Yao:
Sweeny lecture
-The use of the aura
--Asian frame with new content
--Old form to frame new content
A circle is neither old or new
Jordanna:
Lister lecture:
-research through practice
--how does one find the "everyday"?
--real/undreal
---either way you engage the audience: it will saturate the visual experience
Jaclyn:
"Art is a social truth"
-If art is the cause then writing about art is the effect.
The end of art theory: "It constructs that meaning, and that order."
Andy:
Has digital art affected its authenticity?
-It doesn't account for human agency or passivity.
Digital art is not reliant upon the product of anything material.
"There are many, there is no one"
Eszter:
Ideology of every day life.
-Repetition is white noise that is turned into a repetitive form
-Images and actions are standing in for the real.
Anna:
Community based products
-How we muse all our senses to communicate
--hummelll-knitscapes.
............
Post presentation shake down:
Research through practice clarifies... Practice of research justifies
A collective understanding of art.
Our collective ideals:
-What we bring to reception of aesthetics
everyone brings:
the past-- memory -- eszter
the senses -- anna
consciousness -- debra
They, in turn:
clarify the RESPONSIBILITY of space
clarify the USE of space
clarify the REALITY of space
2.1.12
December 5th: Reflective Practice
Anna:
Key element in one sentence:
-interactive
-relatism
Research Practice:
Looking for something that needs to be found
Jordanna:
Graham:
-Research THROUGH practice
relation to:
-time
-society
-audience response
-other work.
to enjoy and angage
-have an understanding of the audience and their environment
Analyzing structures in which we live:
-the visual element of society
--the real/unreal
--present in our everyday life
--If technology plays a role in lives then if must bleed into the arts
-- can the same be done in theatre
---Can it technologically communicated?
---It would be accepted
---In theatre would it be loved
----visually clearer
David Sweeny:
Materialism as a signifier of fetishism
If you took the things away, would it really take the bourgeoisie spirit away?
-Cerebral fetishes?
-The bourgeoisie is a symptom
The need to be revolutionizes against
-Hitler foresaw his own demise
-V for Vendetta
-Wizard of Oz (the man behind the curtain)
The bourgeoisie is a form of sublimation
-They must use these things in order to entice people to destroy them.
Key element in one sentence:
-interactive
-relatism
Research Practice:
Looking for something that needs to be found
Jordanna:
Graham:
-Research THROUGH practice
relation to:
-time
-society
-audience response
-other work.
to enjoy and angage
-have an understanding of the audience and their environment
Analyzing structures in which we live:
-the visual element of society
--the real/unreal
--present in our everyday life
--If technology plays a role in lives then if must bleed into the arts
-- can the same be done in theatre
---Can it technologically communicated?
---It would be accepted
---In theatre would it be loved
----visually clearer
David Sweeny:
Materialism as a signifier of fetishism
If you took the things away, would it really take the bourgeoisie spirit away?
-Cerebral fetishes?
-The bourgeoisie is a symptom
The need to be revolutionizes against
-Hitler foresaw his own demise
-V for Vendetta
-Wizard of Oz (the man behind the curtain)
The bourgeoisie is a form of sublimation
-They must use these things in order to entice people to destroy them.
November 28th: Dr Greenman
Aesthetics and its discontents
-Aesthetics and politics
The introduction of the term aesthetics:
-what do we want to do with that word?
What do we want from aesthetic theory?
-responding to the visual
The aesthetic says something abot the particular qualities of the thing seen.
Andreas Gupcksy: 99 cent
The aesthetic is suspect
Making art without talking about aesthetics.
Conceptualism vs formalism
Conceptualism:
-philosophical inquiry
-interrogation
-a return o language to deflate the necessity of the visual
Kant:
-Aesthetics:
A set of rules one has in order to judge
-taste?
How much does our art theory come from the 19th century.
"We want to maintain some sense that we have control to respond to something"
What is significant about Aesthetic theory?
Kant wants experience
-He gagues the experience by the quality of the experience
--art
--natural beauty
--sublime
--reception theory
Aesthetics have something to do with pleasure, and, by extension, affirmation
We can have an aesthetic response to ugliness.
