: Carla
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Lead on this creation: Carla
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DESCRIPTION: This week you're going to "iterate your identity" Revisit the "Are You There AI God? It's Me, (Insert Name)"
*This is similar to the "Do Something and Do Something Else" project, BUT you will be writing an artist statement about this project.
You can approach this iteration multiple ways:
You can choose a new medium or media form to translate your original work
You can expand on the work you've already produced, for example if you made a 20 second video, it can now be longer form or you could audio or interactive components
You could create a new work if you feel after class material covered together there are different ways you'd like to represent yourself
You can surprise us with some other approach we did not mention above ^^^
REQUIREMENTS:
Do not use an AI platform to write your artist statement.
For the second iteration of your identity one component of the final work should be authored by you, meaning it should not be only an AI generative project. For example, you can take a generated image and bring it into Photoshop or After Effects to edit, add, or change the work in some way.
EXAMPLE:
ARTIST STATEMENT FOR THE WORK: “The Selfie Drawing Project” began as a search, turning my gaze upon myself (and my electronic devices) to see what I might find there. In January of 2015 I felt an intense urge to begin working on a new body of work, one that in fact, incorporated my body. I felt vulnerable at first, speaking more directly through my own voice, and using myself as a character in the digital narratives that seem to be my most natural form of expression. I’ve been taking selfies for years, but before incorporating them into my art, I needed to find an element of selfie vernacular to recontextualize. Drawing, usually the first phase of any series I begin, became the vehicle for me to embark on this project. The project includes a collection of 52 digital drawings that I completed over 52 weeks – a year-long project in which I performed “the self” through digital drawings from January to December 2015.
The first culmination of this body of work was “A Subject Self-Defined”, a solo exhibition at TRANSFER Gallery in 2016 of large-format looped moving images and an augmented reality book (produced in collaboration with UNBOX and Blippar), that took its title from Joseph Kosuth’s 1966 neon sculpture that spells out and is eponymously titled “A Subject Self-Defined.” He belonged to a group of artists involved in stripping down the art object, reducing it to ideas and information that were detached from personal meaning. Forty-nine years later, when we find art in the age of networked identity and digital dematerialization, I am perplexed by subjecthood and self-definition in relationship to the “personal” when performed publicly.”
In 2017, the project was expanded for a solo exhibition at DAM Gallery entitled “Until the End of the World.” I provided new hybrid transcriptions of the Selfie project, including an augmented reality wallpaper installation “The Selfie Wallpaper“ and the 3D animated video work “Until the End of the World,” for which the exhibition is eponymously titled and which enhances a narrative component to the selfie project. Inspired by a sequence in the 1991 Wim Wenders film “Until the End of the World” where a woman is addicted to watching her dreams in a small, handheld device. I exploded the concept into an operatic mash up that addresses the digital identity politics of our age.
