Week 12: Science

Week 11 - Science Week:
1. Leftovers / The Orienting Stone, D. Graham Burnett, Cabinet Magazine, 2008
2. Art That Transfigures Science, Alan Lightman, The New York Times, 2003.
3. You Can Blame The Bugs, Sharon Begley, Newsweek, 2008
4. Real Rhapsody In Blue, Anne Underwood, Newsweek, 2006
5. The Human Brain: Marvel or Mess, Sharon Begley, Newsweek,2007.
6. Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpture (video above)

Optional additional readings on the topic:
1. A Creature of New Habits, New York Times, 2008.
2. A Conversation with TODT: Flexible Logistics, Dominick Lombardi, Sculpture Magazine, 2007.
3. Why Pop Culture Loves the 'Butterfly Effect,' and Gets it Totally Wrong, Peter Dizikes, Boston Globe, 2008. (followed by some comments from Gerard Brown)
4. The Science of Gaydar, David France, New York Magazine, 2007
5. Does Plastic Art Last Forever?, Slate, Kean, 2009
6. Click here to listen to an interesting hypothesis linking artists, cat poop and a rise in cases of Schizophrenia. (and everyone should love Radio Lab anyway!)

Check out one of my favorite spots!
EYE OF SCIENCE

POST INFO FOR LABELS HERE!

http://blog.craftzine.com/crochet_exorscist.jpg

Hello All,
(The above image has nothing to do with this post...but I could not resist.)
Please list any information you have for labels for your exhibition here.
Please submit this info ASAP as Jackie is typing up the labels over the Holiday break.
It should be formatted like this example:
Artist: Terri Saulin
Title of work: Dear Glenn Gould, You Rock. Love Polly Apfelbaum
Date of work: 2008
Medium/Materials: ink, dye, glue, gold leaf, Artur Barrio’s shellac, pins
Dimensions: 42” height x 31.5" width x 2.75“ depth

(below is info can be included in the binder on a separate cover sheet)
Credit line: Courtesy of the artist or Owner's name
Avail for sale: Y
Selling price: $1200.00

A generic form for your future files can be found here.
Something like this would be necessary when sending work to a gallery or shipping work for installation at a distance. I hope it is useful.
Have a restful, peaceful and delicious Thanksgiving break!
Terri

Week 11: Politics

Week 10 - Politics, Required Reading:
1. A Critique of the Activist Scene, Nato Thompson, 2007.
2. JFK: Remarks at Amherst College, Sept., 26, 1963.
3. The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents, Claire Bishop, Artforum, 2006.
Optional additional readings / video on the topic:
1. Culture Wars, Richard Bolton, 1992.
2. Sculpture is a Dying Art Form. Let’s Put it Out of its Misery, Stephen Bayley, The Independent, 2005.
3. Arts and Economy Report from the News Hour (2009)
(video clip above)
4. The Art of Politics, Robert Atkins, Art in America, 2006.
5. Trevor Paglen, an artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us. In the last few years, Paglen's experimental, interdisciplinary work has uniquely managed to capture the attention of the art world, academia, and mainstream media simultaneously.

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Trevor Paglen
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor U.S. Speedskating

Week 10: Art School

Week 9 - Art School:

1. Ten Tips For Those Considering Grad School, Ilana Stanger, TheArtBiz.com
2. Art Schools: A Group Critique, Raphael Rubenstein, Art In America, 2007.
3. Tales From the Crit: For Art Students, May Is the Cruelest Month, Jori Finkel, The New York Times, 2006.
4. Warhols of Tomorrow Are Dealers’Quarry Today, Carol Vogel, The New York Times, 2006.
5. What Should Colleges Teach, Stanley Fish, The New York Times, 2009.

Optional additional readings on the topic:

1. On The Uses of a Liberal Education, Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine, 1997
2. Miami Art Machine, New York magazine, 2008
3. Value of College Tuition is Called Into Question, USAToday, 2008
4. For and expanded version of Stanley Fish's What should Colleges Teach go here.
there are links below for parts 2-3, comments and more.

