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...

Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger mobile exhibition

Andrea Chung

Labor History and Power - an interview with the artist Andrea Chung

Artist website Andrea Chung Art

How to reclaim your privacy

Camouflage from face detection.

CV Dazzle explores how fashion can be used as camouflage from face-detection technology, the first step in automated face recognition.
The name is derived from a type of World War I naval camouflage called Dazzle, which used cubist-inspired designs to break apart the visual continuity of a battleship and conceal its orientation and size. Likewise, CV Dazzle uses avant-garde hairstyling and makeup designs to break apart the continuity of a face. Since facial-recognition algorithms rely on the identification and spatial relationship of key facial features, like symmetry and tonal contours, one can block detection by creating an “anti-face”. 

https://cvdazzle.com/

Entire USC First-Year MFA Class is Dropping Out

Entire USC First-Year MFA Class is Dropping Out

"We are a group of seven artists who made the decision to attend USC Roski School of Art and Design’s MFA program based on the faculty, curriculum, program structure, and funding packages. We are a group of seven artists who have been forced by the school’s dismantling of each of these elements to dissolve our MFA candidacies. In short, due to the university’s unethical treatment of its students, we, the entire incoming class of 2014, are dropping out of school and dropping back into our expanded communities at large."

Read more here: 
http://www.artandeducation.net/school_watch/entire-usc-mfa-1st-year-class-is-dropping-out/

Website:
http://mfanomfa.tumblr.com/

Chris Burden RIP

Burden, the protean Conceptual artist who rose from doing controversial performances in the 1970s to become one of the most compelling and widely admired sculptors of his generation, died Sunday at his home in Topanga Canyon. He was 69.
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simple outlet for help with thesis proposal

Thesis help- this is an outline for a proposal


The work and the thesis do different things.
There are also different approaches:

A prospectus (in arts disciplines) states an idea for a creative work and predicts specific ways that it can be successful. To state the idea, make clear what skills you will use, how it will work, and what it will demonstrate or illuminate in dialog with other art work. To predict its success, articulate a need for the work, and your reasons for making it, drawing support from existing artwork, theory, and/or criticism. A good prospectus persuades an arts institution that it ought to present your work and support it financially.

FROM UCSC: LOTS MORE GOOD MATERIAL ABOUT THIS HERE INCLUDING A PROSPECTUS OUTLINE AND EXAMPLES

ESPECIALLY READ THIS: http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/resources/student/ThesisProspectusOutline/Samples#IIx2e.1x2e.x20.Statementx20.ofx20.broaderx20.aims

from OSU is this: A thesis is an extremely formulaic type of writing.Every thesis follows pretty much the same organizational structure.

There are four primary parts of every single thesis. They may vary a little as to how many chapters each part has, but every thesis has at least one chapter covering thesis four parts.

1. Introduction: Don’t mess around with it! The only purpose is to introduce the research. You will outline the problem you intend to investigate, state the aim of the research, limit the scope of the investigation, and provide an overview of what lies ahead. 3-5 pages is usually sufficient.
2. Background: The purpose is to position your research into the context of what has gone on before, what is currently taking place, and prove you know how research is generally conducted in this area. This is generally where your literature review goes. You might have chapters that cover the brief history of the topic area, current theory or practice, and/or results of any preliminary studies you may have carried out to help define your problem.
3. Your Own Work: This part is really comprised of two parts nearly always: Your methodology and your Data and Analysis. Your methodology is the design of research developed to test hypotheses or answer questions developed from the background section. Your Data & Analysis is just that, the data and results of your methodology.
4. Synthesis: This is your new contribution to the body of knowledge and is usually handled in two parts. This first part is a discussion that examines your work (part 3) in light of the background you presented (part 2). This may lead to the development of a new model or theory. The second part is a set of conclusions that should arise directly out of the discussion and and respond directly to the aim of the work stated in the Introduction (part 1)

Miniaturized Stories of Minimized Historical Events

Canadian artist TALWST is exhibiting his miniature dioramas at the Art Gallery of Mississauga in Ontario Canada. The gallery describes his work as "miniature dioramas (that) insert marginalize narratives from contemporary culture into the Western Art canon, creating prototypes for a responsive diversified and inclusive history." See his box dioramas at booooooom.com as well as the AGM's artist profile for further information.

I thought his work is interesting because it was in direct contrast to the "bad art" box that I made for class and has some direct correlations to the abyssal theory readings that Sarah has shared with me.

His work calls to light historical events that surround social issues of racism and oppression, events that present-day Western culture would rather forget, or sweep under the rug. This is a classic example of present day abyssal thinking theory where anything that is unwanted or culturally unpleasant to deal with is minimize, marginalized, and ultimately made invisible by the dominant cultural media and its cultural leaders.

  

Constructed from ornate jewelry boxes filled with hand-painted meticulously crafted scenes these pieces take on the role of artifact or cultural fetish in the way that they contain a history and story that can be closed and put away both physically and symbolically but also opened and revealed and put on display in a gallery or museum to provoke thought and conversations on the topics they address.