#uw fine arts

[granstromjulius]

Uwe Henneken

[okamiz36]

Remember the two character drawings I did in two seperate styles? WELL IM BACK WITH A REF FOR HER SINCE I NEEDED ONE, this is the only ref yall will ever get from me since its like- 3 drawings in one- *looks at neglected Chuuya and oc designs i need to draw* :) I totally don't pick favorites- *adds Fyodor as rat king to top of list*

Bit of lore underneath

Okami died at 16, but rebirthed as a 19 year old bc rp laws lol, she/her female aroace, uses shadowhell magic and fights with a literal bonking stick (google bident they silly af bc mine is a literal pole-), shes a self insert oc mixed with a persona, think of 'i died and rencarnated in a fantasy world but the fantasy world is the world i designed with my friend before i did scooter ankle' rip Oka bc shes dumb, her personality is bratty, sadistic, goofy, will break all laws and use powerful spells for the most mundane things, her hair does turn white due to her covering it with frost to hide her identity since I plan on making her do some crazy stuff later on, her skin is peach but her ears are purple ish grey and when wearing a mask she covers them like her hands and neck, pupils? nah those dont exist, she cries red tears and it stains her face so often she just ends up using it as makeup sometimes since it's from never crying when alive <3, her hair is caramel with the under layer of red since i wanted to do irl mexpersona with a few extra bonus's, that and ive been into Bahomphet stuf and demons recently (I BLAME MANGA AND CULTURES INTERESTING AF, i know those have nothign alike but they do at the same time-) so yes goat horns dyed red, she has ear piercings everywhere on her ears but never wears them out because she doesnt want to lose them poor gurl, UNLESS THEY USED AS WEAPONS AND CAN SHOOT THEM- u can teleconises certain weapons or if they have soul fragments in the rp so i wanna get that done since its a 'task for future me'

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‘Side by Side by Sondheim’ set for UWSP stage in Stevens Point, Wausau

San Francisco-based artist Jacqueline De Muro will be a featured guest and share the stage with a cast of UWSP musical theatre students.

Experience the wit and depth of Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s most iconic works at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point next month. “Side by Side by Sondheim,” celebrating one of musical theatre’s most influential artist, will be staged in the Studio Theatre of the Noel Fine Arts Center, 1800 Portage St., Stevens Point. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4 and 5, and…

[seattlefactsijustmadeup]

Seattle Fact #very high number:

A gadolinite obelisk has appeared in the quad of UW Seattle. Surrounded by several rings of misshapen pumpkins and orbited by levitating bronze spheres, it is theorized that fine arts majors are behind this installation.

Also dozens of freshman went missing before the pumpkin-rings started growing but that is surely irrelevant so it is unknown why we are publishing that detail. Ignore the previous sentence and have a happy halloween

[uwmspeccoll]

A Nancy Ekholm Burkert Feathursday

We begin the first #Feathursday of the new year with these illustrations by noted Milwaukee children’s-book illustrator Nancy Ekholm Burkert from Hans Christian Andersen’s story The Nightingale, translated by Eva Le Gallienne and published by Harper & Row in 1965.

The story, originally published in 1843, concerns an emperor of China and his beloved nightingale. When the emperor first encounters the bird, he is surprised that such beautiful notes would come from such a plain bird, but falls in love with the bird and its abilities. Soon, however, the emperor is gifted a bejeweled mechanical nightingale, which displaces the real one and eventually the nightingale is banished from court. A few years later, as the emperor lies dying, the loyal nightingale comes to visit and sing for its old friend. The song is so enchanting that even death stays its hand, the emperor recovers, and the strong bond between emperor and nightingale is restored.

We are humored that Andersen begins his tale by stating the obvious: “In China, you know, the Emperor is Chinese and all his subjects are Chinese too.” Burkert’s usual distinctive, intricate, and detailed style is present here, but this time her illustrations are strongly influenced by her particular fascination with Sung period Chinese painting. The color illustrations are presented in the book as traditional Chinee scroll paintings.