Week 9 - Business Week:

Week 9 - Business Week:
Hello All,
Very good presentations and discussion this evening. Thank You! It was great to visit your studios. Take a deep breath. No comments due this week. These items are for class discussion.Please catch up on all over due assignments, ummm, NOW!
Regards,
Terri


Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

1. Art Site Links, Scot Kaylor
2. Recommendation Protocols, Scot Kaylor, 2007
3. Artist Resume - Guidelines, CAA(College Art Association)
4. CV- Guidelines, CAA(College Art Association)
5. Slide Labeling - Guidelines, CAA(College Art Association)
6. Works In New Media - Guidelines, CAA(College Art Association)
7. Nurturing the Inner Entrepreneur, NYT, Rawsthorn, 2009.
8. Artists in the Marketplace, Franklin Sirmans, 1999.
9. Philadelphia’s Bustling Art Scene, Alexis Swerdloff, Papermag.
10. Mass Appeal, Rob Walker, New York Times, 2007

Optional additional readings / video on the topic:

Artist/gallery owner Charles Linder: http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=8241
Donating Work for Charity Has a Downside for Artists,Carol Kino, The New York Times, 2006.
I’m an Artist, But Not the Starving Kind, J.D. Jordan, Newsweek, 2005.
Alison Saar - Interview, Ilana Stanger, TheArtBiz.com.
Logan Hicks - Interview, Ilana Stanger, TheArtBiz.com.
Steve Tobin - Interview, Dana Sunshine, TheArtBiz.com.
The Rich Were Different, New York magazine, 2007

Show Stuff

Hey Ladies -

As I promised, here is what we talked about last class about our upcoming show. Again everyone needs to sign up for something, so these lists are still in progress. Comment on this post and volunteer for a job. This is what we have so far:

Installation > Jamie M, Mary, Brit B, Bri, Laurel

Deinstallation > Brit E, Dani, Kelly, Courtney

Installation and deinstallation teams remember to bring tools any extra materials you may need.

Labels / Binders > Jackie, Shannon

This includes label info, price lists, and collecting artists statements, biographies, work examples and possibly business cards, which will all be included in a binder.

Food > Pam, Natalie, Shawnda, Jamie C, Sophie

Pam and Natalie want to make sangria, but a cheese platter and some cheap bottles of wine would be great too.

Promotion > Mallory, Kaitlyn

This includes designing and ordering the postcards for the shows, creating a Facebook event page, and sending out the show info to newspapers and art blogs. We all still have to write a short blurb about the show to send out and put on the postcards. If anyone feels they are a good writer and could take charge of this, that would be great!

Dates > Install • Nov 29th - Dec 2nd

Reception • Fri Dec 3rd (time TBA)

Deinstall • Jan 3rd - Jan 7th

Breadboard: Virtual Public Art Project

Hello All, This is the "Breadboard " project I told you about in class last week. Check out work by my friend Nancy Agati below!

Nancy Agati Nancy Agati www.nancyagati.com Nancy Agati, map with riverview Title: Lumen Virtual Objects: 5 circular discs 75′diameter x 4′ width Placement: over Schuylkill River from Spring Garden St. bridge to just below Boathouse Row Nancy Agati, Lumen (Layars view) Description: Drawing, mark making, and defining pattern or movement are essential elements to my work. Much of the sculpture and installation work that I have produced has begun with drawing. I am interested in the linear quality of vines and branches that climb and entangle trees, crawl along telephone wire or scale across walls. In recent works I have manipulated collected vines and branches as a form of drawing material, combining drawing and sculpture in a linear manner. Based on a previous project, I have reconstructed a small circular object within a small wooden hoop. The hoop holds an array of twisted willow branches connected to its interior edge that crisscross through the circle. The front of the circle, covered with a taut piece of translucent vellum, projects light and displays the silhouette lines of the branches within. Nancy Agati, real object To accomplish the shift in light and drawing for the virtual object, I shot several images of the front of the actual object throughout the course of a day. These 5 slightly different views ( line drawings) will exist as the front side of each (5) of the discs. Nancy Agati, VPAP Philadelphia, front view The reverse images for each disc were generated from photos taken of the flow of water from the Schuylkill River. I envision the piece as a series of large cylindrical discs hovering perpendicular to the ground (or river) and appearing in a linear sequence in space. Nancy Agati, VPAP Philadelphia, back view The series of circular forms with which these lines exist conjures ideas of sight not only in their shape, but as a suggestion of a lens, scope, or viewfinder. The linear images captured throughout the day were created by the angle, direction and intensity of the daylight. The lines that exist on the surface could not have existed without light but no longer appear as merely branches. The images have become abstract drawings, transformed from branches or water, in to vein-like structures to cellular activity and back again to their origin. In this sense the piece becomes virtual not only in its objects’ presence but also through the illumination of the observed image that exists within it. Back to VPAP Artists Page Share/Bookmark

