The framework for the small experiences in the shop.
What is een Quest?
J Howard about Quests
He also has wrote a book about it; Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games
Artist Statement Assignment - Step Four
dinsdag 17 mei 2011
STEP FOUR: Taste and Correct the Seasonings.
Read your statement out loud. Listen to the way the sounds and rhythms seem to invite pauses. Notice places where you'd like the sound or rhythm to be different. Experiment with sounding out the beats of words that seem to be missing until they come to mind. Do this several times until you have a sense of the musical potential of your statement. As you read your statement, some phrases will ring true and others false. Think about the ones that aren't on the mark and find the true statement lurking behind the false one. You may find that the truth is a simpler statement than the one you made. Or your internal censors may have kept you from making a wholehearted statement of your truth lest it sound self-important. Risk puffing yourself up as long as your claims are in line with your goals and values.
Keep reading and revising your statement until you hear a musical, simple, authentic voice that is making clear and honest statements about your work. Refer to your word list and other Step One exercises as needed. By now your taste buds are saturated. You need a second opinion. Choose a trusted friend or professional to read your statement. Make it clear that you are satisfied with the ingredients on the whole, but you'd like an opinion as to seasoning. In other words, you alone are the authority for what is true about your work, but you'd like feedback on clarity, tone, and such technical matters as spelling and punctuation. Once you've incorporated such suggestions as make sense to you, make a crisp, clear original of your artist's statement. Sign and date it. Make lots of copies, you will have lots of people to serve it to!
My dream is to make experiences that give a sense of wonder and sparks the imagination. Allot of games create an escape of the real world while I want these experiences to continue in my real life. I wish not to escape but enhance my life through play. It is through play that my mind becomes involved with the environment and enhances the experience at that moment.
The world I experience exist out of fragments. I don’t experience life as one big story or design. Life is made out of fragments which I collect. This collection made out of pieces of life is more interesting than the bigger picture. This is the world I live in.
Everyday things and services are very much connected to how we experience the real world. The relationship can become such a routine that I forget it is there. To play with these elements my relationship will have a deeper meaning because I will see a different side I did not know before.
This theme I always keep in mind and I try to let the game or experience trickle down into the real world. This means that the fictional world becomes a part of the real world experience instead of an escape.
Over time an idea grew to make shop that is the main gate to different fragments of play. The platform gives me a lot of freedom to still experiment the many ways of play/interaction of the everyday thing. The challenge is to create world, that is combined with the real and fictional world, where a player can explore and enjoy.
Read your statement out loud. Listen to the way the sounds and rhythms seem to invite pauses. Notice places where you'd like the sound or rhythm to be different. Experiment with sounding out the beats of words that seem to be missing until they come to mind. Do this several times until you have a sense of the musical potential of your statement. As you read your statement, some phrases will ring true and others false. Think about the ones that aren't on the mark and find the true statement lurking behind the false one. You may find that the truth is a simpler statement than the one you made. Or your internal censors may have kept you from making a wholehearted statement of your truth lest it sound self-important. Risk puffing yourself up as long as your claims are in line with your goals and values.
Keep reading and revising your statement until you hear a musical, simple, authentic voice that is making clear and honest statements about your work. Refer to your word list and other Step One exercises as needed. By now your taste buds are saturated. You need a second opinion. Choose a trusted friend or professional to read your statement. Make it clear that you are satisfied with the ingredients on the whole, but you'd like an opinion as to seasoning. In other words, you alone are the authority for what is true about your work, but you'd like feedback on clarity, tone, and such technical matters as spelling and punctuation. Once you've incorporated such suggestions as make sense to you, make a crisp, clear original of your artist's statement. Sign and date it. Make lots of copies, you will have lots of people to serve it to!
My dream is to make experiences that give a sense of wonder and sparks the imagination. Allot of games create an escape of the real world while I want these experiences to continue in my real life. I wish not to escape but enhance my life through play. It is through play that my mind becomes involved with the environment and enhances the experience at that moment.
The world I experience exist out of fragments. I don’t experience life as one big story or design. Life is made out of fragments which I collect. This collection made out of pieces of life is more interesting than the bigger picture. This is the world I live in.
Everyday things and services are very much connected to how we experience the real world. The relationship can become such a routine that I forget it is there. To play with these elements my relationship will have a deeper meaning because I will see a different side I did not know before.
This theme I always keep in mind and I try to let the game or experience trickle down into the real world. This means that the fictional world becomes a part of the real world experience instead of an escape.
Over time an idea grew to make shop that is the main gate to different fragments of play. The platform gives me a lot of freedom to still experiment the many ways of play/interaction of the everyday thing. The challenge is to create world, that is combined with the real and fictional world, where a player can explore and enjoy.
