Week 4. Developing Ideas (Drawing, Writing, Numbers, Geometry)

1. Introduction and Outline of Class

• This class explores a variety of drawing methodologies that are used to capture information and record activity. These will include spatial measuring, diagrams, and drawing as trace of an event.
• It will also encourage students to make connections between the different methodologies explored in class, with the aim of thinking and working through some of the complexities and paradoxes inherent in the relationship between drawing and the world that it aims to record.
• Students will be required to bring at least 5 different examples of printed visual material (examples include: maps, technical manuals, diagrams, charts and graphs and found imagery) to class

2. Class Aims
• Students will work through some of the following drawing methodologies in response to the material they have brought to class. These methodologies include; mapping, spatial measuring, diagrams, and drawing as the trace of an event.
• Students will also understand the thinking behind these means of representing information and activity.
• They will also experiment with creating drawings that overlay the different methodologies explored, and discuss how this might the affect interpretation of the different information and ideas included in their drawing.

• This session will link with work done in sessions 6 and 7 (information collecting and handling)


3. Independent Study, (Description of task)
• Working from the drawings done in class students will generate new drawings that use some technological process, (i.e. photocopying, rubbings, Photoshop, print transfer etc) this process should be relevant to, or in some way activate the original subject matter.
• Before embarking on their drawings, students should research into some of the following artists, making a note of their methods of recording information and how this process of info-recording affects the original information: Michael Stephenson, Brunelleschi, Ed Ruscha, Lu Hao, Louise Lawler, Kateřina Šedá, Richard Hamilton, Colin McCahon, Bily Apple.

4. Intended Student Learning Outcomes of the Course (objectives)
By the end of the course students will:

• Be able to recognise and demonstrate a wide range of drawing techniques/styles and methods.

• Demonstrate an ability to make informed decisions based on awareness of wide ranges of procedures.

• Use drawing as a means to develop and research ideas.

• Have developed a studio practice, which incorporates acquisitive, open-ended and self-reflexive learning.

5. Relevant Bibliography
• Cole, Perspective: A visual guide to the theory and techniques from the Renaissance to Pop Art, Dorling Kindersley, Inc., New York, 1992.

• J. Dauber, Mc Murray University, The art of Renaissance science. http://www.mcm.edu/academic/galileo/ars/arshtml/arch1.html

• R. Smith, An introduction to perspective, Dorling Kindersley Ltd., -1st American ed. (The DK Art School), London, 1995.

• Edward Tufte, Beautiful Evidence, Graphic Press LLC, 2006
• Perspektiva conference links. http://www.c3.hu/perspektiva/dokumentumokframeen.html

Artist Links
• Lu Hao Documenta page
http://www.documenta12.de/uebersichtsdetails.html?L=1&gk=B&level=&knr=34

• Louise Lawler Documenta page
http://www.documenta12.de/uebersichtsdetails.html?L=1&gk=B&level=&knr=31
• Kateřina Šedá Documenta page
http://www.documenta12.de/uebersichtsdetails.html?gk=B&level=0&knr=47&L=1

• Edward Ruscha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Ruscha

• Michael Stephenson Gallery page, (Call Me Immendorff 2002 installation detail)
http://www.hamishmckaygallery.com/artist_home.php?artist=Michael%20Stevenson#

• Richard Hamilton
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1244&page=1

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O:AD:E:2481&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1

• Colin McCahon
http://www.mccahon.co.nz/

• Billy Apple
http://www.art-newzealand.com/Issues11to20/apple20.htm


session contacts- j.speers@auckland.ac.nz, s.ingram@auckland.ac.nz