         
Group Message Board!12-15-2004Just a reminder to check out the deadline for posting your integrative statements: 5pm on Thursday, 16th. It would be good if you had all the time in the world to finish them, but the deadline was set so that everyone could read them in a leisurely manner prior to the final discussion on Friday, 17th from 11am-1pm. The discussion should be based on ideas and positions stated in the integrative statements. I'm really looking forward to reading the statements and having the discussion.
11-28-04 1. I've posted the protocol for the Final Integrative Statements that I mentioned during our last meeting. It is linked to the main page. 2. Please complete your critique writings asap. There are many missing entries. paul
11-21-04 KRISTEN!!! Please check your email, I sent you some questions about printing. Thanks! Alexis
11-4-04 This is a not so gentle reminder to complete the post-critique writings. Also, it looks like the printer will be delivered friday or monday. For class on the 5th, we'll should discuss any ideas for the projection project; possible sites, possible concepts.
Another gentle reminder to do the post critique writings. This includes the response to your own critique and the assigned responder writings - each of you respond to another's critique and their writing. This is all outlined on the assigment page for 10-22-2004. I also have a collab studio planned for friday 29th.
This is a gentle reminder to complete the after-writing for the critique from last week. I outlined the process in the assignment link for this friday.
The speaker is Ben MItchell - who is a poet, curator, and has just completed a project on Warhol. paul
There will be a speaker in the art history room on Monday Oct. 18 at 5pm giving a presentation of some sort on Warhol. Im not sure who the speaker is, but it could be really cool.
I posted specific assignment notes on a new assignment page for next week Oct. 22. This includes instructions for the critique writing, schedule for reading, and reminder for next week. paul
092904 ladies: i will bring the sign up sheet, just remind me if you want to sign up, the "author" is accepting payment up until the day before.
9-27-04 ARTIST BATTLE ashley, i wanted to sign up for the artist battle but i didnt have your email address. what do i need to do to sign up? amanda d Me too! Hook it up! Manda P
9-27-2004 New CD's on counter in Studio The new CD;s are on the counter in the studio by the sink
9-27-2004 New CD's and Calendar update I made new cd's with image sets that correspond to the 8 Studio Directions Items that are now fully described on the swiki. I recommend reading each Item description and then studying the image set that corresponds. Hopefully this will make simple and explicit the idea in an image or studio approach. I also updated the calendar with our crit dates and a listing at the end of department events that are relevant to the course.
STUdio Directions and Archive links I finished my text on the STudio Directions: Frames, Foci, and Points of Departure. Please check these out and consider them in your studio imagination/investigation. I also put up links for the additional archives. I also put up assignments for the week. - paul
CONCERNING THE CURATORIAL MEETING Given the times which you [paul] and jon are available, I would like to settle things on Tuesday; however I work until about five. I think all of those concerned are folks who live downtown. Perhaps we could arrange to meet somewhere down there after five? I know all of us are busy so we ought to prepare for the meeting by looking at the whole set and thinking about which ones could be added. Please respond before tuesday if this will work. Thanks, Ryan
9-20-2004 The first image archive is up on the net. Check out the link on the home page. We'll be able to add other archives as we make them, or we can make an interactive database. Only drawback is that some of the images are quite large so browsing from a dialup connection is a bit slow - but still visually pleasing. Best veiwing is on an ethernet connection at school - like in the labs.