Artist Statement Assignment - Step Two
STEP TWO: Filling the Pot.
Write a three paragraph artist's statement. Keep your sentences authentic and direct. Use the present tense ("I am," not "I was," "I do," not "I did.") Be brave: say nice things about yourself. If you find that you falter, write three paragraphs about an artist whose work you admire. Then write about yourself as though you were an admiring colleague. As a rule, your artist's statement should be written in the first person. Refer to yourself with the pronouns "I, me, my." If this blocks you, write in the third person, then go back and change the pronouns as needed when you get to Step Four. Use the suggestions below to structure your statement. Write three to five sentences per paragraph.
First paragraph. Begin with a simple statement of why you do the work you do. Support that statement, telling the reader more about your goals and aspirations.
My dream is to make experiences that give a sense of wonder and sparks the imagination. Allot of games create an escape of the real world while I want these experiences to continue in my real life. I wish not to escape but enhance my life through play. It is through play that my mind becomes involved with the environment and enhances the experience at that moment.
The world I experience exist out of fragments. I don’t experience life as one big story or design. Life is made out of fragments which I collect. This collection made out of pieces of life is more interesting than the bigger picture. This is the world I live in.
Second paragraph. Tell the reader how you make decisions in the course of your work. How and why do you select materials, techniques, themes? Keep it simple and tell the truth.
Everyday things and services are very much connected to how we experience the real world. The relationship can become such a routine that I forget it is there. To play with these elements my relationship will have a deeper meaning because I will see a different side I did not know before.
This theme I always keep in mind and I try to let the game or experience trickle down into the real world. This means that the fictional world becomes a part of the real world experience instead of an escape.
Third paragraph. Tell the reader a little more about your current work. How it grew out of prior work or life experiences. What are you exploring, attempting, challenging by doing this work.
Over time an idea grew to make shop that is the main gate to different fragments of play. The platform gives me a lot of freedom to still experiment the many ways of play/interaction of the everyday thing. The challenge is to create world, that is combined with the real and fictional world, where a player can explore and enjoy.
Write a three paragraph artist's statement. Keep your sentences authentic and direct. Use the present tense ("I am," not "I was," "I do," not "I did.") Be brave: say nice things about yourself. If you find that you falter, write three paragraphs about an artist whose work you admire. Then write about yourself as though you were an admiring colleague. As a rule, your artist's statement should be written in the first person. Refer to yourself with the pronouns "I, me, my." If this blocks you, write in the third person, then go back and change the pronouns as needed when you get to Step Four. Use the suggestions below to structure your statement. Write three to five sentences per paragraph.
First paragraph. Begin with a simple statement of why you do the work you do. Support that statement, telling the reader more about your goals and aspirations.
My dream is to make experiences that give a sense of wonder and sparks the imagination. Allot of games create an escape of the real world while I want these experiences to continue in my real life. I wish not to escape but enhance my life through play. It is through play that my mind becomes involved with the environment and enhances the experience at that moment.
The world I experience exist out of fragments. I don’t experience life as one big story or design. Life is made out of fragments which I collect. This collection made out of pieces of life is more interesting than the bigger picture. This is the world I live in.
Second paragraph. Tell the reader how you make decisions in the course of your work. How and why do you select materials, techniques, themes? Keep it simple and tell the truth.
Everyday things and services are very much connected to how we experience the real world. The relationship can become such a routine that I forget it is there. To play with these elements my relationship will have a deeper meaning because I will see a different side I did not know before.
This theme I always keep in mind and I try to let the game or experience trickle down into the real world. This means that the fictional world becomes a part of the real world experience instead of an escape.
Third paragraph. Tell the reader a little more about your current work. How it grew out of prior work or life experiences. What are you exploring, attempting, challenging by doing this work.
Over time an idea grew to make shop that is the main gate to different fragments of play. The platform gives me a lot of freedom to still experiment the many ways of play/interaction of the everyday thing. The challenge is to create world, that is combined with the real and fictional world, where a player can explore and enjoy.
Artist Statement Assignment - Step One
STEP ONE: Assemble the Ingredients.
1. Take five minutes and think about why you do what you do. How did you get into this work? How do you feel when work is going well? What are your favorite things about your work? Jot down short phrases that capture your thoughts. Don't worry about making sense or connections. The more you stir up at this point, the richer the stew.
Share my perspective. Small but joyful interactions. See things never properly looked at. The moment is now. Go from one place to another. Flow. Sensation of exploring and wonder. Personal connection. Being yourself and having an adventure.
