Pop Culture 2015: March 2015

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Dean's Art Awards Enter Now

“The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum,” declared suffragist Frances E. Willard. Momentum suggests an impetus, a strength or force leading toward change, something new, something moving.
We invite submissions for the Fourth Annual Dean’s Art Award, art that speaks of MOMENTUM. Show us what momentum is and what it does.
Submission deadline: March 30th, 2015

Overview

The Dean’s Art Award recognizes student achievement in the field of visual arts and allows the Dean’s Office to directly connect with the student body through the award submission and selection process. For this award, students submit their own works of visual art to a selection committee comprised of faculty, staff, and student leadership in the Dean’s Office and the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design. The committee welcomes submissions from all students (undergraduate and graduate) in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Awards will be made for First Place ($350), Second Place ($150), and Honorable Mention. All selected pieces will be exhibited in the Dean’s Office throughout the 2015-16 academic year.

Submission Requirements

Students may submit up to five (5) pieces for consideration per year.
Submissions must be made as complete electronic portfolios and must include:

High-resolution digital image of work; for 3-D works up to three (3) photos of one work may be submitted
Title of work(s)
Medium/media
Dimensions
A 50-150 word Artist’s Statement that relates the submissions to this year’s theme, “Momentum”
Panther ID Number & student e-mail address

Students must have been enrolled in at least one Arts & Sciences course during the 2014-2015 academic year and must have been enrolled during at least one semester between summer 2014 and spring 2015.
E-mail submissions to Annie Latta at alatta@gsu.edu OR deliver a CD/thumb drive to the Dean’s Office, 25^th floor, 25 Park Place, attention: Annie Latta.

Components must be marked as “Submission for the Dean’s Art Award” with the artist’s last name.
Submissions must be received by 5 p.m. on Friday, March 27, 2015.
Winning art work must include hanging/installation instructions, must be ready to hang/install, and must be representative of the images submitted. The Dean’s Office reserves the right to reject any accepted work that is not delivered suitable for hanging and display, or work that differs in any way from the image represented in the submission. Upon acceptance, artists are required to sign an artist agreement. The Dean’s Office reserves the right to reproduce accepted entries for publicity purposes.

Award Timeline

The Dean’s Art Award operates on a one-year cycle. Winners will be notified on or before April 20, 2015. Winning art work should be delivered to the Dean’s office no later than May 8, 2015 and will be installed during the summer months for display during the 2015-16 academic year. A reception honoring the winners will be held during Fall Semester 2015.

Questions?

E-mail Annie Latta at alatta@gsu.edu.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

W. H. Auden - Tell Me The Truth About Love (documentary)

When you have time or make time to watch this wonderful documentary about W.H. Auden.
You won't be sorry. It's inspiring and celebratory of this amazing poets life.

Documentary film looking at the poetry of W H Auden, revealing how it came not just from inspiration but from a rigorous scientific analysis of love itself. When he died in 1973, he left behind some of the greatest love poems of the 20th century. Most of his unpublished material was destroyed, apart from two short journals and a series of jottings, containing diagrams and notes about the nature of love.

The Great MODA Chair Hack: Sign up NOW

Last Year Graham Robson and his team won 1st Place in the MODA Chair Hack!

Got Your Team Together for the Great Chair Hack of 2015?

Saturday, April 11, 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Join MODA and IDSA for an afternoon of "chair hacking" at the Atlanta Dogwood Festival!

Known for their classic Swedish simplicity, many IKEA products contain components that are simple in form and consistent in their application. This inherent configurability has created an underground movement of "IKEA hacking" in which people modify, rebuild, reconfigure and customize IKEA pieces to fit their needs.

In keeping with this trend, MODA and IDSA invite you to get hacking! At this year's Dogwood Festival, teams of students, professionals, artists and/or hackers will be given a real-world challenge and will be tasked with designing an innovative solution using the components of an IKEA product (see rules for more details).

Participants will have three hours to complete the challenge and prizes for best design solution will be given.