Nancy Ekholm Burkert has won numerous awards for her illustrations, including the Caldecott, New York Times Notable Book, Boston Globe-Horn Book, and Wisconsin Library Association Wisconsin Notable Authors. In addition, the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art featured an exhibit of Burkert's work in 2003. She is a long-time Milwaukee-area resident and her husband Robert Burkert (1930-2019), was a long-time professor of fine arts here at UW-Milwaukee (1956-1993).  

View more posts with work by Nancy Ekholm Burkert.

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[head-of-forensics]

Hello, im Stevie Corcoran, but I’d prefer if you called me Bird. Uh..what else do I say here?

((Just talk about yourself a little, who are you, where are you from, what do you like?))

Uhm, I don’t quite understand how to use this app? but my daughter suggested I create a blog. Some of the stories I have would “do wonders on tumblr” according to her.

Anyways, I’m Bird, my pronouns are he/him, I got my bachelors degree in forensic science at UW, I switched my major twice starting out (fine arts, psychology.)

I am single and unmarried, I have a 12 year old daughter. We live in a small duplex close to PPTH and we have two cats, Adam and Lawrence. My friend Gabi @plastic-surgeon-gabi also lives with us.

I don’t recommend asking me medical questions about the living? that’s not really my area. But please ask any forensics questions! I’d be happy to answer!!

I do, however, work in a hospital (PPTH) as a forensic scientist and teacher. My social circle consists of what my father would refer to as “the wrong crowd.”

I’ve got a large scar on the left side of my face and I’m blind in that eye. I messed around with fireworks a lot as a teen.

Some fun facts ?

• I’ve got adhd

• I’m very good at card games

• I also paint

I think that’s it? my daughter set this account up for me. I think it’ll mostly be work-rants.

((*a note : Anna was 12 in season 8, 4 in season 1))

((Okay me here ☺️ house oc ask blog :) my main is @1mlostnow and I’m Evan, he/they. I am a minor! Please no nsfw. CDT timezone. Interacting with others included in @ppth-staff so go check out those posts!! Bird speaks in regular text, I haven’t quite decided what mine will be yet. Probably blue text and double parentheses. I am also Gabi (previously mentioned) @plastic-surgeon-gabi ))

((description post #1, continuously edited))

((Lore Post))

((ever-growing staff list at PPTH))

((this will most likely be edited frequently as I develop this character))

[beardedmrbean]

A psychology professor has warned that hiring based on race alone was illegal, even as the University of Washington (UW) psychology department was downgrading white and Asian candidates, an audio recording obtained by Newsweek has shown.

The university later banned the faculty from hiring tenure-track employees for two years after finding major discrimination in hiring practices.

In an audio recording of a meeting on March 16, 2023, psychology professor Ione Fine objected to the hiring process in which the first- and second-ranked candidates, who were white and Asian American, respectively, got overlooked in favor of the third-ranked hopeful, who was Black.

For that to be achieved, a new "threshold" system was introduced in which any candidate could be chosen once they reached a certain level, circumventing the previous practice of hiring the highest-ranking candidate.

In 1998, Washington state passed a referendum banning race-based hiring in universities, which appears to have been ignored by the psychology department.

At the meeting, Fine objected to staff only having a 15-minute meeting to approve the decision of the selection committee.

"I feel like this idea that we are just deciding on candidates above threshold is a huge change in what we are looking at as a department and I think it should be something that we discuss as a faculty, not something that is decided by the planning committee," Fine told the meeting.

She added: "I personally am in favor of affirmative action, but we are legally not allowed to do it. I actually think we do owe the taxpayers who pay our salaries—the fact that it is illegal and has been democratically decided to be illegal by the taxpayers."

"So can you explain how we are respecting taxpayers? How are we not doing a [work-] around on what we are legally supposed to do?" she asked.

In response, a member of the selection committee denied that they were hiring based on race alone.

"This is not kind of like we are giving someone a position because of their identity. We have three extremely qualified candidates and we are making a strategic offer based on what the department has deemed the most important[...]so that is not at all what is happening," the committee member told Fine.

Fine's objections came one month before the Black candidate was hired after some Black faculty members urged that she be hired over the white candidate, who was then downgraded from first to third in the rankings.

Newsweek previously reported the university's comment that "an internal whistleblower" exposed the discrimination. We can now reveal that the internal whistleblower was Fine, who specializes in the psychology of blindness and other areas of research.

