Monday, May 3, 2010

please ponder

What is the artist's role in society? What is your role as an artist?

MUTO by Blu

Friday, April 30, 2010

Le FIN | end of the semester influences presentations

Influences Presentations | GAS 3:05-5:45

May 3rd:
rescheduled....

May 10th:
Ruth, Lili, Crystal, Lynn, Joe K, Allison, Sam, David

May 17th (2:45-4:45) | Potluck- bring a dish to share
Jennifer, Jaeman, Carrie, Debra, Rebecca, Lis

Influences Presentations | GAS 6:30-9:20

May 10th:
Madison, Allyson, Celine, Amy, Sarah, Bruce, Gina

May 17th (7:15-9:15) | Potluck - bring a dish to share
Patrick, Cooper, Katherine, Christina

Coup de Villle | art opp

http://www.warp-art.be/

Thursday, April 29, 2010

D.I.Y. Culture | NY Times | Globalism

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/arts/18abroad.html

Paul Virilio

'Velocity' is the key word of Paul Virilio's thinking, the post-modern treasure, and the modern society capital. Reality is no longer defined by time and space, but in a virtual world, in which technology allows the existence of the paradox of being everywhere at the same time while being nowhere at all. The loss of the site, city, and nation in favor of globalization implies also the loss of rights and of democracy, as these are contrary to the immediate and instantaneous nature of information. In Paul Virilio's view, Marshall McLuhan's global village is nothing but a 'World Ghetto'.

http://www.egs.edu/faculty/paul-virilio/biography/

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Selections from Documenta 12 | 2007

Ai Wei Wei














Trisha Brown | performance
















Peter Friedl














 
 Sanja Ivekovic















 IƱigo Manglano-Ovalle













Martha Rosler | "Unsettling the Fragments" | Muenster Sculpture Project 2007

In Unsettling the Fragments, Rosler produces a reading of Munster's history through its architecture and institutions. In one of many proposed or realised moves, Rosler re-sites replicas of the cages used to display the corpses of leading Anabaptists after their torture and execution in 1536, which hang from the tower of St Lambert's church high above the consciousness of shoppers and pedestrians in the old town, to the veranda of the municipal library. The human scale of these articles of torture and display is returned to heretics who dared to imagine and proclaim heaven on earth. A viewer needs little if any prompting to read the fragments Rosler unsettles into active memory.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6735/is_309/ai_n28454184/

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Joseph Beuys | 7000 Oaks | Kassel, Germany | 1982 | Documenta 7

“Only on condition of a radical widening of definitions will it be possible for art and activities related to art [to] provide evidence that art is now the only evolutionary-revolutionary power. Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build ‘A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART’… EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AN ARTIST who – from his state of freedom – the position of freedom that he experiences at first-hand – learns to determine the other positions of the TOTAL ART WORK OF THE FUTURE SOCIAL ORDER.”  -Joseph Beuys
"Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives" 
- Joseph Beuys

Felix Gonzalez Torres | Selected Works


Paul Ramirez Jonas | Mi Casa Su Casa



















http://www.paulramirezjonas.com/selected/index2_new2.html

Saturday, April 10, 2010

manifestos and reading reminder

Manifestos are on display in the FAB rotunda downstairs.
Reminder | Check the February blog archive to the right = Art & Today Discussion Facilitator Schedule to get updated list of readings for subsequent weeks.  See you Monday.

Monday, March 22, 2010

manifesto video shoot

Reminder: 
We are meeting in the sculpture crit room (FAB first floor) today to shoot manifesto videos.

If you are shooting your video yourself, you will need to save the video as a .mov (720 x 480) and get the file to me on CD.  Put CD in my mailbox in the art office by Friday, April 2nd
I plan to make a longer compilation of all manifestos and need a good quality uncompressed .mov file.
You will also need to compress your video for web streaming and upload your video to youtube by class time on April 5th. 
You will need an account on youtube to upload vids.  Plenty of tutorials in youtube on how to do this.
I will show you how to embed your manifesto youtube video in your blog on April 5th. It would be helpful though if you did this before class if you can.  

Saturday, March 13, 2010

autonomy

In order to remain autonomous, at some point art began to copy everything that is not autonomous. There was no lack of supply and demand since power, as we know, can only be held over the production of truth or else it does not function.
 

