Sunday, December 7, 2008
ideograph!
can someone explain ideograph to me again cuz apparently this whole time i've been confusing ideograph and double image. on thursday al said that ideograph was a gesture but i'm still not getting the main idea around ideograph
Richard Foreman as a Scenographer
Richard Foreman as a Scenographer
Foreman encompasses text, character, language, sound, space, thought, and décor to weave together a comprehensive visual form.
His sets evoke wonder and exhilaration of the audience due to their intricacy and have the power to upstage the actors and text.
Not every point of focus on the stage will be the same for every audience member but still engage the audience the same, filling the gap between auditorium and stage.
Foreman uses different framing devices “to set the stage off from the audience as well as differentiating objects and performers from each other within the stage space.
-Framing consists of literal pointing to use of ubiquitous strings to literal frames
Homemade/rough quality to sets; avoids sleekness of commercial theater
-Solid, monochromatic color scheme along with eerie lighting help to evolve the mood of the play.
Sets have hints of the Victorian era though not set in the time period.
“The overstuffed-ness is a kind of comfort, but also a kind of luminescence almost…a kind of erotic aspect”
The element that has become most identifiable as Foremanesque is his use of strings, connecting things across the stage and even out into the audience.
-“They frame, focus, and function as lines of energy and ultimately, they disrupt the field of vision”
- Foreman would also add black dots to the strings that made that would make the stage dense with it’s own empty space.
He does not use fourth wall realism but instead a “reverberation chamber” in which actions/ words onstage are reflected back and forth between the objects. These reverberations trigger memories, and emotions from the audience.
- He is striving for an involved observation
The process of designing for foreman is much like that of writing. “Just as the texts emerge from the pages of his notebook, the scenographic environment evolves through thumbnail sketches…. [then] makes a rough model (sometimes several) until he achieves something with which he is satisfied.
“His stage is not an empty stage since it is an embodiment of a rich and densely textured mind.”
Foreman encompasses text, character, language, sound, space, thought, and décor to weave together a comprehensive visual form.
His sets evoke wonder and exhilaration of the audience due to their intricacy and have the power to upstage the actors and text.
Not every point of focus on the stage will be the same for every audience member but still engage the audience the same, filling the gap between auditorium and stage.
Foreman uses different framing devices “to set the stage off from the audience as well as differentiating objects and performers from each other within the stage space.
-Framing consists of literal pointing to use of ubiquitous strings to literal frames
Homemade/rough quality to sets; avoids sleekness of commercial theater
-Solid, monochromatic color scheme along with eerie lighting help to evolve the mood of the play.
Sets have hints of the Victorian era though not set in the time period.
“The overstuffed-ness is a kind of comfort, but also a kind of luminescence almost…a kind of erotic aspect”
The element that has become most identifiable as Foremanesque is his use of strings, connecting things across the stage and even out into the audience.
-“They frame, focus, and function as lines of energy and ultimately, they disrupt the field of vision”
- Foreman would also add black dots to the strings that made that would make the stage dense with it’s own empty space.
He does not use fourth wall realism but instead a “reverberation chamber” in which actions/ words onstage are reflected back and forth between the objects. These reverberations trigger memories, and emotions from the audience.
- He is striving for an involved observation
The process of designing for foreman is much like that of writing. “Just as the texts emerge from the pages of his notebook, the scenographic environment evolves through thumbnail sketches…. [then] makes a rough model (sometimes several) until he achieves something with which he is satisfied.
“His stage is not an empty stage since it is an embodiment of a rich and densely textured mind.”
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
My (Kate's) Robot Last day
These are the photos from the final day of my robot. It has been in the Crown Library since November 16th and has been moved multiple times. I purposefully put the robot in a place that was in the way so people would notice it. It therefore has travelled all around the library, pushed out of the way for study groups etc. Most of what is written on it as I have said in previous posts is very angry and bitter towards the idea.
The following I thought was very interesting, because it was basically what we were trying to see, what is society's thoughts on this robot and the statements that are imposed upon this blank structure is entirely up to the writer, who in turn is part of society.
Kind of continuing with the idea of I am what I am, part of society and we make of it what we wish...
This is one of my favorite along with the one saying "I am a pile of boxes". Taking the concept very literally, as scientists and engineers often do.
The strings that were attached to the pens ended up VERY tangled and one of the robots boobs was punched in, but overall the robot was undamaged.
Really random violent thoughts...
This was the back of the robots head so it was two faced. I found it interesting that the front and back had a face but the sides did not.
To finish off with I kind of lonely ending...
Kind of continuing with the idea of I am what I am, part of society and we make of it what we wish...
This is one of my favorite along with the one saying "I am a pile of boxes". Taking the concept very literally, as scientists and engineers often do. 
The strings that were attached to the pens ended up VERY tangled and one of the robots boobs was punched in, but overall the robot was undamaged.
Really random violent thoughts...
This was the back of the robots head so it was two faced. I found it interesting that the front and back had a face but the sides did not.
To finish off with I kind of lonely ending...
Monday, November 24, 2008
Leigh's Robot
So here's what the process of my robot for the Environmental Design has looked like thus far. I put it in the Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center, and chose to attach a single black Sharpie pen to the robot to see if people would limit their choice of expression to the materials provided.
Here's what the robot looked like when I first put it up on November 13:
When I went back to check on it on 11/17, here's what I found:
The side of the head:
Someone put a cigarette in its mouth and gave eyelashes...
This is one of my favorites...
Here's what the robot looked like when I first put it up on November 13:
When I went back to check on it on 11/17, here's what I found:
This was on the top of the robot's head:
The side of the head:
Someone put a cigarette in its mouth and gave eyelashes...
This is one of my favorites...
This one is my favorite by far, because it somewhat proved my theory. Someone used a media that was not already provided, and was thus not limited to what was available to them. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that they're most likely an art student?
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