An internal report discovered the discrimination in hiring procedures.

Other violations included the absence of white staff from meetings with job candidates, deleting a passage from a hiring report to hide discrimination, and discussing ways to "think our way around" a Supreme Court ruling that banned affirmative action in colleges.

A UW spokeswoman told Newsweek on January 3 that the case was exposed when "the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, responding to an internal whistleblower, requested an internal review of this process by what was then called UCIRO (University Complaints, Investigation and Resolution Office) and is now the Civil Rights Investigation Office."

The UW report found that when five finalists for a tenure-track assistant professor position were selected in January 2023, they were due to be interviewed by the Women Faculty and Faculty of Color groups so they could assess the general atmosphere of the faculty.

The report said a member of the Faculty of Color did not want any white women at the meeting and complained that the interviews were "awkward" when there was a white candidate. The names of everyone involved are redacted from the UW report.

A University of Washington spokesperson told Newsweek that the March 16 meeting was included in the university's review of this hiring process.

"As noted in our October 31 news release, the outcome of that review was placing a 2-year ban on hiring in the psychology department, retraining of the department's faculty on hiring processes, and updating institutional hiring policies and guidance to specifically address areas where efforts to address bias may lead to violations of laws or policy," the spokesperson said.

[hrodvitnon]

So, I heard Castlevania Nocturne season 2 is in the works. Big excite! That being said!

I'm overall fine with Nocturne as is if only because I know that Castlevania is no stranger to negative fan feedback whether it's legitimate grievances or petty complaints (and Nocturne is flawed, I won't argue that) – just look at the series history. Simon's Quest being a different sequel like Adventure of Link, 64 being called the worst Castlevania game for years (go watch Ragnarrox's video on it), Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin having an anime art style despite Rondo being just as anime if not more so, Symphony being too easy, Ecclesia being too hard, the very existence of Judgment and its take on the characters, Shadowvania being fine or a God of War ripoff. There will ALWAYS be Castlevania fans who dislike something, whether it's retconning Sonya Belmont or Netflixvania simply existing.

I've also played very few games in the entire series (GBA trilogy, SotN, Order of Ecclesia, Lords of Shadow: Mirror of Fate, bit of Dracula X) so the changes in Nocturne don't bother me that much if at all, and my general sense of being fine with Nocturne set in the French Revolution boils down to "Rondo was set during that period and France is one of the stages in Bloodlines". It also helps that I don't have as much energy for vitriol in my old by tumblr standards age, and I know adaptations will change things for better or worse... and Nocturne could have been worse. Imagine if Uwe Boll directed Nocturne.

So far Season 1 presents a fast and loose adaptation of Rondo of Blood with elements from Bloodlines and a dash of Aria of Sorrow (the eclipse) and a smidge of Harmony of Dissonance, just as the previous series adapted Dracula's Curse with bits from Curse of Darkness (Hector and Isaac) and Symphony of the Night (character designs and Lisa's death). Nocturne needs to adapt Rondo in order to properly introduce Richter and Maria and set things up for Symphony, obviously. Assuming it goes that far in future seasons, which it might.

But depending on how things go, once Nocturne is finished with Rondo and if it moves on to Symphony, there's a key element of SotN's story that falls apart when you remember that Dracula and Lisa were resurrected at the end of Castlevania Season 4; SotN happens because Richter is possessed and brings back both the Castle and Dracula, but you can't resurrect someone who's still alive, assuming Dracula hasn't died in the interim between Season 4 and Nocturne, and a whole village was being built around the still standing Castle last time we saw it. So what happens then?

An important thing to note is that Lament of Innocence, chronologically the first game in the timeline, happened in Netflixvania; Trevor mentions Leon Belmont, the game's protagonist. Lament is also where we see Dracula's origins not as a Wallachian prince turned vampire, but as Leon's friend Mathias Cronqvist – a fellow crusader who after the death of his wife Elizabetha, became Dracula by taking the soul of the vampire Walter Bernhard into a vampiric treasure called the Crimson Stone, which is basically if a Philosopher's Stone gave you vampirism because that's a kind of immortality. (There's also the Ebony Stone which is a vampire treasure like the Crimson Stone, the colors are important because there's some alchemy in Lament.)

