Links to Photography & Video Artists

Sam Taylor Wood: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIzXWGcb3u0
http://www.ubu.com/film/tw_brontosaurus.html

Gillian Wearing:

http://www.ubu.com/film/wearing_confess.html
http://www.ubu.com/film/wearing_2.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6gEjviHaLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36WUgFMDY-M

Gary Hill:

http://www.ubu.com/film/hill_site.html


http://www.dna-galerie.de/en/artists/gary-hill/gary-hill--works.php
http://vimeo.com/5602401
http://vimeo.com/45456636
http://vimeo.com/45472623

Sean Snyder:

http://www.ubu.com/film/snyder_compression2.html

Yinka Shonibare:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WypxE_c6FS0

Catherine Sullivan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YaIXfvbnsY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEnYv267yQQ

Link to Post Photography Artists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzIu_qto8yw
(Elad Lassry)

http://www.alexprager.com/#!/photography/Compulsion
(Alexa Prager's website)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVBgx_0-iUE
 (Alexa Prager's movie)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaAL2PjEx1c
(Alexa Prager)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KRrDgHq8Fo
 (Roe Ethridge)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMhKa0wT4zo 
(Amanda Ro Ho)

Individual meeting

I will meet with you individually in my office to discuss your grade (presentation, blog, and midterm test) and your performance in the class.

Come to my office in the following order: My office is in the pao, B190.

Brooke: 5:30-5:45
Allan Wang: 5:45-6:00
Rebecca Colee: 6:00-6:15
Abbi: 6:15-6:30
Talis: 6:30-6:45
Beth: 6:45-7:00
Philip: 7:00-7:15

From 7:15 to 8:00, we will finish watching remainder of the movie, Ai Weiwei, Never Sorry.

See you in my office!

Bonus! Extra Credit!

Hello all,

Study the 27 images added to the page, Midterm. I will select 7 out of 27 images which you would have to identify in the following criteria: name of the artist, background of the artist, content of the work  and your thoughts. 

Let me know if you have any questions. 

Write up a one page response using these questions as food for thought on 5 broken cameras.

1. Consider the "bad" camera. How did you respond to the footage we shot with it?
2. What does this film make you think of life in the United States?
3. Do we lose our land by force? Has anyone in the United States? Has there been an occupation here?
4. Consider the inference to freedom as displayed by chickens living in the tree. Relate this to people and barriers.
5. Gibreel extends an olive branch to the Israeli officer and the officer takes it. what does that say/represent to you? How about the rainbow just after Gibriel's birthday?
6. Why do the Israelis take the Palestanian children? Is this something like what happens in Africa?
7. Consider the mother of Emad's children. Do you sympathize with her? How about her suggestion that bad things are happening to their family because of the camera and Emad's belief that the camera protects him. HOw about her telling the children what they must do to keep what is theirs? Emad says that Gibreel must get tough skin and the the boys must become tough men.
8. Finally, discuss the photographic truth regarding the fact that the film was made from one point perspective. Palestanian perspective. Discuss power of journalism and photography (video and any lens based medium) regards to its matter of fact, descriptive, and informative quality inherent with medium?

Due to a family emergency, I need to be in Chicago today. I am canceling the class tonight.
See you next week.

Min

Hello Everyone!

We will be meeting at b177 from now on.
Finally I secure a room with computers. Don't go to 1197, come to b177.

See you next Wednesday.

Things to Consider after watching "RIP! Remix Manifesto":

These remix artists makes us wonder: Does remixing original photographs/painting/music/film made by other artists count as an original work of art itself? Does "copying" a masterpiece art count also as an original? The authenticity of the copy begins to challenge the possibility of the concept of the original itself. It begins to question which became necessary and relevant in an digital age we live in. How does appropriated artists or mash up artist force viewers to reestablish their convictions on artist intent, authorship, originality and creativity?