Techniques and Theory Signup

September 11, 2008 · Posted in Group Signup · 1 Comment 

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Suggestions for group project:

•    Shutters, Sprockets, and Tubes
•    http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=5633
http://www.videoartworld.com/beta/home.php
http://www.artistsnetwork.com/video_preview.aspx?id=12353

Creativity and Replication Signup

September 11, 2008 · Posted in Group Signup · 3 Comments 

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Suggestions for group project:

•    Kurz, Otto, Fakes, Dover publication, NY 1967
http://blogs.photopreneur.com/the-worlds-most-famous-photoshop-fakes

http://www.nysun.com/arts/brooklyn-to-exhibit-fake-art/81900/
http://www.nysun.com/arts/at-the-bruce-the-art-of-deception/54196/
•    Originality in music
http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/what-true-originality-later-what-music-248

Impressions and Knowledge: Stylistic and Historical Progression Signup

September 11, 2008 · Posted in Group Signup · 6 Comments 

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Suggestions for group project:
•    SundayArts » Archive » Beyond The Steps — Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater | Thirteen/WNET
•    Illusions in Art
http://www.cosm.org/ watch the video go see the museum
•    16th century anamorphosis
•    Turner; atmosphere and light perception
Gombrich, E.H. Art and Illusion, London 1957
•    Choose an architectural detail and trace it on the city historical buildings

Public and Private Worlds: Size and Meaning Signup

September 11, 2008 · Posted in Group Signup · 6 Comments 

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Suggestions for group project:

•    Create or review public versus private art.
•    Use garage-band to create your own personal signature music. Choose a tune that you grow –up with which is a public tune, i.e. national anthem, popular song, uploads as a pod-cast to the class page, tell us what makes one private and the other public.
•    Chose to review one of the events/sites below and compare to other art forms:

10/27 or 11/19 for New Music concert, at Juilliard
10/16, or 11/9, for a Jazz performance at Juilliard
http://www.folkartmuseum.org/default.asp?id=2111
http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4903
http://www.lehman.edu/vpadvance/artgallery/publicart/war_memorials.htm
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=114726120835413651227.00000111f68e0359f60f9&start=50&num=50&z=13&om=1
http://newyorkcitystatues.com/riverside-park/

Iconography and Symbolism: Reading and Meaning Signup

September 11, 2008 · Posted in Group Signup · 4 Comments 

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Suggestions for group project:

•    Trace a symbol from its textual inception to its iconography around us. For example the image of Moses in various art forms in NY:  The blue chair in the American Folk art museum, The illuminated manuscripts in the Bible, the mural at the 42nd street public library, http://z.about.com/d/gonyc/1/0/Z/S/nypl_20060822_10.jpg
Goody, Jack 1988, The Interface between the Written and the Oral, Cambridge university press

Form and Content: Polarity and Cohesiveness Signup

September 11, 2008 · Posted in Group Signup · 4 Comments 

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Suggestions for group project:

•    Debate and contrast 19th century Aestheticism art movement which centered on the doctrine that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone, and that it need serve no political, didactic, or other purpose, and 20th century American puritan sensibilities that rejects any art form for its culturally controversial content.

•    Explore this topic in a new work.
11/12-15, View one of the Modern Dance performances at the Juilliard School
New York City Opera to bring music to all five boroughs in 2008-2009 as the New York State Theater Undergoes Historic Renovation / NYC Opera

Divide and Assimilate: Face of the Other Signup

September 11, 2008 · Posted in Group Signup · 3 Comments 

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Suggestions for group project:
•    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?soryId=15251814&ft=1&f=1003 (link currently broken - working on it!)
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/japaneseamcamps/
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/245835/the_current_influence_of_japanese_horror.html
•    Go see the Musical “Passing Strange” and show current race/other issues
Read Amitav Gosh, “Shadow lines” give us a glimpse into self-identity under hegemony
http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T%2DTP5MS12
•    Orientalism
http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/orientalism.htm
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=GJb0T939CHEC&dq=aesthetics&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=2CG5d_MTDg&sig=t-wRbkQQ9pUHF1qK0bDcA2_htzY&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result