To participate, just assemble your own team of 2-4 participants and register by contacting

Alice Weston at 404.979.6455 or aweston@museumofdesign.org.

The deadline to register is Monday, April 6. Hurry! Space is limited!

Monday, March 23, 2015

Wednesday March 25th: Copyright and Fair Use Lecture

Just as a reminder, we have a lecture about Fair Use and Copyright by Gwen Spratt, Associate General Counsel, at 11am on Wednesday, March 25 in Room 124 at the Petit Science Center. I look forward to seeing you there!

2015 Annual Juried Student Exhibition

The Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design Galleries at Georgia State University seeks works in all media for our 2015 17th Annual Juried Student Exhibition. Eligibility is limited to current undergraduate and graduate students of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design. The exhibit will run April 16 – 24, 2015. Works selected by our juror, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center Curator Daniel Fuller, will be installed in both galleries. Entry is free and will be accepted online only through Café: https://www.callforentry.org/

Find all of the details here:

https://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=2548&sortby=fair_name&apply=yes

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Midterm Guesstimates are coming!

Not to worry, I'll have your Midterm Guesstimates to you by end of this week. No need to worry as everyone is passing so far. We still have several projects left so give them all your time and attention.
Don't loose your momentum and don't loose faith. As you are finishing up your junior year remember to stay engaged in your work. Make time for yourself along the way as well.

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Kickstarter with Andy Warhol: Uncle Andy

Monday, March 9, 2015

Box Set Design vs Game Design Assignment

In this next adventurous assignment each of you will have the option to select one of the two assignments below:
1) Box Set Design
2) Game Design

The Box Set Design:
Create a box set for one of the following: 3 DVD movies, 3 music CDs, or 3 record albums
(artist or theme will be up to you, but I get final approval). If you would like, you could do a combination of DVDs and CDs (for instance, two DVD movies and one soundtrack CD).

Considering that many people digitally download much of their music and movies today, you will want to make this box set a special collectors’ edition that people will want to have as
a keepsake. Concept and packaging craft will be especially important for this project. You will also design a companion promotional t-shirt for your set and will have it printed.
Ideas:
1. Best of compilation from your favorite band or musical artist
2. A compilation set based on the theme of your choice (genre of music, music from a certain era, region of the world)
3. Movies starring specific actors
4. Movies from a specific director
5. Movies of a certain genre (war, westerns, sci fi, kung fu, etc.)
6. A movie trilogy

Visual design, creativity, concept, and craft all will play a part in how I grade your project. Be innovative and smart in your packaging decisions, and plan ahead so you can work with your materials and prototypes to make the best comp possible, because we will be photographing these. Also, you can work your promo t-shirt into the package design, but it can be separate also; you don’t want to make your box set make your set bulky or cumbersome by forcing the t-shirt into the package concept.

The packaging needs to be more than just getting three plastic CD or DVD cases and putting a cover into the case. I want you to create creative and well-crafted packaging. If you do happen to require pre-made DVD cases, I would suggest that you use the thin cases and make a box for them to slide into. Please do not use pre-made packaging materials where possible
- that defeats the purpose of the project. You can buy the CD/DVD spindles to adhere to your package design; I will find out where seniors ordered theirs last year.
Be sure to make the content on your box set rich and interesting. Think about bios of the band or director, anecdotes about the movies, and other types of info that would make a box set engaging. Also make it as realistic as possible by incorporating bar codes, copyright info, pricing, etc. I will show you some examples in class so you can see how last year’s
class approached this project.
Think “popular culture”, and design something that we’d all like to own!

Game Design:

A brand spanking new game is of your own creation.
It could be a board game or possibly an online game or even a card game.
Everything is open for this assignment as it might relate to popular culture. It could be game that ties into a certain period, person, band, event, or television show.
(ex. The RuPaul Drag Race Board Game; The Amazing Race Game, Karaoke Game, The Drive In Movie Game board, etc)

This game needs to be consistent with all games in that there are instructions/directions and items that are significant to the game itself.