{"id":631,"date":"2011-07-07T04:21:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T08:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2011-10-21T13:10:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:10:53","slug":"online-artist-statement-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kyleclements.com\/blog\/2011\/online-artist-statement-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Artist Statement Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: If you are only wanting to use the automatic artist statement generator, then click here to skip out on the story of how it came to be.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Back in 2005, I was in my 3rd year at OCAD, and I was taking a course titled “professional practices”. This course was supposed to teach students “everything you need to know about being an artist outside of the studio”<\/p>\n

One of the assignments was the creation of an artist statement. <\/p>\n

Now, I’ve always hated artist statements. “If you need text to explain your images, you’ve failed as an image maker” sums up my feelings on the matter. But, I had to write one. I decided that since I wasn’t happy about having to do this, I should at least have some fun with it. The challenge I set for myself was tuning this task into a creative outlet. I wanted to come up with something that was unexpected and unconventional. I was a tech nerd who was surrounded by a lot of non-technically-minded people, so I figured I should go down that route.<\/p>\n

In high school, I had taken a programming class, and in my spare time, I created an “automatic insulter” program. This was an .exe file that would print something mean whenever you double-clicked it’s icon. It was very simple, but it was also very easy to modify and expand. An automatic artist statement generator seemed like a good idea.<\/p>\n

I fired up my old laptop, and loaded up my copy of QBASIC, and I got coding.<\/p>\n

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I wanted to straddle the line between genuine statements that applied to my art, and sarcasm\/snark. I wanted to feed the professors the meaningless and long-winded text they were encouraging, while still being true to my own art.<\/p>\n

I got the program working without much difficulty, and when it was my turn, I got up and read the output of this program to the class. After a few comments, I revealed the twist. <\/p>\n

One professor really got what I was trying to say with the project, while the other just didn’t get it at all. My peers in the class loved it. It was fantastic!<\/p>\n

I always wanted to put this little program up online, but I never knew just how to go about doing that. QBASIC doesn’t exactly execute in a browser, and I don’t know how to program in anything else, so I put it on my to-do list, and I forgot all about it. For 6 years.<\/p>\n

Then the fantastic Arty Bollocks Generator<\/a> made its way around the internet, and it gave me that little motivational kick to see this project through. <\/p>\n

I still didn’t know how to go about doing an online version of this, but within days of seeing the Arty Bollocks Generator, I also saw my friend Syber, who just happens to be a web developer. She gave me some code to play with. I swapped out her text with mine, and created a working online version of my old BASIC program.<\/p>\n

Here’s the link:
\nOnline version of Kyle’s Artist Statement Generator<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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