the explorer by Sam Copeland

Patti Smith and David Lynch on creativity

  http://www.faena.com/aleph/articles/a-strange-and-beautiful-conversation-between-david-lynch-and-patti-smith/

Video and sculpture: Llana Y Harris-Babou

Llana Y Harris-Babou

Post Cinematic Explorations

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Post-Cinematic Explorations: A Few Experiments Transforming Time Into Space

by Clint Enns

In the digital era, a moving image artwork can easily be transformed into a large database of sequentially ordered images.  By viewing an artwork as large database of ordered photographic images, it is possible for the viewer to engage with the original work in entirely different ways, in essence, it opens up the artwork to new forms of manipulation and visual analysis.

Wavelength Without the Time (2012) is an image created by reducing Michael Snow’s 45-minute seminal film Wavelength (1967) to a large database of sequentially ordered images. The work is transformed from a cinematic representation of the world (and the single image contained within), to a photographic representation of the film.  In an attempt to make Wavelength more accessible the modern viewer, one who constantly craves media stimulation, Snow created WVLNT (or Wavelength For Those Who Don’t Have the Time) (2003) a condensed version of the original.  I have attempted to bring Wavelength into the post-cinematic era by further condensing the film, that is, by transforming the film into a single image, removing cinematic time entirely from the equation by transforming time into space.

Artist bios are hard to write! But you have to do i

What We Learned from Writing 7,000 Artist Bios

Communication is increasingly being reduced to 140 characters, emojis, and voice memos. Despite this, clear prose remains a powerful sales and branding tool within the art world, and beyond.

Artsy has created over 7,000 artist bios, and over the years we’ve learned a few things about what our audience of collectors and art lovers finds valuable when discovering new art. Since Artsy’s partners can now add their own artist bios, we decided to take this opportunity to invite Jessica Backus, the Director of Artsy Learning and The Art Genome Project, to share some insights into what makes for a compelling bio and how to eloquently summarize an artist’s practice in 120 words. 

If you have—or are planning to include—artist biographies on your website, this article was written for you. Read on for our best practices, mistakes to avoid, and a few SEO tips for your gallery’s artist bios.

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Artist Statement: Stephanie Syjuco

Stephanie Syjuco was born in Manila, Philippines, in 1974. Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing. Her work explores the tension between the authentic and the counterfeit, challenging deep-seated assumptions about history, race, and labor.

Syjuco’s installations frequently invite viewers to be active participants, from crocheting counterfeit designer handbags to purchasing items at an alternative gift shop within a museum, in order to investigate global consumerism, capitalism and its effects on artists. Through photographic portraits composed in the studio, Syjuco further explores economies of labor and value, with a political dimension inspired by colonialist ethnographic photography, her identity as an immigrant, and media-filtered protest imagery.

Stephanie Syjuco received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and MFA from Stanford University. Her awards and residencies include the Guggenheim Fellowship (2014), Artadia Fellowship Residency Award at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (2010), Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Award (2009), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1997). She has had major exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (2018); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2018, 2017, 2011, 2000); Havana Biennial (2015); Asian Art Biennial (2015); Z33 Space for Contemporary Art (2012); ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology (2011); MoMA P.S.1 (2009, 2006); and Whitney Museum of American Art (2005). Syjuco is a long-time educator and currently an assistant professor of sculpture at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives and works in Oakland, California.

https://art21.org/artist/stephanie-syjuco/

Artists Statements, resumes and professional practices.

Here are the standards and guidelines for an MFA according to the College Art Association.

Here are guidelines for artist resumes. 

Guidelines for artists statements  from Getting Your S*** Together
Please read the link

What Is an Artist’s Statement?

1. A general introduction to your work, a body of work, or a specific project.
2. It should open with the work’s basic ideas in an overview of two or three sentences or a short paragraph.
3. The second paragraph should go into detail about how these issues or ideas are presented in the work.
4. If writing a full-page statement, you can include some of the following points:
   • Why you have created the work and its history.
   • Your overall vision.
   • What you expect from your audience and how they will react.
   • How your current work relates to your previous work.
   • Where your work fits in with current contemporary art.
   • How your work fits in with the history of art practice.
   • How your work fits into a group exhibition, or a series of projects you have done.
   • Sources and inspiration for your images.
   • Artists you have been influenced by or how your work relates to other artists’ work. Other influences.
   • How this work fits into a series or longer body of work.
   • How a certain technique is important to the work.
   • Your philosophy of art making or of the work’s origin.
5. The final paragraph should recapitulate the most important points in the statement.

What an Artist’s Statement is NOT:

1. Pomposity, writing a statement about your role in the world.
2. Grandiose and empty expressions and clichés about your work and views.
3. Technical and full of jargon.
4. Long dissertations or explanations.
5. Discourses on the materials and techniques you have employed.
6. Poems or prosy writing.
7. Folksy anecdotes about some important event in your life.
8. Nothing about your childhood or family unless it is very relevant to your work.
9. Not a brag fest or a press release.

