1.Peter Halley:use of color and formal abstraction to articulate Foucauldian principles.
Negativland: hybrid appropriation and tactical copy wrong infringement. Taking on Disney, U2, Pepsi and Jesus
Paperrad: psychedelic family issues and community cultivation.
Other D00ds: Mike Kelley, Takahashi Murakami, Santiago Sierra, Tom Sachs, Randall Christopher Bailey, PFFR
2. Joe Frank: Sunday night radio system domination through misty LA tinged narration laden with philosophical musings.
The Internet: A tool, a pool, a fool. The best thing to happen to me since puberty.
Singularity: The eventual merging of biological and technological manifestations. AI, VR and other acronyms
3. My audience is me, my actively engaged art peers, artistic practice patrons and people who smoke weed.
4. Art making is a type of therapy for me but to the broader audience it would appear as entertainment. Consider reality an alternative to reality television.
5. I'm inspired by real, mystic irrational passionate love. I am angered by real, mystic passionate love. I care about real, mystic passionate love.
6. This semester I want to build something really big and also something really small. IT might be the same thing.
7. Hope exists when one stops acting. Replace hope with Faith and it won't be so devastating.
-Roman Signer for your genius collaborations with nature and it's elements.
-Sharon Lockhart for your ability to create a harmonious composition, complete with subject and environment.
-Jeff Wall for inserting a sense of awkwardness into reality.
2. The Golden Mean, the wind, and Magic hour (that golden moment before sunset)- because these are all natural, daily occurrences that are art in themselves.
3. My peers, of course, and as my art career persists, I hope to extend and communicate to the general public. *most importantly, not to be exclusive to the art world.
4. My art is most like entertainment, simply because of its visual appeal. - but conceptually- most like a personal therapy.
5.-Nature inspires me (its elements, colors and forces)
-The need for sleep angers me.
-I care about furthering my physical abilities and living life to the fullest.
6. I'd like to learn how to document performance works
7. I like hope, but not as much as I like becoming what I hope for.
8. Yes, grad school- but not until I get a free-ride.
1. Richard Serra, for his use of 'heavy metal' but, yea i think his work is cool and scary in an interesting way. The brothers Quay, stop motions animations are creepy, and Dan Seagrave because his paintings are just amazing.
2. Metal music, specifically black metal, human nature and Conflict. metal is a vent i've used to release emotion that i can't seem to out-grow. Human nature gives me reason to reflect and react. Conflict and and violence are driving forces behind most of my intentions.
3. Peers, non-artists, warriors, free-thinkers
4. philosophical, therapeutic
5-6? War, Violence, Humanism, natural laws, destruction, love.
7. i would like to make another animation that shows off my conceptual and technical sKILLZ.
8. hope is a good thing to have and keep.. 9. Yes but not right away..
1. Jean Spencer - uses personal experiences, like I do, in her writing. Jim Henson - the unique creation of characters that arent original and outside the box. Cindy Sherman - i like her using one idea and doing it repetativly, but also differntly.
2. Relationships, books, life experinces and my professional work.
3. I had never conisdered my audience before, but for the future project my audience parents and young children under ten.
4. My art is therapy, I am usually trying to figure out my personal thoughts and feelings on things.
5. People: family and friends are what i care about and what inspire me. People also are what anger me: stubborn and spiteful.
6. This semester I want to use photography is ways other than just hung up on a wall or for a portfolio. I want something tangible other than just a photograph.
7. I wish I had more confidence in hope, but sometimes its the only thing I have to hold onto in certain situations (i.e. love)
8. Maybe grad school, but I dont see it in the near future!
Eva Hesse-The use of materials that makes an object/painting that lies in the grey area of where painting ends and sculpture begins.
Van Gogh-His use of color and texture.
2. The experimentation with different materials. How the materials act/react to one another allows me to figure out what the next step in my process. And just taking drives in my car and looking closely at my surroundings to become more aware of situations that are taking place.
3. My audience is the class, teachers, and me.
4. My art is most like activism because I want my audience to be aware of what is around them that is easily dismissed or subconsciously ignored.
5. The materials I use inspire me while I work with them. In my work I get angry if I feel that I started a project wrong. I care about what I learn from the materials I use for each project for they lead me to the next.
6. I would like to accomplish writing a strong artist statement that has states my intent clearly.
7. Hope is always in my work that things will work out either by accident or by a well thought out plan.
1. Reading the images in 'Moving Out' by Robert Frank and seeing how a photographer’s work can evolve in content and shape; Every time I watch Le Jette by Chris Marker I find something new and interesting. I find that a film built entirely of stills that can do that is very influential; Marcel Duchamp for quitting art to play chess.
2. Researching the genealogy of my family has given me a glimpse into the threads of what I am and have the potential to be; My experiences with dependency and overcoming addictions; Working at newspaper companies has built a sense of deadlines and work ethic in my work.
3. I strive to stay connected to as many people as possible and not to over saturate my work with themes that divide, and therefore I tend to focus on my personal sense of aesthetics.
