Contemporary Issues in Art: October 2016

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Lecture by Chris Kraus

The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: A 20th Century Fable

Kathy Acker
(1947-1997)
died prematurely in a very sad and abandoned fashion
Bit of a Rockstar crossover between music and literature
She was very popular in the 80s

She had always wanted to be a writer for the fame
unfortunately it was redundant for her to become a writer
by the time she had become a writer they were less popular than when she first set out to become one
explains her need to become involved in sex shows
She greatly enjoyed the attention she got in her sex shows

Chris Kraus approaches her critically to properly get a sense of her writing

can even connect with her to the extent of writing 'I' instead of 'she'
a person who analyses in dept may find some similarities with the person they're analyses

Monday, October 10, 2016

Contemporary Issues in Photography

October 10, 2016
Eli Craven

Artist and Adjunct Faculty in Photography
www.elicraven.com

So many people take photos everyday

Is photography over?
Can anyone be a photographer?

A photographer takes their profession seriously
A person taking a nice photo is a brisk action
Photography is a tool used in many different ways
'So, is photography over?' The question derives from a Symposium held in art museum in 2010
Art photography gives light to all the other forms of photography
SO many different types of photography
Painting is painting, It’s all art.
You could pull them apart
Fear revolving around photography ever since conception
Photography is far from over and will be continually be something to be afraid of
What it is now is not what it used to be.

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Contemporary Issues in Industrial Design

October 4, 2016
Cliff Shin- (LGElectrons)

Adding color to the normally whit wash model was questionable
overall good turnout

Design Research influences produce innovation
Lots of Research is required
Key words are crucial
Research is crucial
Details are important

don't go too broad

Be innovative with the different types
Much can be turned conventional
Design

Need
Want
Manifesto

Stages of coming up with a design

Problem
Vision
Research
Concept
Design
Build
Product

Design:

People choose products to identify themselves
Functionality

Designers are different than engineers
The relationship between lifestyle and culture is the Ice burg effect
When designing one has to consider culture and lifestyle
industrial design is not just to make things pretty it's to plan out the practicality of an item
the final design can change dramatically due to price cuts
be able to think of the other type of design

Contemporary Issues in Painting

September 26, 2016

Patrick Earl Hammie

Associate Professor of Painting

Painting New Narratives

Case studies
Lots to cover
Painting

Practice of using light, through projection or pigment to encompass or make a space or surface, it is also a mode of creative expression and forms are numerous, including, drawing, photography and design

Internet has reformed painting
Directions

Photographic
Abstraction
Installation
Popart

Photographic

Representing in a symbolic way
Things that look like photographs
Robert longo (Drawing of a painting)
Thinks through the photograph to trick the eye into thinking
Asking viewer to question who they are
Garemar Rictor (forces to recall recent history)

Think about the conversation around the image
History painting

Artists are not locked into a category

They move through many conversation

Abstraction

Sara Morris

painter, architecture, film?
Uses color to think of buildings
Geometric shapes

Installation

Trained as painters to think through this
Tyas G’far

Re imagined as light African Americans that could pass
Created fictional live space

Basically architecture but without

Pop Art

Japanese culture
Sculptures at verai in France
Interesting

Contemporary Issues in Printmaking

September 19, 2016
Presenter: Gwen Montgomery
Printmaking is not major in art and design
Print making is:

The process of making artwork by transferring ink from matrixes onto paper
Deliberate art decisions
Not just reproductions of other works
Unique images designed from the start to be expressed in specific techniques
By limiting the available # of prints they can charge more money for it
The ability to make more is:

A stigma
Democratic

Printmaking has been with us since the beginning in 7300 B.C.

Hand prints on the walls of caves
Blowing powder

Printmaking is a technology
Albrecht Durer (Rhinoceros)

The Rhino looks like a half turtle
Drawn from text
A little more fantastical than reality
Without printmaking information gets jumbled
Printmaking like sex, is not solely about reproduction.

About the ability to expand their reach to the public

Andy Warhol
- Champion screen printing
- Celebrates culture
- Explores concepts of reproduction
- How something fades or changes
- Used some element of screen printing for a photographic image onto their work
Social engagement with people in printmaking

Contemporary Issues in Art History

September 12, 2016
Presenter Lisa Rosenthal (Associate Professor of Art History)
Boramater-new technology that is now in the Walters art gallery
Objects of the world of interest from the world of nature is too in the Walters art gallery
Knowledge of networks for collecting rare objects is now ebay (things change)
Painting of collection in the collection at Walters art gallery
A collector’s cabinet 17th century, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Paintings in it

Landscape
Still life
Portraits

Instruments

Boramater
Scientific objects

Animals
Flowers
Warm water shells

Relationship between Art and Science

Defending the value of art

Iconoclasm-destruction of art often times during upheaval or changing of time

Contemporary Issues in Painting, Industrial Design, Art History, Photography, Sculpture, Art Education, New Media, Graphic Design and Metals (Second Day Notes- August 29, 2016)

Painting-

Professor Patrick Ohamic
Personal expression
Total of 31 requirements-122 overall
Postgraduate-art galleries and museums film advertising, museum,publing studio teaching other
Alumni-Langston Allston visual artist

Industrial Design-

Professional service of creating and developing:

Electronics
Furniture
Medical-GE Medical
Appliances
Sports/Shoes/Accessories
Housewares
Packaging and Graphics
Transportation/Car Design

Prototypes are sometimes created
Sculptures are useful in real life handling examples
IDSA Student organization

Art History
- What is art History
- A way to think critically and visually about art experience
- Contemporary or art of the past
- Art History is about close examination of works of art as things in the world
- How artists of all areas create
- Pluridisciplinary- Of or pertaining to two or more disciplines or branches of learning; contributing to or benefiting from two or more disciplines.
- Global-cultural anthropology
- Engages all cultures
- COLLABORATIVE
- Art history is about technological achievement
- Money and the art market
- About first-hand experience, visual spatial and material environment
- More attentively examine the world
Photography
- Markers of time, memories and experiences
- Photograph everything and look at nothing
- 4 billion images uploaded per hour
- The image has become a language of itself
- Encourages you to develop that language
- Curriculum that is two tiered
- Photo-1 in Sophomore year in fall
- Photo-2 in Spring
- Senior year Photo-4 or advanced Photography (hone out expressive ideas, works as critique)
- Some specifically dive into specific medias(Want clarity in what you’re expressing or doing)
- ernscott@illinois.edu
Sculpture
- Metals
  - As a medal major I get my own bench-design and realize
  - Contemporary field should grow more
  - Exercise and develop hand skills-I enjoy detail

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Introductions

August 22, 2016
Contemporary Issues in Modern Art- Class about finding modern issues in the outside fields.
Chris Kienke - faculty advisor.
Alan Mette - Director of the school of art and design
Creativity- the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work. Having the ability to design or create
Krannert Art Museum

David Akins - Director of Facilities.
Mike Collins - 3d labs
Will Arnold - Killie Rei Black runner (Black rooms)

405 FLAG studio

Checkout - M-Thu. 8:30am-10pm Fri. 8:30am-4pm Sat. 1pm-5pm Sun. 1pm-10pm

Visiting Scholars
Visit at least 2 lectures from visiting Scholars
Website 2 Deadlines

1st 8 weeks 10%
2nd 8 weeks 30%

Textbook - Launching the Imagination, 5th edition Author: Mary Stewart
One Essay - Two Deadlines

First Draft: 20% - Before Midterm
Final Draft: 40% - Week before Thanksgiving Fall break