Group Profect-Process

The color inverted during the upload...I have no idea why or how to fix it. Regardless, these are a few of the compositions created for our projection project. Nameless Vicus has been working very hard to make this projection happen. So far our group is doing well, everything is getting done as it should be.

It's been interesting to see everyone's collages and messages that range from poltics to contemporary society and culture. A great deal of typography is being experimented with. I feel that this investigation is making our work stronger, as most of the direct language is coming through written word. This allows us to be creative and bizarre with our visual work.

All of our compositions are currently posted on our group blog : http://namelessvicus.ning.com/

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This group project has led me to consider more interestig elements to my theme of destruction. Typographic form is essentially perfect in quality. It is designed to be as such in any give environment. Perhaps there is something to be said about that relationship, and maybe use that as a playground for the destruction of form. The Halloween photographs project an intention to hide the human form and figure, to distort and disguise it. This isn't necessarily destroying form, rather it is a temporary state of being.

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Our group is making progress towards the final project. Although, we do not have an image of our group working, we will after Monday night (during our meeting). Instead I will discuss our plans and my ow individual progress towards the collaborative project.
In general, we are focusing on the disturbance of space and environments. We aim to make a collaborative film of still images,collage, movie clips, sound, and all the things in between that will later be projected around the school by a moving projector (a projector on a mule).
My part in this film will be based on collage. I plan to cut figures and objects out of still images and animate them in stop motion format. This will be very time consuming however, I think the overall effect will be nice and applicable to the other pieces produced by fellow group members.

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Vicus Manifesto

Nameless Vicus is a group that is inspired by street and guerrilla art methods. The violation and interruption of a environment and the reactions it causes are strong ways to get a point across. Our intention is to further our observations with this approach to art, what it means to the audience, how it changes the distance and relationship between the visual information and its' receivers, as well as, the political and cultural ramifications of such an illegal/unorthodox display.

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MANIFESTO:

Kasia: Nameless Vicus is a movement that challenges and interrupts a collectively chosen environment. It is set out to push out the irony of a subject, to look at the farce, the ridiculous.

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We have started organizing and proceeding with our collaborative group projects. Here are some links that display successful collaborations.
http://www.meca.edu/GalleriesExhibitions/Longoverdue.aspx

This one is very successful because it is an unique way to re-animate old books. Each artist could focus and express a certain message using only the book as a primary medium. This creates an interesting discourse between each piece. It begins a conversation on the culture of books and book design. The most intriguing aspect about this project is the availability to the public that was set up. It presents the idea that if every book is a piece of literary art and design, then what makes other works of art not available to the public?

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/09/cool-collaborative-a.html

This is also an interesting work of digital art. It a collaborative piece by one artist and hundreds of volunteers who were asked to draw part of a 100$ bill. It is interesting because it's a commentary on internet presence and social media.


For this week, each person in our group is to brainstorm an image or mark that somehow responds to our agreed concept: "What we need". I chose to look at the idea of "fear" and how we need that in order to continue functioning and making certain decisions over others. It is a necessary awareness, knowing what the consequences are over certain actions, that shape our understanding of what we need to do to get what we want or desire.
So, for this image I am looking at appropriating the figures of one or two old halloween photos and another source towards collage. I will scan it tomorrow or tuesday for the group to see.