Peter Friedl, The Curse of the Iguana: On Genre and Power

Saturday, February 27, 2010

performance art?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/t-magazine/28well-abramovic.html

Nifty 50

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/2010-whitney-biennial/

Kurt Schwitters

Merzbau by Dada artist Kurt Schwitters

Jason Rhoades

Subodh Gupta

subodh gupta

mapping the whitney biennial

http://huntercross.com/archive/mapping-the-2010-whitney-biennial/

Nari Ward

Nari Ward
Sharjah Birdhouse, 2005
Plastic bags, car mufflers, metal

Gabriel Orozco

Orozco | "Yielding Stone"

Superflex

http://www.superflex.net/projects/copyshop/

Marjetica Potrc

http://www.potrc.org/
Marjetica Potrc Hybrid House: Caracas, West Bank, West Palm Beach, 2003 Building materials, communication and energy infrastructure

Jordan Wolfson

http://www.jordanwolfson.org/
wolfson | "great dictator..."

Liam Gillick

working in groups of three:
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/41

Saadane Afif

afif | power chords

Loris Greaud

Broodthaers | Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles

broodthaer's museum

Anri Sala

Kim Soo Ja

 
Kim Soo Ja | Bottari Truck, 2000. Used clothes and bed covers, Rodin gallery, Seoul.

Maya Lin interviewed on CNN by Amanpour

http://www.artdesigncafe.com/environmental-art-social-publicity-2010

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Art and Today Critical Discussion Facilitator Schedule | Grad Art Seminar | 3:05-5:45

Art & Today | Critical Discussion Facilitators | Grad Art Seminar 3:05-5:45

Art & The Quotidian Object: March 8th
Reading: Readymade, found object, photograph by Margaret Iverson
To get this article online, login to the jstor database through the new paltz library. Your np userid and password will grant you access.jstor
Discussion Facilitators: Dan and Lis

Art & Abstraction: April 12th
Reading: PDF uploaded to blackboard-  This represents the last chapter from a book by Kirk Varnedoe, titled Pictures of Nothing Abstract Art Since Pollock.  The book was made to capture a series of Mellon lectures given at the National Gallery of Art in 2003.  Acting as head curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA, he also held a professorship at Princeton University.  These lectures were devised in response to E.H. Gombrich's highly successful series in 1956, titled, Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation.  I hope you enjoy!

Discussion Facilitators: Carrie and Sam

Art & Nature and Technology: April 12th
Reading: Transhumanisn and Posthumanism - PDF uploaded to blackboard
Discussion Facilitators: Lynn and Rebecca

Art & The Body: April 19th
Reading: two art and body pdfs uploaded to blackboard
Discussion Facilitators: Allison and David

Art and Identity: April 19th
Reading: 'Why have there been no great women artists?' by Linda Nochlin
http://www.miracosta.edu/home/gfloren/nochlin.htm
Discussion Facilitators: Crystal and Deborah

Art & Globalization: April 26th
Reading: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_3_42/ai_110913974/?tag=content;col1
Discussion Facilitators: Keith and Jen

Art & Its Institutions: April 26th
Reading: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=c42c782099&view=att&th=127cc37792401cad&attid=0.1&disp=inline&zw
Discussion Facilitators: Joe and Joe

Art & Audience: May 3rd
Reading: PDFs uploaded to blackboard. Both essays are from the book, "What We Want is Free: generosity and exchange in recent art" edited by Ted Purves published by State
University of New York Press in Albany.

The first essay is by Ted Purves "Introductory Remarks on the
Handbook" and the second it by Francis McIlveen "exchange-the other
social sculpture".

Discussion Facilitators: Ruth and Shin

Art and Spirituality: May 3rd
Reading: "Concerning the Spiritual" by Kandinsky  | PDF uploaded to Blackboard
Please find attached the reading for Art and Spirituality presentation on May 3rd.
The reading is an essay written by Kandinsky in 1911 titled “Concerning the Spirituality in Art”.
I have sent you the entire essay for your summertime poolside reading pleasure (!) but for the presentation I would like you to read pages 33 to 39. These are the page numbers of the actual essay, not the pdf page numbers.

