Homework 8

1) We started to discuss this in class. Go back to your notes and share your thoughts on your experiences with the printing process. Try to respond to those 2 or 3 questions: What are you learning about printing (as a process)? Where do you see its creative potential? And what did you learn about photography?  2) Continue the printing. Select photographs that you would like to print. These can be images from our class (remember, the 10 images which you arranged as a narrative), the drawings/paintings you did on your tablet/computer/phone, or the scans. Use the paper I’ve handed out in class. And bring 10 select prints to our next class so we can share the outcome. Put some attention into this in order to make meaningful observations. 3) Create a dedicated lesson plan for students/children that allows for them to explore printing creatively. 4) Create a dedicated lesson plan for students/children that allows for them to explore scanning creatively.

Homework 7

1) Produce a number of 12 scans with 3 interesting materials or material groups. Let your creativity be your guide. Publish your scans on the blog one image after the next. Add a paragraph of description reflecting the specific outcome and your choices.  2) Create a blog post in which you reflect on the medium of scanning as such: think of our discussion in class, record your experiences, describe what scanning can do for an artist, how it can serve as a bridge between photography, traditional printing techniques, and digital printing. As you compare scanning to traditional printing techniques; visit the printing studio, think of a photography etc. to make additional comparisons. 3) Go back to your blog and think about what you wouldl ike to spend more time with. Choose carefully. - Do it!

Open Studios Elizabeth Foundation

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Annual Open Studios

Thursday, October 18, 6-10 pm (opening reception)

Friday, October 19, 6-9 pm

Saturday, October 20, 1-6 pm

Open Studios 2012 is an annual event of the EFA Studio Program that invites the public to come explore and interact with our vibrant and diverse community of 76 contemporary artists. 

EFA artists work in a wide range of media and artistic sensibilities, offering a significant slice of contemporary art culture. Rarely can the public visit so many internationally recognized artists working under one roof in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. 

The Elizabeth Foundation is located:

323 West 39th Street (btwn 8/9 Ave)

New York NY 10018

For additional information:

http://www.efanyc.org/open-studios?utm_source=OPEN+STUDIO+2012+e-vite&utm_campaign=Open+Studios+2012&utm_medium=email

Homework 6

1) After listening to your peers and their approaches with their image; would you want to alter/redo/change some of your ideas now? If so, feel free to do so; indicate potential changes on your blog. 2) Homework #5 had you come up with ideas about what you can do with your image creatively. Realize one of them and bring the output to our next class or put it up on your blog. If your idea is not feasible in the amount of time, choose another one; stay within reason. 3) We began in class to create an interesting narrative by using your photograph as a starting point and adding 9 images from the web. As you tell your story, don’t use additional captions or titles; have the images speak for themselves. Arrange your images and upload them to a pinterest board or on your blog in the order you seem fit. If you haven't already, finish this assignment. Add a few sentences about this experience and what you were trying to achieve or were this assignment got you on your blog. 4) Think about photography for a little bit and about its materiality and the process of taking a picture. Make 3 connections to children. (I skipped the photographic lesson plan as I don't want to ask too much from you). 5) Research 1 artist (2 if you signed up for 3 credits) who works with photography creatively and put up a blog post. 6) Research 1 artist (2 if you signed up for 3 credits) who works with scanners/scanography creatively and make it an entry on your blog. 7) Please select any material or group of material of your choice that you would like to work with as we embark on exploring the scanners. Due to their limited size, don't bring materials that wouldn't fit...

Art.sy a Genome Project for the World of Art

Interesting New York Times article about a new site that is the Pandora of the art world, a way to explore art. My favorite line from the article: Until now, there was no automated guidance for art lovers seeking discoveries online — no “If you like Jackson Pollock’s ‘No. 1,’ you may also enjoy Mark Rothko’s ‘No. 18.’ ”

Genome Project for the World of Art

A SUPER COOL ART/DESIGN/NEW MEDIA BLOG

http://www.lostateminor.com/

Online Readings- regarding art and art documentation

 "Presence" in Absentia: Experiencing Performance as Documentation
Author(s): Amelia Jones
Source: Art Journal, Vol. 56, No. 4, Performance Art: (Some) Theory and (Selected) Practice at
the End of This Century (Winter, 1997), pp. 11-18

HERE THE LINK:
http://art.usf.edu/File_Uploads/Presence.pdfhttp://art.usf.edu/File_Uploads/Presence.pdf


Art in the Age of Biopolitics: From Artwork to Art Documentation
by Boris Groys (translation: Steven Lindberg)
art, documentary, Benjamin, biopolitics
from the Catalogue of the Documenta 11 (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2002), pp 108-114.

HERE'S THE LINK TO THE READING!
http://www.ranadasgupta.com/notes.asp?note_id=34 


THE PERFORMATIVITY OF PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTATION
Philip Auslander

THE LINK:
http://lmc.gatech.edu/~auslander/publications/28.3auslander.pdf

Homework 5

1) Post the picture you took in class on your blog; write a paragraph that tells the story of this picture (what have you noticed that made you take this picture?). 2) Come up with 4 ideas (2 for those who signed up for 2 credits, 4 for those who take this course for 3 credits) where you would like to go with this picture creatively and write them down so you can share your ideas in our next session. 3) Research 1-2 artists (2 if you take this course for 3 credits) who work with documentation as an artistic process. 4) Following Eileen's introduction to Pinterest, open a pinterest account (http://pinterest.com), use either your regular email or a throw-away email (if you feel more comfortable); play a bit with the template; we will use pinterest in one of our next assignments. If you need help with this, please have a look at the video tutorial with Eileen's slides right below this blog entry). 5) If you have not done this already: add your comment/statement to the text on pbwiki. Revise it. Make it one big collaborative text/statement. Having said that: those who are running behind with homework, please do catch up; it will help you and free you for the upcoming sessions. 

Pinterest tutorial (Eileen B)