Amber Yin
Textile and Contemplation
For very first time I sewed on a paper. It was challenging for me at the beginning, but when I figured out how to control my threads on a paper, it was a great technique to learn and also it was very related to my drawing process and my research. It gave me this opportunity to think through a new lens that I have never tried it before. On the other hand I found sewing and eating very helpful to be able to mediate and contemplate.
Sepideh Khalili
Drawing < ----- > Code
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My narrative in drawing practice follows my personal experience of displacement and memory collections as an immigrant. As part of my drawing process , based on my concept of dislocation and digital skills, I am going to investigate the drawing possibilities in coding and usage of algorithms. I am very interested in creating a system as a platform for my drawings. On one hand I am using computer to test the idea of drawing through an algorithm or a code, but on the other hand I would like to examine the same idea by human minds.
It was a great opportunity to examine my idea of drawing and coding with my peers and engaging them with my thinking method by asking them to draw back and forth between diagrams, drawings, mathematics calculation and algorithms. That session helped to understand more about how an artist would percept a figurative or an abstract drawing in codes or diagrams. I realised that each person could create his/her own definition of systematical thinking that I want to name it as a code. In a way any individual was responsive into the task in a unique interpretation.
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Jo Lane
Back of the Head
Another great chance to try a new direction to draw from human body. It was like to look at potrait drawing in a way not to look at face at all.
Emma Hollaway
Copy of Copy of Copy
Wonderful opportunity to copy from a master piece as well as my peers drawings. It was very interesting to copy of copy and at the end to copy of copy of my own drawing. While I was copying I learnt. a lot about the lines of the original which it was very helpful for me to pay more attention to the details. It was a practice of patience as well!
Haokun Mai
Memory + Pause
I had a very strange experiment and also interesting as well during this workshop. looking for few minutes without talking at my peer's face in order to think through looking and trying to imagine myself in a memory while I was looking straight at her eyes, was a new and hard concentration techniques for me.
Yixuan Du
What you fight for?
It was a chance to think about specific concept through drawing.
Juan Sabogal
Movement, Drawing, Collaboration...Strategy
This workshop was a challenge for us as a group to come up with an idea how to collaborate with each other to work on one single drawing. Adding the movement and dancing into our drawing was giving us another layer of interest to follow.
Ellis Scheer
Film Still Drawing
Looking at drawing through my peer's lens of film still was fascinating because I could walk into her world. And also to be able to draw the scene of a movie that I had the most connection with was very challenging for me to reflect all my perceptions and feelings in my drawing of that moment. On the other hand when I was drawing a scene that I was not familiar with,I had a chance to think more freely and just try to include my own interpretation of that still into my drawing which was very interesting way of thinking of a drawing subject.
Yawen Du
Self Portrait Layered with an Ideal Beauty...!!!!
This workshop was not very helpful or educational for me because I was asked to think which part of my face I would like to change without considering the fact that I may not want to change any part of my face at all! I had a hard time to connect with this idea of ultimate beauty which dose not exist in my option.