Nationally recognized artist, Adriane Herman, will be presenting Thurs Sept 24th on her creative process -- how she moves from inspiration to art. She'll touch on using people's "To Do" lists as artistic medium, and her insights into human cognitive processes.
Afterward we'll shift gears into IxD mode, taking what we've heard from Adriane -- now having a sense of her mental map -- do some additional "requirements gathering," then sketch ideas for her web site, and discuss!! We hope you can attend -- this will be an extremely stimulating and fun event. Please spread the word. Event description DATE SEP 24 5-8pm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5-6 cocktails @White Heart (551 Congress St.) 6-7 Adriane Herman talk (MECA, 522 Congress St.) 7-8 web design exercise ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TITLE From Inspiration to Art: Artist Talk & Design Activity SYNOPSIS Hour 1 Cocktails @White Heart Hour 2 Artist Talk: "Checking It Twice - Communion with the Decidedly Un-Listless" The uniquely human To Do list traces the seemingly alchemical trajectory from intention to action. In both form and content, these humble documents of goals large and small yield intimate yet anonymous details about individual and collective commitments, priorities, tastes, accomplishments, and procrastinations. Paying these usually discarded documents the kind of attention generally reserved for objects preserved in museums or archives sheds light on how we spend our most precious resource our time. A self-proclaimed "inveterate maker of mountains out of molehills," artist Adriane Herman will reveal the sources of her own alchemical trajectory from inspiration to art. And will share with us the visual fruits of her urges to collect, sort, and monumentalize other peoples jottings. She will present additional projects that reflect one of her priorities, distributing artwork to widely ranging audiences, including those who do not generally include visits to museums and galleries on their lists. Herman invites participants to bring current, recent, or heirloom to do lists to share with the group. A discussion will hopefully ensue about what participants feel their lists reveal about themselves and how interaction and experience design practitioners might assess the usability of list-making strategies evidenced in Hermans trove of enumerated ephemera. Hour 3 Design Exercise This will be a collaborative design exploration that encourages you transform the Inspiration from tonight's program into Art/Design of your own! We'll help Adriane get some ideas for her yet-unbuilt web site by... - hearing details and asking Qs about the site (users, goals, requirements, etc) - breaking into groups, duos, or working on our own to visualize and sketch one or more parts of the future site - sharing it back to the group -- discuss one element of what we came up with We'll get a glimpse into each other's creative process, and Adriane will get a bunch of ideas for a future website she hopes to commission someone to build . You can work solo, as a duo, or a team. All you'll need to bring is your creative spirit and your sketching or prototyping tools of choice! Adriane will provide limited edition multiples to trade for your ideas and efforts. Please bring laptops, paper and pencils/pens/markers, or whatever you choose to sketch/work with! BIO Adriane Herman investigates consumption through appropriated imagery and media ranging from archival to edible. This Spring, she had a solo exhibition called Human Doings at Western Exhibitions (Chicago) and debuted a portfolio of 42 relief and silkscreen prints derived from found and gifted Post-It notes called Sticky Situations at Whitney Artworks (Portland). Checking It Twice, her 2007 solo exhibition held at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art and funded by grants from the Maine Arts Commission and the Maine Community Foundation, monumentalized evidence of human intention toward action as manifested in grocery and other to do lists. Her 1999 solo exhibition at Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York was described in the New Yorker as appetizing silliness. Recent group exhibitions include those at International Print Center New York; Adam Baumgold Gallery (NY); The Dalarnas Museum (Falun, Sweden); Portland Museum of Art; Ulrich Museum of Art (Wichita); and chosen barren land (Tainen, Taiwan). Hermans work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, The Progressive Corporation, and The Walker Art Center, among others. Hermans independent efforts to normalize consumption of fine art dovetail with collaborative curatorial efforts such as SlopArt.Com and projects she has undertaken with students at Maine College of Art, such as Long Overdue: Book Renewal,which recycled thousands of books, yielding 175 artworks temporarily collectible through Portland Public Library and Inter-Library Loan. Herman holds a B.A. from Smith College and an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has explored content in context with students at Kansas City Art Institute, Vermont College, and Maine College of Art, where she is currently Associate Professor of Printmaking / New Media and Printmaking Department Chair, and will trade limited edition multiples for lists you no longer need.
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