Walking a bit tomorrow

Hi Folks
So, Susan O'Malley has agreed to talk to our class tomorrow at the ICA, about the process of curating the MFA shows that have taken place at the ICA so far. And, we'll look at the Lift-Off show. We'll meet in the classroom at 3 and walk over to the ICA.
After that, we can walk to the Art Ark to see the show there.

Gay Outlaw Lecture

Add your comments here about the Gay Outlaw lecture.

Headlands Open House Reminder

Hi Folks
A reminder that the Headlands Open House is this Sunday starting at 12.30. If you're planning to drive up there and are willing to take others with your group, it would be great if you'd email me; a student in my Systems and Structures class named Man Kim really wants to get a ride but most of that class isn't going because it's too far.
Thanks!
Shannon

Final exams schedule

Opportunities

A couple of cartoonists that would be awesome to see, at the Jewish Community Center of SF. There are seats available for Ben Katchor, but only "simulcast" tickets available for Chris Ware and Art Speigelman. Presented through SFAI and CCA, so I guess those students get all the real tickets.

Next Reading: comments

Don't forget to comment on the reading, On the Relationship of Art and Design, here.

Michael Shanks today, 1.20

At the Art History Symposium (see previous post).
His notes on Figure/ Ground Relationship:

Reading! Correction

Okay, our reading is in fact under Art 202, it's the only reading there. Thanks, sorry for the delay!

Post your ATC comments and questions

Hi Folks
please remember to post your comments and questions about the ATC presentations you saw, before next Tuesday, so we can discuss them in class.

Gay Outlaw critiques: Ben, Victor, Rod, Trevor

Remember to go see the show at the ICA. Saturday's the last day it's up. It's a good show.

Art History Symposium, Saturday, April 12th

Hello!
You are cordially invited to the Art History Association's 14th Annual Symposium on Saturday, April 12th, hosted by San Jose State University. We welcome any interested faculty, students, friends, and family and would be delighted to meet any visitors from other schools who are able to attend. We are pleased announce Dr. Michael Shanks of Stanford University as our keynote speaker.

Light breakfast and coffee will be available as well as a mid-day lunch spread. We respectfully ask for a donation of five dollars for lunch. (This donation may be made at the buffet table.) Detailed information concerning scheduling and parking may be found below. Please direct any questions to Stacy Schwartz at StacyRSchwartz@gmail.com or Camille Porter at camillep@camilleporter.com. If possible, please RSVP to this invitation so we can best accommodate those who plan to stay for lunch. We look forward to meeting you!


Location:
Auditorium of the Engineering Building, SJSU campus. For campus map, please see http://www.sjsu.edu/about_sjsu/visiting/campus_maps/#main_campus


Parking:
A fee of $5 per weekend day is charged at the campus parking garages. We also recommend parking at the large garage on the corner of San Fernando and 4th Streets, across San Fernando from the King Library and just a short walk to the Auditorium. There are two large parking garages on Third and Second Streets between San Carlos and San Fernando Streets. Please see the Campus Parking Services website at http://www.sjsu.edu/parking/index.html for further information.

Symposium Schedule:

9:30 - 10:00 AM = Noshes and Coffee, Registration

10:00 - 10:20 = Welcome and Opening Remarks

10:20 - 10:50 = Mitra Abbaspour, CUNY Graduate Center,
“Madness as Exile, Exile as Madness: Shirin Neshat’s Adaptation of Women Without Men”

10:50 - 11:20 = Natalie Rico, San Francisco State University,
“The Fifth Bienal of the Visual Arts of the Central American Isthmus”

11:20 - 11:50 = Eileen Jungwirth, Sonoma State University,
“Conflicting Images of Women in Late 19th Century American Art”

11:50 - 12:20 = Jenny de la Cruz, San Jose State University,
“The Communication of Political and Contemporary Issues Through the Interpretation of Signs in Works by Camille Rose Garcia”

12:20 - 1:20 = Lunch

1:30 - 2:15 = KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Michael Shanks, Professor of Classics and Director of the Metamedia Lab and Humanities Lab, Stanford University

2:15 - 2:45 = Katie Hanson, CUNY Graduate Center,
“Lights, Clouds, Inaction: Imaging Creativity in French Neo-Classical Painting”

2:45 - 3:15 = Mark Rumsey, Ferris State University,
“Art, Economics, and Valuation”

3:15 - 3:45 = Karen Noble, San Diego State University,
“Re-Viewing Art: Ad Reinhardt’s Critical Cartoons”

3:45 - 4:15 = Jared Ledesma, San Francisco State University,
“A Love Story Manifested Within Minimalist Art”

4:15 = Closing Remarks

Headlands Open House April 20

Okay folks, we've been looking for a field trip opportunity, here is is. The Headlands Art Center has its Open House day on Sunday, April 20. They only have these things once in a blue moon. It turns out, also, that a hella cool musician, Will Oldham, is in residency there right now! As well as a bunch of painters, sculptors, installation artists etc. If you've never been to the Marin Headlands, it's time you went.

Next Reading

Context as Content

Class Calendar

Hi Folks
I need to get a few dates from you guys so I can plan the rest of the semester. Those of you who have ATC shows, MFA shows or other shows scheduled, please send me the info/ dates. This way I can figure out where we ought to be on a given day.
I just added you all as "authors" of the blog, so you don't have to use the comments section anymore. I noticed how much more in-depth everyone's comments were in Dore's class, and I'm blaming this on the fact that the students get to participate as "authors" in there!

Thanks!
Shannon

Melissa Schiff Tues April 1 lecture

http://www.melissashiff.com/works/index.php

Blogs

Here are the links to the blogs in our class. I will add them as you send them to me.

