Framing “the local” and “the regional” tendency in Contemporary Art

Terms REGIONAL, LOCAL, INDIGENOUS, PROVINCIAL INTERNATIONALISM, GLOBALISM, NATIONALISM, Regionalism: http://www.salzburger-kunstverein.at/en/exhibitions/current/2013-09-26/regionalism   Regional vis-à-vis Global Discourses: Contemporary Art from the Middle East http://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/events/05jul2013-regional-vis–vis-global-discourses-contemporary-art-from-the-middle-east.html   Vancouver Art in the Sixties http://vancouverartinthesixties.com/essays/urban-renewal   MAGICIANS of the EARTH Quotes from Pablo Laufuente’s introduction to the book by Afterall, “Making Art Global (Part 2) ‘Magiciens de la Terre’ 1989 “But at […]

Structures of Thought

Structures of Thought

  Structures of thought, ways of Thinking, shapes of thought , employed in Critical Theory, that are also very often found in artworks, artists work and thought, include “Dialectical Thinking”, which shares a tendency to “Negation” (working through opposites and contradiction, but not to produce a new truth which overcomes the original contradiction, rather a […]

After the Study: Analysis. What Forms of Thinking help your making?

Forms of Thinking about your Forms of Making Modes and Methods of Analysis The questions around analysis, interpretation are many, they comprise philosophical, theoretical, political, practical questions of method and the relation of subject and object, interpeter and interpreted. But to just begin to think about these questions here, we can point out that our […]

Other Names for Artists

Other Names for Artists

In relation to this idea of other models for the artist you could read Leo Steinberg’s critque of this tendency in, “Other Criteria” an essay in his collected works, Leo Steinberg, Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art (London: Oxford University Press, 1972). However our aim in exploring this is not to avoid “the artist” but […]

How to make a "Study" as a part of an artistic work/practice

How to make a “Study” as a part of an artistic work/practice

How to make a STUDY as a part of an artistic work/practice When considering the “study” it might be clarifying to think of how it differs from a “project proposal”. (an aside: as soon as we think things through in this manner, thinking about what they are “not”, we are using a strategy of analysis […]

Protected: Proposal for a Ph.D. in Studies in Cinema and Media Arts Draft as of February 6, 2010

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Protected: Laura Marks MA Brainstorming

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Protected: Accompanying memo, Notice of Intent, Ph.D. program in Cinema and Media Studies

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Joinery

Joinery

Shop Project/Cuts and Joins   -first step is the ‘concept sketch’, think about what you want to make Consider: -what material will you be using (in our cae probably .5 inch plywood) -what function do you need your object to perform (if for instance it is going to hold books…how big are the books, what […]

Relation

Relation

Jumping from “Frame” to “Relation” we can consider Stan Douglas’ 1992 work, “Hors Champs” in which both questions of the frame/out of frame, and a relation, in this case, the two sides of a screen (and attendant cultural specifics the work brings up, around race, nation, improvisation, music and television). Scott Watson writes: In Hors-Champs, originally made […]