Hello all,
The theme is not yet decided. The meeting last week because it was hurried can only really be used as an indicator as to what themes are popular at this moment. Sara and I will be getting together and researching these ideas in a bit more detail, we will produce a couple of different briefs then get them back to you so you can go through them. So we are still open for suggestions and comments on themes but lets try and keep them positive.
Thank you for your patience,
James
Monday, December 15, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Hello,
It was a shame that the 2nd meeting we had was such a rush.Sara was stuck at work and when she arrived had really interesting points to make.I wish she was there before such a quick vote was taken as there felt like there was no time allowed for true discussion about our decision and how we could see our work developing around the theme.
It was a shame that the 2nd meeting we had was such a rush.Sara was stuck at work and when she arrived had really interesting points to make.I wish she was there before such a quick vote was taken as there felt like there was no time allowed for true discussion about our decision and how we could see our work developing around the theme.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Cheer up!!!
Hi Guys!!!
We need to be more active!
Because WE WANT TO DO THIS EXHIBITION! RIGHT!?
Next wednesday is our 2nd meeting and it's more or less 2 weeks that we are speaking about the theme, so I think we should bring our ideas and try to be more clear as possible in explaining them.
We should have mind that, title apart, the show need to have one or more aims.
As we want to be taken as serious and innovative group, we have to try to develop a project that can catch up the attention of the public, and above all of our potential supporters.
I'll summarize here same useful information for the exhibition's development, which Donna(Design Museum Head of the exhibition) gave me during the MA.
The organization of an exhibition can be divide in 3 main part:
- the curatorial process
- defining concept and selecting exhibits
- programming and developing an exhibition schedule
The exhibition development process involves juggling a number of different relationships and tasks as: defining concept and content, controlling schedules, budgets, contracts, exhibit lists, manage paperwork, liaise with designers, contractors, lenders and hopefully lots of journalists!
In order to archive a succesful exhibition, it is essential a good project management structure, which starts when the exhibition is concecived and finishes when it has been dismantled.
There are basic management tools that can be used to ensure that a project is successfully managed and delivered.
Any exhibition, like any project, has a number of key characteristics:
- It has start nad finish points
- It has specific goals or outcame
- It is non-routine (non-process work)
- It involves uncertainty and risks
- It requires coordination
Succesful project work means moving from what is uncertain and unknown to what is known, certain and can be planned organized and controlled.
It is essential to identify the scope and the scale of the project, technical information, timescale, resources, skills and experiences of the team.
It is also important to identify the risks associated with the a project, assess the chances of each occurring, identify any measures which can be taken to prevert them occuring.
It is essential to look after 3 broad dimensions:
1) Managing the stakeholders - this includes the projet team and all those people
involved or have interest in the project.
2) Managing the project life cycle - managing the varius stages of the project from
the planning, through implementation and review.
3) Managing performance - managing own performance but also performance of those in
the project team.
***Keep the project on track and within time, budget and resurce restraints
The process of organizing an exhibition can be divided into 4 main stages of development, each stage needs to be completed before moving onto the next.
Stage 1: Pre-Design
Stage 2: Design Development
Stage 3: Production
Stage 4: Installation/Dering
Stage 1: Pre-Design
It is importat to clearly define the aims and the objectives of the exhibition and a number of tools can be used to achive this.
- Devising an Exhibition Schedule
It will be a continual point of referece through the exhibition process clarifying all the varius tasks that need to be completes
There will be a number of activities ortasks that will need to be carried out in order to complete the project.
'Work Breakdown Structure' entails dividing the project into key tasks to be carried out, and then braking down each of these key tasks into activities that must be done to achieve them. This followed by an estimation of how long each activity will take ans what it will cost.
This document became an exhibition schedule and can be represented for expample as excel preadsheet.
-Fixing the exhibition budget
The schedule and the budget should be developed at the same time. The budget must be controlled at each stages of the process!
-Confirming the Exhibition Title and Dates
The choise of the exhibition title is an important consideration and needs to be decided as early as possible in the process, also opening and closing dates must be fixed.
-Devising an Exhibition Brief
The progress from the initial concept to realization isa process of constant questioning. Answears to these questions will help to identify an exhibition's intention and scope.
An exhibition brief is the document that sets out the main concept behind the exhibition, possible content and methods of delivery.
Clarity of purpose is crucial to the project's success and the exhibition brief will help to inform media releases, exhibition guides and related publicity.
-Drawing up a preliminary List of Exhibit
Research is always necessery to develop the concept and locate exhibits. It is essential to have the time to research the idera and to organize the ideal visit to the show.
-Defining Concept and Selecting Objects
Once an exhibition's objective have been sent, these aims will need to be communicated to a number of parties.