Discussion Facilitators: Lili

Art and Today Critical Discussion Facilitator Schedule | Grad Art Seminar | 6:30-9:20

Art & Today | Critical Discussion Facilitators | Grad Art Seminar 6:30-9:20

READ:
Art & Architecture: March 8th
Reading: http://flavorwire.com/70689/king-kongs-of-architecture
and "From Bauhaus to Our House" -uploaded to blackboard
Discussion Facilitators: Kathryn, Patrick, Bruce

Art & Representation: April 12th
Reading:
1. David Hockney article (See attachment)
"The camera today? You can't trust it. Hockney sparks a debate" By Jonathan Jones and Gerard Seenan The Guardian, Thursday 4 March 2004

2 Interviews from Art:21, Ellen Gallagher and Susan Rothenberg. 
Ellen Gallagher

Susan Rothenberg
We have decided this since they are each about 2 pages long but very important to the understanding of our chapter.
Discussion Facilitators: Gina and Madison

Art & Narrative: April 12th
Reading: Here is a link for the PBS Art:21 piece on "Stories" that we are using for people to watch for our discussion on "Narrative". 
http://www.slashcontrol.com/free-tv-shows/art21-art-in-the-twenty-first-century/1724489156-stories
Discussion Facilitators: Sarah and Amy

Art & Nature and Technology: April 19th
Reading: http://www.greenmuseum.org/generic_content.php?ct_id=300
also read this one if time permits: http://www.greenmuseum.org/generic_content.php?ct_id=298
Discussion Facilitators: Cooper and Christina

Art & Deformation: April 19th
Reading: Sideshow U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination by Rachel Adams
PDF uploaded to blackboard- titled sideshow.pdf
Discussion Facilitators: Sarah and Amy

Art & The Body: April 26th
Reading: Chapter 1 in "Carnal Art: Orlan's Refacing"
* you will need to click on the link below and sign in with your new paltz login to view the reading, if link does not take you directly to the reading- then search the database for Orlan's Refacing.
http://site.ebrary.com.libdatabase.newpaltz.edu/lib/newpaltz/docDetail.action?docID=10124797
Discussion Facilitators: Celine and Allyson

Art and Identity: April 26th
Reading: http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources//ENS-bourgeois-EN//ENS-bourgeois-EN.html
Discussion Facilitators: Cooper and Christina

Art and Spirituality: May 3rd
Reading:
Sister Veronica Brady is a writer and commentator on media, culture and social issues.  She has just completed an authoritative biography on the poet Judith Wright.  She is an associate Professor in the Department of English, The university of Western Australia.
http://www.ru.org/81brady.html
Discussion Facilitators: Gina and Madison

Art & Globalization: May 3rd
Reading:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/arts/18abroad.html?ref=design
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/arts/design/10chicano.html?ref=design
Discussion Facilitators: Celine and Allyson

Art & The Quotidian Object: May 10th
Reading: 'Molds and Swarms' by David Joselit- PDF uploaded to blackboard
Discussion Facilitators: Kathryn, Patrick, Bruce

speaking of manifestos

http://flavorwire.com/73142/review-reality-hunger

art olympics

http://flavorwire.com/73010/art-olympics-ranking-the-whitney-biennial

Sunday, February 21, 2010

francis alys

coca cola in translation

warhol












Native artists use Coke seal for Winter Olympic art

http://nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3109:native-artists-use-coke-seal-for-winter-olympic-art&catid=47&Itemid=23


http://www.icoke.ca/en

Cildo Meireles
Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Coca-Cola Project
1970

Altermodern | Radicant | Semionauts

simon starling | shed boat shed | 2005
Simon Starling, Autoxylopyrocycloboros, 2006, 
julie mehretu

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Armory Show | March 4-7

http://www.thearmoryshow.com/cgi-local/content.cgi

Scope Art Fair

http://www.scope-art.com/
"At this point I do not want to be outside the structure of power, I do not want to be the opposition, the alternative. Alternative to what: To power? No. I want to have power. It's effective in terms of change. I want to be like a virus that belongs to the institution. All the ideological apparatuses are, in other words, replicating themselves; because that's the way the culture works. So if I function as a virus, an impostor, an infiltrator, I will always replicate myself together with those institutions." -felix gonzalez-torres

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Joseph Beuys | Social Sculpture

“Only on condition of a radical widening of definitions will it be possible for art and activities related to art [to] provide evidence that art is now the only evolutionary-revolutionary power. Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build ‘A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART’… EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AN ARTIST who – from his state of freedom – the position of freedom that he experiences at first-hand – learns to determine the other positions of the TOTAL ART WORK OF THE FUTURE SOCIAL ORDER.”

Fundred.org | Mel Chin

Grads, go to this link http://fundred.org and download the template to draw your own fundred. Bring the fundred to class next week. 

Safehouse