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This is a blog I'll use to make announcements to the studio. It will be inlined on the main front page with the most recent posting at the top.- pw

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pblog: 28 April 2006
	Final Discussion (mirror neurons) If What we see is what we imaging. and What we imagine is what we -become (-do). Then How can images be -made (-used, -presented, -valued (critiqued/sold), destroyed)? What operational knowledge guides us as we negotiate the visual world (studio)? Action Steps What is to be done?
pblog: 26 April 2006
	Final Images I want to be sure to get a final set of images that are full quality. The images that we've put up on the wiki or on Merz have mostly been reduced in size. I want to keep an archive set at full quality. So, please drop a set of your images on the Merz server in my "admin" folder. On Merz/users/admin/public/final images Don't forget to post your Fin Inte Stments by Thursday, April 27th at 5pm. After 5pm read everyone's statements in preparation for our final dicussion on Friday. Be sure that you've posted your Critique statements and responses April Critiques.
pblog: 17 April 2006
	Our class will be completing the end-of-semester course evaluation online using Blackboard. http://bb.gvsu.edu/ Click on the link for your course or lab’s evaluation. Here are complete instructions on doing the evaluations. The evaluation site will be available from Monday, April 17th through Friday, April 21st.
pblog: 13 April 2006
	I have my reception this week in the Padnos Gallery on Thursday from 5-7. I see that the advanced drawing class is also having a show in the front hallway this week and their reception is also Thursday from 5-6 I think. Come check out the work, and eat free food. -Kevin
pblog: 7 April 2006
	I've set our final meeting time to be Friday, April 28th from 12-2pm. Everyone should hang a summative selection of work from the semester. We'll also have a rambling discussion that is informed by everyone's Final Integrative Statements which are due Thursday th 27th. I've added some pages to the wiki to facilitate the completion of the studio. April Critiques is ready to recieve post-critique writing from artists being critiqued and specified repsonders. Fin Inte Stments is set up to describe and recieve your integrative statements at the conclusion of the course. It is a good idea to review this asap and be thinking about your statement.
pblog: 24 March 2006
	Sources from today's studio: Anne Wilson Matthew Ritchie Krzysztof Wodiczko Kara Walker Jason Salavon Tim Hawkinson Gabriel Orozco Studio status reports were started on Feb 26th with a blog post and announcement in class. We replaced the weekly studio writings with these reports as a way of keep in touch across the long divide of a week between our meetings. I created a wiki page for these at studio status reports. This page works as an index to be able to get to everyones reports. I know some of you have posted your status reports elsewhere. Please at least use your "studio status report page" as an index that links to your reports if they are in other places. You could also move or duplicate your reports on the your status page.
pblog: 23 March 2006
	"we don't got no traction" I'll talk more about this on Friday, but I'm concerned that "we got no traction". This means that the studio as a whole is not making progress in the ways that it should. We'll discuss what we can do as a group about it, but each individual should be reminded of the following: You are expected to work 6 hours outside of class on image studio stuff. You are accountable to evidence this by what you have to show in class. If there have been weeks in which you've blown this off, then you have even more to do. In general I recommend working on more than one body of studio work. You are expected to have 6 hours of work with you to do in studio on Fridays and to make the use of this time in studio. (remember we are making images to be experienced, not only looked at on the computer. "get material, material") Everyone is expected to post a studio status report every Wednesday by midnight. Group contribution is a major part of the grading criteria. If you are not producing in the studio, it not only affects your performance, but it brings down the group. Each of you will be required to write an integrative statement at the end of the course. In this you'll want to cite your studio work as an indication of new understandings you've gained around the course. Let's dig in and get traction this week - and capitalize on the good work we've done thus far by evidencing it in some powerful images. -paul
pblog: 21 March 2006
	Reflexive Deconstructivism
pblog: 4 March 2006
	Three important things!!!!! 1. Be sure to do your Critique writings Mar 3 Critwritings. Your report on your own crit is due by Monday, Midnight, and your response to your designated fellow studio members report is due Wednesday, Midnight. I realize it is Spring Break, but we need this continuity of discourse and there are no other explicit assignments for the Break. 2. Sign-up for the last round of Critiques on the plan page was to be done by everyone before leaving the studio yesterday. Please sign up. Limit 5 per crit day so the last to sign up have the least choice, even though "choice is not control". 3. Have a great Spring Break.