Pleasure of the senses
-entertainment
Aesthetic pleasure:
-experimental
Disinterested liking
-not involved with gratifying the senses
-The pleasure of the senses is investing in the object's existence. Aesthetic pleasure is devoid of this interest.
Aesthetic experience is the quickening of the cognitive power.
characteristics:
-unanticipated
-spontaneous
Kant's critical system:
Critique:
-pure reason
--knowledge to nature
-pracgtical reason
--morality to freedom
-Judgement
--taste to unity
Aesthetic experience:
-quality
--disinterested liking
-quantity
--universality without concept
-relation
--purpose wihtout purpose
-modality
--subjective necessity.
Where does nature factor into order, reason and understanding.
How do we have a feeling that is beyond our personal understanding.
Shared feeling that is common to all.
cognition of the experience:
step 1: intuition
step 2: imagination and judgement
step 3: universal concepts of the understanding cause and effect
Ranciere:
Taste has a hierarchical value
politics is the distribution of exclusion:
-aesthetics: those who are excluded claim themselves included
distribution of the sensible.
-Aesthetics and politics
The introduction of the term aesthetics:
-what do we want to do with that word?
What do we want from aesthetic theory?
-responding to the visual
The aesthetic says something abot the particular qualities of the thing seen.
Andreas Gupcksy: 99 cent
The aesthetic is suspect
Making art without talking about aesthetics.
Conceptualism vs formalism
Conceptualism:
-philosophical inquiry
-interrogation
-a return o language to deflate the necessity of the visual
Kant:
-Aesthetics:
A set of rules one has in order to judge
-taste?
How much does our art theory come from the 19th century.
"We want to maintain some sense that we have control to respond to something"
What is significant about Aesthetic theory?
Kant wants experience
-He gagues the experience by the quality of the experience
--art
--natural beauty
--sublime
--reception theory
Aesthetics have something to do with pleasure, and, by extension, affirmation
We can have an aesthetic response to ugliness.
Pleasure of the senses
-entertainment
Aesthetic pleasure:
-experimental
Disinterested liking
-not involved with gratifying the senses
-The pleasure of the senses is investing in the object's existence. Aesthetic pleasure is devoid of this interest.
Aesthetic experience is the quickening of the cognitive power.
characteristics:
-unanticipated
-spontaneous
Kant's critical system:
Critique:
-pure reason
--knowledge to nature
-pracgtical reason
--morality to freedom
-Judgement
--taste to unity
Aesthetic experience:
-quality
--disinterested liking
-quantity
--universality without concept
-relation
--purpose wihtout purpose
-modality
--subjective necessity.
Where does nature factor into order, reason and understanding.
How do we have a feeling that is beyond our personal understanding.
Shared feeling that is common to all.
cognition of the experience:
step 1: intuition
step 2: imagination and judgement
step 3: universal concepts of the understanding cause and effect
Ranciere:
Taste has a hierarchical value
politics is the distribution of exclusion:
-aesthetics: those who are excluded claim themselves included
distribution of the sensible.
30.12.11
November 21st: Nicky Bird
The Field with Found Photograph:
personal archive
-family photograph
-landscape
culture change
Where is the photograph?
-Davi Campany
-Willie Doherty
"He cannot re-cope because he didn't come from that place" - Paul Graham
"IT WAS FINALLY OVER"
What are you doing here?
Why are you here?
Are you here to:
-learn
-be taught
-experience
-become masters
-be a teacher
-love what is important to you
"I'M HERE TO MESS WITH MY CULTURE"
personal archive
-family photograph
-landscape
culture change
Where is the photograph?
-Davi Campany
-Willie Doherty
"He cannot re-cope because he didn't come from that place" - Paul Graham
"IT WAS FINALLY OVER"
What are you doing here?
Why are you here?
Are you here to:
-learn
-be taught
-experience
-become masters
-be a teacher
-love what is important to you
"I'M HERE TO MESS WITH MY CULTURE"
November 14th: Dr. David Sweeny
Value and Excess:
When people get carried away.
