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Week 15: Media Activism: New Forms/New Media
23 April 2018
I would have liked if the final guest speaker could have come because the pieces that we saw during this lecture were interesting.
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Okay, so, the lecture by Porpentine Charity Heartscape was by far the weirdest of the course. I felt that I was not following anything that was being said and couldn’t tell if she was being sarcastic about things such as saying “I only collaborate with people whose name starts with ‘R.’” It was overall just a very strange experience. I feel like I didn’t learn anything about alternative gaming, its significance, or importance via this lecture which is sad because I like alternative gaming pieces. I brought a guest to this lecture and they definitely did not enjoy it either.
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Week 14: Alt-Gaming
18 April 2018
Porpentine Charity Heartscape
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I really enjoyed the talk by Elisa, especially with respect to her pieces around her own search history and Technologies if Care. Their statements were effective, dynamic, and accessible to non-art-oriented people. Plus, the Technologies of Care piece really appealed to me because of its structure of research.
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The thing that stood out most to me was the Black Aesthetic Collective answer to a question from the audience about why they use film or are drawn to that medium. Leila elaborated saying that there was an appeal to sitting in the dark, reacting to images with other people without seeing one another and the importance of integration of blackness into that space.
I wished that they had talked about the collective and its beginnings a little bit more and perhaps showed more pieces.
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I really liked the work by Gregory Sholette because of its activism side and the extremely public aspects of it. I felt that I connected to his pieces in a more meaningful way because of how they were socially presented within everyday spaces.
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Week 12: Wither the Underground?
4 April 2018
Gregory Sholette (activist artist)
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Intersections of Self and Place: The Art of Jim Campbell
by John G. Handhardt
his art makes viewers a part of the artwork
makes one aware of one’s self and gives rise to a new way of looking
“self-reflective”
about Being and reality, memory and self-connection, temporal impermanence
heisenberg principle
screen as window and mirror, manipulation of linear time
beyond interactivity - reflecting new visual media
his art creates its own means and aesthetic discourses instead of imitating
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Expressing the Unconscious: Interview with Jim Campbell
by Richard Brights
new artwork always experimental
several attempts
abstraction and representation in movement speed similar to sound
primal perception, not analytical, links to peripheral vision and movement
images do not express the unconscious but express TO the unconscious
Salesforce Tower can be seen as a beacon, pulse, or clocktower
happy to develop new technology for himself
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here is the reflection i had on the material, as conveyed through the discussion questions that my partner and i made for our presentation along with perspectives on the matters
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notes from the readings as cleaned up in my presentation slides
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To be frankly honest, I was extremely disappointed by Lynn’s lecture. The Monday lecture made it seem as though we would really get to see how Lynn has worked as a feminist artist and what her thought process has been behind her works. However, she barely mentioned the feminist issues within her work and why she stood out as this figure. Also, she just brushed over her works with haste so there wasn’t a lot of in depth discussion about them as we have gotten with other artists. She was simply brushing over them with barely enough time for me to write the title of the piece down and she was often a slide ahead of what piece she was actually talking about.
Overall, while I think her pieces were interesting and significant, I was very disappointed by the talk. I felt that the main issues that we have been discussing in the course weren’t fully addressed and that I am still unfamiliar with her and her work.
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Week 10: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Monday Lecture
Professor Skoller
19 March 2018
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Women’s place in art
Largely influential
Why have women been left out of Art History?
Why are there no “great” women artists?
What is an artist? How does one become an artist?
Masculine ideas and presentation throughout the history of art is significant
Versus female artist representation
Graphic: Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?
<4% of the artists in the Modern Art sections are women
But 76% of the nudes are female
Sexism in fields such as art, STEM, management, etc.
Significance of porto-pack (film and audio combined)
Before, required crew and more equipment so much less accessible
Within one piece of technology in this new piece
Women’s Liberation March, NYC (1970s)
Struggles and movements to get to where we are today
The Politics of Intimacy (1974) by Julie Gustafson
Ten women talk about orgasm and sexuality
Semiotics of the Kitchen by M. Rosler (1975)
Interest in women's work
Satirical
Performance
What are semiotics?
The study of signs and signification
How words and forms and images come to have meaning
Signify when you see them
Semiotics of the kitchen
How words and images signify different things in the kitchen
What does she do with them?
Menacing, angry underlying tone/mood
Rage of being in “women’s work”
“Barefoot, Pregnant, and in the Kitchen”
Looks like an instructional video for cooking
Mundaneness
Alone with the sounds, repetitive
Word “mother” in the upper corner
Alphabetical order of objects
Things with no letter connection are represented with her body -- objectification of women and her as a part of the kitchen
Not a super kitchen
Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978)
By Dara Birnbaum
Discussion through appropriation of materials
Repetition
Example of her work: electronic diaries
By Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Speaking to the camera, diary
Discussing when her husband left her and how she dealt with it
“Eating as a sin for women” (Eve)
A visible sin
Orgasm: “little death”
Transformation and understanding
Dieting: “death, sex, and war”
Discussion and documentation of losing weight
“Life is the ultimate editing process”
Payment for dieting and body-change
What kinds of questions is she raising through this?
Way in which women are socialized for the spectacle
Obsession with the self in US culture
Authenticity, fact/fiction
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