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Thursday Visiting Artist Talk

Who: Chris Taylor, an educator and trained architect at the University of Texas, Austin where he teaches (with Bill Golbert) a course titled Land Arts of the American West - a program that "examines gestures both small and grand, directing our attention from potsherd, cigarette butt, and mark in the sand, to human settlements, monumental artworks, and military-industrial projects like hydroelectric dams and decommissioned airfields" traveling "upwards of 8,000 miles with fourteen students to live and work for over fifty days in the landscape of the southwest visiting sites such as Chaco Canyon, Roden Crater, the Grand Canyon, Double Negative, the Wendover Complex of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, the Bonneville Salt Flats, Spiral Jetty, Marfa, Mata Ortiz, the Very Large Array, and The Lightning Field."
When: Thursday, 15 Nov, 5:30pm
Where: KAM 62

posted by ryan griffis at 10:50 AM Wednesday, November 14, 2007

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For-Educational-Use-Only 9

This week will be short, contemporary works in video from recent issues of the biannual DVD magazine Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art.

The screening will include:

Marilyn Arsem
Undertow, 2005, 05:00

CarianaCarianne
Bequeaths, Oaths Of Signature, 2004-2005, 12:10

Jamie McMurry
365 Performances, 2005-2006, 10:00

Marisa Olson
Black Or White, 2006, 4:12

Peter Welz
Whenever On On On Nohow On / Airdrawing, 2004, 07:30

Nina Yuen
Don, 2006, 10:00

Sachiko Hayashi
Boop-opp-A-Doop, 2004, 05:16

Christian Jankowski
The Day We Met, 2003, 08:12

Kristin Lucas
Involuntary Reception, 2000, 10:00

Anthony Goicolea
Tea Party, 2004, 05:00

...and others!

posted by ryan griffis at 2:30 PM Tuesday, November 13, 2007

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For Thursday

If you're already in class, you've probably noticed that I'm away again - I apologize for having to be away 3 times so close together.
Here's the plan for the future.
We are starting a new section/project that will take us through to the end of the semester, this one on sequence. Look here for details, under project 4, of course.
Today, Bonnie will be showing you a few things that should serve as starting points of inspiration - including video, books and comics. There is also a "virtual guest lecture" that everyone needs to watch, by Lawrence Lessig and some other online examples that you should experience: Chris Marker's "Le Jetée", Animation by Chris Ware for This American Life, Scott McCloud's "The Right Number" + Can't Stop Thinking, Amos Latteier's Model Notes Lecture. I strongly suggest watching these in class, but please use headphones for the examples with audio (you can get some from the check out window if needed).
There is also a reading (Jonathan Lethem's "Ecstasy of Influence" for Harper's) for next week, along with the usual blog post response. We will discuss all of this: the reading, the lecture and the assignment, as well as finish looking at everyone's montage, on Tuesday.

posted by ryan griffis at 2:07 PM Tuesday, November 6, 2007

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For-Educational-Use-Only 8

WEDNESDAY, November 7th, you-know-where
/Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint 9/

2005, 02:15:00, film
Drawing Restraint 9 is a feature-length art film by American artist Matthew Barney, dealing with the relationship between creativity and self-imposed resistance.

Shot in Nagasaki Bay, the film is set aboard the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru. On board is a vast sculpture of Vaseline entitled "The Field", which continually transforms during the film, most representing the oceanic theme of the work. The lead characters, known as "The Occidental Guests", are played by Matthew's partner Björk and Matthew Barney himself.

[description borrowed from wikipedia]

posted by ryan griffis at 8:16 PM Monday, November 5, 2007

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Historical Remix, Due Date Remixed

So the new deadline for the historical remix/montage assignment is Tuesday Nov. 6.
In terms of thinking about how to construct your images, here are some examples of photo-montage:
An abridged summary of some historical eras of photo-montage
Nicholas Lampert (check out the meatscapes and machine-animal collages)
Martha Rosler (the "bring the war home" 1 & 2 series)
Images:
Top, Richard Hamilton, Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, 1956.
Bottom, Martha Rosler, Nature Girls (Jumping Janes), from the series Body Beautiful or Body Knows No Pain, 1966–72.

posted by ryan griffis at 12:50 PM Tuesday, October 30, 2007

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Guest Lecture Today at 5:30 - KAM 62

For anyone who happens to check the blog today in time, a very interesting artist, Wendy Jacob will be speaking. I really encourage everyone who can to attend this.
About the artist:

Jacob makes objects and site-based works that are rooted in architecture and domestic space. Much of the work employs movement or temperature shifts and references the presence of a body. For the past several years she has worked with Temple Grandin, an autistic woman and animal scientist, in developing furniture that squeezes or 'hugs' the sitter. Jacob is also a member of the Chicago-based collaborative group Haha. Working together since 1989, their work focuses on the exploration of social positions relative to a particular site. Haha has produced projects incorporating a wide range of media including video installation and broadcast, audio tours, community gardens, live performance and interactive installations.

Jacob has exhibited internationally at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Whitney Biennial, Galerie Emmanuel Perotin (Paris), MIT List Visual Arts Center, Chicago Project Room, Galerie Schipper and Krome (Cologne), among others. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Artist Fellowship, Creative Capital Artist Fellowship, New Forms Regional Initiative Grant, and an Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship.

posted by ryan griffis at 9:39 AM Monday, October 29, 2007

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Historical Narrative Looking for Similar, Compatible Narrative

We have someone who has not exchanged their historic narrative materials with anyone yet and is in need of connecting with someone who has either not swapped yet, or hasn't begun work on the narrative they have swapped, to trade with. If you meet these requirements, please email Dane at dgaydos2 AT uiuc DOT edu. Thanks.

posted by ryan griffis at 11:32 AM Saturday, October 27, 2007

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