I rearranged the home page a bit. I found and posted links to several copyright-related things. DJ Spooky has articles and music on his site. He also has a new book that has it's own link. The painter Peter Halley did a flash site in response to his book that has another link. The author who has written much on the copyright issues is Lawrence Lessig. His most recent book is called "Free Culture". A quote from his website about another book (The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World) says the choice we have "is not between progress and the status quo. It is between progress and a new Dark Ages, in which our capacity to create is confined by an architecture of control and a society more perfectly monitored and filtered than any before in history." Sound like panopticism? Archive: You all created an engaging set of images to start our archive. When I went to separate them into the 3 folders I couldn't bring myself to do it because they looked so interesting mixed. Especially the crossovers that happened between the hair and the grass, and the nature vs. artificial surfaces. I left them in a group for now. In their final form we can make separate web pages or even do one huge database and add all kinds of images to it. We could add relevant terms to a keywords field and then make it searchable for viewers/users over the web. Maybe even make it do random combinations. I can show you some examples of this. Some of the images slipped context very nicely - fuzzy detail becomes landscape - specs on a wall become microscopic bits or whole galaxies. When it did this it reminded me of the work of Ken Fandell (chicago). http://kenfandell.com/ Chris Filippini added Ken Fandell to our Imagists list. Reading schedule: After thinking about the workload and progress I thought it best to move on to chapter 4 with our reading. It is very relevant to the discussion today about painting and experience. It situates our studio and discourse in an even richer context. I also like the idea of moving along with the text and using it to frame our work. Upcoming chapters illuminate several ideas about images that may serve as the basis for studio projects. Check out the Week 3 assignment page for a full listing of specified work for this week. -paul
ARTIST BATTLE @ THE UICA! When: November 19th, 2004 What: Arrive @5:00, bring your own materials or non-materials The event of "creating" goes for three hours 8pm-11pm The winners will be announced at 12:00 Why: Public Awareness of artists in the community and opportunity to show your work @ the UICA for two weeks... How Much: $50 (don't wince, many shows have entrance fees, and the money goes to a good cause! Who: Everyone is invited to enter or observe... Contact Ashley with questions 616-635-6356. The main man is Darrin Barrowcliff @ 734-612-7439 Or email me: ashleystella@yahoo.com
Hey everyone. You all should look at the Ron English website. I posted the link. -jon
I've put together another assignment sheet for week 2 that is linked on the front page. I've been trying to think about the best way to use what we learned/did friday in the studio. There are a few of these things specified on the assignment list that everyone should do. In addition I want to propose that we consider curating a set of the images and printing them as a suite that we could put on display. As we discussed some on friday, we don't really know what is going on in them (other that some very cool visuals and a documentation of an event). Neither of these pass full muster for a serious display. We should look more closely at the image and see if there is a way through selection to have them work in terms of meaning. Anyone interested in understanding the process of curation - should really tune into this work. There are also many ways that we can extend these methods into other things. Inspiration for creating your own archives. Individual or collaborative studios in which the selection of the source images is more deliberate and considered. This could mean using a logical strategy or other ways of blending - cross-referencing, and combining source visuals. The process can move back and forth between hand processes and digital processes. A bit like what William Kentridge does but with other steps besides a narrative structure. One could go back into photoshop as Kevin suggested at one point. Hopefully we will have the printing situation figured out this week. We have an epson 2200 which prints up to 13x19 inches. Anyone who is interested in getting more involved in the set=up and operation please let me know. I'll be setting up the epson and and older dye sub printer this week. Please spend some time looking at the images in the front hall on display. They are a very nice overview of various techniques, materials, and conceptual approaches to image making. A few by members of this studio. Also check out the faculty show - for some image work. There are some really great posters recently hung in the graphic design studio by the front atrium. Please go spend a few minutes with each of these images. The show at UICA that Kevin is in is another good source of a variety of images. If you go and they have a little brochure for the show, please pick one up. They were out the night of the opening.
I have some great news that will impact our schedule a bit for this coming Friday. We'll have a guest artist, Kevin Hamilton, in the studio with us on Friday. Kevin taught at GV for a year a while back is now professor in the Art Department at University of Illinois at Urbana. You can check out his work at: http://www.synchronaut.net/. His current work uses video and interactive technologies. His undergraduate work was in painting and drawing at Rhode Island School of Design. Grad work in the department of visual studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology focussing more on are in public spaces. Kevin's in a show that is opening friday night at the UICA. We'll be doing a collaborative studio that he and I are developing. This studio will take a good chunk of the studio time. Bring any digital cameras, portable computers or collections of digital images you might have. We're working to make the studio a dynamic experience in working with images in the studio. The collaborative studio will likely cut into time that I had planned for a critique of your sited image proposals. Please continue working on these before our Friday meeting (and bring your visual work), but we might not get to looking at them formally this week. We definitely will do the discussion on the reading. If you see others from the class please ask them if they recieved this email. Paul
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