The Quantified Self Portrait Series was a 9 weeks hands-on production and seminar workshops at the Queens Museum that focused on producing self portraits projects in physical forms, the purpose of this workshop was to steer it towards building a unique and … Continue reading SELF PORTRAIT SERIES; Final Presentation →
Today, the students began our workshop by sitting in a circle to work with a wonderful dancer, Amy Miller, from the Gibney Dance. We invited Amy to do a movement session to help the students to feel more comfortable with their body, and to … Continue reading SELF PORTRAIT SERIES; WEEK 8 →
This week, the students and museum members were invited by Molmol Kuo to a field trip at her studio – YesYesNo, with guest speakers Rosalie Yu(Taiwan), and Billy Dang (US), who introduced their work on 3D scanning sculptures, 3D printing, and … Continue reading SELF PORTRAIT SERIES; WEEK 7 →
Week 5 marked the mile stone of this Quantified Selfie production workshop. At this point, our students had accumulated 5 weeks worth of self-tracking data that in some way represent who they were as individual, for example: health, routines, interests, diet, learning, … Continue reading SELF PORTRAIT SERIES; WEEK 5 →
I began the workshop today by introducing two artists to the students. First, artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg, and her project, Stranger Visions, In this well-made documentation video on her project ,Dewey-Hagborg created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material collected in … Continue reading SELF PORTRAIT SERIES; WEEK 4 →
This week we visit the Cooper Hewitt Museum. This is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. We came also to learn about how collecting data could be very useful in terms of creation. Thanks to … Continue reading Self-portraits workshop at Cooper Hewitt Museum →
We started off the class with a group exercise in the park this morning, It’s an activity that I borrowed from Jose Duarte‘s data viz workshops. I asked the students to draw a a few large circles (ie, bubbles) with … Continue reading SELF PORTRAIT SERIES; WEEK 2 →
Self-portrait Series: A contemporary self portrait workshop focus on the individuals and local community of Queens Museum. Instructor: Molmol Kuo molmol@molmolk.com twitter: @openMolmol_MPS website: molmolk.com yesyesno.com * Week 1 | 7/ 26 @QM We began with a journey to discover … Continue reading Self Portrait Series; Week 1 →
Self-portrait Series with artist Molmol Kuo Program in Mandarin 9 week course Sundays, 1–3pm Registration required Free Admission For more information contact Nung-Hsin Hu 718 592 9700 x133 nung-hsin@queensmuseum.org This is a workshop combining traditional hands-on art making and new media … Continue reading Self-Portrait Series →
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