The umbrella theme we would like to use for our end of the year group project is ART.

Art is just one of the many forms of self expression, but just like the field of communications, the creation of an art piece requires the combination of various fundamentals particularly creativity and rationale. Art is like its own medium—it encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature; it is not limited to paintings or 2 dimensional pieces.

After learning about the different mediums of communications, we believe that showcasing art is the perfect way to tie everything together. Due to the wide scope of art we often fail to realize that without art, the media would be rather blunt and uninteresting. There is an art in doing everything that is broadcasted on the media; from telling the news to television shows. And it is this creative nature that fascinates and entertains us. This is the reason we watch television, the reason we watch summer block buster movies, the reason we isolate ourselves from the world by listening to music, and it is also the reason we read books and magazines. Art stimulates an individual’s thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or ideas through the senses. It is an expression of an idea which comes in various forms to serve a variety of purposes (politically, spiritually, or philosophically motivated art) to create a sense of beauty in order to explore the nature of perception; for pleasure; or to generate strong emotions.

Unplugged (raw)

In order to unify everything, this event will be built around the concept of “unplugged”.

The term “unplugged” has become a term used for acoustic music, or music that is not electronically amplified. In fact, MTV developed a TV show called MTV Unplugged which showcased acoustic sessions of famous recording artists. The underlying concept behind the Unplugged is attributed to the popularity among musicians of a variety of informal musical performances on stage, film, television and record in earlier decades. The casual “in-the-round” sequence in Elvis Presley’s 1968 Comeback Special, and the Beatles informal studio jams documented in the 1970 film Let It Be were both precursors of the “Unplugged” concept.

In this event, we will take the concept of “unplugged” to a higher level. We will not only showcase music that is not electronically amplified, but we will also showcase other forms of entertainment without the use of an additional outlet. Basically, any form of self expression that is appropriate.

Thus, unplugged refers to literally unplugging ourselves from television, music, cell phone, the internet and instead be occupied with more authentic entertainment that though ‘disconnected’, will feed one’s artistic soul. This paradox shall awaken your senses.