Susan Megorden:

http://www.twobanartist.blogspot.com/

Angela Wu

http://wuangela.blogspot.com/

Rod Ayers

http://rodartist.stumbleupon.com/public/

Trevor Koch

http://iamaconduit.blogspot.com

Ben Hunt

http://benjaminhunt404.blogspot.com/

Xiaoquing Jing

http://xqjing.blogspot.com/

Victor Malagon

http://RareDesigns.blogspot.com/

Andrew Hedges

http://hedgesindustries.blogspot.com/

John Eames

http://www.johneames.org/blog.html

Hongbiao Wang

http://www.hongbiao-roxanne.blogspot.com/

Mike Risch

http://nitzism.blogspot.com/

Big Red Shiny, reading, etc

Hi Folks
let's all remember to go to Andrew's Big Red Shiny show at the Art Ark on Friday 6-9.
Also, the show at the ICA with Gay Outlaw opens Friday night. She'll be our visiting artist in April.
Sorry I didn't get us into room 133 earlier-- I'll pay attention to that in the future.
The reading for next week: it's under Art 173, the Shape of Space. "Notes on the Gallery Space" by Brian O'Doherty, from "Inside the White Cube."
-Shannon

Trevor's Show

Oops, and when i saw Trevor's show in the gallery today, i remembered that he was on tomorrow's agenda too. No worries, David Hockney can wait.

Tuesday

Hi Folks
this Tuesday we will talk about the Elkins reading, and I'd like to show the David Hockney video about space and time in a Chinese scroll painting. I believe Angela is going to show us what she's working on. And, although I don't want all our class time to be used up by the Tuesday night lecture series, this Tuesday's lecture is one of the most "famous" artists we will probably ever get here, so I think we should go to that and the opening of the show. Gottfried Helnwein-- I've seen library books on him since I was in undergrad, but never knew much about him. Here's one link.

Also, I'm working on my own blog, that's tied in to our last reading, and to the pieces I'm about to start work on. I intend to keep revising what's here indefinitely-- just started it this weekend.

http://shannongwright.blogspot.com/

-Shannon

Futurists and others

This images pertain to our conversation about Victor's work. the first is The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes, by Duchamp, 1912. The second (they went into the blog out of order) is a new painting by a young Dutch artist, Hadassah Emmerich. The third is Umberto Boccioni's "Charge of the Lancers", 1912.
-Shannon

Next Reading

For next Tuesday, please read and respond to this fascinating essay by James Elkins, "A Multicultural Look at Space and Form".
This Tuesday we will watch the Art 21 episode on Matthew Ritchie, which I think relates to a lot of the issues in Victor's work. At 5.00 we will go to the lecture by Paul Madonna , which has been highly recommended to Angela by the Animation/ Illustration faculty.

Artist links

Hi Again.
I thought I might copy and paste this list of links I made for my Systems and Structures class; some of these folks relate to our conversations so far, others are just cool. Please check out Lee Bul and Katrina Siggurdardottir. Lee Bul is the Korean artist I mentioned yesterday, and Siggurdardottir might be of interest to Trevor (and others).
-Shannon
Oh--I'm gonna add some of my favourite "pictorial" artists (James Siena, Mark Grotjahn) since this is a Spatial/ Pictorial seminar...

James Siena

Mark Grotjahn

Roman deSalvo

Gay Outlaw (Our visiting artist in April!)

Olafur Elliasson (see his show at SFMOMA before it comes down!)

Crocheted Coral Reef

Data is Nature

Folded Cardboard Furniture

Sarah Sze

Richard Sweeney paper sculpture

Eric Gjerde origami

Lee Bul

Broken glass sculptures by Swiss artist Clemens Weiss

Mary Judge

Katrin Sigurdardottir's landscapes in boxes

Imi Hwangbo

Paper folding by Dr David Huffman

Andrea Zittel

Maya Lin

Tara Donovan

Gregg Fleischman's laser cut structures

Ruth Asawa's tied wire sculptures

Marcel Wander's knotted, resin-impregnated chair

Droog Design "heat wave" radiator

Donald Lipski

Devorah Sperber

Lee Bontecou

Do Ho Suh

Tomas Rivas (my visiting artist last semester)

Damian Ortega

Tim Hawkinson

Gego

Ursula von Rydingsvard

Kerry James Marshall

Hi Folks
Okay, so read the excerpt called Kerry James Marshall.
Here is a link to the video we'll watch on Tuesday:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/marshall/index.html

His comic strips are amazing. So are his charcoal figure drawings, which I've seen in a drawing show in Chicago. Don't do the reading without looking at his images so you have a reference point.
http://www.cmoa.org/international/html/art/marshall.htm
Any comments about tonight's lecture? I thought the guy was interesting, but I wish he had done more than say, "and then we made this, and then we made this...." You know?
I used to use "Das" as a kid in Australia. I think I'll go out and buy some.
-Shannon

Links from Tuesday's critiques

Hi. Here are some of the artists we brought up at Rod, Andrew and Ben's critiques on Tuesday:

Howard Finster's Paradise Gardens

A youtube excerpt of Fischli and Weiss's Der Lauf der Dinge

Wang Du's exaggerated perspective sculptures

2nd Chapter

Hi again Folks,
please respond to the second reading here. We will discuss on Tuesday. See you then in room 120.
-Shannon

First Chapter

Hi Folks.
You can enter your paragraph of response to our reading as a "comment" below. If you have a problem, feel free to bring a hard-copy version to class instead.
We will meet in the classroom (Art 120) at 3.00 and walk down to the Foundry to look at work.
Thanks
Shannon