This seminar introduces students to mapping and exploration as a potential methodology for their own art practice, interpreting and situating their work with a physical and/or virtual context/place. Students will interface with the local landscape conducting experiments and interventions with their surroundings as pedestrians and cyclists with the intention of developing strategies that inform their work/projects. This class looks for the connections between students’ own work and geography, landscape architecture, critical theory, anthropology, and natural resources. We will read selections by Jonathon Stilgoe, Michel deCerteau, Gile Deleuze, Henri Lefebvre, Rebecca Solnit, Edward Soja, Gaston Bachelard, and Lucy Lippard to name a few.
Class format will consist of discussion, collaboration, group critique as well as studio visits/individual meetings. In this class you will be required to read, to make work and to engage physically with the environment. course format This class meets twice a week. We will meet together on Wednesdays, discuss readings and the outcomes of the "experiments" and interventions with place/landscape. During this time and at other times we may also go outside the classroom to explore the aspects of mapping and or to practice the activity of mapping. I would like to try a variety of formats for critique. I would like to meet with each of you individually at least once for a studio visit. During that time, we will discuss your work and hopefully the impacts that the content of seminar is having on your practice and work. In addition to one or two large format critiques at the midterm and at the end of the semester which will be held during our seminar time, I would like to also do one or two small gorup critiques where we meet in groups of three or four and discuss work.
Students will: formulate a definition of what is meant by the term mapping make both personal and collaborative work that employs mapping as methodology for approaching the practice of making art be expose to a variety of techniques, research methods that are considered mapping better know both the physical and virtual environments that form the "local" create their own systems of organization to better understand actual places and landscapes.
Week 1 Intro to mapping and art
Week 2 "The local", mapping the habitual, traces, a methodology of exploration
Week 3 Psychogeography
Week 4 Globalism and "the local", Google Earth
Week 5 Mapping the very tiny
Week 6 Mapping the immense
Week 7 Metaphoric Mapping in science and math
Week 8 How we got to the sprawl, mapping and history in US, GIS
Week 9 Mapping the banal. sprawl, suburban space, visiting artist Matthew Coolidge from Center for Land Use and Interpretation
Week 10 Mapping nature
Week 11 Mapping sacred space
Week 12 Mapping the space between us, social networks
Week 13 More mapping the space between us, social networks
Week 14 Collaborative project
Week 15 Collaborative project
instructor: Katerie Gladdys
office: FAC301
office hours: Mondays 12-3 or by appointment
email: kgladdys@ufl.edu
I will provide .pdfs of the readings to be downloaded from the class website.
analog and digital means to make art (Also if you own a GPS device, please feel free to bring and use.)
Google Earth
We may use other free software packages as we move through the semester, but for now just Google Earth
not required, but good to have: digital camera, camcorder, GPS device, computer (If you have a a laptop, please bring to class.)
This class is very experiential and experimental in nature. We will do a lot of in class activities for which you will get credit. Many of these activites can not be "made up" outside of class. You will miss out on a great deal if you do not come. There is a correlation in studio classes between attendance and final grades. You have a better chance of doing well if you come to class. Only three (3) unexcused absences will be allowed. Every unexcused absence beyond this will lower your grade by a letter grade. A total of seven absences, excused or unexcused, will result in a grade of “E” for the class. Excused absences include religious holidays, a verifiable death in the immediate family or with a doctor’s note.
Participation by all members is critical to the success of this class. Excellent participation is a given and includes contributing to ongoing discussions and critiques, suggests alternative ways of approaching projects, along with a thoughtful process and strong work ethic. Participation is evaluated with respect to both quality and quantity.
This class requires a certain amount of mobility. Please let me know beforehand on an individual basis if you are not physically able to do or complete an assignment. Caveat: I nor the University of Florida is responsible for risky behavior that you choose to do in the name of exploration. If we do a group activity that requires me to have you sign a release form that is one thing, but what you do to personally complete an assignment is yourrisk and responsibility.
I will take attendance at the beginning of each class. If you are not present at that time, you will be marked as absent unless you see me at the end of class letting me know that you came so I can correct my attendance sheet. You are expected to stay for the entire class period. I generally check to see who is around after the break. If you leave, your attendance will be recorded as late. Three late marks count as an unexcused absence. If you know that you will be late or absent, please let me know in advance by contacting me at kgladdys@ufl.edu. Both lateness and absence will also have an effect on your participation grade. late assignments If you are having difficulties for any reason in understanding the material and completing the work for this class, you need to make an appointment to meet and talk with me. Do not wait until the last minute (right before an assignment is due) or until you are totally lost to contact me. Any assignments not completed by the end of the course will result in course failure. No work resubmission will be accepted
The final grade is a cumulative grade based on how well you accomplished course objectives and requirements.
Your final grade will be determined roughly as follows:
20% group mapping collaborative
40% your personal work and research
40% attendance, participation, reflective writing, 6 weekly experiments
A = Superlative work: careful attention to craft and presentation. Originality of idea and execution work together. Goes beyond merely solving the problem – one who performs at this level is visibly outstanding, work is outstanding in every respect.
B+ = Very fine work: almost superlative. A few minor changes could have been considered and executed to to bring piece together. Again, goes beyond merely solving the problem.
B = Above average: solution to the problem and idea well planned. Execution is well done. This is an honorable grade.
C+ = A bit above average: slipping in levels of originality, craft and presentation. The piece does not work well as a unified whole or statement yet effort was made.
C = You have solved the problem: the requirements of the problem are met in a relatively routine way.
D+ = You have solved the problem but there is much room for improving your skills and developing your concepts further. You have neglected the basic craftsmanship skills and breadth and depth of idea development.
D = Inadequate work: the requirements of the problem are not addressed. The piece represents careless and/ or incomplete effort. Work is substandard.
E = Unacceptable work and effort
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