Finish Environmental Video Art critiques
Artist Book Collection and reading together in class
Discuss book design/concepts
ARTIST BOOK ASSIGNMENT:
| Pop Quiz By Dave Dyment About the project: A near comprehensive collection of all of the questions posed in pop songs from the artist’s music collection. 360-page softcover artist’s book 5″ x 8″ Edition of 500, numbered and signed by the artist (each with unique handwritten question) $50 |
Experimental 2/3
ARTIST BOOK PROJECT: A BOOK ABOUT A BOOK
Note on Schedule:
1. Book design workshop with Nathan
2. WORK IN PROGRESS due for discussion
3. ***Final works uploaded and submitted for printing deadline****
4. Works will also be discussed in progress during class.
Consider a book. Use any book you are interested in – a novel, a textbook, a book of essays, a field guide, a book of maps, a self-help book, an instruction manual, a cookbook, a memoir, a monograph… the possibilities are endless.
Choose one book as the point of departure for a print-on-demand artist book that you will develop and design in class. Like examples of artist publications discussed in class, your artist book will emphasize image over text and be an artwork in its own right. It can be any length or size available on Blurb.com under a budget of (total) $30 including taxes.
Your work can be about the book, use the book’s images, respond to or engage the book in any way. Consider content, text, meaning, and image in your work. The original book may or may not be visible or obvious in your finished work – but the artist book will represent your own version of the ideas in the book, and your own responses. The work may be discursive and legible, or it may be austere, formalized or abstract.
Strategies and motifs you may consider:
Scanning and photocopying from books
Using found photographs from the internet
Taking photographs
Working with appropriated text
Using text as image
Making a book from the past into the present
Focusing/repeating one detail in a book
Exploring visual references in the book
Responding to cover art, diagrams or illustrations in a book
Playing with scale
Rearrangements and reorientations
Drawing from books
See also: Dave Dyment and Nothing Else Press
*Bring three possible books to work with and discuss on Thursday
Student examples:
More student examples:
FIELD TRIP SATURDAY OCT 21 –
Field Trip Itinerary
Saturday Oct. 21, 2023
****BRING THIS ITINERARY WITH YOU. Share phone numbers with another classmate or class bus supervisor.
Bus departs UC loop at 9:30 am
Arrives at MOCA at 10:30 am
*Under 18 admission is free
* Student admission is $10 with ID
158 Sterling Road, Toronto, Ontario.
Admission PWYC (note main exhibit closed)
Also: Art Metropole
Bus departs MOCA at noon
Bus arrives at TPW at 12:15pm
170 St Helens Ave, Toronto,
Also: Daniel Faria Gallery/Clint Roenisch Gallery
But departs TPW at 12:45
Arrives at Kensington Market at 1:15
Corner of Augusta and Baldwin
Bus departs Kensington Market at 2:30pm
Bus arrives at Mercer Union at 3pm
1286 Bloor St. W
Bus departs Mercer Union at 3:30 pm
Bus arrives at U of Guelph UC Loop at approx. 5:00pm