This generation lives in a visual culture of unprecedented complexity. You have inherited a world in a storm of visual and artistic diversity. A sea of advertisements, websites, mobile devices, a billion apps and all before you’ve stepped foot in a museum. How did we get here and why does “here” look the way it does? In addition, what is the engine behind it all and can anyone learn the skills needed to meaningfully contribute?
In his Spotlight presentation, Mike Wiggins asks us to consider some of these questions. Sometimes the answers are fairly straightforward, but at other times, they are not.
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BIOGRAPHY
Mike Wiggins is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Art and Design. He is also a practicing graphic designer working in industries ranging from music and entertainment to higher education.
One response to “Exploring the Creative Arts”
I thought this was one of the more entertaining spotlight presentations that we have heard. I have always been a more creative brained person even though I never give myself credit for being creative. Mike Wiggins talked about three topics, representation, creativity, and methodology. In the representation category Mike pulled out life sized images of himself: one that had a digital image of him wearing the exact clothes that he had on that day, one hand drawn image in black and white, one generic “man” symbol, and lastly a white square with scribbles. I thought it was really awesome how he used these three representations of real vs. abstract. I really liked how Mike said “photographers try and make abstract images look real except they do everything they can to change it to look how they want and how it makes them feel.” Lastly the thing that brought the most attention to me was when he talked about the mentally disabled kids when they dropped true toothpick/ box of matches and they knew exactly how many were laying on the ground. Overall Mike was in my top 3 favorite spotlight presentations yet.