Twitter: BBPhilly some virtual field shots from VPAP Philly http://bit.ly/bDCoKw 09:10:45 PM October 18, 2010 from web some more VPAP Philadelphia, installation text http://bit.ly/dtgprB 05:08:30 PM October 15, 2010 from web in case u missed: In Philadelphia Virtual Art is Everywhere! http://bit.ly/awf4LU 04:11:10 PM October 15, 2010 from web Wall text from the installation http://bit.ly/dcojHZ 04:10:16 PM October 15, 2010 from web @tm_augmentedrea @richafur hi: this might b of interest: In Philadelphia Virtual Art is Everywhere! http://bit.ly/awf4LU 12:30:23 PM October 15, 2010 from webin reply to tm_augmentedrea

BILL WALTON

GREEN MARKER - x

copper/wood/paint

4 x 9 x 2 1/2

Hello All,
Click here for more images of work by Bill Walton.




I was a printmaking major at Moore in the late 80's, Bill was my under-graduate instructor and mentor. We remained good friends over the next 25 years. I got to work with Bill again as I finished my MFA at Uarts in 2007. For the second time, Bill served on my thesis panel. I can't begin to say how much I learned from him. I am not sure that anything I could say could honor him enough. I would need lots of time to polish up my words.
My graduate writing professor Tom Csaszar actually wrote several reviews of Bill's work over the years. My favorite story is how one review of his work was a haiku. Bill was that kind of man. He and his work quite simply inspired poetry.
Bill received the Lois Fernley award from Arcadia. The result was an incredibly poetic little book about Bill and his work. It's contents hold a collection of essays about Bill and images of his work. His long time friend Eileen Neff wrote a lovely piece. I highly recommend you take a look at the book if you want some good insight. I have a copy with a little note from Bill that I will treasure always. Here are some images of the show he had at The Print Center back in June. He was working on it until the time of his death this past April.

Salvador Dali on "What's My Line?"

Week 8- The Value of Art:

Week 8 - The Value of Art:

1. Has Money Ruined Art? Jerry Saltz, New York magazine, 2007
2. Museums Solicit Dealers’Largesse, New York Times, 2007
3. Frivolity and Unction, Dave Hickey,Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy, 1997.
4. Brother, Can You Spare a Painting, Plagens, 2009

Optional additional readings on the topic:

1. What is Art Worth?, Paul Mattick, Art in America, 2006
2. Worshipping at the Church of Art, James Gardner, National Review, 1994.
3. In Search of Some Interesting Reading, Peter Plagens, 1996.

Hello All,
This Friday we will continue our critique of the first Drawing assignment and hear Artists Statements from group one.

10/22, Week 8 – Group 1:
1. Jacqueline Maloney
2. Kelly McGovern
3. Jamie Moore
4. Natalie Negron
5. Angeline Nesbit
6. Laurel Patterson

Please be sure to post all working statements to the blog.
Remember to e-mail alternate versions as you wish for review.

