This sheet is to help you study for the December test. We hope that it may help you to identify key terms and ideas as you study and make connections that may be helpful for essay-type questions. Fill out the boxes to the best of your ability -- there may be some you leave blank but you should be able to fill in most of this sheet. I have started the sheet with some of the easier items. The list is not exhaustive, just suggestive. Also -- could you make a link betwen the ideas here and a description of a contemporary art show/piece/phenomenon if I were to describe it to you?

 

Texts assigned/
discussed in class

Artists/
thinkers
discussed

ideas held by the artists or ideas circulating in the culture that gave rise to new art 

and/or

Key terms or concepts that could appear on the test from this weekís
readings/ta discussions/
lecture

Cultural

Influences

(technology?
war/trauma?
the factory?
everyday life?

Etc. etc.)

the kind of art produced

+ examples

Can you relate this week to emerging concepts discussed in class?

If the artist or movement isn't contemporary, can you think of any contemporary resonances?

Connection to other artists/ ideas /themes/looked at in the course? (focus on second term but connections with first term can only help you)

Any connection to your own practices?

Your own examples

Other thoughts or connections?

(from thutorial?
another class?
another set of ideas or practices you know about?

etc.)

Interdisicplinarity?

Evidence of collaboration?

Multidisci-plinary or new hybrid genres?

What

 kinds of artists involved?

Sopcial Sculpture

Any evidence of a Political or social project?
"art matters not only because it's about ideas, but because it's also about bodies, lived experience, social conditions"
 


  Free your mind and your art will follow

place

art 21 film: place (link to summary on course web page, available for viewing in SMIL)

discussed on art21:laurie anderson
Richard Serra
Sally Mann
Margaret Kilgallen, Barry McGee,Pepon Osorio

  

Specific locations

home visits, graffiti, children, industrial methods

 mostly working within trad. disciplines      

sit specific work, installations

space

      

Automation and automata

Stellarc

cinema/
americanism/
robot

 

Rise of the machine age
­ boundaries between humans and machines in question

-factory automation changing lives

-- anxiety around technology

-- fascination with machines having 'human' accomplishments

Metropolis
Modern times
­ art expressing fear of machines as well as art embracing machines -- automata

bio/art

nanotechnology + art

 

    

technology + gender

factory/fordism

1950s

      

Collagist practices of knowledge

hypertext as collage-writing

Landow

­ technology = new possibilities for art

Computers, software, heritage of collage practices, cut-up, sampling

Hypermedia,

Vr cave art

 scientists = artists working together to build new forms

hybrid art and multidiciplinary team

visual artsist, writers, designers

 might these new forms liberate us from the 'tyranny of the linear'? Throughout history, art has often been referred to as a mirror of life. But by building upon the concepts of association and collaboration, computer-based multimedia may well become more than a mirror of life. Already we have seen how multimedia blurs the boundaries between life and art, the personal and the mediated, the real and the virtual. The implications of these tendencies we are only now beginning to grasp. early collage work, cut-up methods

vr cave art as installation

Interdisciplinary Spaces: Installation and Intervention

Guest artist:  Christine Shaw

Read;  about the blur project online

Ulay and Abramovic

Lygia Clark

Mowry Baden

John Marriott

Christy Thompson

Corrine Carlson

Adrian Blackwell

The October Group (the Toronto Metro Days of Action film by Kika Thorne)

- move from passive spectatorship to

active participation

- questioning what art materials are. Performance, installation and interventionist practices employ materials outside of "high" art materials such as plastic, rubber, video, the self...

dematerialization of the art object.

-  challenges to the "place for art".

- anonymous actions and the productive space of experience as a form

 "Be a Part, Be a Park"

Blur project

Christine Shaw's complication of spaces with elastics

'good for you' left objects

-- other examples discussed in class

 

 

 see ideas held section re challenges to trad. art practices

place

other movements that have urged a rethinking of art (not the same kind of art or interests but th futurists, for example, aslo rejected the standards of the academies)

Play  and time

Worship the glitch

Reflections on the eames house

Attali: -- unmusical music is latently, inherently revolutionary "breach in social repetition and the control of noisemaking"

Charles and ray Eames

Marcuse

New technology ­ like Metasynth software

Waterloo Terminal by Tetsu Inoue

djs

digital composers

designers

filmmakers

 play -- moving beyond one-dimensionality? (Marcuse)

technological change + effect on art

chance = art, cage (scanning photos to produce music etc.)

Deconstruction and Graphic Design

Kathy walker's guest lecture

Lipton article

Trisha Brown

Derrida

Deconstruction
style
smooth design

grammatology

Modernism/
postmodernism

-- political, social and economic shifts
spectacle
style as expression,
as consumer practice

           deconstructing
gender -- Cindy Sherman, Orlan		      

bodies

Susan Leigh Foster: ìChoreographing Historyî (Performance Reader)

view: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAARTMAN: THE HOTTENTOT VENUS

Plato

Aristotle

Somatophobia

 race, gender and sexuality:
why we can't understand Sara Baartman simply in terms of the 'male gaze'
belief systems that allow for human display
the 'other' as art 		political effect of Cartesian dualism

deconstruction

feminist artisstic practices

gaze

Gaze and display

Film:  cannibal tours

Tourist gaze photo essay IMAX Technology and the tourist gaze

 - How do we look at things? - Who is typically doing the looking? Who is typically being looked at? - What does it mean to look or to be looked at? - How does looking/being looked at have "material consequences"?   tourism as neo-colonialism?

bodies

technology

Feminist artmaking practices

Feminist debates and Fine Art practices

 second wave feminism
civil rights movements

art/craft

body art -- reactions against body art

search for essential femininity -- rejection of same

postmodern approaches -- deconstructing femininity

group presentations -- yes,content of these is fair game for the exam