Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Introducing the Anti-Filter: The Rise of the White Border on Instagram

Introducing the Anti-Filter: The Rise of the White Border on Instagram

The Atlas Group - LET'S BE HONEST. THE WEATHER HELPED

http://www.tba21.org/collection/artist/577/artwork/290


The collection of documents archived by Walid Raad and The Atlas Group is a mixture of uncovered and constructed evidence whose authenticity, authorship and even dates are constantly subject to doubt. In blurring the line between historical facts and constructed narratives, Raad investigates how the history of Lebanon – and specifically the long violent period of the Civil Wars – is written and represented. In Let’s Be Honest. The Weather Helped I, Raad records the locations of bullet holes with colored dots on a series of black and white photographs. The colors of the dots correspond to the colors of the bullets’ tips, which he later learned are color-codes devised by manufacturing countries to mark their cartridges.

An-My Lê: "29 Palms" | Art21 "Exclusive"

AN-MY LE -- Small Wars

In her recent photographic series Small Wars and 29 Palms, Vietnamese American artist An-My Lê delves into Americans' complicated relationship with war by turning her lens on two of the less familiar sides of conflict: reenactment and rehearsal, respectively. With a style that mirrors documentary photography, Lê depicts Vietnam War reenactors staging theatrical battles in the forests of Virginia and soldiers at the Twentynine Palms, California, military base training for the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — warlike activities without the mortal dangers of war. This exhibition unites 47 large-format, black-and-white pictures from the two series, offering a novel perspective on military engagements that maintains a deliberate ambiguity.

Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/300#ixzz30Hl6yPc2
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art


SMALL WARS link youtube

An-My Le -Small Wars: Explosion, 1999-2002

Patrick Hogan

How do you read this work? Where do you think it fits in Lucy Soutter's book Why Art Photography?
http://patrickhogan.ie/still/

Bio

Patrick Hogan is an Irish photographic artist. He currently lives and works in the south-east of Ireland. He is the winner of the Dublin Gallery Of Photography Artist Award 2011 for his project ‘Solitary, Half Mad’, a photographic short story about isolation in rural Ireland. He was also shortlisted for the Winter Solo Show Award, 3rd Ward Gallery in New York in 2010. He is currently taking part in the photographic project ‘Graphic Intersections V. 02′. He completed two International artist-in-residence programs in Iceland in 2009. He self-published his first photographic book in 2010. He will be exhibiting nationally and internationally throughout 2011.


Interview with Patrick Hogan

Patrick Hogan

What is Conceptual Photography? (part 1)

Lucy Soutter @ Open Eye Gallery, 20 April 2013

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Why do YOU go to Work?

Why do you work? To get more stuff, or to help improve the world?
Ford is banking on the latter to resonate with idealistic consumers across America and really anyone who was put off by a crassly materialistic ad Cadillac released during the Olympics in February. In case you missed it, the original “Poolside” ad featured Neal McDonough lecturing about the supremacy of the American work ethic as he surveys his pool, strides through his expansive house, slips on a suit, and then revs up his Cadillac

Artist Talk: Lorna Simpson via The Walker Art Center

Lorna Simpson

Lorna Simpson. Easy to remember. 2001

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION official trailer





You will recognize some of these ARTISTS.

ART & REVOLUTION : The Women in America were just waiting to be released.

Monday, April 7, 2014

LIVE ART - "Concert for Dogs"

The Intermedia Art class will present a night of LIVE ART -- "Concert for Dogs" on Tuesday evening

April 8th, 2014 at 7:30pm in the Commons at 

Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. 

  • It will be a night to remember...!

Thursday, April 3, 2014

PATTY CHANG -- In LOVE With


In Love With (Patty Chang) by MiShorts

Performance Art Primer on TATE

Performance Art Primer: Frank Skinner, comedian and art lover, schools us on the history of performance art, including Dada, dance and death-defying installations.

Performance Art asks important questions. It is a social critique. 

WATCH.

fluxus festival 1962





PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO. AS WE PREPARE FOR OUR 'CONCERT FOR DOGS' WE MUST THINK ABOUT CONTINUITY, RISK, IDEAS, SPECTACLE, SOUND, GESTURE AND TIME. FLUXUS ART LIKES TO MAKE FUN OF HIGH ART. IT IS CHALLENGING HIGH ART. ARTISTS USED SCORES AND PERFORMED SOLO AND COLLABORATIVELY.

PERFORMANCE ART IN THE 1950S THRU THE 1970S USED THEIR BODIES DIRECTLY IN ACTIONS/GESTURES TO ASK QUESTIONS, EXPLORE, TRANSFORM. PLEASE RESEARCH SEVERAL ARTISTS' WORKS --- AND SPEND TIME CONSIDERING/ ANALYZING THEIR INTENTIONS AND HOW THE ARTIST PERFORMED THE WORK.

Using your body as the ART is about duration (time) and PRESENCE. You must have a firm intention.

What you do - the work, the gesture, the action - should convey meaning. YOU ARE THE OBJECT.




Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta studied at the University of Iowa in the what is now called Intermedia Art program with Hans Breder. We have a beautiful book in our library about  her and her provocative work.


New Exhibition/blog --- on Huffington Post.


The Haunting Traces Of Ana Mendieta Go On View 

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Jim Dine - The Smiling Workman 1960

In Catalysts, we look at how Homage to New York took place at the same time as the early Happenings were exploding on the scene in downtown New York, a notorious avant-garde movement led by painters and theater artists, most notably Allan Kaprow, Robert Whitman, Claes Oldenburg, and Jim Dine. Dine, in his 1960 performance, The Smiling Workman, took the sensory nature of multimedia to heart, drinking a bucket of paint on stage while emoting on the tribulations of life, love and existence.


Jim Dine, The Smiling Workman 1960

Intermedia Students at Laurie Anderson Show at the Englert Theatre

Intermedia Now! Cornell College art students attend Laurie Anderson Lecture @ Enlert Theatre, Iowa City, Iowa
What a special evening! In Iowa City at the Englert Theatre, my class and I were so lucky to see and hear Laurie Anderson talk about her life and her art, her work. Stories.... it was an honestly open and compelling lecture about who she is as a person, how ideas come to her, how she doubts herself as an artist, so inspiring and oh so real.