ALL STUDENTS:
In addition to a reading response, please post your Bio to the blog by midnight, Wed., 10/27.
Students will present the statements during assigned weeks and may change and re-write at any time. Students are encouraged to up-date current images for their statement presentations. I will organize the blog so that a slide show of each student's work will appear w/ the statements and bio. Peers will respond and discuss under each weeks presentations.
Please e-mail me with any questions.
Regards,
Terri

Week 6 - Made and Manufactured

Make no mistake...I heart Jed Perl!!!

Week 6 - Made and Manufactured:

1. Readymade Resistance, Josiah McElheny,ARTFORUM, 2007.
2. The Artisanal Urge, Jed Perl, The New Republic, 2008
3. Golden Bull, Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic, 2008.
4. Why Craft Never Was a Four-Letter Word, Smith, 2009

Optional additional readings / video on the topic:

1. Postcards From Nowhere, Jed Perl, The New Republic, 2008
This video showcases 3 artists who make "by hand."
2. http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/episode.jsp?epid=113410
3. Murakami, Review by Gerard Brown, 2007.

POST DRAFTS OF ARTIST STATEMENTS HERE.

Expect Resistance
Thanks Mike.

Hello All,
Please post drafts of your Artist Statements by clicking on the comments link below.
Please post all drafts by Midnight,Wednesday, October 13, 2010.

NYC Trip

Some exhibitions I plan on visiting, maybe you do too.

Joseph Zito

Al Taylor

Yvon Lambert

Doug + Mike Starn

James Busby

John McCracken

Jay Heikes

Week 5 - Controversy

THE YES MEN

Week 5 - Controversy:
1. Chris Burden and the Limits of Art, Peter Schjeldahl, New Yorker, 2007.
2. Irresistible - John Curran at the Whitney, Peter Schjeldahl, New Yorker, 2003.
3. Barbie / G.I. Joe Home Surgery Instructions, B.L.O.
4. Changing the Frequency, Jacket #27, 2005.
5. ArtAimed to Shock, Newsweek, 2008
6. Relating Controversial Contemporary Art and School Art:A Problem-Position Carol S. Jeffersand Pat Parth California State University, Los Angeles, 1996

Optional additional readings / video on the topic:

The videos linked below are not required viewing. They do however fit into the idea of "Controversial" works. (These videos are not at all suitable viewing for children...and perhaps may be offensive to some adults. They are presented for the purpose of class discussion, not to inject an uncomfortable vibe.)

1.Who Are the Great Women Artists...Now?, Art News, Landi, 2003
2.Where Are All the Women?, New York Magazine, Saltz, 2007
3a. WGG Test by Paul McCarthy
3b. Trailer Paul McCarthy at S.M.A.K.
3c. Nathalie Djurberg’s Clay Mates, Yablonsky, NYT, 2010
3d. Nathalie Djurberg: Experiment, 53e biennale de Venise 2009
4.Chris Burden, Erector Set, N.Y. Times, 2008
5.Shvarts explains her ‘repeated self-induced miscarriages,’Yale Daily News, 2008

Post Responses to Group 5: Ten Lies and Three Truths Here... Click on Comments Link Below !!!

(For those of you interested in the idea of stop-motion...The Brothers Quay)



Hello All,
Please click on the comments link at the bottom of this post.
Write your responses to the "Group 5" presentations.

9/24, Week 5 – Group 4:
18. Pamella Reimers


19. Jennifer Robey


20. Sophie Strachan


21. Shannon Toale


22. Caitlin Tucker

Post Responses to Group 4: Ten Lies and Three Truths Here... Click on Comments Link Below !!!

Hoping that the NY trip will be exciting and inspiring in some way!


Hello All,
Please click on the comments link at the bottom of this post.
Write your responses to the "Group 4" presentations.

