Presentations and Review George Ciscle – October 10

Comments on Presentation:

  1. Show the interest of your topic in the first line.
  2. Background environmental pictures are important to explain how it makes it you,
  3. Bring people into the personal
    1. when I was sitting on the kitchen table and the light came in… etc.
    2. show the human quality, then the reader opens up
  4. Say something that we will remember you buy. Image what you said
  5. Clear observations/ research question, how did it help to narrow it down
    1. where do you need to work on
    2. Makes it more clear what to work on
    3. helped to develop the concept further

How did this presentation help you:

  1. to narrow it down
  2. to create a personal research question, also focus on the technical part
  3. develop it further
  4. a framework of the slides
  5. 100 ideas when you write things down you can actually begin, now you can edit it. a way of a process.
  6. the last slide brings it all together, this is where you want to walk away with

“You have to set boundaries to be creative” by Jonathan Williams

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Set up a process for your self, which guides you to your interests.

  • Process journal :
  1. research the prototype, more interested in the past,
  2. feed it constantly
  3. collaboration helps you getting things clear because you have to explain your ideas to someone else

Rehearse your talk

You are your own collaborator this way. You can also present to your friends. Hold a stone in your hand if you need to.

  • Try not to say uhm.., but find a word to replace it such as nevertheless.
  • Share the skills you already have
  • Embed your video, or let it play by itself with a time.
  • Think about why you make this, how does it make a difference>
  • Work on your Pitch:

Someone wants to believe in you, Have your pitch ready for people to invest in you!

“Without art, there is no society” _ Paul Mirel

Review presentations with George

A typical photo, nice intro

How to develop the whole process visually

Consistent between each one: image text and graphics

Most successful

Skills sets in presentations

  • Do not look at your notes
  • Do not look at the screen
  • Hello/Hi Greet the audience
  • Do not apologize for any image
  • Page image1 layer on
  • Always comment on each image
  • used illustration / sound animation show your skill set

OPEN WORKS – Final exhibition

Images of the exhibition,

Fabricated Frames; a screen with photos and text and a table with your creation, this is how it looks like:

Realize it is small but this is the format we go with.

Team maker project by Marcia Montiel Ways, ways for college students to interact. Pitching some workshops at Open Workds, exchange with MICA

Theresa “Nacho” Montiel | MICA MFA in Community Arts Artist-in-Residence

Theresa “Nacho” Montiel is the current artist-in-residence at Open Works. She is currently both a MICA Community Arts Graduate Student and an AmeriCorps Community Art Collective member volunteer. Originally from Arizona, Nacho is both a traditional and a commercial artist, with a BFA in Fine Art Painting and Drawing and a graphic designer and art director with 14+ years of experience. With her experience from corporate design to freelance artistry, Nacho is spearheading the 2018 Teen Entrepreneur programming at OpenWork for current or newly graduated Baltimore high school students who aspire to be makers and entrepreneurs themselves

 

Ryan: add Kangeroo with Grasshopper 6

Harrison Tyler | Digital Operations Manager

Harrison Tyler is an artist and designer with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is co-founder of Jimmi, a design firm fostering innovation in digital fabrication through the designing and building of 3D printing tools and educational experiences.

 

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