Marx as a writer:
-Experience a transformation
-Bourgeoisie are failed tragic heroes
-Bringing expolitation to life:
--All that is solid melts into air
--destroying myth
Through modernity you lose an identity
-The only consolation is a home life
--R.U.R. Karl Cadek - 1921
A robotic drudgery
Modernity is identified by mass
Emile Durkheim:
-Mechanical solidarity: Bonded by likeness
Organic solidarity: Social Harmony : Division of Labor (organs of the body)
-The atomization of society.
Normalnessness
-Having a SELF to experience:
--crime
--debt
--addiction
--divorce
--domestic violence
--suicide
Benjamin:
fetishism of commodities
Use value:
-The utility of a thing
-How can it be consumed?
Steven Shapiro: "Once more with feeling"
Douglas Coupland: Nostalgia is a weapon
recereation/ conversational
Slumming:
--desipe education or class, you love it.
Reaction to STUFF in the world
"everything's gone green"
-characters suffer what they do not understand
When people get carried away.
Marx as a writer:
-Experience a transformation
-Bourgeoisie are failed tragic heroes
-Bringing expolitation to life:
--All that is solid melts into air
--destroying myth
Through modernity you lose an identity
-The only consolation is a home life
--R.U.R. Karl Cadek - 1921
A robotic drudgery
Modernity is identified by mass
Emile Durkheim:
-Mechanical solidarity: Bonded by likeness
Organic solidarity: Social Harmony : Division of Labor (organs of the body)
-The atomization of society.
Normalnessness
-Having a SELF to experience:
--crime
--debt
--addiction
--divorce
--domestic violence
--suicide
Benjamin:
fetishism of commodities
Use value:
-The utility of a thing
-How can it be consumed?
Steven Shapiro: "Once more with feeling"
Douglas Coupland: Nostalgia is a weapon
recereation/ conversational
Slumming:
--desipe education or class, you love it.
Reaction to STUFF in the world
"everything's gone green"
-characters suffer what they do not understand
October 31st: Ranjana Thapalyal
Practice of Research:
Graham Lsiter:
Responsibility of place:
-Altermodernism: Global understanding: Intersubjectivity
-Every Day Art: Understanding structures that govern our everyday lives.
How does the image govern the real?
How doe sthis change landscape art?
_Richard Estes?
- JMW Turner?
The path to Altermodernism
--the experience of wandering in:
time
space
mediums
Fusion of:
-Glue
Landscapes in Oil
Figures in Landscapes
Taking owndership of the landscape
How does that fusion refocus 19th century landscape: JMW Turner
-The binding is the concept; the romance
-The idea that we are victims of our landscape.
-our landscape governs us
How does that fusion refocus 20th century landscape: Richard Estes
-the binding is the universality of an urban landscape
-we own our landscape
-we determine our landscape
-the idea that we are responsible for our own surrounding
Enabler: Anna
-Graham
Repetition
Process
Residency
Interventions
Gallery Works
Ownership of IDEAS
-Ownership of SENSES
--Visual Patterns
Scientific friction: Synesthesia is not real
-Pictures of a project for a final piece
Reporter: Kevin
One philosopher shaping our culture
-Habit of every day life
-Language
--semiotics
--text and flesh
Breaking down the influence of text
-Braille
-Culture and language
-Combine the two.
Graham Lsiter:
Responsibility of place:
-Altermodernism: Global understanding: Intersubjectivity
-Every Day Art: Understanding structures that govern our everyday lives.
How does the image govern the real?
How doe sthis change landscape art?
_Richard Estes?
- JMW Turner?
The path to Altermodernism
--the experience of wandering in:
time
space
mediums
Fusion of:
-Glue
Landscapes in Oil
Figures in Landscapes
Taking owndership of the landscape
How does that fusion refocus 19th century landscape: JMW Turner
-The binding is the concept; the romance
-The idea that we are victims of our landscape.