The Exhibition Design is important to underline the meaning of the show itself. The Designer will need:
- A statement of all the aims and objectives of the exhibition
- A concept a story line for the exhibition
- A provisional list of exhibits with images
- Information about the venue for the exhibition
- A schedule and budget
The Designer will then produce a concept design which will e a practical solution to the brief with reasons for doing it in that way and a breakdown of costs.
As we are in the first stage which is the Pre-Design, I think that is better to see the other stages later..
Don't be scaried by this long text!
Them are just information that we can use, or that might suggest us other themes.
I'll try to make a short research on collective exhibitions of young artists/designers, just to observe analogies or differeces, it could be useful to develop our concept.
Now I'll go to eat and drink as there is a small birthday party in the living room, and I'm here as a sfigata!!!
Bye and see you Soon
Sara
We need to be more active!
Because WE WANT TO DO THIS EXHIBITION! RIGHT!?
Next wednesday is our 2nd meeting and it's more or less 2 weeks that we are speaking about the theme, so I think we should bring our ideas and try to be more clear as possible in explaining them.
We should have mind that, title apart, the show need to have one or more aims.
As we want to be taken as serious and innovative group, we have to try to develop a project that can catch up the attention of the public, and above all of our potential supporters.
I'll summarize here same useful information for the exhibition's development, which Donna(Design Museum Head of the exhibition) gave me during the MA.
The organization of an exhibition can be divide in 3 main part:
- the curatorial process
- defining concept and selecting exhibits
- programming and developing an exhibition schedule
The exhibition development process involves juggling a number of different relationships and tasks as: defining concept and content, controlling schedules, budgets, contracts, exhibit lists, manage paperwork, liaise with designers, contractors, lenders and hopefully lots of journalists!
In order to archive a succesful exhibition, it is essential a good project management structure, which starts when the exhibition is concecived and finishes when it has been dismantled.
There are basic management tools that can be used to ensure that a project is successfully managed and delivered.
Any exhibition, like any project, has a number of key characteristics:
- It has start nad finish points
- It has specific goals or outcame
- It is non-routine (non-process work)
- It involves uncertainty and risks
- It requires coordination
Succesful project work means moving from what is uncertain and unknown to what is known, certain and can be planned organized and controlled.
It is essential to identify the scope and the scale of the project, technical information, timescale, resources, skills and experiences of the team.
It is also important to identify the risks associated with the a project, assess the chances of each occurring, identify any measures which can be taken to prevert them occuring.
It is essential to look after 3 broad dimensions:
1) Managing the stakeholders - this includes the projet team and all those people
involved or have interest in the project.
2) Managing the project life cycle - managing the varius stages of the project from
the planning, through implementation and review.
3) Managing performance - managing own performance but also performance of those in
the project team.
***Keep the project on track and within time, budget and resurce restraints
The process of organizing an exhibition can be divided into 4 main stages of development, each stage needs to be completed before moving onto the next.
Stage 1: Pre-Design
Stage 2: Design Development
Stage 3: Production
Stage 4: Installation/Dering
Stage 1: Pre-Design
It is importat to clearly define the aims and the objectives of the exhibition and a number of tools can be used to achive this.
- Devising an Exhibition Schedule
It will be a continual point of referece through the exhibition process clarifying all the varius tasks that need to be completes
There will be a number of activities ortasks that will need to be carried out in order to complete the project.
'Work Breakdown Structure' entails dividing the project into key tasks to be carried out, and then braking down each of these key tasks into activities that must be done to achieve them. This followed by an estimation of how long each activity will take ans what it will cost.
This document became an exhibition schedule and can be represented for expample as excel preadsheet.
-Fixing the exhibition budget
The schedule and the budget should be developed at the same time. The budget must be controlled at each stages of the process!
-Confirming the Exhibition Title and Dates
The choise of the exhibition title is an important consideration and needs to be decided as early as possible in the process, also opening and closing dates must be fixed.
-Devising an Exhibition Brief
The progress from the initial concept to realization isa process of constant questioning. Answears to these questions will help to identify an exhibition's intention and scope.
An exhibition brief is the document that sets out the main concept behind the exhibition, possible content and methods of delivery.
Clarity of purpose is crucial to the project's success and the exhibition brief will help to inform media releases, exhibition guides and related publicity.
-Drawing up a preliminary List of Exhibit
Research is always necessery to develop the concept and locate exhibits. It is essential to have the time to research the idera and to organize the ideal visit to the show.
-Defining Concept and Selecting Objects
Once an exhibition's objective have been sent, these aims will need to be communicated to a number of parties.
The Exhibition Design is important to underline the meaning of the show itself. The Designer will need:
- A statement of all the aims and objectives of the exhibition
- A concept a story line for the exhibition
- A provisional list of exhibits with images
- Information about the venue for the exhibition
- A schedule and budget
The Designer will then produce a concept design which will e a practical solution to the brief with reasons for doing it in that way and a breakdown of costs.
