Benefits of the Ethnic Filter: Mobile Art Analysis

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Essay description and required elements As we have seen in this class, mobile art takes many varied forms—it is often locative, speaking to the environment in which it is situated, personal, political, wearable, situationist, cellular and more. In this essay, I ask you to analyse one of the selected projects below and use research regarding the work plus a mobile media/analysis lens to explore and analyse the art object and the intended art experience. You will research to access critical literature (art, academic, etc.) that describes and analyses the artwork. As with other academic papers, as you employ those sources, you will want to blend them into your analysis, for example by comparing and contrasting their claims or critiques; that is, you want to consider and comment upon them, as part of your own analysis of the art object and your reading of the intended impact/experience of the art. Essay Requirements: - 7-8 pages, double spaces, Times New Roman 12 point font, cited using APA or Chicago style. Of course, please cite any referenced work in a works cited section. - For grading details, See rubric (below) Required Essay Elements: 1) Describe the Art object/project your essay addresses, and the subject/idea/critique that the artist(s) addresses. Provide details regarding the content of the work, including the key or most important elements of the work. Also address the location of the work, and the time of the installation. Be sure to include any relevant context- eg the history of the region, the political moment in which the work resides, any event the object, work responds to. Finally, be sure to name the type of art approach employed—is it conceptual, critical, interrogative, resistive, etc.; is it participatory, interactive, or presentational, etc. and provide evidence supporting this claim. 2) Make a statement regarding the message of the work, the population you understand the work to address, and argue the intended impact of the work upon the audience/participants. Note that artists can have very different objectives for their work; they may ask participants/audience to accept a particular idea or practice or happening, or to critique or scrutinize it, or even just to consider or think about an idea, among other objectives. Then support this statement, by analysing the work, building to an argument regarding the work’s message, intent and value. This should include a discussion of the aesthetic techniques employed to create the work’s message or intent. How does it use form, content, stylizing, etc. to for example, create a message, offer a statement or perhaps encourage inquiry or critique by participants/audience? o Here you should use employ research on this particular artwork, and a critical lens to make statements/claims, support these claims, and overall craft a strong argument. • First, search for and discuss various critical academic analysis, and/or art, media or journalistic reviews/analyses*of the art work. Update: this section can be shorter than the next (mobile media lens analysis). Please do note in your essay if there is little written about the art project in critical academic art, media, journalism, etc to let us know that this section is short by virtue of minimal or lack of material. The point of this section is to make you familiar with a critical review of the work, in order to give you a place to start with your own analysis; e.g. in the next section of your essay (the mobile media lens) you might concur with the analyses you have found but contribute a new thought or you might provide a very different point of view with the benefit of a different (mobile media) lens. • Then, employ a mobile media/analysis lens*. For the purpose of this paper, this lens includes a broad group of mobility/mobile concepts addressing mobile technology or device affordances; mobile experience; time/space issues, practices of mobility for example articulated to issues of identity and representation (gender, race, class, ethnicity, etc.); labour and consumption; and global economy issues, etc. You will employ one or more mobility concepts to analyse the art object and the artist’s message or intent offered in the work. This can include a discussion of how the object communicates with the intended audience/ participant experience and regarding your reading of the artists’ intended impact upon/reception upon the audience/participants. • In your argument, be sure to provide your reading of the value (or impact, success, or importance) of the work. You asked to use your own voice—you can respond to other critiques or analyses and/or your lens but discover and present your own thoughts on for example, the timeliness, value, importance, and/or potential importance/impact of the work.