-our landscape governs us
How does that fusion refocus 20th century landscape: Richard Estes
-the binding is the universality of an urban landscape
-we own our landscape
-we determine our landscape
-the idea that we are responsible for our own surrounding
Enabler: Anna
-Graham
Repetition
Process
Residency
Interventions
Gallery Works
Ownership of IDEAS
-Ownership of SENSES
--Visual Patterns
Scientific friction: Synesthesia is not real
-Pictures of a project for a final piece
Reporter: Kevin
One philosopher shaping our culture
-Habit of every day life
-Language
--semiotics
--text and flesh
Breaking down the influence of text
-Braille
-Culture and language
-Combine the two.
28.12.11
October 24th: Tim Collins
Anthroposcene Evolution:
Men and women touching everything.
-Art and design can change the flow of conversation between human and earth
-Everything he does is life and practice
- "My wife and I, we've got a great conversation going."
"How to access ethics: empathy
Context:
earth art
-Ecological art
Social and ecological are not different:
-Bevys
-Ukeles -- nevermind creating for self, create for the globe
-Sonfesit
-Haacke -- cleaning a river is art
Social Art:
-Ikeda
-Littoral
-Prigan
-Vanwesten
-Wochenklauser
Anthroposcene Art: Expedition Art
-Boettger
-Boetzkes
-Bunting
-Remos
-Kurt
-Manacorda
-Witzke
Aesthetics and Subjectivity:
A. Bowie
-History and theory through working hands.
"This is how I think I could have done it better"
"We need to be responsible for whatever practice we step our toes in."
Ecology within and ecology without
-Poison Oak
--Gentle Touch
Can he claim authorship for it?
"Is it art? Good question. I'm not too worried about it... The process was art."
Kester --
Practice-Theory-Practice-Theory.. the path of the tree.
Nature as significant other
collinssandgoto.com
Significant truth vs. aesthetic truth
"Is it the trunk, the branches or the leafy top that makes it a tree?
There's a POTENTIAL for exchange.
Men and women touching everything.
-Art and design can change the flow of conversation between human and earth
-Everything he does is life and practice
- "My wife and I, we've got a great conversation going."
"How to access ethics: empathy
Context:
earth art
-Ecological art
Social and ecological are not different:
-Bevys
-Ukeles -- nevermind creating for self, create for the globe
-Sonfesit
-Haacke -- cleaning a river is art
Social Art:
-Ikeda
-Littoral
-Prigan
-Vanwesten
-Wochenklauser
Anthroposcene Art: Expedition Art
-Boettger
-Boetzkes
-Bunting
-Remos
-Kurt
-Manacorda
-Witzke
Aesthetics and Subjectivity:
A. Bowie
-History and theory through working hands.
"This is how I think I could have done it better"
"We need to be responsible for whatever practice we step our toes in."
Ecology within and ecology without
-Poison Oak
--Gentle Touch
Can he claim authorship for it?
"Is it art? Good question. I'm not too worried about it... The process was art."
Kester --
Practice-Theory-Practice-Theory.. the path of the tree.
Nature as significant other
collinssandgoto.com
Significant truth vs. aesthetic truth
"Is it the trunk, the branches or the leafy top that makes it a tree?
There's a POTENTIAL for exchange.
October 17th: Graham Lister
Paul Auster: Moon Palace
-Research for/through Practice
-Practice through/for Research
What is beyond aesthetics?
-Research that brought artists to the aesthetic.
"Presearch" - what you do before you research.
Because of preseacrh, can aesthetics suffer?
Henri Lefebre: The Critique of Everyday Life.
Altermodernism: We are able to be connected on a global scale.
Everyday art: Understanding structures that govern how we exist.
-Suddenly slight changes become an issue
-Making the image a product of mechanisms used to make it.
A place is your responsibility
-Being responsible for structures that are sent to govern our lives
--a rented apartment
--a lamppost
"How does the image govern the real" - Jeff Wall
-Research for/through Practice
-Practice through/for Research
What is beyond aesthetics?
-Research that brought artists to the aesthetic.
"Presearch" - what you do before you research.
Because of preseacrh, can aesthetics suffer?
Henri Lefebre: The Critique of Everyday Life.
Altermodernism: We are able to be connected on a global scale.
Everyday art: Understanding structures that govern how we exist.
-Suddenly slight changes become an issue
-Making the image a product of mechanisms used to make it.