2. Make a list of words and phrases that communicate your feelings about your work and your values. Include words you like, words that make you feel good, words that communicate your values or fascinations. Be loose. Be happy. Be real. Think of these as potential seasonings for your stew. You don't have to choose which ones to use just yet, so get them all out of the cupboard.
Fragments
Fragments
Explore
Curiosity
Flow
Never-ending
Fusion of virtual and reality
Fusion of digital and physical
Spark
Activate
Awe
Wonder
Fairy Tail
Legends
Collect
Treasure
Nostalgic
Sparks
Everyday things
Expression
3. Answer these questions as simply as you can. Your answers are the meat and potatoes of your stew. Let them be raw and uncut for now.
What is your favorite tool? Why?
Small recognizable interactions – the ease of use and sometimes nostalgic.
What is your favorite material? Why?
Everyday things - ??
What do you like best about what you do?
Creating sparks of imagination and creativity and enjoying the experience in the right here and now. Don’t think too much about the past or future. Go with the flow.
What do you mean when you say that a piece has turned out really well?
When someone else enjoy the experience and continue the curiosity/exploration in their own environment.
What patterns emerge in your work? Is there a pattern in the way you select materials? In the way you use color, texture or light?
Using the real life platforms to express my point of view and have fragments zooming in on the details and ignoring the bigger picture. There is also a senses of nostalgic.
What do you do differently from the way you were taught? Why?
Usually there is a red thread through an experience, a main story, I let go of this idea. It is a collection of experiences that bring up the feeling of curiosity and exploration.This is how my mind works I wish to express it and show that things do not need to be a part of a bigger picture to enjoy the experience.
What is your favorite color? List three qualities of the color. Consider that these qualities apply to your work.
Purple
The color is layered which gives the color depth.
The color is diverse by which I mean that a shade of purple can be warm or cold. There are many shades to choose from.
4. Look at your word list. Add new words suggested by your answers to the questions above.
5. Choose two key words from your word list. They can be related or entirely different. Look them up in a dictionary. Read all the definitions listed for your words. Copy the definitions, thinking about what notions they have in common. Look your words up in a Thesaurus. Read the entries related to your words. Are there any new words that should be added to your word list?
Fragments
–noun
1.a part broken off or detached: scattered fragments of the broken vase.
2.an isolated, unfinished, or incomplete part: She played a fragment of her latest composition.
3.an odd piece, bit, or scrap.
–verb (used without object)
4.to collapse or break into fragments; disintegrate: The chair fragmented under his weight.
–verb (used with object)
5.to break (something) into pieces or fragments; cause to disintegrate: Outside influences soon fragmented the Mayan culture.
6.to divide into fragments; disunify.
piece, remnant, share, slice, divide, burst, split
Curiosity
–noun, plural -ties.
1.the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness.
2.a curious, rare, or novel thing.
3.a strange, curious, or interesting quality.
investigation, searching, intense desire to learn, oddity, trinket, wonder
6. Write five sentences that tell the truth about your connection to your work. If you are stuck, start by filling in the blanks below.
My works is a manifestation of how I see and experience the world.
It is my life long mission to find ways to communicate and share my world.
This expression is important because I need to release the creativity or it will become to much in mine mind.
1. Take five minutes and think about why you do what you do. How did you get into this work? How do you feel when work is going well? What are your favorite things about your work? Jot down short phrases that capture your thoughts. Don't worry about making sense or connections. The more you stir up at this point, the richer the stew.
Share my perspective. Small but joyful interactions. See things never properly looked at. The moment is now. Go from one place to another. Flow. Sensation of exploring and wonder. Personal connection. Being yourself and having an adventure.
2. Make a list of words and phrases that communicate your feelings about your work and your values. Include words you like, words that make you feel good, words that communicate your values or fascinations. Be loose. Be happy. Be real. Think of these as potential seasonings for your stew. You don't have to choose which ones to use just yet, so get them all out of the cupboard.
Fragments
Fragments
Explore
Curiosity
Flow
Never-ending
Fusion of virtual and reality
Fusion of digital and physical
Spark
Activate
Awe
Wonder
Fairy Tail
Legends
Collect
Treasure
Nostalgic
Sparks
Everyday things
Expression
3. Answer these questions as simply as you can. Your answers are the meat and potatoes of your stew. Let them be raw and uncut for now.
What is your favorite tool? Why?
Small recognizable interactions – the ease of use and sometimes nostalgic.
What is your favorite material? Why?
Everyday things - ??
What do you like best about what you do?
Creating sparks of imagination and creativity and enjoying the experience in the right here and now. Don’t think too much about the past or future. Go with the flow.
What do you mean when you say that a piece has turned out really well?
When someone else enjoy the experience and continue the curiosity/exploration in their own environment.
