Sorry for the delay, the powerpoint upload to the blog failed a few times before it uploaded all the way.
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Dear Professor Meyers-Kingsley,
I’m Sorry i tried to convert it and embed it into the document but it just wasn’t working for me so I decided to just upload it. Sorry for any incovenience this may cause you.
Sincerely,
Luka Kocic
Hi all:
Here is a link to Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/
To use this site, create an account (you can log in w/ facebook if you want) and upload your presentation. The site will walk you through the process and will convert your presentation to HTML code that you can then copy and paste into blog. This will embed your presentation in the blog post. So, to do this, create a new post on this site and insert the code that slideshare has created. Once you post, you should see your presentation on the blog.
Embedding looks the nicest, but if you don’t want to do this, you can also upload your presentation file to the blog. To do this, create a new post, and use the upload “add media” button (see above the post text box.) This means people will have to download your file if they want to see your presentation (rather than embedding, which is immediately visible.)
In my eportfolio I included some pictures of a stand I had came across called HOMU: The Homeless Museum of Art. Professor Meyers-Kingsley pointed out to me that this is actually a known organization. The organization encompasses many different areas of art and project. It is in a way a reaction to the very commercial and business driven art world. I found this really interesting and appealing and hope to check it out more of winter break. Here is the museum’s mission statement:
The Homeless Museum of Art (HoMu) is an art project created by New York-based artist Filip Noterdaeme. Since its inception in 2002, it has at turns been a live-in museum in a rental apartment in Brooklyn, an activist’s initiative, an exhibit in a vacant artist studio, a collection of original artworks, and a mock museum booth embedded in a commercial art fair. Juggling irreverence and sincerity, HoMu seeks to subvert the increasingly impersonal, market-driven art world and expose the sellout of cultural institutions to commerce, cronyism, real estate, and star architects. HoMu exists in a state of perpetual flux and continues to defy the rules of the established art world.
Professor MK brought to my attention during Monday’s performance one of the images plastered across the Broadway set of an image of the "robotic skeleton in a business suit" in front of the word OBEY. Since I already wrote about Shephard Fairey's campaign of the same name, I was curious to discover the relation.
The image, seen below, is from a movie still of John Carpenter's 1988 film They Live, which tells the story of a construction worker who finds a pair of sunglasses that, when worn, shows the rich, authoritarian class as aliens, shows billboards as saying "OBEY" or "CONSUME," and money stamped with the words "THIS IS YOUR GOD."
Apparently this film and it's subversive elements had a profound effect on Fairey, as it was this scene's subliminal message that he literally decided to name his entire campaign after. I really liked that it was used on the set on Monday, and will be trying to see the movie soon.
Please reply with the link to your e-portfolio. That way we have a link right here for you to use on November 9 when you present.
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To join the student blog, click “join the blog” below. The site will prompt you for a password, which Prof. Meyers-Kingsley will provide you with. This site will show up in your E-portfolio “sites.” To post here, make sure you are in the dashboard for the “Arts in NYC Student blog”, rather than the overall course blog’s dashboard.
You can post here as you would on any blog and, in addition to writing posts, you can upload photos and videos. Please contact me at: karen.gregory@macaulay.cuny.edu if you need any help.
