Winter 2015

Day 16 Follow-up

Julie Voelker-Morris
Chromosomal Painting. Kirkland Arts Center. Kirkland, WA. May 25-July 6, 2012.

Chromosomal Painting. Kirkland Arts Center.
Kirkland, WA. May 25-July 6, 2012.

Greetings, Everyone!

Thanks for those of you in attendance at today’s interesting class on eugenics and medical genetics with Gerri Ondrizek. Her artwork around this topic is quite fascinating and the discussion was interesting. Visit Gerri’s website so that you can learn more about her work and research interests: http://academic.reed.edu/art/faculty/ondrizek/

Sound of Cells Dividing (2008–2009). The paper replicates a cell membrane. It has the feel of skin, suggesting the human body, but here the paper membrane is stretched dry over the bones of an aluminum structure. The screen is designed to engage the viewer to physically enter the cell replica and experience its gastrulation firsthand. The screen surrounds Cellular (2009), depicting a multiple-cell embryo.

Sound of Cells Dividing (2008–2009). The paper replicates a cell membrane. It has the feel of skin, suggesting the human body, but here the paper membrane is stretched dry over the bones of an aluminum structure. The screen is designed to engage the viewer to physically enter the cell replica and experience its gastrulation firsthand. The screen surrounds Cellular (2009), depicting a multiple-cell embryo.

A note that UO Blogs was down for a few hours recently so if you tried to access it or post journals, this may have been a challenge. Try again as the server is working appropriately again.

Keep working on your exhibit development process in preparation for next Tuesday’s Creative Display 2 presentation. For the presentation, your project should be approximately 75% complete with final completion the Thursday of Week 10. This will be a more formal presentation that the first draft was. Be ready to talk specifically about the science you are examining, the work you are creating, and how the artist and science have inspired your personalized approach. See this page on our course site: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/resources/assignment-resources/creative-display-2/ Have your project at a stage where it is addressing all of these points.

You will also need to turn in Report 4, the draft of your final paper next week. This is scheduled to be due next Thursday rather than Tuesday. Go to https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/resources/assignment-resources/report-4/ to see questions that need to be addressed in this report and how you can outline this paper. Remember to cite your annotated bibliography sources as well as support from course readings.

Questions about UO Blogs and setting up widgets or other details within your site can be directed to Kelsey Lunsman at kdavis2@uoregon.edu

Upcoming Assignments overview:

* Journal Entry: How are you thinking like an artist in new ways? In what ways does Ondrizek’s work and the activity we did with her assist your thinking about your own project? (Journal #20)

*Finalize Creative Display 2 (draft of final creative project). Due Tuesday, March 3

*Finalize Report 4 (draft of final paper). Due Thursday, March 5.

A reminder that our course site is found at https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/. The course schedule to track due dates/journaling assignments and such is at https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/course-schedule/

Enjoy your weekend!

We look forward to seeing the next phase of your projects.

Julie & Robert

Day 15 Follow Up

Julie Voelker-Morris

Hello Art & Science Exhibitors,

In this post:

  • Overview of today’s class
  • Planning your project steps for the next few weeks
  • Overview of assignments for Thursday & Tuesday of Week 9
  • Attached articles to read & respond to for Gerri Ondrizek’s visit
  • Links to our course site (Remember: the course schedule outlines all journal entries as well as when other assignments are due.)

Today, we had an interesting opportunity to visit the Complex Systems exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (http://jsma.uoregon.edu/ComplexSystems). The online process exhibit of this project and related work at the UO’s Corwin Lab is available at http://complex-systems.tumblr.com/.

Consider how the comparison between the online exhibit and the physical exhibit are assisting your thinking about display of your own project for this course.

To sign up for a free student membership to the museum, go to: http://jsma.uoregon.edu/student-membership

And to prove the instructors also do their work, here are Julie’s and Robert’s Complex Systems postcards!

