CV 4!

CV, Design 4, By Mona Khatibshahidi

CV 3!

CV, Design 3, By Mona Khatibshahidi

CV 2!

CV, Design 2, By Mona Khatibshahidi

CV!

CV Design! By Mona Khatibshahidi

Under the UKITA Umbrella, Animation

Final Edition

UKITA Interns 2013 Case Study

To read more about us (UKUTA Inters) Please refer to creative interns page at:
http://www.ukita.co.uk/ukita-interns-2013-induction-package.html

and here is our case study!

More Results from UKITA Intern Project, 2013

It was a great experience working as an Artistic Director in UKITA Intern Project and of course facing some challenges was part of it, for which creating an animation character known as 'Timothy' and his story is an example. However it was overwhelming drawing 100 frames of the animation, I don't regret it as the results were unexpectedly great (based on the feedback from others)! As Artistic Director I also enhanced my Graphic Design skills and added a lot to my portfolio. Please click here to view the hand-draw animation.

Also see the result of this walking animation in this video!

Banner

Contact Detail with 'Timothy' character

UK IT Association Intern Project Logo, By: Mona Khatibshahidi

Page design

UKITA Intern Project, 2013

UKITA/STONES THROW MEDIA INTERN PROJECT

VISION

To complement UKITA’s online services by creating visual content, informing users of ways to utilize the benefits of membership and quickly obtain the information they require – without having to resort to unnecessary personal contact.

MISSION

It is our mission to make a series of online support videos for the UKITA website. We plan to bring the benefits of UKITA membership to the forefront of the website.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

…to UKITA

• An opportunity to improve their engagement with members,
• An opportunity to support the next generation of employers within the industry.

…to Helen Brewster (Chair of UKITA)

• An opportunity to be part of something slightly different,
• An opportunity to be part of something that provides learning and development.

…to Stone’s Throw Media (Mentors)

• An opportunity to access fresh ideas and perspectives,
• An opportunity to get an idea of what it would be like to have an in-house team,
• An opportunity to experience how they would go about recruiting future employees.

…to us graduates

• An opportunity to develop relevant work experience for our future careers,
• An opportunity to develop new skills and the ability to apply our degree knowledge within the real world.

As you can see there are mutual benefits for all parties as we can help each other to learn and develop.

OUR JOB ROLES

Zoe Louisa Baker - Project Manager

Mona Khatibshahidi - Artistic Director

Laura Shinton - Director of Marketing

Tom Williams - Video Producer

For more information about the project please refer to our blog at:

www.ukitainternproject.wordpress.com

Logo and visual Design

Designed By Mona Khatibshahidi, Adobe Illustrator 

Three different versions of Logo for London Car Windscreen Company, By Mona Khatibshahidi

Banner for London Car Windscreen Company, Designed by Mona Khatibshahidi

Evolution Series

Acrylic on canvas/2012,University of Dundee

Meanwhile, Some of My Designs!!

Blue Paintings

Acrylic on Framed canvas-2011/12

Master Show 2012, Final Presentation

Masters of Fine Art in the final  presentation

Exhibition Space

The Construction for the Final presentation of my paintings in the Master Show. (Installation -Painting )

Final design of the construction by Mona Khatibshahidi

Public Presentation during Master Show/2012, University of Dundee

For more MFA Show 2012 pictures please click here

Next!

These small size paintings are results of pure accident that happened in 'Blue' series which will be my plan and new stage for future. Can't wait..!

Development of 'Gameplay' performance...

What is it about?

'Gameplay' are a group of artists with diverse practices. Currently studying on the Master of Fine Art program at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, 'Gameplay' wants to actively open up and engage in discussions outside the art school to explore the boundaries around art.

To do this 'Gameplay' will stage a series of 'games' around the city; the purpose of which is to ask the following questions:

What is art? What constitutes an artwork? What is the role of the artist today?

'Gameplay' expect the answers to these questions to vary depending on the players. The games will evolve in response to participants' engagement with the process.

For more information about the Performance, artists' statement and photos please click here and here !

Where?

 Various locations throughout the Dundee city, Scotland, UK. (Includes City Square, Central Library (Wellgate shopping center, HMC- University of Abertay Dundee, Grey lodge Dundee).

Production and Presentation of an artwork

     By painting as the area of my profession I can discover a new layer of myself through it. I respect the occurrence of accidents in my paintings and let them to happen with their own logic. Acrylic colour, charcoal and drawing pencil have always been the main tools and medium of my choice as they allow possibilities of interpretation and greater working speed. Human, living situation and social condition have had a great impression in the growth of ideas and are as part of my artworks. With the abstract content of ‘city’ as the first stage of my paintings, I was interested in human living condition. City atmosphere, skyscrapers and buildings were the main themes of my work. I used photography and collage as a method of sketching before producing the main painting.

      Focusing on human subject for second stage, his/her physical movements were the main theme. I was interested in reactions and Subconscious movements in respect to his personal aspect of daily life. Model is not informed that his movements are being recorded so they would be more natural. Compare to facial expressions these physical movements can best describe the unknown aspect of human personality as they arise from the most naive moments. Thus the face part is always covered in my paintings as I prefer to let the body speak through itself. “When we talk with our gestures and movements, many meanings can be generated.”(C.K. Ogden, 1931). For this stage I was influenced by artists such as August Rodin, Egon Schiele who were the pioneer of using this method of approach to model. Thus instead of model being told to pose in a certain way, he would move around and the artists carefully observe them till they realize the right composition. Lucian Freud , Jenny Saville and Francis Bacon as contemporary artists were also among those who realized this way and extracted meanings and concepts from nature.

     The new stage is series of  eight paintings named as ‘Blue’. I use the same method from previous stage as a way of approach to model to produce the paintings. Subject of this Abstract- Figurative period is suspension, describing a kind of sense that one might experience in situations such as the moment of decision or dilemma, absence and presence, life and death. Many visual elements emphasize this concept of in-betweeness, thus contributing to transfer the visual sense to viewer. The dual human-animal type of nature or character, unknown state between life and death and visual composition of the figure in the centre of painting all emphasize the meaning. Moreover, the challenging situation caused by blue colour, in other words the conflict and relation between the figure and blue in each painting is another important visual element. I was influenced by contemporary artists such as Paul Thek (sculptor), Alina Szapocznikow (sculptor), Andy Warhol, Kiki Smith (Painter) and Cy Twombly (abstract painter) who followed almost the same  theme and concept in their work.

  The production of paintings was not the only matter of concentration. The idea of presenting ‘Blue’ paintings was also another aspect in order to engage public and viewer in the artwork. Based on this idea and related to the subject, I designed a joined-wall or better to say a cross shape construction. Each wall contained one painting causing viewers to move around the construction to observe all paintings. Thus they were physically and mentally engaged with the concept of them. Beside the production of artworks for artists such as Piet Mondrian and Bruce Nauman, also the presentation and engagement of the space and viewer in artworks were also important. In other words they engaged viewer and activated gallery space in relation to their works.

 

    Mona Khatibshahidi

    2012, Dundee, Scotland, UK

Presentation of painting on cross shape construction