Art Basel Passes

I have Saturday day passes to Art Basel for Leah, Dan, Martin. I will leave them with Clark, he is working at Bas Fisher Invitational in the Design District.

Function of the Studio

Read The Function of the Studio by Daniel Buren.

We will address the text on November 8. For that date, I would like each of you to present a small performance in your studio in response to the text.

Roland Barthes "Elements of Semiology"

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcMzQ3ZTQ5MDItOGI0Zi00NDA2LTlmOGItNTczZWVhYzY0NjU5&hl=en_US

Vehicles without descriptions...

Kustom Kar Kommandos by Kenneth Anger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_28AhRynu0A

Scorpio Rising by Kenneth Anger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyuVNULabjM

Sontag & Jameson texts

September 8: Susan Sontag: Notes on Camp

September 15: Frederic Jameson: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Attendance Required

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0DirIKbGzM

Jackie Battenfield, author of The Artists' Guide (How To Make a Living Doing What You Love) will present a series of workshops at Locust Projects.

Attend at least one of these presentations. You must RSVP with Locust Projects to attend this event.

Research Resources

A non-exhaustive list of online sources for information and inspiration.

ARTSTOR UM Library Login
ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching, and learning in the arts and associated fields. Searchable database of more than 300,000 images applicable different times, cultures, and disciplines. Combination of images, data, and texts provides comprehensive art-related teaching, learning, and researching capabilities. Can view and analyze images through features such as zooming and panning

UBUWEB
UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.

Video Data Bank
The Video Data Bank is an essential destination for video art, media art, video art history, art resources, artist interviews, curated programs, and much more...

rhizome.org
Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Through open platforms for exchange and collaboration, our website serves to encourage and expand the communities around these practices. Our programs, many of which happen online, include commissions, exhibitions, events, discussion, archives and portfolios. We support artists working at the furthest reaches of technological experimentation as well as those responding to the broader aesthetic and political implications of new tools and media. Our organizational voice draws attention to artists, their work, their perspectives and the complex interrelationships between technology, art and culture.

Art & Science Transdisciplinary lectures

Public Art Fund Talks @ The New School

PBS Art 21

Sculpture in the Expanded Field

Seminal text by Rosalind Krauss, mentioned in last week's reading. Let's discuss this on September 8.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcMTUwZGNiMDYtZWUyMi00NmEwLWE0NTktYmExM2MxMDM0YTU4&hl=en_US

Student Presentation Guidelines

Each week the class will be assigned to read an interview or article about an artist from the list below. In addition, one student will become and expert on the artist of the week, and give a minimum 15-minute presentation about the artist's work to the class. The presentation should consist of a short biography, an in-depth discussion of the artist's work including the artist's peers and influences, and a critical analysis of at least three key artworks by the artist. You must present at least ten images, and your research must be original (not copied from Wikipedia, etc.) Presentations will begin the third week of class. Select an artist from the list below, and write both your name and the artist's name in the comments section of this post to claim an artist. Each student must claim an artist by Week 2.

Everyone should read the interviews below before the presentation.

Thomas Hirschhorn (Leah) 9/29
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcODJiYWU3MjktNTgyMy00MTIzLWE4MzAtMzlmMzAzMTVhNjMz&hl=en_US

Olaffur Eilason (Martin) 10/6
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcN2I2NTEzNTEtNDMyYy00OWIxLThiMGMtMjViZDVkNTNjNWZj&hl=en_US

Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Clark) 10/13
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcNzlhMjk4MDgtZmRjNy00YjkyLWFmMTctNzk5YjMxMTViN2Mx&hl=en_US

Dan Graham (Rebecca) 10/20

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcODJiYWU3MjktNTgyMy00MTIzLWE4MzAtMzlmMzAzMTVhNjMz&hl=en_US

Mario Merz (Colin) 10/27

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcNGZhMzhkNTAtMjM0Ni00Njk0LWI4YjYtMWNhNWJiOTY4ZjMx&hl=en_US

Ai Wei Wei (Dan) 11/3
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcNjMxMzY3NmUtNTUxOC00NDZmLWIzODItMTI5YTdjNWZlMzhm&hl=en_US

Lygia Pape (Valeria) 11/10
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcOTE1MDhjY2EtZmMwOC00YTg5LWE5NmQtMWU3MDEwMGQyNGVm&hl=en_US

Suggested Reading: Interviews Volume 1 by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Anna Chave: Minimalism and Biography

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcYWZiZmNjMTktMmJhNS00OTE4LWFjZDAtMTE1NmI3M2FlZTg5&hl=en_US

Read the above article. We will discuss this text in class on August 30.

Of interest:

California Minimalism, Finish Fetish

Yvonne Rainer's Trio A created in 1965, filmed 1978

Robert Morris' exhibition poster

Lynda Benglis' Artforum ad

And Clark, this is the Tom Friedman lecture we talked about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfZtwdbw7q0

Fall Semester 2011 Syllabus & Schedule

ART 317-318 Syllabus
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcOTJjMDJmODAtNGMxOS00MmJhLTg2NjMtZTk4MGRmZGYzZmRi&hl=en_US

ART 417-418 Syllabus
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcNjUzNGJlNzgtZjM2NS00ZjRmLWE2MGMtMjlhYTNmNzcxMGE1&hl=en_US

ART 517-518 Syllabus
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcZWNlNWMyOGUtOGJhMy00NDM5LThkMTUtZTYzYjU0NjkyYTI4&hl=en_US

ART 617-618 Syllabus
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwmZ65ndzEDcY2MxMDQyMTMtOTZiYi00ZWFkLWE1NGItMDllYmRhZDMxZTcx&hl=en_US