Julie's Complex Systems postcard

Julie’s Complex Systems postcard (click on the image for a larger version)

Robert's Complex Systems postcard

Robert’s Complex Systems postcard (click on the image for a larger version)

Keep working on your exhibit development process in preparation for next Tuesday’s Creative Display 2 presentation. For the presentation, your project should be approximately 75% complete with final completion the Thursday of Week 9. This will be a more formal presentation that the first draft was. Be ready to talk specifically about the science you are examining, the work you are creating, and how the artist and science have inspired your personalized approach. See this page on our course
site: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/resources/assignment-resources/creative-display-2/

Have your project at a stage where it is addressing all of these points.

You will also need to turn in Report 4, the draft of your final paper.
Go to: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/resources/assignment-resources/report-4/
to see questions that need to be addressed in this report and how you can outline this paper. Remember to cite your annotated bibliography sources as well as support from course readings.

Questions about UO Blogs and setting up widgets or other details within your site can be directed to Kelsey Lunsman at kdavis2@uoregon.edu

Remember to plan out your goals for completion of work for the next few weeks. Here’s what the next couple of weeks look like (generally) for our class. How will you take small steps each day, to complete your final project? Map our your scheduled steps for each day.

Week 8

Tuesday — project work/short museum visit in class — please bring computers/tablets
Thursday — Gerri Ondrizek workshop
Friday — “Name Your Achievements” proposals due

Week 9

Tuesday — Present your 2nd draft of your creative display (basically at 75% completion)
Thursday — visit to Museum of Natural & Cultural History

Week 10

Tuesday — project work in class
Thursday — present your blog displays & celebrate

Upcoming Assignments overview:

Journal Entry: In what ways will you apply aspects of ideas and experiences from our field trip today to your final professional project? (Journal #18)

Work on Report 4 (draft of final paper) and Creative Display 2 (draft of final creative project). Due Tuesday, Week 9.

Read the emailed attached articles for our conversation and hands-on project work with artist Gerri Ondrizek this Thursday.

Post Reading Response emailed articles. (Journal #19) Due no later than 10a.m. Tuesday.

Continue work on Report 4 (draft of final paper) and Creative Display 2 (draft of final creative project). Due Tuesday, Week 9.

A reminder that our course site is found at: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/. The course schedule to track due dates/journaling assignments and such is at:  https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/course-schedule/

Best,

Julie and Robert

Day 14 Follow Up: Part 3

Robert Voelker-Morris

Hi,

As noted in the work session today creating flowcharts, maps, and diagramming out your ideas can be a powerful tool for organizing your thoughts.  So please do take seriously the #9 step of the “Framing the Story” Worksheet for Completion of Final Exhibit:

  1. Preliminary exhibit/site design sketches.
  • Use this page (and feel free to add other pages) to rough out some sketches of your exhibit design. As in diagram out and layer the most important ideas in terms of headers, main bits of content, image placement, and so on.
  • Create a flowchart of the different possible pages you will add to your exhibit site beyond the main “home” page and what will be on those pages in terms of headers, content, images, and so on?

Some of it might feel like “busy” work in that yes at times it is good to jump into a WordPress site and start adding your pages and content to those pages, but there are design elements and principles at work on a website that can be easily overlooked if you don’t diagram out the design first on paper.  As such if the ‘roughing out’ and ‘draft’ stages of your site design are forgotten you are in danger creating static or messy, and “bad” designs.  Remember your research and Creative Display work will shine much better to your audience with a well designed, thoughtful, and individualized exhibition site.

AND also you can use the process of visually “mapping” out ideas for other things like research papers, assignments you receive for work, creative and artistic work (from painting to graphic design to writing fiction and poetry and beyond!), and studying in general!

At the same time though, don’t “box” yourself in and be creative and artistic!

“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.”- Robert Bringhurst

Here are some digital flowchart/mapping/diagramming tool resources, and general resources about the process:

 

 

Day 14 Follow Up: Part 2

Robert Voelker-Morris

Data Visualization, Infographic, and cool Visual resources:

Figurative Map of the successive losses in men of the French Army in the Russian campaign 1812-1813.

