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New images and things

Joyce — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:34:30 +0000

Hey everyone,

I’ve updated and will continue updating my personal art website, JoyceCWong.com

Please add it to your blogrolls!

Also, here are some in-progress photos of knitting and recording:

Results

Joyce — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 02:35:37 +0000

From my Organize: An Experiment project, I collected data every day, Monday-Friday. I didn’t get results every day, and on some days, only 1 or 2 people participated. I’m including my fullest result days:

Wednesday, March 2nd:

9) Joshua, Jamie, Jamie, Jamie

Jasmine, Joshua

7) Jesse, Jessica, Jasmine

6) Jesse, Jamie, Jasmine

5) Joshua, Jessica, Javon, Jesse

4) Joelle, Joelle, Javon

3) Jesse, Janae, Janae

2) Jang, Jang, Joelle

1) Jang, Jang, Jessica, Jessica, Joelle, Janae

Thursday, March 3rd:

9) Jamie, Jasmine, Jasmine

Jamie, Jamie, Joelle

7) Jamie, Janae, Joshua

6) Jasmine, Jesse, Javon, Javon

5) Jang, Jang, Jesse, Jessica

4) Joelle, Joelle, Joshua, Jesse

3) Jasmine, Joshua, Joelle, Jang

2) Javon, Joshua, Jesse, Joelle

1) Jessica, Jessica, Jessica, Janae

Friday, March 18th:

9) Jamie, Jang, Jasmine

Joelle, Joshua

7) Joelle, Joshua

6) empty

5) Jasmine

4) Jang, Joshua, Joelle

3) Jesse, Javon, Javon

2) Jessica, Jang, Jessica

1) Janae, Jamie, Jang

Tuesday April 12th:

9) Jamie, Jamie, Javon, Jamie

Joshua, Joshua, Jessica

7) Jessica, Joshua, Jasmine

6) Jasmine, Joelle, Jessica, Jesse

5) Jamie, Jasmine

4) Jang, Joelle, Joelle

3) Javon, Jang, Jessica, Jesse, Joelle

2) Jesse, Javon Janae, Janae

1) Janae, Jang, Jang, Jesse

Wednesday, April 13th:

9) Jamie, Jamie, Jamie

Javon, Joshua, Joshua

7) Jasmine, Javon, Jasmine

6) Joelle, Jasmine, Joelle

5) Jesse, Joshua, Jessica

4) Jessica, Joelle, Jang

3) Jesse, Janae, Jang

2) Javon, Janae, Jesse

1) Jang, Jang, Janae

Knitting

Joyce — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:45:35 +0000

I forgot to upload a really simple sketch of the knitting project I’m doing:

This is basically what it will look like hung up on a wall with a viewer seeing/listening to it.

I already bought a bunch of glass bowls to act as the amplifier, but I’m really reconsidering glass because of how heavy and dangerous it will be to drill through/hang from the ceiling.

I’ve recorded some audio, but am hoping to get at least 40 hours of audio more.

My room gets messier

Joyce — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:40:04 +0000

every day that I hoard, my room gets messier and messier.

I don’t even want to show you what my whole room looks like. I am so ashamed.

Spoken Craft

Joyce — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:49:40 +0000

With the hoarding, I’m also simultaneously working on another project. I had spoken about it during the last critique. I’m still working out the kinks but I know what direction I’m going with it.

What I am interested in doing with my final project is to take it into a more social/community direction. I want to create a product of social interaction that is relatable, simple, formless, but concretely exists. Essentially, what I am doing is socially knitting a long seamless, black, thin scarf. It is going to be at least 20 feet long, and I hope to make it somewhere between 35-40 feet in length. While I create this piece, I will be recording the conversations and interactions I have with people in process of this “line” I’m knitting. These conversations will play on a continuous loop while on display, becoming a literal narrative and social “thread” for this piece.

I’ll include quick sketches later tonight.

I really thought that I posted this weeks ago!

Joyce — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:56:28 +0000

I forgot to publish this post!! It’s about this current project I’m working on about hoarding.

Proposal for Art in Social Context: “Pieces From a Private Collection”

Conceptual Objectives:

(1) Play with the phrase: “Pieces from a private collection”.

(2) Elicit feelings of repulsion, compassion, and fear in reactions to hoarding. By creating items of hoarding myself, I will further understand and appreciate the material items I collect.

(3) Hoarders are organized (in a way that is comprehensible to themselves), even though they are collecting “trash”. Show organization using jars and labels but giving saved items a deeper meaning–ie. calling collected q-tips “extractions”.

Process:

(1) Actually become a compulsive hoarder–saving things and finding excitement in my collecting.

(2) Create mass by using repetition in containers and items.

(3) Create the items I collect by replicating them, furthering my obsession of the items I hoard.

(4) Notate when I find items, when I collect, who enables me to do it.

Time Line:

Because this project is continuous, I will be finished with this on our last day of critique, meaning I will continue collecting items until then.

Haven’t had the chance to update

Joyce — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:12:27 +0000

My piece that I had been working on with the hair got into the student show–I wanted to submit three pieces and felt that this was something that was different enough to get accepted. Sorry I didn’t get to get critique’d first!

Here are just some quick photographs I took. I’ll hopefully get around to photographing for my portfolio before the show ends. Also, my Berlin, Berlin! piece got in as well.

I’ve been getting really good results, too. At the end of every day, Section One is empty and Section Two is full–people actually are participating in the experiment and are not too grossed out by the hair. I’ll start posting daily results soon.

I managed to get some photos up on my computer I use for work

Joyce — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:41:39 +0000

shh!!!

Luckily I am able to update. Not to worry though, I won’t get in trouble for using my work computer, but I just don’t want to gross anyone out with photos of q-tips and ear wax.

This is some trials on creating q tips–I currently don’t have appropriately sized wooden dowels to so am using empty ends of “real” already made q tips.

regular cotton works

“Real” ends

Homemade ends. I’m not too concerned about them looking so raggy since they’ll be used and end up looking like that anyways.

Used Specimens.

quick update

Joyce — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:38:28 +0000

My computer is totally bad and in a shop in Columbia and I’m typing this from my first generation iPod. I have images to upload but won’t be able to get them up here until Saturday when I get my computer back

Hair Balls

Joyce — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:04:42 +0000

I haven’t taken more photos of my hair sculptures since last week. I’ve been incredibly sick and I think I have strepp–going to see a doc soon if it doesn’t clear up. While I’ve been working on this project, I have simultaneously been starting a second project and will be working on both throughout the semester. I will post final ideas soon about project 2.

Also, I am having a really hard time acquiring hair. Does anyone know of anyone who is willing to cut their hair in the name of art??