Assignments Summary

Works we have done in class/ projects / assignments

White Blank T-Shirt creating a Map:

In the beginning I had been extremely lost on what were are supposed to do. If what we randomly create on the shirt did was going to be right or wrong or how others are going to feel. It took me about a week to start. Believe it or not I actually stared down on the blank Tee- Shirt for 10 minutes on the day before class (Thursday).  So I grabbed markers and began to add the things I love to do/ eat.

 In the end I did so much in a week, I put a week of different activities down on the Tee- Shirt and took every space from sleeves to the front and the back of the Shirt. I had really enjoyed the Tee-shirt assignment. Though I was lost but my imagination had kicked in and it went well.

From the presentations of the shirts in class the assignment had become clear to me; pieces of the puzzle came together. It has taught me that all of our interpretations of a "map", life and how we occupy space on a map were all different and helped me recognize the meaning of mapping to human  geography. It gave a great intro to mapping.

Tag:

The tag was way easier compared to the TEE-Shit assignment.  When we were first given the tags in class, I began forming ideas. Now In part of the Army, I thought of Dog Tags. It is the informal name for the identification tags worn by military personnel, named such as it bears resemblance to actual dog tags. 

The tag is primarily used for the identification of dead and wounded and essential basic medical information for the treatment of the latter, such as blood type and history of immunizations, along with providing religious preference. In the US Military, wearing of the tag is required at all times by soldiers in the field.

So looking at my life at Drexel, Army had played a big role, and family and friends in the social part did too. 

I labeled and colored the whole 1 side in Army digital green colors and added basic info of myself, the other side labeling academics, friends, and family and drew them. This is actually my favorite assignment because I got to sit down to really put down the key significant things that really value my life so far.

Google Map Capsule:

The Google Map Capsule allowed me to embed maps into my areas in life by giving an all-encompassing view of a particular area. With the Map Capsule, I can present readers with a traditional map, a satellite image, or a view of the terrain.  Depending on the location mapped, viewers may also have the ability to view your location via Google Street View, which allows them to amble along the very streets you describe in your Hub. It told a small into story of what has happened there. The ones I listed were ones that really made me have major remembrances. 

Overall the assignment did take a while but it did let me think of some great moments I had in those areas.

For put something here I just cannot think of anything. The classmates have all done something and I do not think it is good to copy and do something not exact but perhaps similar to what they are doing. 

Krzysztof Wodiczko in "Power"/ One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity

With Krzysztof Wodiczko, I feel his work is mainly towards democracy.

He lived through rough times throughout his childhood. During the interview Wodiczko's art uses public space he debates on public space and site specific art.  Wodiczko uses progressive technology in his work in order to attract an audience within these public spaces, and powerfully convey a social-political message rooted within the artwork. 
By using immersive technology, he is able to massively distribute his message to the public and worldwide, instead of confining the artwork solely to a gallery space.

With this project in Claude Lefort's importance of democracy and he says that democracy is found on empty public spaces that belong to anyone that can bring meaning to them. Wodiczko's art evidently demonstrations his work to the fullest. His style adds statutes and buildings that are essentially meaningful such as he shows his stories through art form

With this reading, it had been much easier to read and understand what had actually happened.
I feel that Claude Lefort's observation on democracy is very good. In artists having the tendency to use a group of people in a project, Philips‘s facts were well too.

Miwon Kwon’s One Place after Another art can be other forms rather than be painting.
Kwon makes several points though her most important thesis is merely that site-specific art has changed greatly. It does not always have to appear at fancy places. Public art is established on location.
It can be formed and drawn in a place where it can hold significance to those artists.
Site specificity should address the modification of adjacency and distances between objects, places, people and ideas and not their relationship in similarities.

Mapping

In Holmes, “Counter Cartographies”, I cannot comprehend what he is really trying to say.
 I am unsure at this point of it is correct that Homes is telling something on the internet is changing our lives.

All I know is now the internet is allowing people to do their jobs at home.
 In addition the military’s often use and take advantage of this technological advance to do their secret operations .The most convenient thing for people now is the internet has allowed us to purchase items online by having them shipped without going to stores and spend that part of time. But in this has affected, I feel people have become lazier than before.

Maps are a set of points, lines, and areas all defined both by position with position to a coordinate system and by their non-spatial features.

Maps are the world condensed to points, lines, and areas, using a variety of visual resources: size, shape, value, texture or pattern, color, orientation, and shape. It can also be photograph shows all objects in its view; a map is an abstraction of reality. Overall I believe maps have been an excellent invention for navigation purposes and see how the historical places and roads have changed.