9/17, Week 4 – Group 3:
1. Jacqueline Maloney


2. Kelly McGovern


3. Jamie Moore


4. Natalie Negron


5. Angeline Nesbit


6. Laurel Patterson

WEEK 4 READINGS: Curators and Artists

Hello All,
Here are the readings for Week 4.
The Robert Storr video above is optional viewing.
Click the comments link below to publish your response.
Responses are Due by Wed., 9/22 at midnight.
Warm regards,
Terri


Week 4 - Curators and Artists:

1. In Search of the Ultimate, Fallon, 2005
2. Do Curators Need University Curatorial Programs?, Moser, C Magazine, 2008.
3. The Curators Moment. (Trends in the Field of International ContemporaryArt Exhibitions), Michael Brenson, Art Journal, 1998.
4. How an Art Scene Became a Youthscape, Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, 2004.
5. In the Realms of Flight and Fantasy, Lance Esplund, WSJ, 2010

Optional additional readings / video on the topic:

1. Response to Moser, Jones, ICA Halifax, 2009.
2. Go Ahead, Expect Surprises, Cotter, 2007
3. The Whitney Biennial and the Failure of an Empire, Village Voice, 2008.
4. Collectors and Their Collections:
a) di Rosa Preserve
b) Pamela and Richard Kramlich
5. Complaint Box | Adult Art, NYT, Bernstein, 2009 (of note as we curate our show!)

Doug and Mike Starn at the Met

Everyone check this out....especially Brit Brennen!

Big Bamboo, 2010.

This is the new roof installation at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This piece was originally created in 2008 then was reconstructed this August on the roof of the Met. The Starn brothers are identical twins who are best known for the pioneering photography that they began to produce in the 1980's. They actually had professional rock climbers to help them construct this forest of 5,000 bamboo poles.

"Stately and symmetrical, the entrance to the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens into rigorously ordered spaces that guide viewers systematically along a rectilinear path." (Sculpture Magazine)

Here is the Met's press release on the roof installation.

Here is the Starn's brothers website.

There's also a GREAT article reviewing the artists and the installation in the new Sculpture magazine. I'll bring it to class on Friday if anyone's interested.

The exhibition is up until the end of October.

Post Responses to Group 2: Ten Lies and Three Truths Here...Click on Comments Link Below

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/archives/2008/Oct

Hello All,
Please click on the comments link at the bottom of this post.
Write your responses to the "Group 2" presentations.
Again, I'll be posting your images as soon as I can!

9/10, Week 3 – Group 2:
1. Courtney Coolbaugh


2. Jaimee L Cruz


3. Brittany Enright


4. Danielle Finger


5. Julie LeCates


6. Mallory Lawson

Week 3 - Art and Extravaganza

Hello All,
Here are the readings for Week 3.
The Richard Serra video above is optional viewing.
Click the comments link below to publish your response.
Responses are Due by Wed., 9/14 at midnight.
Warm regards,
Terri

Week 3 - Art and Extravaganza:
1. Ray Johnson: ACollage in Which Life=Death=Art, Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 2002.
(Participate in Mail Art project w/ collector John Held: http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=4489)

2. Richard Serra: Rigging, (1980), Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (T.D.C.), Ed., Stiles & Selz, 1996.

3. Kiki Smith, Queen of Arts, Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 2006

4. Jannis Kounellis: Structure and Sensibility, Interview with Willoughby Sharp (1972), Ed., Stiles & Selz, T.D.C., 1996.

5. Theory Talk with Aaron Levy, Slought Boss, Fallon & Rosof, theartblog, 2010
This article generated an interesting discussion amongst recent MCAD grads and friends.
The thread can be found HERE.

Optional additional readings / video on the topic:



Ron Nagle: http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=24284

Merce Cunningham: http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=4655

Eva Hesse, review, Mark Stevens , New York magazine, 2006.

Buona Serra, Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, 2007.

As Promised: "The Beautiful Experience" with Judith Schaechter

Hello All,
Click here for a gorgeous e-xtra credit reading assignment.
An earlier version with lush images can be found here.
Here is a link to Judith Schaechter's blog which is chock-full of pretty pics and sage commentary.
Also check this out....
REMAIN IN THE LIGHT: A Q&A With Post-Punk Stained Glass Sorceress Judith Schaechter
(extra-credit comment points given here!!!)

