MFA Visit

View the Gender Bending Fashion exhibit [and if you want, the Made Visible] and answer these questions:

1. how does fashion play a role in your work -- if you have a character(s) then those design decisions are important OR if you have no humans in your work, discuss the fashion of your favorite game with people in it.

Fashion for the current work I am a part of is based on school children. Their clothes are casual as to appear presentable for class. Each character has a similar style of clothing and appear fairly uniform.

2. How could you make fashion interactive and what statement would that make to wear it?

Clothing could be lined with a material that can change when the wearer feels a certain emotion. A potential example would be a face of a character that could change from smiling to frowning when the wearer goes from feeling happy to sad.

3. Find the piece pictured below, in the Eunice and Julian Cohen Galleria (Gallery 163). Note the name of the piece and then describe your impression of the piece -- what are questions it draws forth from you upon viewing?

Flicker

Although the chandelier was off it still seemed to be glazed over as if it were covered in a semi-thick layer of ice. It could also be wax that has melted while the candles were lit then hardened once it cooled. When viewing the chandelier from the floor above it also appears to be fountain-like with plant life sprouting from the center.

"The Bauhaus—Germany’s legendary school of art, architecture, and design—was founded in Weimar by architect Walter Gropius in the spring of 1919. Gropius assembled an international group of faculty members including Josef Albers (German), Lyonel Feininger (American), Wassily Kandinsky (Russian), Paul Klee (Swiss), and László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian). The school relocated twice during its brief existence (to Dessau in 1925 and Berlin in 1932) before its closure by the Nazi regime in 1933, but its aesthetic of geometric abstraction—and its stated goals of collaboration across disciplines and harmony between form and function—have had a lasting impact on the fields of architecture and industrial and graphic design."

4. Discuss how you can imagine taking one of the pieces in the exhibit and if you were asked to contribute a work with a similar look/feel/message now, how could you make it into something interactive? Keep in mind the stated message of the Bauhaus as well as the individual feel/reading you get from the piece you choose.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Photogram, gelatin silver print

This piece could be made into an interesting experience of the process by having a few objects that can be placed on or near the light-sensitive paper and exposing them to light. This would allow the audience to partake in the creation of their own work of art. The use of light and physical objects come together to make a piece of art that would allow the viewer to interpret such a simple idea into something more than objects projected onto a special light-sensitive paper.