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How I will be displaying my final piece?

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How I will be displaying my final piece?

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My final piece pictures are ready to be displayed on the exhibition college walls, but before that, I will have to iron two of the pictures as they are not really straight.
Afterwards I will have cut the edges and display them well to offer a perfect view to the viewer.

It didn't go as I mentioned, that day I have actually tried to print my final piece pictures again as they were all bent. As I couldn't print them again because I have lost all my files from the USB, when I have borrowed it to a classmate.

So, I had to use those that I had.
To make disappear the bent areas  a little bit at least, Paul helped me.
Paul gave me some foam board and a adhesive spray to stick my pictures onto the foam board. They all looked much more better on the foam board so I have finally displayed them on the exhibition wall.

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Before doing my final piece I have planned how, and the idea came out randomly thinking of smartphone addiction.
The first thing came in my mind for that idea was, seeing people standing with their head down concentrated on the smartphone, where I have mostly seen that in public especially since I am in London.
I was so happy for the idea that successfully came out as I have planned. Even the Photoshop helped me to make them more look more detailed with the refection I added.
My difficult part was when I had to edit it as I didn't know how to make the reflection brighter, but now I am really happy that I have learned, because a teacher helped me.
The easiest part was the photographic part as they were a quick process after everything was placed right to make some shoots.

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I think mobiles makes people feel as friends, for example when you don't have friends and you feel lonely smartphones allow you to search on internet where it makes you feel much better. All the researches are about what you want to know and think all the time. Apart other services they offer you such as: calling friends, facetime with people, playing games, etc... internet might affect that person because of that they see, you might get scared of something and then be more afraid in real life because you've already been informed and seen that situation. Some people also stop following their dreams because the negativity achieved online was enough to make him feel giving up. Some of us instead use internet in a positive way, nut overall this it was much better to not have access to these offers online.

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This is a 2015 protest song about internet and social media addiction.docx

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The objective was to reach the top and follow the brief to come out with an idea for the exhibition from all the researches and documentations informed in the past. My main objective was so, to display my final pieces and show people how I see technology and smartphones addiction.

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These are some of my artist researches made on Power-Point.

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All the ideas I ended up to have are thankfully from all the researches and the visits to the museums I have been. I actually like my final idea, because gives a deep message about technology and people nowadays.

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The coloured drawing I have painted it on a tissue, the image was founded on google.

The down pencil drawing I have tried to show how technology owns the world and destroys it by the side.

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Evaluation

For Unit 8 Final Major project I have started with a bit of confusion, because I had to choose 1 topic from 3, after I have researched all of them. After the confusion was gone and I have chosen a topic called: Society Today (Technology and the impact it has in our lives) to work on and develop, I started informing myself deeper on the topic to know exactly what I am doing.

Why I have chosen this topic?

The reason I chose this topic is because I actually think that it’s affecting the world, it creates problems and negativity around us. Sometimes it might help people with their needs but destroying you in the time and making you dependent of it. Especially the youth of today are constantly immersed in technological advancement that promote non-stop communication and instant grafication. A very simple example is: they have to revise for the exams and they spend time on their phone and when they fail, they regret that moment. Technology is a negative influence on us because it separates individuals from reality. With technology you affect humanity and the environment around it that we live in, until there it’s no more chance to escape from.

Moving on…

I have researched the three main topics, encounters, experiences and meeting, combination and alliances and society today, my chosen topic, written my ideas and intentions in my sketchbook and then picked one to develop. The topic I chose is Society Today because it is what you can see with your eyes every day. Within society today I’ve decided to work on digital technology and the affects it has in our lives. My intentions for this topic are: to research about technology further and record its evolution. I have to illustrate technology how I actually see it. Society must be able to utilize technology while not allowing it to impede social interactions, I mean not to create problems between us such as: cyberbullism, postcode terrorism, threatens and other associated stuff or use it for bad intentions. A technology artist that I researched is Mads Peitersen, one of his drawing is a smartphone opened as an open body showing its organs. This means that technology owns us humans, because we can’t leave house without a technological piece. Smartphones today are so advanced and good they almost behave alive. And becomes an extension of your body sometimes.

Materials used:

The materials I have used are very common materials that most of us use in art. I can say that they are: pencil, pen, marker, acrylic inks, watercolours, colours, monoprinting materials, glue gun, camera, glue, laptop, printer etc.… Once you have all the materials you will use different techniques and processes to work on with them.