pblog: 3 March 2006
	The Mar 3 Critwritings page has links for you to use to post your reports and responses to the critiques today. These studio writings are due in place of the studio status reports for the break week. Have a great Spring Break -paul
pblog: 26 February 2006
	Be sure to be prepared for the critique on Friday. Everyone is expected to present studio work that is fully "visual". This should be ready to hang/display in it's fullest form possible at the beginning of the studio on Friday. -paul studio status reports are due by midnight on Wednesdays through the end of the semester. -paul I had a further thought this morning after our discussion Friday about a projected skylight. I wonder what it would be like to "exchange" skylights with people from another place. This could be done with ichat av. Other views could be exchanged as well - even the view of someone else walking, that you could watch while walking here. . . . -paul
pblog: 25 February 2006
	I added a couple more imagists to the list. One, arturo herrera, was one of two artists I thought of when Ian talked of using vector images to blow things up real big. The other was already on the list, Matthew Ritchie. Anyone interested in vector, weird narrative, myth, fantasy, database, and image and space (i think that is everyone) should check Ritchie out in detail. Both of these guys were part of Art 21 season 3, but you should look further than this video. The other new addition is Rebecca Morris, originally from Chicago. -paul
pblog: 24 February 2006
	Today we had a small studio meeting about commodities and the studio. Sorry that Kevin wasn't here to join in what is really a dialogue he has generated. I offered some source material in a friend Conrad Bakker's work and a class he is teaching in the graduate program at U of Illinois ChampaignURbanna called art economies I wrote to request access to their wiki and Conrad replied, "We have not covered exchange in full yet, but there are some links. and if they want to use the discussion features, that would be cool too. There is a good essay on exchange by miwon kwon in the work ethic book. Also found a nice anthro essay on barter but can't remember who wrote it. Its on the arteconomies syllabus." - Conrad I recommend looking at the external links on their wiki. Check out the artists and projects. If you have more specific questions regarding exchange, barter, commerce, commodity, we can chat or email with Conrad. -paul I also mentioned JSG Boggs in our meeting on exchange. Boggs draws money, then spends it. It collapses the issues of money, art, representation, and law into one form. His web site seems to be down, but there is a wikipedia entry and here is a site with many links on his work. - paul
pblog: 23 February 2006
	I was looking at the new artist that Paul put up on the imagists page.... Another artist along these lines is an artist that I enjoy and whose work I seek out when ever I go to Chicago is Lisa Nankivil. Check her work out!! Great things.... -Kevin
pblog: 22 February 2006
	I added William Betts to the imagists page. I saw his work yesterday at Peter Miller Gallery in Chicago - where I'm never dissapointed visually or conceptually. If you go to his web site read about how he makes the paintings. Also, at Rhona Hoffman gallery there was a large image installation from Italian artist Stephano Arienti. I have larger digital images, but you can see some images here on the Rhona Hoffman website. As you can see in these images the piece combined large (found) images combined with various samples of material. So perceptually it shifted from material to pictorial and actual to virtual (two rudiments in one). A former Civic studio participant from Calvin, Michelle Vondiziano works at this gallery, and former GV Illustration student Lorene Hospidaar works around the corner at Carrie Seacrest Gallery. I've added another P-Web Lectures. This one is on good looking. It relates to studio moto number 6. We now have: good looking History Documentation and the Image examples of images that deal with "what happened" as source, inspiration, content. See the description under studio moto on the course wiki for a complete description. Vitamin P these images are from the book Vitamin P. I'll encorporate them later into moto sets, but for now check them out. (you can see some of the "moto" categories in itallics at the end of the text at the top. There are many examples of image and site/installation. SpacePlane here is a set of images that explore the relationship of planes to space and site. Desire and Identity Be sure to have studio work to engage on Friday. Also, post your studio ideas to the wiki somewhere either on your id page or linked to another page.
