Repetition + Contemporary Issues

Project 5

Contemporary issues

• contemporary means having particular relevance to the present time.

• Broad examples of current contemporary issues: International Conflict, Terrorism, Pollution & Waste Management, Natural Resources & Energy Conservation, Urban Development, Bioethics Market & Workforce Globalization, Mobile Technology & Communications, Information Management & Security

Narrow down ideas from broad to specific, for example:

• animal rights: specifically stray cats, fur animals, etc• Abortion: specifically birth control, heathcare,

religion, etc.• gun control: specifically school violence, gangs,

personal safety, etc.• Education: specifically bilingual education, no child

left behind, standardized testing, etc.• Drugs: specifically in schools, crossing the boarder,

linked to poverty, suicide, etc.

Repitition

Occurs when we use the same visual element or effect any number of times within a

composition.

The whole of often greater than the sum of the parts.

Continuity: A fluid connection among compositional parts. When objects are placed in close proximity, continuity often naturally occurs.

Ernest Daetwylwr

Hilary Coe

Margaux Lange

Mark Wagner

Philip Toledano

Jan Hopkins

Habitat 1967, Montreal, Canada

Jennifer Maestre

Liza Lou

Margaux Lange

Tara Donovan-Styrofoam cups

Pencil pieces

Fishing line

Drinking straws

Scotch tape

Paper plates

Martin Huberman

Clothes pins

Jon Beinart

Tyson Atwell

Will Cole

Craig Alan

David T Waller

• Narrowing down your topic will help you generate ideas for 3-dementional forms.

Examples….So you want to do a project on drugs. You narrow it down to

blood doping, specifically in cycling.Three of your possible materials might be: bicycle tires or

tubes, syringes, live strong bracelets…..Or, you want to think about religion on a global scale. So,

you decided on a project about the new pope. You consider materials: table crackers, small communion cups, wooden crosses….

Or, how about a project on global warming. So you list: plates, match sticks an napkins. Oh, their commonality? They are all made of trees. So maybe your focus is really more on deforestation specifically, rather than global warming