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I asked ChatBox AI “What are art tutorials for?”

Like a lot of early AI programs it couldn’t be more wrong:

“Art tutorials are instructional resources that provide step-by-step guidance and techniques for creating various forms of art. They are designed to help individuals, whether beginners or experienced artists, improve their skills, learn new techniques, and gain a deeper understanding of different art mediums and styles. Art tutorials can cover a wide range of topics, including drawing, painting, sculpting, digital art, photography, and more. They often include demonstrations, explanations, tips, and exercises to help artists develop their artistic abilities and express their creativity. Additionally, art tutorials can be accessed through various mediums such as books, online videos, workshops, or classes, making them accessible to a wide audience.”

What tutorials are is an opportunity to reflect and interrogate your artistic practice through fresh eyes, to ask the questions of yourself that you might not have thought of and, if you have, to coalesce them into a clear artistic prerogative.

Art Tutorial 1 with Jonathan Kearny 24th of October 2023

We discussed a wide range of global political issues as per my practice focus.

What has been happening within my practice: Animation was recognised as a language.

Art became a practice without labels (that was an important step for me to acknowledge)

The opportunity to work with the Feminist Internet Network and the CCI was seen and discussed as a significant happening.

Jonathan asked:

1. What was my greatest practice strength?

Honest Communication using ironic humour to modulate it’s delivery.

2. What did I want from this course?

Opportunity and world-wide communication, to test myself and grow my practice in areas I couldn’t without CSM: UAL facilitation.

Thoughts about the next steps:

Finish the animation for Disability History Month at the SU.

Thinking about the difficulties and practicalities of visiting the CCI and using that time to see exhibitions at the Tate.

Start to look at the Unreal engine and 3D modelling.

Continue with the assemblages as per the “Kraken”

We also talked about how gel plates have become an art meditation to access creativity and suppress control right brain/ left brain.

We also discussed the staging for the interim exhibition at the CSM street.

There will be an opportunity for me to affect a positive dialogue dealing with unconscious ableism and how disability with the right framework becomes ability, especially with reference to the low-residency at CSM in March next year.

Art Tutorial 2 with Jonathan Kearny 29th of January 2024

This was primarily businesslike. The upcoming interim show, site dimensions and the question of censorship.

The animation Mx Farm: Titty Milk Dairy Rebellion is deliberately provocative. It talks about global food production through the lens of Dadaesque dirty humour, with a selection of Non-Binary Rogue characters. The show is public, and children will be present, and there are undoubtedly adult sexual themes here. The installation is more erudite, but it pushes on boundaries with a boob cast. I was thinking about some de-coding leaflets, but during the tutorial, we discussed the beauty of art’s ‘potential’ meaning. This is always difficult when I’m in the business of communication and effecting change, but if you are didactic, it becomes a massive turn-off. An option was the dirty seaside postcard, censored posters and maybe less censored business cards and ID badges…

We discussed blog presentation and the insertion of Assessment, Study Statment and I may add Tutorial posts to a clickable link on the home page, but I don’t want to mess with the blog design until after the assessment for obvious tech reasons of everything going west!

Jonathan’s suggestion of QR codes with cheeky images was wonderful and here it is on Bully’s ID card.

It all feeds into the performance, and censorship is a gift!

We also talked about the possibility of a peep show for the animation, but that is a construction job and possibly outside the remit of this show.

Talking of construction, we discussed the flexible installation options of the Hu-Cow Windows, and it was always made with flexibility and robustness in mind… the ability to touch and the destructive nature of that interaction will be a fascinating element of this hang and work…. I’m excited to see where this goes, and I hold no preconceived expectations but see it as a huge test opportunity for my work.

My art practice and this blog have been productive and rhythmically regular. The blog has become a sounding board for my practice, and I’ve got the odd reader, so I’m looking forward to how this develops.

Art Tutorial 3 with Jonathan Kearny 2nd of May 2024.

I arrived, as always, early to hear the end of Tom’s fantastic work… it’s always so inspiring to listen to what we are all about.

Topics covered in my tutorial with JK:

The QTN post and how temporal Queer theory relates to my practice. I am trying to learn from the past, understand the present and develop future ideas… collapsing the temporal realities…

The identity flags are progressing into a duration artwork with the gel plates on William Gaunts Concise History of English Painting.

A durational artwork would have been impossible for me two years ago. I wondered why… on reflection, I think it’s because I didn’t think I would live to see the finish, or perhaps I was always in a rush to finish and move on to the next exciting adventure. I have learnt that it doesn’t matter if anything is finished; it’s the process that matters, and that’s where the gold is.

We discussed how my art is conceptually linked, colour-linked, not aesthetically linked, and that’s intentional.

The Network is my art practice, The Network must work for all.

Regarding diverse art practices, the rude Hu-Cow animation has been cancelled on YouTube… I might appeal… I might not…

It will now live in Only Fans thanks to Holly’s unique art practice.

We discussed the upcoming Borthfest, how I will display the current identity flags, and how or if they should be immediately understood. No, I don’t think they should… some may think what the f*ck, some may think they are ‘interesting’, some may want to know more…

We talked about how the co-polymer plastic of lamination feeds into my art… it is not biodegradable and, as such, will last forever unless it is burnt, and as things stand with the planet, that’s not off the cards.

The world is f*cked; I’ve gathered that from my research. It’s not unsolvable, but it will take hundreds of years to scrub the carbon out of the atmosphere. Meanwhile, we must change and adapt and TRANSmute ourselves and society into a liveable format that mitigates war, famine, flood and mass migration… sounds apocalyptic… It is…

Is the Earth worth fighting for… yes absolutely!

We are a unique planet among billions of dead ones… don’t fight for us humans; fight for the other beautiful spieces of the Earth…

We f*cked it. We must fix it…

We talked about Guernica and an artist here at CSM.…

https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/art-design/2024/01/29/malak-mattar-gaza-artist/

War is War…

All is not lost. Art is the answer; small-scale, community-facing art projects like Hillary Powells Bank Job, trump global-scale ‘genius’ art…

Art practices that beautify or help others make art are all needed as we enter the Anthropocene…

Art has the power to make a change… to soothe the anxiety of climate chaos…