pblog: 18 February 2006
	For those of you going to chicago on tuesday here is an imagestudio tip. I just recieved notice from Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery of their current exhibition of Diana Guerrero-Macia' exhibit. She "samples text and imagery from pop culture and then reassembles these fragmentary sources into "paintings." These are not paintings in the traditional sense but are hand-sewn fabric (typically using wool, cotton and vinyl) that is stretched like a canvas". Also look for any Ken Fandell that might be on display. He was just in a group show with other gallery artists working in diverse ways with images. I also recommend other galleries in the West loop - especially Donald Young now showing Gary Hill (a very important artist who uses video and sound- you don't see this everyday) and Rhona Hoffman and among others. Monique Meloche Gallery has a group show up entitled "Sublime, Soft-core Monkey Butts and Scarlett Johannson on Skull Island" that invovles numerous image artists. There is one bus that will go right to the west loop after we arrive at the art institute. Otherwise, I plan to head over there at about 12:30 in a cab - if anyone wants to pile in. -paul Check out my comments about the church of craft and The knitting community on the studio writing page for cha. 6. Here is a pdf of an article on new economic model of work.CoasesPenguin.pdf. It talks about the peer-commons system that is a theoretical description of open source work methods like those that are creating linux operating system. -paul
pblog: 17 February 2006
	After studio today, I found a camera in a black bag that someone left over by the critique area. I didn't want to leave it to get possible stolen so I hid it in the space. If this is yours write me and email at wittenbp@gvsu.edu and I'll tell you the spot. -paul I figured since we had to put up all of our rudiments I would just create a page where we could just put images of our rudiments or links to pages where our rudiments can be seen. Kevin Rudiments
pblog: 16 February 2006
	I've added another of P-Web Lectures. This one is on desire, identity and the image. It relates to our chapter 6 and also to studio moto number 5. I'll try to get the other lectures posted before class on Friday-17. I also updated the imagists list with a well-rounded set of artists using images in exemplary ways.
pblog: 12 February 2006
	BLIZZARD!!! xoxo Teresa and Frances
pblog: 11 February 2006
	Pancakes and Postcards!
pblog: 10 February 2006
	In our critique I mentioned the Villa Savoy by Corbusier. So I put up a whole set of images called spaceplane that cover a range of planes and space in architecture and other things. -paul I've put up a couple of archives of images relevant to our work. One exemplifies the studio moto concept of History/documentary. The other is a archive fitting several categories in studio moto. This one is called Vitamin P, because they all come from the book, Vitamin P. In this set from vitamin P, the categories are indicated in italics at the end of the text at the top. You can also just go to the index of all of the image sets. I'll update this list as I create the sets. -paul
pblog: 9 February 2006
	I have been thinking about the idea of commodification for the last week. Can't get the idea out of my head. I am not sure if the idea is completely bad as what I think. In culture today we see everything become a commodity. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=commodity I think there might be some good that can come out of this whole idea. Something that I have seen since I have been here at college is that there are always groups/orgs. trying to raise money for funding. I've seen art student try to sell their work to students before (some do well, many don't). The idea of a commodification station has been a part of an ongoing discussion I have had with my fellow paint Jason. Being realistic we know that many people who like our work (friends/other students) don't have the means to buy our work. What we have talked about it the 'museum gift shop" idea. All museums do it... they shuffle you in and through and place the gift shops next to the exits. I think it would be an interesting experiment to "tap" into this idea. It could be a cool project for us to try this semester or another image studio class. Create images and make shirts out of them... nothing fancy- iron on decal shirts or silkscreen (look at the graphics dept ), posters, post cards (just look at what Jules is doing with her Moline project), ect. use the money earned to fund a larger group project. Use what we can to fund something better!? I think people would buy products that are affordable, and selling things in Calder by telling people you are doing a fund-raiser they would see even more I think. I would be interested in talking with others about doing some type of project like this for our own studio driven time later in the semester if anyone thinks this is a good idea. Let me know! Kevin A Link for those interested
pblog: 4 February 2006
	I added a page superspectacle for postings on the biggest spectacle in american culture, the superbowl. -paul In any endeavor often the most important and interesting things are found in the margins. Our capacity to plan and be directed also leads to recognizing only that which we already know about over what we don't know about, and even choosing what we like over what we don't like. This is why I made the marginalia page. Check it out. What good stuff have we already let drop (unattended) to the floor. -paul I am curious to learn how to do the photoshop process with layering the images like Ken Fandell has done in his sky images. Anyone know how to do so? I know Paul mentioned knowing a way to do this. Please let me know. -Kevin Mault learning needs technology
pblog: 3 February 2006
	In our discussion today on phenomenology I brought up Olafur Elliasson as an artist whose work (which uses digital stuff at times) is a rich - even intense experience. His web site is at http://www.olafureliasson.net/. In addition to his space works he does some photo archive works. I also mentioned DJ spooky and added him to the imagists list. Also, Lawrence Lessig and his work on copyright. Often our gut common-sence reaction to copyright issues actually impede cultural progress and give power to a small corporate elite. Check out one of lessig's books on this Free Culture. Of course there is a free version online. The response page is set up for Chapter 4. Kevin poses some questions at the top along with a link to Teresa's overview.