In SotN Alucard describes the Castle as "a creature of chaos. It may take many incarnations." Apparently in the game Dracula's Curse, Dracula made a pact with the Evil God – who may or may not be Satan, somebody at Konami please clarify – to gain the power of Chaos (and also a monster horde), which would neatly explain why Netflix Drac needed a year to prep his assault after Lisa was burned at the stake. In Aria of Sorrow (in which Dracula dies for good in 1999 and is reincarnated as Soma Cruz), the final boss is literally Chaos, and its second form takes the appearance of (among other things) a black stone that flashes red – Castlevania is a creature of Chaos and the center of it is the Crimson Stone, the origin of Dracula's power.

In Dawn of Sorrow, the cult under Celia Fortner created a "perfect replica" of the Castle and wants to make a whole new Dracula; it isn't outright stated iirc, been a while since I played it, but I'm guessing the implication is that Celia created another Crimson Stone to be a new Chaos for the Castle. Plus, with two candidates being groomed for the Dark Lord position (and Soma himself being Dracula reborn and getting involved), someone would have to be sacrificed like Walter was so someone can become Dracula 2.0.

However, I don't recall seeing a Crimson Stone in Netflixvania, which is interesting considering the focus on alchemy once Saint Germain gets involved. Considering how spotty Trevor's knowledge of the Belmont family's history is, he probably didn't know how Dracula became Dracula. Maybe Leon took that knowledge to the grave, or maybe Sypha uncovered the identity of the man who became Dracula years later while she and Trevor raised their child Simon. If Nocturne will one day adapt Symphony, it needs to address the lack of a Dracula to resurrect. Maybe it can take a leaf out of Dawn of Sorrow's book and have a cult just try to make a new Dracula to replace the old one, and the party meets up with the Vlad Tepes Formerly Known as Dracula in order for him to explain how he became what he is and what the cult is doing, not to mention the whole possessed Richter part... or, perhaps the cult mind controls Richter into going through the motions so he can be forced to sacrifice someone, perhaps one of vampiric blood like Alucard, to take on the Dark Lord's mantle. It certainly wouldn't be the first time a Belmont became a Dracula!

[mitchell-smith-art]

ABOUT

BIO

I am an artist from Torbay, Devon and I'm currently based in Brighton, UK. My work spans across all mediums, from painting, to sculpture, performance & tattooing. I studied a BA in Fine Arts in Bristol & an MFA at Wimbledon College of Arts, graduating in 2019. I've worked in several art galleries such as Bernard Jacobson, Newport Street (Damien Hirst) and am a founder of Uncovered Collective, which is a group of creatives who hold exhibitions for emerging artists. Currently I mostly create handpoke (stick and poke) tattoos, from a private studio space in South London. I also work in SEO. I also have a food blog: Brighton Bites Back and am part of Uncovered Collective.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

My practice is an investigation through various media. Generally, my motivation to create comes from an attempt to define my moral and political identity against the social landscape.

I am currently focusing on developing my SEO career further.

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EDUCATION

MFA  2017 - 2019 - Wimbledon College of Art, UAL, London

​BA (Hons)  2014 - 2017 - University of the West of England, Bristol

​Foundation Diploma in Fine Art  2013 - 2014 - South Devon College, South West

​Tattoo Apprentice  2012 - 2013 - Revolver Tattoo Rooms, Torquay

​BTEC in Fine Art (lvl 3).  2010 - 2012 - South Devon College, South West 

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AWARDS

​UAL Vice-Chancellor Scholarship  2017-2019

​The Empringham Prize for Engagement  2017

​The Degree Show Prize  2017

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MEDIA

the Horizon Magazine - issue3 Subject LDN

Vicious Circle (Art number 23)

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COVER ART

Idles - Mother - 7" - (artwork: SHE, 2017)

Splurge - Dopey - Album cover - (artwork: Sunflowers in mince, 2018)

PODCAST​S

What Is Your Working Class? - (hosted by Aidan Teplitzky)

Bitesize B2B Marketing - (Co-host)

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MERCH

Monk Audio T-shirt design

Spaced Digital T-shirt design

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STREET ART

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-25228679/ /splash-colour-walls-hill-shelter-thoughts/