What patterns emerge in your work? Is there a pattern in the way you select materials? In the way you use color, texture or light?
Using the real life platforms to express my point of view and have fragments zooming in on the details and ignoring the bigger picture. There is also a senses of nostalgic.
What do you do differently from the way you were taught? Why?
Usually there is a red thread through an experience, a main story, I let go of this idea. It is a collection of experiences that bring up the feeling of curiosity and exploration.This is how my mind works I wish to express it and show that things do not need to be a part of a bigger picture to enjoy the experience.
What is your favorite color? List three qualities of the color. Consider that these qualities apply to your work.
Purple
The color is layered which gives the color depth.
The color is diverse by which I mean that a shade of purple can be warm or cold. There are many shades to choose from.
4. Look at your word list. Add new words suggested by your answers to the questions above.
5. Choose two key words from your word list. They can be related or entirely different. Look them up in a dictionary. Read all the definitions listed for your words. Copy the definitions, thinking about what notions they have in common. Look your words up in a Thesaurus. Read the entries related to your words. Are there any new words that should be added to your word list?
Fragments
–noun
1.a part broken off or detached: scattered fragments of the broken vase.
2.an isolated, unfinished, or incomplete part: She played a fragment of her latest composition.
3.an odd piece, bit, or scrap.
–verb (used without object)
4.to collapse or break into fragments; disintegrate: The chair fragmented under his weight.
–verb (used with object)
5.to break (something) into pieces or fragments; cause to disintegrate: Outside influences soon fragmented the Mayan culture.
6.to divide into fragments; disunify.
piece, remnant, share, slice, divide, burst, split
Curiosity
–noun, plural -ties.
1.the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness.
2.a curious, rare, or novel thing.
3.a strange, curious, or interesting quality.
investigation, searching, intense desire to learn, oddity, trinket, wonder
6. Write five sentences that tell the truth about your connection to your work. If you are stuck, start by filling in the blanks below.
My works is a manifestation of how I see and experience the world.
It is my life long mission to find ways to communicate and share my world.
This expression is important because I need to release the creativity or it will become to much in mine mind.
Artist Statement Research
Lea Redmond
Leafcutter Designs
My dream is to find, or make, something so striking that, when I open my clasped hands and reveal it to you, your world is turned upside down, you fill with possibility, and your eyes start to twinkle.
How do old ways of thinking/feeling/doing unravel, and how do new meanings cohere? I am looking for the cracks and seams where our everyday realities suddenly (or perhaps slowly) split open and offer us new possibilities for living. Art is the necessary revealing of that which we have overlooked and – perhaps quite precariously – taken for granted.
I want my art to be a different kind of “activism” – an appeal to the playful heart of humanity. Most people don’t want to hear about your cause and sign your petition, but they will stop to consider something strange and marvelous. I am trying to create accessible experiences by playing with the relationship between the ordinary and the extraordinary.
Jason Barnhart
Website
Let's do things people will talk about.
Slinkachu
Website
The street-based side of my work plays with the notion of surprise and I aim to encourage city-dwellers to be more aware of their surroundings. The scenes I set up, more evident through the photography, and the titles I give these scenes aim to reflect the loneliness and melancholy of living in a big city, almost being lost and overwhelmed.
Leafcutter Designs
My dream is to find, or make, something so striking that, when I open my clasped hands and reveal it to you, your world is turned upside down, you fill with possibility, and your eyes start to twinkle.
How do old ways of thinking/feeling/doing unravel, and how do new meanings cohere? I am looking for the cracks and seams where our everyday realities suddenly (or perhaps slowly) split open and offer us new possibilities for living. Art is the necessary revealing of that which we have overlooked and – perhaps quite precariously – taken for granted.
I want my art to be a different kind of “activism” – an appeal to the playful heart of humanity. Most people don’t want to hear about your cause and sign your petition, but they will stop to consider something strange and marvelous. I am trying to create accessible experiences by playing with the relationship between the ordinary and the extraordinary.
Jason Barnhart
Website
Let's do things people will talk about.
Slinkachu
Website
The street-based side of my work plays with the notion of surprise and I aim to encourage city-dwellers to be more aware of their surroundings. The scenes I set up, more evident through the photography, and the titles I give these scenes aim to reflect the loneliness and melancholy of living in a big city, almost being lost and overwhelmed.
Expo
The ideas for the Expo:
Physical
Beer coasters with puzzle
Little People
SMS system
QR code
Vending Machine
Time Capsule
Physical
Beer coasters with puzzle
Little People
SMS system
QR code
Vending Machine
Time Capsule
Blue Print
donderdag 12 mei 2011
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