pblog: 30 January 2006
	Hey everyone! so, regarding the in-class projector project we did..... if you are interested in doing another one... please add your name to The List. Also think about collecting images that can be used for it. (jules) jack and i were talking about doing more image projections by using what we have already shot as a class... and taking it another step by projecting those 600 images and making more photographic images of those projections. doesnt have to be something that we must follow... just something the brit and i talked about. if this sounds interesting to anyone let us know. (kevin)
pblog: 27 January 2006
	I made a new studio link that combines "studio projects", "archive projects", and "studio writing" in one page. I also posted studio moto which is the document I mentioned that discusses 8 Studio Motivations: Frames, Foci, and Points of Departure. Also learning needs is a page on which we can list things we need help with. If there are several who have the same need, we can organize a workshop. Image-Material documentation; Jack and Kevin Planarity further edits by Terrance and Jules trace archive:edited set by Ian and Frances
pblog: 20 January 2006
	Plese put any images that you took of the thinkingdrawings into the "drawingthinking" folder on merz. My space is "admin" and the folder is in "public" I made it so that everyone can get inside this one. Imagstudioprecedents I put copies of the art historical image and the attendant iview catalogues in several locations; do.art.gvsu.edu in wittenbp/public/imagestudioprecedents on the desktop of all 4 computers in our studio - "imagestudprecedents"
pblog: 16 January 2006
	We covered lots of technical info on Friday. I was impressed with what we were able to accomplish. Some of you might need a review on some of what we covered. I'm available to help with your projects. I'm in cps tth 11-5 and will be around Wed. afternoon. If you need help with iview I put a link to the full manual for this program on the table of contents at: iview manual. HTML stuff on page 58. -paul
pblog: 15 January 2006
	I uploaded an excerpt on "planarity" from the David Summers book that I'm studying. planarity excerpt is a separate page, and is linked as well to the planarity page. -paul
pblog: 14 January 2006
	Some updates There is a way to add some notes on your html gallery pages made in Iview. This might be helpful with projects such as the planarity archives. The images might be enhanced with some contextual commentary or captioning. I put together a little how-to on the bottom of the planarity archive page. I added a archive projects page and linked it to the table of contents (which I rearranged a bit). I framed the cha.1 studio writing a bit. -paul
pblog: 13 January 2006
	Agenda: 1/13 intro: structure, plan, wiki, resources, wetwiki, technology basics (digital image, wiki, web, print) discussion: Intro and chapter 1 studio: planarity For Friday, Jan. 20 planarity archive studio writing on intro and chapter 1 (post by midnight Wednesday, 1/18/06). come ready for dirty studio image-material studio project Announcements: Cat Chow UICA Wednesday, 1/18/2006 Nancy Ramage Thursday, 1/19/2006 in Performing Arts Center Pancakes and Postcards Saturday 2/11/2006 (jules) Elliott Earls live at the Music Hall http://www.theapolloprogram.com/Pages/Capacitor.html paul
pblog: 18 December 2005
	The organization, communication, and documentation of imagestudio6 will be done on a wiki. For more information about wikis check out the link at wikipedia. Wikis are collaborative software that operate in an open source manner. Using a wiki allows this space to be treated as a common area in which all participants can contribute to the group's focus; in our case learning about images and meaning in visual culture. Over the time of the studio we'll build a knowledge base and record of our dialogue and inquiry. In this way it will be mediated or captured in a substance. paul

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Final Images

"we don't got no traction"

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