Under the page, Final, I have posted 30 artists your need to study for the final exam.
7 artists will be on the exam. 2 artists will be given for extra credit: 10 points.
The final exam will be 30% of your grade.

Hello All,

I have posted 20 artists you need to study for Exam 2.
Also please respond to the movie, "5 obstruction" if you have not done so. I will check your blogs on Sunday night.

See you on Monday.

We will be watching a movie, John Szarkowski, a Life in Photography on Wed, 5th. It's a 47 minutes movie. Discussion will be followed. See you.

Extra Credit Opportunity! If you go to Gary Freeburg lecture on Thursday and write a feedback about his lecture,  I will give you extra credit. 

Thursday March 6th, 2014
5:30-7PM
Location Krannert Auditorium

Gary Freeburg: The Valley of 10,000 Smokes: Revisiting the Alaskan Sublime
The presentation will include a brief history of the largest volcanic eruption recorded on Earth in the twentieth century, a selection of photographs that Freeburgh created while alone in the wilderness of Katmai Alaska's Valley of 10,000 Smokes and the story behind the creation of these images. The photographs have been published in a book Freeburg authored, the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes: Revisiting the Alaskan Sublime (2012)

Hope you all go!

Min

For the first exam tomorrow, I expect your answer to be articulate, comprehensive, and informative as possible. I also expect each answer to have at least 250-300word counts. You could either write your answer in word doc or handwriting in papers. If you choose to handwrite, then you must provide your own papers and 'please please' try hard to make it legible.

Good luck!

See you.

Tomorrow we will be watching movie on Edward Burtinski. On Wednesday, there will be a lecture on 'Digital Imaging and Beyond(Post Photography)' Artists covered on Wednesday lecture won't be on the Exam 1.
Under the page, Exam 1, I listed the names of 20 artists you need to study for the Exam 1. Out of 20 example, 7 will be on the exam and another 2 will be given for extra credit.

Hello all,

Hope you had a nice weekend.
You will present your favorite artist's work in the next two classes.
I have not heard from Mike Chen, Juan Carlos at all; I don't even know which artist you will be presenting.

Before your presentation, please do the following.

1. Upload your powerpoint to your blog under presentation 1.
    a. Ater you finish creating a powerpoint>Save as pictures
    b. On your blog page, click on presentation 1 page> Click on edit button> Click on the button which      looks like a photograph of landscape on the tool bar> Choose file> Choose all the images of your presentation saved in a folder>Click on Add Selected

Make sure the order of images is correct.
Practice your presentation so that it doesn't exceed 10 minutes.

I look forward to your presentation. Some of you will present fantabulous artists I am excited to know more about.

DON'T MISS THE PRESENTATION. NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED.

See you tomorrow.

Hello Class,

I am canceling today's class. 

I left comments on your blog where you posted choice of artists for your presentation. 

I asked you to post 2-3 artists.

You need to check each other's blog because I see some redundancy. (For example, there are 2-3 people who want to do Gregory Crewdson and Robert Parke Harrison). You have to contact the students who selected same artists as you did, and then negotiate, concede and circumvent which works best for everyone.  

Although we won't have a class, I will be in the class from 5:30-5:55.

Please come to see me if you have any question about the presentation.

See you next week.

Please watch short movies and/or interviews about artists who use the style of tableaux vivants. 

1. Anthony Goicolea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1uDl8cBuWM

2. Sam Taylor Wood: Check her work titled, Soliloquy. http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/2926

Also watch her video:

Little Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H21ypJb7KJk

Still Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXPP8eUlEtk

Sam Taylor Wood uses the style of paintings or copies of painting in a modern environment to make tableaux vivants that emulate a baroque and bohemian style. The image “Soliloquy I” is an emulation of a Henry Wallis (1830-1916) painting. A man lays on a sofa lifeless; the sofa is a modern worn sofa with a dirty looking throw. The man’s arm hangs to the floor with the light coming from behind him. The tableau photograph lets the viewer make their own narrative picking up on clues within the image. Underneath the man in a smaller sequence of images a story of a man’s suicide is being told. The way that the images are represented have both the feel of an old painting but also a cinematic quality that moves the narrative.

Interview:http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hpj/stwinterview.htm

3. Jeff Wall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg8bB0zs3HQ

Wall uses a variety of techniques in his photography, but the main crux of his art is, he states; “mid-way between the ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment’ and the‘Society of the Spectacle’.” He is interested in they way that the photograph works and uses the ideas of John Berger (“Ways of Seeing”) to expose the image through the image itself. Wall uses tableaux vivants to construct his images, creating narratives that Roberts defines as conceptualized realism. This means that the images that Wall creates appear to be snapshots of natural scens, but are in fact constructed using actors, friends and extras to precisely stage the narrative that Wall wants to produce.

In addition, Jeff Wall also uses digital manipulation techniques to construct the image and achieve the effects in his pictures. Everything in Wall’s image has been set up to tell a story through a series of clues. Representation of life as is created through realistic scenes that transcend traditional narratives and point to the camera’s presence. Wall’s post-conceptual scenes mimic the everyday and at the same time question its existence.

Read Michael Seretny and Caroline Owen's feedback on the movie, Rip! Remix Manifesto: thought provoking and interesting analysis on the remix culture and art.  Great work!

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?

Definition of Postmodern Photography:
http://www.arthistoryunstuffed.com/postmodernism-in-photography/

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