Types of Artist’s Statements You Might Need.

1. Full-Page Statement: This statement you will use most often; it speaks generally about your work, the methods you may have used, the history of your work, etc. It may also include specific examples of your current work or project.
2. Short Statement: A shorter statement that includes the above in an abbreviated way, or is specific to the project at hand.
3. Short Project Statement: A very short statement about the specific project you are presenting.
4. Bio: Often a short description of your career as an artist and your major accomplishments.

Victorian Diatom Arrangements

https://imgur.com/gallery/8U70W

I am attracted to the play of symmetry and asymmetry in the image above as well to as the jewel like translucency of these colorful objects that seem to glow against a black background. What it is is incredibly unintuitive is what this is made of and how small it is. Each of the forms contained in this composition is a single celled organism, that has been arranged and viewed through a microscope. A diatom is a kind of micro algae; if you look at the slime that floats on top of ponds and lakes, there will be organisms that look like some of these. Each consists of a single cell that has an intricate internal structure; the artist/scientist in this video below follows an obscure art form developed by early 19th century microscopists during a time before art and science had been surgically separated by disciplinary education. The arrangements were sold as slides as miniature curiosities to be included in the cabinet collections of amateur naturalists. "Diatom arrangements are a stunning example of that particularly Victorian desire to bring order to the world, to display nature in a rational way." from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/secretive-victorian-artists-made-these-intricate-patterns-out-of-algae-180952720/#5Civ3j6deULCQJpS.99


The Diatomist from Matthew Killip on Vimeo.

Research based art: a curriculum

'Research Methods for Curators and Artists' Online Course by Node Center
	'Research Methods for Curators and Artists' Online Course by Node Center Node Center for Curatorial Studies www.nodecenter.net
Contact courses@nodecenter.org Address www.nodecenter.net Node Center for Curatorial Studies Oranienstr. 24 10999 Berlin Germany Info - Duration: March 8 - 29, 2017 - Application deadline: March 5, 2017 - Lecturer: Jai McKenzie - Participation fee: 148 EUR
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RESEARCH METHODS FOR CURATORS AND ARTISTS An Online Course by Node Center Learn to bring out the best in your topic by undertaking in-depth and creative research before starting a project. Each week we will go through different phases of research, starting from defining your topic to knowing where to look for information, organising your content and finally editing and refining information to move your research into the real world. Research methods for curators and artists will equip you with the tools and methods for gathering ideas and information - from classic academic approaches to fieldwork and experimenting with prototypes. Throughout the course we will examine how to use brainstorming and mind mapping techniques to go beyond the boundaries of your topic; get the most from online and real world content; and learn how to systematise your resources whether they be books, artworks, locations or people. Each week, participants will directly apply the methods and techniques to a topic of their choosing, so to take full advantage of this course we recommend to come with a project idea or topic in mind. By moving through the research phases and gaining feedback along the way, participants will develop a strong foundation of information that could be used in a project. *Video conferences every Thursday at 7pm CEST. Recordings will be available in case you miss a live session! - Duration: March 8 - 29, 2017 - Application deadline: March 5, 2017 - Lecturer: Jai McKenzie - Participation fee: 148 EUR FULL INFORMATION AND ENROLLMENTS: goo.gl/KKquDa ---- PROGRAM Week 1: First steps - from defining your topic to developing a plan of action • Introduction • Defining a topic through main and sub topics • Brainstorming and mind mapping techniques • First introduction to different research resources • Tools and methods for gathering ideas and information (digital vs. analogue approaches) • How to access your research easily (software and note apps) • Making an action plan for research Week 2: Gathering resources: where to look? (part 1: books, articles, internet,databases) • How to use the library, online searches and resources • Tips on how to read to get the most information in the fastest way • Tips on in-text notes to keep track of information • Optimizing google search • Online databases and collections, where to research • Researching art projects and art works related to your topic Week 3: Gathering resources: where to look? (part 2: spaces, people and prototypes) • Accessing people and communities • Learning from people: interview techniques • Empathy and alternative perspective strategies • Visiting sites of interest: how to document and map your visit • Creating models and experiments as prototypes for projects Week 4: Refining your research (evaluating, getting feedback, revising...) • Evaluating your prototype: how to ask for feedback • Revise and refine ideas: moving back before moving forward • Editing your research: kill your darlings • Know when to stop! How to move your research forward into the real world.

James Turrell

James Turrell works with space, light and color. By building structures that capture and manipulate light, he can control it's affects in a staged environment. James Turrell


Lets think more about this! what does it mean to work with light space and color?

Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl, How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013
https://www.artforum.com/video/mode=large&id=51651

Torkwase Dyson

Torkwase Dyson's work is grounded in drawing. She is interesting to me because...