Figurative Map of the successive losses in men of the French Army in the Russian campaign 1812-1813.
Drawn up by M. Minard, Inspector General of Bridges and Roads in retirement. Paris, November 20, 1869.
——————-
The numbers of men present are represented by the widths of the colored zones at a rate of one millimeter for every ten-thousand men; they are further written across the zones. The red [now brown] designates the men who enter into Russia, the black those who leave it. —— The information which has served to draw up the map has been extracted from the works of M. M. Thiers, of Segur, of Fezensac, of Chambray, and the unpublished diary of Jacob, pharmacist of the army since October 28th. In order to better judge with the eye the diminution of the army, I have assumed that the troops of prince Jerome and of Marshal Davoush who had been detached at Minsk and Moghilev and have rejoined around Orcha and Vitebsk, had always marched with the army.

Day 14 Follow Up: Part 1

Julie Voelker-Morris

Hi All,

In this posting:
*Links to our course site
*Overview of today’s class
*Planning your project steps for the next few weeks
*Overview of assignments for Tuesday
*Attached articles to read & respond to for Gerri Ondrizek’s visit

A reminder that our course site is found at https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/. The course schedule to track due dates/journaling assignments and such is at https://blogs.uoregon.edu/aad199artmeetsscience/course-schedule/

A somewhat low-key day for class; however, lots of productive work is happening working on final projects.

We focused on parts #6, 8 & 9 of the process worksheet handed out in class a couple weeks ago.
Continue updating and revising these as ideas develop and your process unfolds. Section 8 gets you to think about how you will introduce your project site as a whole to your audience. Section 9 asks you to conduct preliminary sketches of pages to be included in your site design.

Section 6 was about interactive components that could be added to your project for audience engagement. A nice list of ideas was generated, including:

*maps — these can be embedded using the Google widget in UO Blogs

* music — in the background to set the mood of the exhibit or for specific purposes of sharing information or providing examples

* optical illusions and/or fractal generators to encourage viewers to engage with the images on deeper levels

* doodling sites and/or forums (examples: http://doodle.ly/ | http://www.doodletoo.com/#/lobby) that can be embedded in the blog site or linked out to

*photos, particularly when considering layout and arrangement for audience engagement. Styles could include a photo essay, commentary, or questioning strategies among others.

*recipes — possibly even creating a entire site to have the look/feel of a recipe

*video tutorials on subject matter

*links and videos within the resources lists and/or other aspects of the project site

*prezi presentations (see prezi.com) which can be embedded within the blog

*ThingLink interactive (https://www.thinglink.com/) with commentary, video and audio links, etc.; again, this can also be embedded within a blog site.

Questions about UO Blogs and setting up widgets or other details within your site can be directed to Kelsey Lunsman at kdavis2@uoregon.edu

Remember to plan out your goals for completion of work for the next few weeks. Here’s what the next couple of weeks look like (generally) for our class. How will you take small steps each week, each day, to complete your final project?

Week 8
Tuesday — project work/short museum visit in class — please bring computers/tablets
Thursday — Gerri Ondrizek workshop
Friday — “Name Your Achievements” proposals due

Week 9
Tuesday — Present your 2nd draft of your creative display (basically at 75% completion)
Thursday — visit to Museum of Natural & Cultural History

Week 10
Tuesday — project work in class
Thursday — present your blog displays & celebrate

Assignments for next week (Week 8):

Journal Entry: In what ways will you apply data visualization thinking and display tools to your final professional project? [This is what we did in class today so is just your reflection on this process and its application to your project.] (Journal #17)

We will continue to work on these ideas and aspects of your projects in class on Tuesday. Please bring your computers/tablets, etc. for our in-class work session.

Work on Report 4 (draft of final paper) and Creative Display 2 (draft of final creative project). Due Tuesday, Week 9.

Read and respond to the attached articles (from the email we sent) for our conversation and hands-on project work with artist, Gerri Ondrizek, next Thursday.