Pandemic Warhol Pop Up Exhibition

In our FCWR 151: Foundations of Research Writing: Writing New York class, we held a virtual Warhol Pop Up Exhibition, in which students critiqued each other's digital artifacts interpreting our world in the style of Andy Warhol. For their group projects, students created artifacts and composed written rationales addressing their artifact's design, its use of Warhol's techniques, and its response to at least one of the French theorist Roland Barthes's short essays in Mythologies. Preparing for the project, students selected from Barthes’s prose responses to playful and everyday subjects, drawing perceptive connections between his pieces on “The World of Wrestling,“ “Plastics,” and “Toys,” and topics today ranging from esports to hand sanitizer.
 
Holding our exhibition virtually, we used a Google Doc, with each group pasting their artifact onto it. As we were also on Zoom, students introduced their artifact, the inspiration behind it, and the meaning it makes. Instead of walking around the room as we had in the past, students answered a series of questions on the Google Doc (What does this project teach us about art? What does this project teach us about Warhol? What does this project teach us about Barthes?), and we were able to discuss their responses as they were posted.
 
 

Pandemic Through The Eyes of Warhol

Original Image, https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/live-blog/2020-03-23-coronavirus-news-n1166286

Modern Toys: Computers

Original Image, https://www.sutori.com/story/old-computer-vs-new-computers--KyGZv23tQZrVipLCNnnPHmNA

Pop Color and Black and White Phones from Stock Image. In the style of Warhol's "Marilyn Diptych" https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-marilyn-diptych-t03093

The Domino