List of Blog Content Due At End of Quarter

Blog Posts Due

1. Book Structures

2. Art 21 Artist: Kara Walker, Mark Dion, Kiki Smith, Janine Antoni

3. Art 21 Artist: Laurie Simmons, Pierre Huyghe, William Kentridge

4. The Gates - Christo and Jeanne-Claude

5. Andy Goldsworthy Rivers and Tides

6. Matthew Barney, Barnstormers, William Kentridge, Jeremy Blake, Stacey Steers

7. 400 words on artist you chose for your final project, may be an excerpt from your 3 page paper

8. Post your finished animation from second assignment on your blog, post final assignment (images or video) on your blog

Sagazan

Oliver de Sagazan is a French painter, sculptor and performance artist. His work is both horrific and beautiful, and his performance pieces are especially unique. The artist transforms himself throughout the course of the performance by covering his face with clay and paint and molding it with his hands.

Ann Hamilton, Allora and Calzadilla

Untitled (Body/Object Series) #5 -Bush head, 1984/1993

Ann Hamilton is an installation and performance artist. Her site specific work creates an evocative multisensory environment for visitors to explore. Hamilton was awarded the MacArthur fellowship in 1999 and is a professor of art at The Ohio State University.

Myein, installation with pigment at the 48th Venice Biennale, 1999

Full episode featuring Ann Hamilton on Art 21's website

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla work collaboratively to create site specific performance and installation art. The pair live and work in San Juan Puerto Rico, and represented the US in the 2011 Venice Biennale. Their exhibition, Gloria,

Armed Freedom Lying on a Sunbed, Allora and Calzadilla, from the exhibition Gloria at the 2011 Venice Biennale

Track and Field, Allora and Calzadilla, from the exhibition Gloria at the 2011 Venice Biennale. A runner uses the treadmill on top of the inverted tank for 15 minutes every hour.

Allora and Calzadilla on Art 21
Video of Stop, Repair, Prepare performance at the Museum of Modern Art in 2009

Fine Artists Using Animation

Philippe Grammaticopoulos


Kota Ezawa


Matthew Weinstein


Additional Links:
Stacey Steers
Jacco Olivier
Jennifer Steinkamp
Barbara Hlali

Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang (pronounced sigh gwo-chee-ang) is from Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. Originally trained in stage design, he now creates drawings, videos and large scale installation art using a wide variety of media. Having grown up during Mao's cultural revolution in the 1960s, much of Mr. Cai's work seems to reference Chinese history, politics and culture. He is best known for his work with gunpowder, using explosions to create large scale drawings. In his retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York in 2008, his work varied from white sedans strewn with blinking lights to taxidermied wolves and tigers.







Read more about the Guggenheim exhibition here:
Cai Guo-Qiang I Want to Believe, Time Out New York
New York Times Slide Show
New York Times Exhibition Review by Roberta Smith
Guggenheim website
Guggenheim Flickr Pool

Christo and Jeanne Claude- The Gates

The Gates is a site specific artwork created in Central Park in New York City in February 2005. The piece consisted of 7500 16 foot high gates that stretched over 23 miles of footpaths throughout the park. Each gate has a large orange panel of fabric that hangs freely above the path.



Christo and Jeanne Claude met in Paris in 1958 and created large scale collaborative installations from the 1990s until 2009 when Jean Claude died. Their works include wrapping the Reichstag in fabric, Surrounded Islands in Miami, and Christo is currently continuing work on their project Over the River along the Arkansas river in Colorado.


The scale and public nature of Christo and Jeanne Claude's works have presented many obstacles throughout their career. Permits, funding, large scale manufacturing, and public oppostition have been a large part of the creation of these enormous pieces. Much of the funding for this work comes from the sale of Christo's preparatory drawings for the installation and they are all created without use of public funds. Christo and Jeanne Claude maintain they are also committed to minimizing the impact on local wildlife and the environment. Since these pieces are temporary, the installation themselves are never sold and are not created for profit.

Animation Assignment Tutorials and Artists

This week we are working on learning the basics of IMovie and Garage Band. Some of you are working on drawings and live action animation, while others are using the computer to create your imagery. Here are some links to additional tutorials that may be helpful:
IMovie basic tutorials
Garage Band basic tutorials

Photoshop:
Photoshop Introduction Tutorial
Basic color correction in CS5


Artists to write about this week:
William Kentridge


Laurie Simmons

The Music of Regret from Laurie Simmons Studio on Vimeo.

Pierre Huyghe

Scott McCloud TED Talk

Comic artist and author Scott McCloud gives a TED talk about the art of comics.

"Media provides us a window back into the world we live in" - Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud|Journal

Daniel Merlin Goodbrey's Hypercomics
Drew Weing, Pup Contemplates the Heat Death of the Universe

Scott McCloud, The Story Machine - a map to generate ideas

More TED talks on art and design

Additional contemporary comic sites to check out
MK Reed
What Things Do
Atwomic - Twitter based collaborative comic project by Stewart Kenneth Moore

Constructing Space and Time in Miniature

Lori Nix

Lori Nix is a photographer who creates elaborately constructed miniature models. Though the end result of her effort is a photograph, the process of the artist painstakingly creating these artificial environments is a large part of the result. I'm including her as an example here because of the way Nix is constructing her own space and time to translate into a two dimensional medium.

Amy Cutler

Amy Cutler's work depicts a fantasy world filled with women in whimsical and complex relationships. Cutler works primarily with paintings and drawings, but in 2007 she created this installation of 120 cast figures for a sculptural installation titled Alterations for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. The female figures with braided hair sit atop a table and are connected to other figures on the floor by small ropes. Read more about this piece in this press release.

Arnie Zimmerman

Arnie Zimmerman is a ceramic artist who explores urban development and change through clay installations. In a recent installation at the Rhode Island School of Design, Zimmerman created a large city in the 4,000 square foot exhibition space that viewers could explore.

Related: Check out the current exhibition Small is Beautiful at Murphy and Dine Gallery in Chelsea, New York City that features the work of diorama artists.

International Yarn Bombing Day Lincoln, Nebraska

This weekend I participated in a yarn bombing in Lincoln's Historic Haymarket. Pieces were created and installed by UNL students, faculty and friends. The whole project was put together in under a week and many participants just learned to crochet and knit a few days ago. We woke up early in the morning on Saturday to install the pieces before the farmer's market, covering parking meters and manhole covers.

International Yarn Bombing Day

Knitted bus from Magda Sayeg of Knitta Please, via The Telegraph

Tree Cozy in Cleveland, Ohio, from artist Carol Hummel

Yarn bombing is a form of installation art, usually created by small groups of knitters and crocheters in an urban area. This non invasive form of soft graffiti has become popular all over the world. This Saturday June 11th is International Yarn Bombing Day, and artists and crafters all over the world will participate in a collective guerrilla-style yarn bombing of urban and rural settings.

Bike rack yarn bomb by Streetcolor in Berkeley, CA

Additional reading:

Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti by Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009

Welcome to the Fourth Dimension

Welcome 1040 summer section 2011! This blog is a collection of several semesters' worth of work by 1040 students and resources I've compiled to help you with your coursework. You will set up your own blog and use it to complete homework assignments throughout the quarter. Set up your blog using the tutorial below and email me a link so we can share it with the class.