Artists researched:

·       Antoine Geiger

·       Mads Peitersen

·       Lenka Novakova

·       Rosamond Casey

·       Charles Luna

Museums visited:

ü  Natural History Museum

ü  Science Museum

ü  Design Museum

Interviews:

1.     I have interviewed my parents about their young period and how technology was influencing them by small thing.

2.     I have asked an old man with lots of experience about his past life and the technology evolution that it was.

3.     I have asked friends how technology affect them nowadays.

Final piece:

For my final piece I have included three ideas:

1.     A laptop model made from cardboard and a detailed drawing popping up from the screen of a man with a TV head and wires around him.

2.     A painting of a sad man sat down on a bench painted from screens located in a dark and scary place.

3.     A digital piece: a picture taken in the studio using a camera borrowed from the hatch:  Gloria and Paul. I have also used 2 of my friends to take pictures of them while using their phone, after including a laptop in front of them. After the pictures were done I have edited them in Photoshop and used Antione Geiger artist style to work on.

The one that I have chosen is the third one I have included. I think that the 3 third one as meaningful to me and giving a dee message to the viewer.

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I am going to work more on it before the deadline.

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The planning I did, was mostly based on the final ideas and the 1 final piece. I have included drawings and reflective writing about it.

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I have solved all of my unfinished work and managed my time.

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The development of the ideas are based on the final outcome to show the viewer how I have managed and started to make the final piece.

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Lenka Novakova artist.

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For my primary researches I have been to Kindred Studio, at Kindred Studios I have seen and felt how real artist life is.
Science Museum, I can say that is a wonderful place and full of interested things. You can also see things you might have seen in movies.
Design Museum, technology and fashion exhibitions are the main works displayed. I have seen the evolution of phones and how they were like a century ago.
Natural History Museum, the reason I have visited it is because I love animals and the history of it. Animals for me are part of technology as they are included in the globe swell and most of them are filmed and bad treated for it.

From all of them I have been informed enough and seen things that never have seen before. After collecting primary sources I have annotated my sketchbook with all of this informations and glued the pictures taken.  Then I have also done observational drawings.

The secondary researches I have collected are mostly from internet. They are artist researches, topics researches and other online informations.

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The project proposal I have written was about my chosen topic and include all of my ideas, researches and then added it to my sketchbook.
Before I have written my proposal I have changed many things until my tutor Hazel checked it and I have re-typed it.

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For Unit 8 Final Major project I have started with a bit of confusion, because I had to choose 1 topic from 3, after I have researched all of them. After the confusion was gone and I have chosen a topic called: Society Today (Technology and the impact it has in our lives) to work on and develop, I started informing myself deeper on the topic to know exactly what I am doing.

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This artist works on taking pictures and then edit then to give viewers a deep meaning through it.

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Once I have taken the picture I have edited it on photoshop and made it in my own choice, to represent technology.

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I have taken this picture on a Northern line train and then edited it on photoshop.

The reason I have taken this picture is because represents loneliness and a place out of the world.

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These 3 pictures connect together as I have taken them in my area a early morning while I was going college. The meaning behind is that you can see the movement in the train and then people on their phone and reading newspaper.

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Final Major Project - Society Today - technology impact in our life.

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Final Major Project - Society Today - technology impact in our life.

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The stage I am right now it's a bit stressful because I just need some extra time to work for my final project. I know that at the end it will still be fine because I know how to manage and stay focused even if my part-time job affects me. At the moment I've done some researches and went to museums but I only need to work more onto drawings and mixed media. My strengths in this projects are: I know how to manage my time even if I am busy, I enjoy drawing, annotate when I'm concentrated and I'm good at using some equipment needed. My weaknesses are: using painting tool because I hate washing them all the time and that's why I don't focus enough on it, and mono-printing as-well. For the following weeks I need to focus more and do some extra work apart from the brief tasks so I can achieve an excellent mark, and keep on raving for my Maths and English exams so I can move to next stage, with no worries.

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Quick painting of one of the final piece pictures.

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Quick painting of one of the final piece pictures.

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This one is an an expeiment about one of my final pieces.

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I have taken these pictures in the studio, using two of my friends to model for them. I have tried to create my idea with Antoine Geiger work. The brightness from the phone to the face means a dependent fact that the person concentrates on. Once I have taken the pictures I edited them on photoshop and saved them.

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These are 2 of my online experimental drawings made based on technology and humanity.

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These are my own picture but I have tried to overlap them to
re-create a collage experiment.

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One of the final pieces, drawn and edited after n Photoshop, to make it more detailed.

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One of the final pieces, drawn and edited after n Photoshop, to make it more detailed.