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Week 2 (Feb. 3) – billboards, Vietnam war memorial

Asn. 1 due.

view exercise from day 1: create modification of image or sculpture from public space to contrast ideas of public and private

Contents 1 Visiting Speaker 2 Introduction to Project 1: Billboard 3 Reading for next week: 4 resources:

Visiting Speaker

1 PM: Kimo Williams[[1]], AEMM faculty and former Director of the Vietnam Veterans Art Museum (18th and Indiana) on the Chicago Vietnam Veterans War Memorial [[2]]

• What was your involvement/role in the planning and executing of the Chicago Vietnam Veteran’s war memorial?

• What did you think was important in terms of qualifications of the designer? (was it important that the designer/artist be a veteran of the VN war? A Chicago resident?)

• Was there a competition for the design? If so, who chose the final design?

• Did you give the designer any guidelines? (size of space available, whether the design should be figurative or could it be abstract, should involve names of those killed in the war from Chicago? Type of material to be used, etc.)

• Where did the funding come from?

• What were arrangements with the city like? (who did you deal with, what were the considerations in terms of siting, who has responsibility for upkeep, etc.)

• How long did it take for the whole cycle from initial idea to final completion?

• How did your personal history influence your handling of process?

• How do veterans in Chicago feel about the memorial?

Introduction to Project 1: Billboard

Due Feb. 10: Design a billboard (and show it in context) that expresses an opinion and attempts to persuade on a subject of your choice such as: war, the environment, alternative energy, poverty, homelessness, AIDS, etc.

• How do billboards convey information?

• what devices do they use?

• what things must be considered in deciding what "works" at that scale and in the viewing circumstances (for eg, length of time seen)

• What techniques seem to work in catching your attention quickly?

• What do you think works better, text or image?

• To be effective, does a message have to be simple and straightforward?

Reading for next week:

Deutsche, Rosalyn. excerpt from Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics; 3-48

resources:

Billboards:

Billboard art from the Walker [[3]]

Soldier artist billboards [[4]]

book review [[5]]

billboard projects [[6]]

history/context [[7]]

creativetime: artist billboards [[8]]

billboard "vandalism": [[9]]

Ron English political modifications [[10]]

political board in progress: [[11]]

art the vote [[12]]

digital billboard [[13]]

Gran Fury [[14]][[15]]

Eyes and Ears Foundation [[16]]

"I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold" [[17]]

Walker Evans [[18]][[19]]

Margaret Bourke-White [[20]]

John Craig Freeman [[21]]

Barbara Kruger [[22]][[23]]

Jenny Holzer projections [[24]]; electronic signs [[25]]