06-11-12 - Digital Surfaces

This week year 1 were introduced to part 2 to the Art and Environment brief, and what they will be working towards over the next 6 weeks. This term we are planning to split the weeks into theme based responses  including Surface, Form and Manipulation. As previous posts and personal work suggest I am a huge fan of Luis Dorados work and in particular his "departure" project.

Responding to the theme surfaces in a digital context can be looked at as a challenge, but with Luis's work as a reference along with Jelle Martens grid based imagery, the relation between tactile and digital surfaces can be communicated. This 1st week was to give the team an initial response task to the work of either artist. Some really strong ideas and responses have already started to unfold with an opportunity to develop these into 3D  the next coming week.

A simple play off on multiple imagery being layered, scaled and repeated to suggest various contrasting and complementary surfaces. The work produced this week was fresh and exciting, and witnessed students really becoming absorbed into uncovering artists styles and characteristics.  These are only 1st years in the start of their 2nd term!! exciting things to come. Below are a few outcomes I managed to snap up.