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MUSIC

Foxhol - Worm/Wyrm (lyric video)

Foxhol - Statecide (music video)

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EXHIBITIONS

11. 2021 - Vertical Merger - Uncovered Collective - Woolwich, London

10.2020 - Emergent Vision - Uncovered Collective - Peckham, London

8.2020 - Gods, Devils & Software Engineers - Deptford Does Art, London 

12.2019 - Vicious Circle - The Old Biscuit Factory, London 06.2019 - MFA Fine Art Show - Wimbledon College of Arts, London  2.2019 - Postopia - Uncovered Collective - Ugly Duck, London

10.2018 - Who Will Provide? - The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras, London

9.2018 - The Great Divide - Ovada Warehouse Gallery, Oxford

8.2018 - FEMzine presents FEMfestival - Stour Space, London

2.2018 - CONFLICT - Chelsea College of Arts, London

5.2017 - ‘Eleventh’ Degree Show - UWE studios, Spike Island, Bristol

8.2016 - Parallels - The Island, Bristol

10.2015 - Seriously Dad it’s Art - Spike Island, Bristol

8.2013 - The Great Big Rhino Project - (Charity auction) - Paignton Zoo, Torre Abbey

7.2013 - Young Artists Exhibition - Spanish Barn, Torre Abbey, Devon

[dknuth]

York Minster

Cathie was feeling good enough today to go to the other big attraction in York, the cathedral, York Minster.

I got tickets for the first tourist visit period on a Sunday at 1 PM. This was fine as it gave Cathie more time in the morning. I decided to go out again and visit the local art gallery, which was having a special Monet Water Lilies exhibit.

It was a fairly modest exhibit, with only one waterlily painting, but a series of paintings by other artists preceding Monet's work and who inspired him.

The one waterlily painting was a nice one, with the arched bridge over the waterlilies. It was also an early one before Monet's vision started failing and his paintings became looser and more impressionistic. This was fine with me as I think this is one of his best.

They had a whole room full of ceramic works by local artists, which was nice to see. Often local art galleries are full of old paintings by second-rate artists, not bad work but not interesting after you've seen the better works in other museums.

Then it was off to York Minster.

It is a large cathedral with a long and interesting history.

The first church at this location was a small wooden structure built in 627. This was soon replaced by a larger stone structure that survived the Viking invasion in 866. But not the Norman invasion of 1066. Northern England had resisted the Normans and they burned the church during the "Harrying of the North.

Between 1088 and 1100 the Normans build a new cross-shaped church in the Romanesque style. By 1225 they decided it was inadequate and started work on what would become the current Gothic structure. But like many Gothic churches it took hundreds of years to reach it's final configuration in 1472! But work was not done. In 1829 and 1840 fires destroyed the roof requiring major work. In 1967 it was found that the central tower was cracking and in danger of collapse due to a poor foundation. An extensive project was undertaken to excavate down to the foundations and reinforce them. In the process they dug through remainders of the earlier churches and the headquarters building of the roman fort.

With the tower on firm foundations things were now in good shape, until lightening struck the transept roof in 1984 burning a large section of the roof and only just avoiding burning the whole thing.

Note: I don't remember that at all. I was there with my parents in 1993, was it not mentioned or was I oblivious?

In any case it's now in good condition which means continued maintenance as might be expected on any 800-year-old building. It's clear that the maintenance has included cleaning of all the stonework inside, so it's much brighter than many churches this old. \

An interesting note is that the ceiling vaults are wood painted to look like stone. This is much lighter and less expensive than that stone vaulting. One could argue that it makes it more susceptible to fire, but as we saw in Notre Dame, the roof structure above can burn and bring down the stone vaulting, so I'm not sure that's a better plan.

One section of transept roof has not been painted so the wooden structure is evident.

Down below the floor in the excavations for the repair work the bases of the older Norman columns can be seen.

The stained glass windows are large, but to me they largely fail in their instructive purpose. The images are so small and cluttered that they are really not comprehensible to me.

Off to the left side is a beautiful octagonal chapter house. Despite it having a large dome it's been the most stable part of the building.

