Sculptedia

[coteart]

As it appears to me now, many people in our groups are being somewhat uncommunicative.  Perhaps one reason for this is that we do not have adequate terminology to effectively communicate what we need to discuss.  To this end I have started a web page called "Sculptipedia" .  http://www.unitedartistsway.com/Sculptedia.html, and hope everybody will help me by contributing words and definitions.

A problem I have recently become aware of, while trying to work with members of Imagillaboration is a lot of misunderstanding and confusion over the words that are being used.  I think we need a better defined lexicon.  Maybe it would be very helpful for us to practice the definitions together or on each other in telephone conferences?    If you will post words and/or definitions to this thread, we can have a general discussion and then choose what words and definitions should be posted to the page.  Please review the page and give us your thoughts and concerns about the words that we have allready tried to define.

If you know of a site or other resource that already exists that covers this, please let us know.  We have found one web site with sculpture terms http://www.phil.muni.cz/dejum/content/kurzy/history_of_czech_art/sculpture_terms.php, but that is not what we are seeking.  We are looking for words that we can use in our discussions of what we are doing in Imaginillaboration, so as to make the elements of each sculpture work together in one cohesive piece.

[ornametalsmith]

Hi Greg,
I wanted to wait before adding my two cents to this......... I hoped that it might start some conversation, at the very least. LOL   oh well..........so much for that.
IMO, I doubt that terminology has anything to do with the lack of communication. As with any "group" effort you'll always have varying degrees of activity and participation. I've come to the conclusion that the "active" members of each group may have to take it upon themselves to "help" those less active. For example...........of those in Group 1(which has 9 members) only 6 have submitted photos for the group album. I'm going to contact the three that haven't sent in the images. Hopefully that will pick up the slack. BUT..........as Michael mentioned in the email of yesterday...........there are still some that need to ALSO submit other info. I'm not sure HOW to motivate them to do that. LOL
I'm a hopeless optimist......... I think everyone will become more active as this project moves along and picks up momentum.

PS.......if you came to this "terminology" conclusion because I used the term "Strata" and you thought I meant "element".............I explained that Strata is 3D software, and that I thought that you used that software also.
bill

[emfairmeadows]

http://www.bronze-busts.com/sculpture_dictionary_sculpture_glossary.html
I read your post, then Googled "dictionary of sculpture terms."  The post above is what I found.  I think it is useful to have resources available to aid with communication all the time, but I think some folks are just not into using the computer as a method of communication.  I'm married to a technophobe.  He's a brilliant sculptor, but does not use the computer/ipod/cell phone/pager/fax machine without me.

Maybe at the next exchange, group members can log in and post images and missing information together.

[Ferrousity]

While working on press releases I have looked over our list of participants to try and formulate some statistics about "demographic" groups of people involved with the project.

To my knowledge, 26 of our 106 participants are currently working as sculpture professors at colleges and universities. Of the remainder, at least half are either currently in a degree program, or already have a BFA/MFA in sculpture. Almost all the rest have been professionals for years.

This being the case, I don't think there is any confusion about what an additive process is, etc.

Where I believe the confusion lies is in the definition of "adequate communication" as well as people's personal interpretation of how the process of this project is supposed to occur.

Most people do not have the time or know how to be as communicative as they probably would like. I would love it if they did, but I also only know of one or two people whose lack of communication has negatively impacted the project so far, not in your group, so I think we are doing pretty good.

As for the process, I never imagined that anyone would plan out every element in a piece before the piece was worked on. Some forethought and collective decision making/brainstorming is great, but ultimately it is up to each individual to make decisions about the additions to each piece as it circulates through the group. This means you can't expect the communication level to be such that others are telling you what you should be doing to the piece in your hands.

Keep up the good work everyone.

----Michael