Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Final Project: The Archival Vessel
DUE NEXT WEEK:
Your final project will function as an archive/collection of all
of your experiments in this class + the theories we've explored.
Research and present 3 examples of archives or collections
that you could use as a model for your final project.
For ALL THREE examples you must present your analysis:
a. the different types of content found in the archive
b. the structure of the archive and how it is navigated
c. the purpose of the archive
d. the audience for the archive, how they are located
and how they are effected by the archive
Choose one of your examples and use it to
make a sketch of the structure of your final project
(storyboard, maquette, wireframes)
Your final project must exist as a video, book or
website and operate as a narrative
>>>>Your presentation is a slideshow that includes your analysis of the three archives
>>>>with supporting visuals, your sketch for your final project, and your Project Statement.
**Please consider what an archive is and how it is meant to operate.
Find archives that interest you - can a junk drawer or car trunk be an archive?
How can collections operate as records or archives?
What is the difference between a living archive and a dead one?
Enlighten the class with your findings in a formal presentation next week.
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TODAY IN CLASS:
You must answer the following questions and
turn in before the end of class in order to receive credit:
1. How can people learn from the ideas of your artist and
how you have chosen to express them in your collection of projects?
2. What is the thread or threads running through your work conceptually -
what do the different pieces you produced have in common aesthetically?
This is your Project Statement. Include your it in your presentation.
Relational Aesthetics. mikey
Terry Richardson visits Otis College of Art & Design on March 31, 2012...
Or does He?
But on a serious note... you can get a signed photograph if you show up between 11-12pm
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
RHIZOME
.jpq
an exhibition by Mikey Uphoff of every jpg image within his Mac book pro. The total amount of images totals over 9,000 images from stock imagery, screenshots, multiple different versions of past projects, and personal photographs, some that could be considered embarrassing.
Unmonumental/Monumental
website displaying multiple animated gifs.
Each Gif is sampled from multiple perspectives with in one unique space. A community of young adults + a warehouse + a large black fabic + one grey kitten
Chaka Kahn! Events only tell the myth in which is told.
OR SEEN
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Relational Aesthetics + Parafiction [assignment]
DUE THE 28th:
(you may choose to work with a partner if you
can justify blending your parafictional realities)
Relational Art + Parafiction
How will you create 'relational art' out of your parafictional image?
1. Imagine the world in which your parafictional image
(that you have already created) exists as reality.
2. Create relational art for this world.
By the 28th you need to have completed your foray into relational art.
You must have documented the occasion as a video or short book of images.
The images should create a narrative of what occurred at your relational event.
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Consider:
What would be experienced as a normal social activity in the
reality you are imagining?
Can you construct a situation in which people would participate,
based on this fictional social environment?
Relational Aesthetics [background]
"At the Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo, the Pacific Standard Time
show "Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981," has an
audacious premise: Much of what we take for granted in the diverse
panoply of recent international art first emerged in California nearly
40 years ago.
Take so-called relational art, a ballyhooed 1990s phenomenon in New
York and Europe in which artists acted as social designers of communal
events, like a makeshift soup-kitchen for cooking lunch or an outdoor
cocktail lounge at a biennial. A full generation earlier, Allen
Ruppersberg opened a cafe near MacArthur Park and a hotel on Sunset
Boulevard, both as artworks, while San Francisco-based artist Tom
Marioni brought enough beer for 16 friends to socialize in a gallery
at the Oakland Museum, then left the furniture and empty bottles on
display as the exhibition. Intermittently, Marioni has been doing "The
Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art" ever
since 1970." - The Los Angeles Times
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"the institution may overshadow the work that it otherwise highlights:
it becomes the spectacle, it collects the cultural capital, and the
director-curator becomes the star." - Hal Foster
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"Similar to the feminist and alter-globalization movements, these
groups want to avoid replicating the authoritarian structures of
the institutions they are opposing."
-The Washington Post on Occupy Wall Street
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Beech explains further that “(t)he participant here is generally powerless to question or critique the art or the art-concept, nor are they, in any real sense, a meaningful or true collaborator within the work. I question the motivations around art that acts as an alleviator in this way, for what purpose do we need to coexist and be interconnected and for whom?” You can read the article here.
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AS PRACTICE:
@ 5min: http://www.ubu.com/film/relational.html
Rirkrit Tiravanija: http://newarttv.com/Rirkrit+Tiravanija
Consider:
1. regurgitating old ideas in a different time (effectiveness, responsibility)
2. how does this relate to the internet
3. why now?
4. good incarnations v bad in the implementation of relational art
5. power structures, spectacle, easy money, hard sells
YOU MUST READ:
Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics by Claire Bishop
additional reading:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yea4qSJMx4
http://www.observer.com/2011/09/the-fall-of-relational-aesthetics/
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/14/entertainment/la-ca-glynn-20110814
http://allegralaviola.com/Exhibit_Detail.cfm?ShowsID=28
http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/31511/
http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/51998/
parafiction | who wears the pants
monumental unmonumental week 1
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Parafiction and Make-Believe, Deception and Magic
Identify something that you wish were true. This could be cultural, aesthetic, psychological, interpersonal, or scientific. The only requirement is that it be a thing that you are interested in trying to prove to someone else, that also relates to the ideas of your artist. This 'someone else' could be a small or large group of people, but you need to be familiar with your audience.
Read the article on Parafiction.
Write down the answers to these questions:
1. what is the 'truth' you will attempt to prove?
2. who is your audience?
3. how can you convince your audience with an image or image series?
CAUTION: This should not be a joke, though it could be humorous. Pick something your artist would approve of. Pretend they are watching you from on high
NEXT WEEK: distribute your poster, booklet, flier or mini website in which you have made truth out of fiction. take a picture of you putting up or passing out your work in a public place and post on the blog