After finishing with York Minster we went for lunch at The Fat Badger, a local pub. With the badger being the mascot for U of Wisc teams, we didn't feel we could pass up a fellow badger. although this badger looked a little older than the UW fighting badger.

We had a good lunch of pig's head and pea ravioli. It was much better than it sounds. The pigs head was a pulled pork patty on slaw.

So much nicer than a pig's head on the table. I guess you could name it better, but Pulled Pig's Head is probably not an improvement.

The ravioli was a nice fresh-tasting spring dish.

Tomorrow we pick up a rental car and drive to the village of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales for 5 nights. We plan to do a mix of driving sightseeing and hiking (more hiking for me that foCathie.)

[amandi-mga2024mi5015]

Artist Research - Marina Abramović

77 years old 

Serbian conceptual and performance artist 

Known as the ‘grandmother of performance art’

She creates body art and endurance art 

Often made her audience part of the art piece.

Concepts she explores - the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body”

Biography -

Born in serbia (then Yugoslavia) in 1946. 

She was born into an orthodox christian family 

Abramović was raised by her grandparents until she was six years old. Her grandmother was deeply religious and Abramović "spent [her] childhood in a church following [her] grandmother's rituals—candles in the morning, the priest coming for different occasions.”

When she was six, her brother was born, and she began living with her parents 

In an interview published in 1998, Abramović described how her "mother took complete military-style control of me and my brother. I was not allowed to leave the house after 10 o'clock at night until I was 29 years old. ... [A]ll the performances in Yugoslavia I did before 10 o'clock in the evening because I had to be home then. It's completely insane, but all of my cutting myself, whipping myself, burning myself, almost losing my life in 'The Firestar'—everything was done before 10 in the evening.”

In an interview published in 2013, Abramović said, "My mother and father had a terrible marriage.”

She was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade from 1965 to 1970, and finished her post-grad studies with Krsto Hegedušić 

In 1976, after moving to Amsterdam, Abramović met the West German performance artist Uwe Laysiepen, who went by the single name Ulay. They lived and performed together for about a decade.

She was engaged to Ulay, but separated with him before getting married.

Founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI) is a performance art organisation with a focus on performance, long durational works, and the use of the "Abramovic Method".

[granstromjulius]

Uwe Henneken

[kopystiansky]

Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky. Double Fiction. 2008. Installation view: Radvila Palace Museum of Art, exhibition Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky. 2023-2024.

"Double Fiction"(2008) by Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky based at "The Birds" by Alfred Hitchcock. …“Two revelatory pieces taken from the classical narrative cinema, Spellbound (2009) and Birds (2008), rework canonical Alfred Hitchcock films employing the same technique used in Pink and White. In this case, the moving image is not found footage but a finely crafted example of the classical cinema, created by a director employing elaborately staged action, cinematography, a script, acting, lighting, composition, and sound. In the case of Spellbound, a three-minute loop superimposes a sequence from the film played forward with the same scenes played in reverse. The two sequences come together in the middle and then continue on to either the conclusion or beginning of the sequence. Narrative anticipation and the intense drama of the action reaches its climax as a single scene. Time folds upon itself as we watch, but also as we recall what we already know. This method is elaborated further in The Birds, in which the entire Hitchcock film is shown with sound, from beginning to end and over again in reverse, from the end to the beginning. (The credits have been removed.) At the mid-point, the film becomes one as the superimposed films line up and become a single film. A work of astonishing simplicity and originality, it takes the meta-cinematic work of such artists as Douglas Gordon and Stan Douglas and the treatment of language in Gary Hill’s videotapes into the complex terrain of narrative, storytelling, and perception. The anticipation and remembrance of time and events through the conventions of storytelling, as we see in the Birds, also becomes a means to provide new insight into that film’s apocryphal vision of nature and human relationships. Early scenes are joined with later scenes, and it is almost as if the film itself is dreaming its own narrative as it unfolds. Birds is a brilliant choice, since it heightens the dramatic intensity of the narrative cinema and the nuance of the performances in a deconstruction of the meanings of the original film. It also places the viewer before the screen as an active participant. In a sense, the film haunts itself, as the action that unfolds anticipates its own conclusion, and the relationships between the characters become tragically predicted and realized. The destruction that is foreshadowed actually appears in the film at its beginning. Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky have created a dialectical process by integrating the point of view of the camera and the play of time. The viewer becomes engaged in active looking and creates meaning out of moving images through that cognitive process. These artists have created an aesthetic text that is haunted by memory, whether represented by found footage, by the chance recordings of plastic bags blowing along on the sidewalk or the movement of people on the street, or by the rediscovery of scenes from well-known movies. Time erases itself as scenes overlap and change, in the process refashioning the moving image into an aesthetic text of timeless fascination.”