Post Responses to Group 1: Ten Lies and Three Truths Here...Click on Comments Link Below

Image: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/7-common-lies-told-by-enterprise-software-sales-people/653

Hello All,
Please click on the comments link at the bottom of this post.
Write your responses to the "Group 1" presentations.
I'll be posting your images as soon as I can!

Group 1:
1. Brianna Barton


2. Shawnda Beattie


3. Lauren Bergrud


4. Brittany Brennan


5. Mary Carnes



All students:
Please view the format for response posting.

Please use this format for posting comments:
Terri S.
Group 1.LTR (only write your name!)
1. Shawnda, i think that...
2. Mary, your studio...etc.

Week 2 - By and About Artists

Hello All,
Here are the readings for Week 2.
The video above is required viewing, #6, Kukuli Velarde.
Click the comments link below to publish your response.
Please try to write ALL of your comments in a single posting.
It may be helpful to write your response in a format such as text-edit,
then copy and paste to the blog. Responses are Due by Wed., 9/8/10 at midnight.
Warm regards,
Terri

Week 2 - By and About Artists:
1. Jack Thompson: The Well of Myth, Glen R. Brown, galley draft for Ceramics Art & Perception, 2008.
2. Julie Mehretu, Sheets, NYT, 2007.
3. Sketchbooks, Jed Perl, The New Republic, 2010
4. Poetic Theaters, Romantic Fevers, Holland Cotter, New York Times, 2007.
5. The Philosophy of Art; Interview with Arthur C. Danto, Natasha Degen, The Nation, 2005.
6. Studioscopic Episode 7: Kukuli Velarde
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6777574281882789675
Click here for more info about Kukuli.

Optional additional readings / video on the topic:
I Dream the Clothing Electric: Nick Cave, Finkel, NYT, 2009.
Heesung Lee - Interview, Dana Sunshine, TheArtBiz.com.
Gathered, Not Made: ABrief History of Appropriative Writing, Raphael Rubenstein, The American Poetry Review, 1999
Merce Cunnigham: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/08/01/arts/dance/20090803-merce-graphic.html
Elizabeth Murray, 66, Artist of Vivid Forms, Dies, Roberta Smith, New York Times, 2007.

A Conversation with Paul Ramírez Jonas and Claire Bishop

Writing Exercise #1: Tell Ten Lies and Three Truths

Hello All,
Please click the comments link below and post Ten Lies and Three Truths about the art work you have been creating and your modus operendi. The objective here is to carefully craft these lies. Remember, as we discussed in class, to simply say "I never use red." is a really thin and poorly constructed lie. Sample fabrications can be found here.
All students should post the Lies and Truths assignment as well as comments on the first group of readings by Midnight on Wednesday, 9/1. (To be clear, reading comments go under the "Vincent Price Video"...Lies go here)

The following students will be prepared to present current images of work and 23 copies of your Lies and Truths this Friday, 9/3/10. Presentations will be followed by a discussion of the written and visual material presented.

9/3, Week 2 - Group 1:
1. Brianna Barton
2. Shawnda Beattie
3. Lauren Bergrud
4. Brittany Brennan
5. Mary Carnes

Welcome to Critical Discourse: Fall 2010 Week 1: WRITING

The Syllabus for class can be found here.
Here are your first group of readings for class, beginning 08/27/10.
This group of readings will be discussed in our second class meeting, 9/3/10.
A thoughtful, critical response to the readings will always be due by midnight on the Wednesday preceding our Friday evening class.
So, the first group of comments will be posted in the comments section of this post by midnight, 9/1/10!
Please begin each post with your full name.
Please click on the "comments" button below and post your response.

Week 1: WRITING
01 Artist Statments - G. Brown.pdf
01a Philip Guston Talking, 1978.pdf
01b Eva Hesse.pdf
01c I am for an Art..., Claes Oldenburg, 1961.pdf
01d Bridget Riley - Untitled Statement, 1968.pdf
01e Robert Ryman - Untitled Statements, 1983.pdf
Optional:
01opt An Art History Professor Explains..., Ethan Ryan, 2007.pdf
01opt Writing About Visual Art, David Carrier.pdf