As we are in the first stage which is the Pre-Design, I think that is better to see the other stages later..
Don't be scaried by this long text!
Them are just information that we can use, or that might suggest us other themes.
I'll try to make a short research on collective exhibitions of young artists/designers, just to observe analogies or differeces, it could be useful to develop our concept.
Now I'll go to eat and drink as there is a small birthday party in the living room, and I'm here as a sfigata!!!
Bye and see you Soon
Sara
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Hand out from first meeting
Exhibition 25th March 2009
Costing
£150 pounds a day + staff wages for 2 members of staff on weekend
= £1050 plus (around £400)
= £1450
Additional costs:
· Private view including alcohol
· Promotional material – Flyer £60 for 1000 copies
· Postage costs for mail-out list.
· Fundraising ideas for events prior to exhibition
An initial estimation for the individual cost based on:
20 participants = £100
15 participants = £135
25% of the exhibition space hire has to be paid ASAP. The rest has to be cleared by the start of the event.
Technical Information
Hopefully Michael will supply us with 39 spotlights, which would be amazing. The space is equipped with strip lighting. He is also producing a measured CAD plan of the space.
Music Equipment to be organized.
The basement has some conservation requirements, we can use existing fixings on walls or pins, but no drilling is prohibited.
Roles
We need to someone/some people to design the promotional material
We need to create a comprehensive mailing list, we will need everyone to start collecting useful contacts of people in the industry they want to invite to the private view. Ashley from Press will kindly help us with some possible clients.
Sara has volunteered to curate the exhibition.
Setting up and Private View
Wednesday Setting Up
Thursday Setting Up | PRIVATE VIEW
Friday
Saturday Open on Weekend 10 - 5
Sunday LIVE MUSIC?
Monday
Tuesday Packing Up
We will need invigilators but I’m sure we know one or two.
Exhibition
Private View
· Dj for the opening evening
· Possibility of having live music on the Sunday but the Space does not have a entertainment license so we can promote this.
· Alcohol License; we can sell Alcohol on Private view so this will be a great way to reclaim some expenditure.
Theme for Exhibition
· Group of Artists from the Design Museum
· Mixed Media mostly 2d
What we need to do next
We need everyone to commit to the exhibition by signing a contract and paying 25% of the booking fee (Which will be around £19 if there are 20 artists)
Thanks James
Monday, December 1, 2008
Adding Website links and your own work
Hello,
Just a reminder to everyone that it would be great to see your work. You can go to the top of the page and press 'customise' then add your website to the links gadget. It quite straight forward. Just type in your http address and your name. Otherwise you can place images of your work straight into a blog. Don't be shy!!
James
Just a reminder to everyone that it would be great to see your work. You can go to the top of the page and press 'customise' then add your website to the links gadget. It quite straight forward. Just type in your http address and your name. Otherwise you can place images of your work straight into a blog. Don't be shy!!
James
Ciao a tutti!
First of all I have to ask James the photocopies that he gently brought to us.. I've lost them!
I'm sorry if I'm starting only now to write on the blog, but my internet connection wasn't working this week-end, and still it's very slow. I've seen your posts and them sound interesting, and in these days working in the gallery I had the opportunity to speak with some of you about the exhibition.
As I see most of you are scared of the "theme."
That made me think that maybe the central topic of the exhibition could be the difference and the variety of your (art)works, background, media, indeed of your Art.
Though, I don't like graduate shows' style, because when I go out of these kind of exhibitions I have a sort of confusion in mind (barely I remember the name of my favorite artists.)
When at the meeting I suggested Humpty Dumpty, I was referring to "Through the Looking glass" chapter, where Humpty Dumpty beahves as "owner" of the language, so every word means what he want.
`I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don't -- till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'
`But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected.
`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master -- that's all.'
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. `They've a temper, some of them -- particularly verbs: they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs -- however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!'
`Would you tell me please,' said Alice, `what that means?'
`Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. `I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.'
`That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a thoughtful tone.
`When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, `I always pay it extra.'
`Oh!' said Alice. She was too much puzzled to make any other remark.
`Ah, you should see 'em come round me of a Saturday night,' Humpty Dumpty went on, wagging his head gravely from side to side, `for to get their wages, you know.'
(Alice didn't venture to ask what he paid them with; and so you see I can't tell you.)
You will behave similarly to Humpty Dumpty, using different languages to express your "art."
Different concerns, contents are expressed through different media, where everyone is the owner of his "language," as "tool" of the thought.
Language as Tool, because every language permits to investigate in different way from superficial to deep interrogation about human being. The combination of this variety of approaches, could offers a cross-over vision of the main concerns of the latest generation of creatives.
I'll posts also the main points we need to develop for creating a cohesive project.
Bye
Sara
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