A place is your responsibility
-Being responsible for structures that are sent to govern our lives
--a rented apartment
--a lamppost
"How does the image govern the real" - Jeff Wall
October 10th: Ranjana Thapalyal
Retropsective Research Log:
Be there at the right time.
Bookmarks the time of our lives.
Its how we decide what's appropriate
Pick your battles
"There is something about being the maker of objects"
Auto Ethnography
--Making academic something that is extremely personal
How much of your life do you leave out?
"Thou knowest how to wait"
"At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate be shut.
And yet I find there is still time."
Common Emotion ---- Common Emotion taken to the extreme
--
Love humor
Anger sorrow
Valour wonder
Disgust fear
the 9th emotion is peace: disinterestedness
Bookmarks in my creative life:
- feeling something about art.
-moving art from the academic to the emotional.
-Waiting for a visual connection.
Alejandra: "Just move it around a bit"
Yao: "I discovered my grandmother was magical"
Be there at the right time.
Bookmarks the time of our lives.
Its how we decide what's appropriate
Pick your battles
"There is something about being the maker of objects"
Auto Ethnography
--Making academic something that is extremely personal
How much of your life do you leave out?
"Thou knowest how to wait"
"At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate be shut.
And yet I find there is still time."
Common Emotion ---- Common Emotion taken to the extreme
--
Love humor
Anger sorrow
Valour wonder
Disgust fear
the 9th emotion is peace: disinterestedness
Bookmarks in my creative life:
- feeling something about art.
-moving art from the academic to the emotional.
-Waiting for a visual connection.
Alejandra: "Just move it around a bit"
Yao: "I discovered my grandmother was magical"
October 3rd: Ranjana Thapalyal
What does culture mean?
-modern?
Mpstmodern?
culture=presence
--Workshop:
---What does the object divulge about its culture?
---Describe the objec without its purpose or function
Workshop 1: Anna
I HEART SHARKS BUTTON
-If a message is important, its put on the internet/ the internet is important to the culture's message
-They don't trust children under three years of age
-Their culture relies on symbology to convey messages
-There must be some sort of anti-shark movement to warant a button to indicate her feelings for sharks
-They love stating the obvious
Description of the object:
-its about the size of a £2 coin
-its equipt with a safety pin
-a statement is printed on it
I'M CREATIVE BUTTON
-It's a culture that values creativity
_Geared towards children
-SUMA plays a role in supporting creativity
-color is importnat
-simplicity is important
Description of the object:
-Its the size and shape of a viscuit
-It conveys a message
-Its colorful
-It comes with a safety pin
Personal Associations:
-This is a button I created
-I made it in collusion with the education program I headed
-IThe eudcationprogram is to inspire children to go to SUMA
-SUMA is the SOuthern Utah Museum of Art
-The button was made for every child in the district
Neologism: A new word or phrase that is only used by the speaker
Metalanguage constructs its own tyrrany
How does one be truthful? Truthfulness = Awareness
-modern?
Mpstmodern?
culture=presence
--Workshop:
---What does the object divulge about its culture?
---Describe the objec without its purpose or function
Workshop 1: Anna
I HEART SHARKS BUTTON
-If a message is important, its put on the internet/ the internet is important to the culture's message
-They don't trust children under three years of age
-Their culture relies on symbology to convey messages
-There must be some sort of anti-shark movement to warant a button to indicate her feelings for sharks
-They love stating the obvious
Description of the object:
-its about the size of a £2 coin
-its equipt with a safety pin
-a statement is printed on it
I'M CREATIVE BUTTON
-It's a culture that values creativity
_Geared towards children
-SUMA plays a role in supporting creativity
-color is importnat
-simplicity is important
Description of the object:
-Its the size and shape of a viscuit
-It conveys a message
-Its colorful
-It comes with a safety pin
Personal Associations:
-This is a button I created
-I made it in collusion with the education program I headed
-IThe eudcationprogram is to inspire children to go to SUMA
-SUMA is the SOuthern Utah Museum of Art
-The button was made for every child in the district
Neologism: A new word or phrase that is only used by the speaker
Metalanguage constructs its own tyrrany
How does one be truthful? Truthfulness = Awareness
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