Category: Art Thesis

  • Research Summary & Art Thesis Conclusions

  • Project 4: Prototyping a Nugget Installation

    [break] I wanted to actually see what it would be like to get people who mostly had no idea how to make chicken nuggets make them in an assembly line.  I set up a simple assembly line with instructions and had each member of the thesis class man stations and isolate themselves by wearing headphones…

  • Factory Sounds

      Audio listend to by the participants using headphones while doing their task on the assembly line. Credit.

  • Project 3: Nugget Gallery

    My concept is to have visitors the gallery butcher chickens, grind meat, shape the ground meat into nuggets, bread and batter them, par-fry them and then vacuum seal them so the visitor can take them home.   [break] [break] Through this project I hope to address and accomplish the following: [break] Involve and expose viewers…

  • Looking into Chicken McNuggets…

    I’m considering how best to portray performance in food as a gallery installation piece. I think the subject must be quite striking and also accessible to anyone.  We have all heard myths about how McNuggets are made but I think participating in making them would be a very different experience.  I’m considering building an installation…

  • Andy Warhol Eating a Whopper

    “My name is Andy Warhol and I just finished eating uh, a hamburger.” [break] [break] and on a related note…. [break]

  • Project 2: Performance Tools

    As I set out to put together various items to act as my mise-en-place, I realized the task was a bit more involved than just foraging for materials.  It’s actually quite difficult to search for materials to create art piece with, without an idea for what that piece will be.  With food, gathering ingredients is…

  • Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life

    Fluxus is a project organized by George Maciunas exploring and redefining the meaning of art in society.  A group of artists created a series of kits that are especially interesting to me.   What is art good for? This was a central question for Fluxus organizer George Maciunas, who devoted his life to analyzing the…

  • Conveyer Sushi

    This could be an interesting concept to play with  

  • Project Plan Updates

    Reflecting on my first project and cooking a lot of other meals recently, I’ve realized a few things and updated my project outline.  The following ideas motivate these changes:     [info_box size=”500″] [one_third] Seasonality in cooking is incredibly important to me and dictates what I cook and how I prepare it.  Ingredients in season…