Project 1 - Exact | Representation and The Uncanny[Read more]
Project Description: The Uncanny Valley studies human’s emotional response to figural representations at varying degrees of accuracy. If a representation is too human, we have an uncanny instinctual response to avoid the fake human. The representation of the things in our world in new materials and altered scales is a powerful communicator for eliciting emotional and intellectual response. For this assignment you sculpt a pair of objects that are compositionally and conceptually dynamic with potential as symbol, metaphor, or allusion. Carefully consider how the levels of exactness in form, texture, scale, material, color, and orientation will change the formal and conceptual understanding of the representation. Taking inspiration from two objects, Students are required to additively sculpt one object in clay and reductively carve the other in foam or wood to make an exact representation.
Samantha Gallagher - 2024
Julia Nicolau - 2025
Lily McClarin - 2025
Natalia Derylo - 2025
Cecelia Beringer - 2025
Dakaris Williams - 2025
Olivia Anderson - 2025
