Sunday, March 08, 2009
I have some interesting pictures of this particular class. We split up into groups and each group was given some bread, a CD some random little screws and such and a chunk of a barbie doll which we were all supposed to make an interpretation of the words we had on a scrap of paper given to us (all of the words were things like robot, cyborg, android etc).
I actually thought this was a fun project to do. As an art student, I enjoy classes with a much more hands-on approach to lectures, and I doubt I'm alone in this opinion. I was surprised at all the ways everyone was able to put together their little sculptures given the materials. The bread especially. Most everyone figured out it's use as a sort of clay like substance. I was aware of it from when I was little and my sister and I made bread gum by squishing it into cubes with our fingers.
Not trying to boast or anything though, my group's piece was totally the best one. It looked like a record player with a barbie arm and bread for brains. Totally awesome. All the different ideas about the whole robot concept surprised me. I have a pretty straight forward idea towards the whole genre, what with mechanical people/animals and so on, but there were some good ideas. I mean, ours was just a hand that replicated and built more hands. So it was kind of like those machines that manufacture cars, those are robots. I never really think about those when I think of robots though. It's pretty interesting to think about.