Excerpt from: The Play of Time: The Art of Svetlana and Igor Kopystiansky By John G. Hanhardt, (Senior Curator for Media Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Published in: "Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky". The Lithuanian National Museum of Art. 2023. Foreword: Arūnas Gelūnas. Texts by Michel Gauthier, John G. Hahnhardt. Quotations from texts about Kopystiansky’s by Kai-Uwe Hemken, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Anthony Spira, Adam D. Weinberg.(Lithuanian, English, French) ISBN 9786094261824

Published in: 2010 Kopystiansky. Double Fiction/Fiction Double. Musée d”Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne. Texts by John G. Hanhardt, Philippe-Alain Michaud. Les Presses du Réel

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UWSP to bring Polish choir to Stevens Point for concerts, lecture

All events are free.

STEVENS POINT – A choir with the University of Gdansk in Poland will take part in a series of concerts and a historical lecture in Stevens Point July 3 and 5, reconnecting with a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point faculty member who sang with them while abroad. Non Serio will perform at 7 p.m. July 3 at the UW-Stevens Point Noel Fine Arts Center, Michelsen Hall, 1800 Portage St., Stevens…

[artlimited]

ART LIMITED features Uwe Bachmann with the art work "Never | land | 16 -". Visit the artist's profile https://www.artlimited.net/7521 Check also the artist's @uwe.bachmann.96 account. Published Saturday 18th, November 2023 at 11:40:29. Art Limited is an artists' community since 2005. For a chance to be featured follow our rules in the profile description of our Instagram account. Featured artists are welcome to respond to any comments posted for their art works. Thank you to our curators for their selections. #visuals #nature #offroad #fineartphotography #fine #rural #bnwphotos #blackandwhitephotography #blackwhite #monochrome #countryside #blackandwhitephoto #blackandwhite #bnw_mood #landscape #artistic #winter #digital #justgoshoot #white #trees #landscapeart #photography #black #frost https://www.artlimited.net/7521/art/photography-never-land-16-digital-nature-landscape-countryside/en/11881574

[uwmspeccoll]

It's Fine Press Friday!

For this fine-press end of the week we present an artists-book rendition of Edna St. Vincent Millay's 1921 poem Low Tide by our very own Melissa Wagner-Lawler. Melissa is an Associate Lecturer in the UW-Milwaukee Department of Art & Design where she teaches 2D Concepts, Printmaking, and the Book Arts.

Low Tide was produced in Milwaukee in 2022 in an signed edition of ten copies. The type is Charter Roman and Italic and the pages were printed letterpress using photopolymer plates on Rives BFK heavyweight and lokta papers. The triangular book is bound using a wire-edge method invented by Massachusetts binder and structuralist Daniel Kelm. This type of binding allows for maximum flexibility where each page may be turned in opposite directions and allows the entire book to be opened and laid flat.

The first half of the poem is printed twice on both sides. On the exterior side, the poem is easily read, with each line or stanza flowing across the shoreline. On the interior side, the tide has receded and has washed the poem away. This half of the poem reads:

These wet rocks where the tide has been,    Barnacled white and weeded brown And slimed beneath to a beautiful green,    These wet rocks where the tide went down Will show again when the tide is high    Faint and perilous, far from shore, No place to dream, but a place to die,—    The bottom of the sea once more.

The book rests in a triangular cavity that is inset into a tray housed in a custom box. Removing the tray reveals an hexagonal trough where the book may placed as an hexagonal pyramid. Inside the trough is the remainder of the poem, which reads:

There was a child that wandered through    A giant's empty house all day,— House full of wonderful things and new,    But no fit place for a child to play.

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