Photographic Installations

[lauren]

For my Year 12 Studio Art final artworks ive decided to do photographic installations.
My theme is teenage emotion: depression.
my photos are quite dark and eerie...
any ideas or recommendations for how i could install my photos?
any photographers that do installations i could have a look at and get inspiration of?
By the way today, i had an experience today that has been going on for a while that my art teacher keeps giving my ideas away to other students! today another girl was doing a technique i did last week!
im quite protective of my ideas... is this a bad thing??
thanks, lauren.

[Iguanasan]

I really have no help on the installations thing, mostly because I really don't even know what it is.

As far as being copied, remember, the sincerest form of flattery is imitation so if it were me I would just enjoy the fact that people want to copy you.

[lauren]

well i have only seen a few on the net...
Atanas Djonov Photo Work
that is an example:
it is photos in a sort of sculptural form.

your correct. i understand it in the real world but its hard when in year 12 we are all competing against each other for a score for university entry. i think copying is not good for this circumstance... appreciate the sense they think my work is worth copying though. its a hard one i must admit!

[Richard]

Hi Lauren...

Firstly I've never done a photography installation, not even sure if I've understood you correctly, but but my idea is..

Maybe you could do it like teenage bedroom of a depressed teenager, with your photos stack up over each other on the walls. (similar to a crime scene investigation wall)

Secondly - I did a product design degree and I understand what it's like when people try and copy your ideas and present them as their own. You really have two options,

1, document your work, so you can prove it's your idea, but be prepared for people to rip you off.

Anyway I hope your installation goes well.
2, Hold your ideas close to your chest and hope that someone doesn't think of them independently and get credit for them first.

I think creative courses are always going to be competitive, it's much better in the working world when you can work on and develop ideas as a team.

[Marko]

In terms of installations, i have no experience there but I've seen many installations. It's really all about the space the installation will occupy. I'm not sure what kind of help we can give you UNTIL we see the installation and have an idea of the space.

In terms of copying a style...suck it up. There's VERY few people that come up with original concepts...the concept that you have for example, are you the first to think of it? does no other very similar concept already exist? Either way...There's nothing you can really do EXCEPT make your work BETTER Than the person copying it. You could ALSO dedicate a larger body of work to this style. This way it may become one of your 'signatures'. A person with a signature style will normally get more attention than a dabbler provided the quality of that work is very high.

If you DID come up with a brand new concept...then forget about the copiers as you are likely FAR more creative than they are and will continue to come up with creative works.

Hope that helps and of course I'm very curious as to you artwork.

Marko

[Richard]

In terms of copying a style...suck it up. There's VERY few people that come up with original concepts...the concept that you have for example, are you the first to think of it? does no other very similar concept already exist? Either way...There's nothing you can really do EXCEPT make your work BETTER Than the person copying it. You could ALSO dedicate a larger body of work to this style. This way it may become one of your 'signatures'. A person with a signature style will normally get more attention than a dabbler provided the quality of that work is very high.

If you DID come up with a brand new concept...then forget about the copiers as you are likely FAR more creative than they are and will continue to come up with creative works.

Marko

Excellent point, well put Marko

[Iguanasan]

Stumbled into this today and thought it belonged to this thread:

"Do Not Covet Your Ideas"

[ericmark]

yes I steal others peoples ideas. Why re-invent the wheel? Plagiarism is a problem and the main problem is to prove who stole it from who. We read today all about the telephone and how Bell likely stole the idea. But it is hard. One should in any write up accredit other people with their ideas but often hard to work out who did it in first place.

I was shocked doing Art after already having a degree as to the lack of credit given to other artists and had I been marking many of the portfolios I would have disqualified the student for plagiarism.

The lecturer asked me what the Bibliography was doing at bottom of the document where I had used the end note in word to record all references. Seems that's not the way with art.

I was very quick to submit my work. I wanted to make sure if it was copied my work had the earliest date stamp.

Roles Royce had a moto:- Take a proven design and improve on it" had they followed it they would not have gone under.

However to complain would likely get people thrown off the course for plagiarism it is a very serious breach and I would never have shopped my fellow students.

All best with project.