4. I think my art is most like visual beats - closely related to music in function and form, but not grounded in music for its inspiration or foundation.
5. I miss #5.
6. Children smiling, new lovers, physical sensations; Anger makes me angry, laying in bed and thinking about the very moment after life ceases makes me angry; My health, happiness and prosperity.
7. To complete my intended work I set for myself last semester and possibly a few other side projects, develop my critique abilities, find agency for my work, even more side projects.
8. My relationship to hope is bi-polar. As a borderline Atheist/Buddhist/Agnostic I fully believe in the here and now and know that the "small" hope is a personal adjective for concentration on completing a goal but that the "big" hope is a bucket swinging and spilling water about here and there with enthusiasm.
9. No, It's already been considered and pursued. I hope to find out soon.
1. NAn Goldin- Her work is vulnerable exposing herself and her friends, allowing the core of what makes everyone human to surface through othered or stereotyped communities. Tim Burton- I can always relate some aspect of my life to THe NIghtmare Before Christmas. Kiki Smith-Her sculptures refer to the waste of the body and the taboo and degradation that society places on these excretions. Everyone does it-its human, natural, and yet makes people extremely vulnerable. Also inspired by Warhol, Sherman, Yves Klein
2. I am also inspired by the current state of this country (relationships through identity, location, race, business, etc.) and the interchangeability of consumerism and democracy.
3. I would like my audience to be people who are unaware: people in cycles of corporate work people in cycles of consuming, or people in cycles of destruction. A moment for a brief pause or release. I would like my job to be a bringer of awareness.
4. I Think my art is most like activism/philosophy. I want people to think and question the systems of their lives and the truth behind them. Even if there is no answer, just think, just act.
5.& 6. Inspiration: music that expresses heavy emotions: anger, passion, sadness, aliveness. Poetry- the way words can illicit imagery and emotion so simply, being a visual artist I enjoy just words sometimes, the freedom to keep images in my head. I love the feel of the sun and the wind on my face, even if it’s hot or cold. It reminds me that I am awake. Things that make me angry are rude people on the CTA, and inconsideration for the environment and animals.
7. This semester I hope to accomplish to bring my technical skill to the level that my conceptual ideas are at.
8. I don’t believe there is a point to living if you don’t have hope. A teacher once told me that it’s not foolish for having hope but not to have any at all. My favorite poem about hope- http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/blackberry-picking/
9. I plan to go to graduate school after a year out of the system and in “the real world”.
1. The Museum of Jurassic Technology and Mark Dion use methods of authoritative institutions to play with material culture and artifacts. I like that. Duchamp is the fount of such activities. pardon me. 2. Python vs. alligator in the everglades is a spectacular incident for discussion of contemporary global issues. Frank Zappa was prolific and a genius. Much of his work is genius, even more of it is complete shit. Robert McNamara is a social/political pariah. Everything he says offends the sensibilities of the divergent groups and actors concerned with his role in history. 3. Besides the obvious, I hope for anyone who is willing to be a detective, scrutinize what they see and have a conversation. 4. It's most likely philosophy, I fear. It is about ideas; spacial relations, history, memory, forgetting, terrain, digging... 6. In equal parts: consumption, illusions, ghosts, identity, media, sincerity, dishonesty, power, other... 7. By semester's end I would like to have made both art that I like and art that I think is bad. I'd like to try and figure which is which. I want to offer myself to the spectacle of failure; failed art, the failed artist, maybe some success. 8. Like Groucho Marx. It's cynical and mocking, ranting gallows humor from a big black mustache with my eyes rolling to the back of my head. My relationship with hope is estranged. 9. Yes, time and finances allowing.
1. Yayoi Kusama - I'm making an ongoing series of videos/films inspired by her description of the visual hallucinations she's experienced since childhood, which appear in all of her installations and other work.
Guy Maddin - his use of film emphasizing "old" techniques and the feel of film & its surface.
Kaucyila Brooke - "Kathy Acker's Clothes" and her photographs of museum interiors; using clothes to express the writer's personality, the reinterpretation of museum spaces as they're being renovated/gutted.
2. Isabella Blow - her life story, the way she presented herself to the world by the unorthodox way she dressed and spoke.
Vivienne Westwood - an outsider to the fashion world though she had a major impact upon it, her naive approach to garment construction, diving in & re-constructing from the bottom up.
Japanese culture - the opposing aesthetics of elemental simplicity and visual excess, the sometimes bizarre reinterpretation of Western culture.
3. People in the fashion and art "worlds" & people looking for something more beneath the surface.
4. Philosophy-Entertainment with a subversive quality; using advertising & products as the basis for artwork. Also using other artist's work as a foundation for something new. A focus on objects, giving them life and personality.
6. Dead technologies and their relationship to new technologies, randomness, imperfection, mistranslation. I'm upset by the lack of respect for, and interest in, art in this country; the influence of capitalism over culture; politics. I care about world events, my friends, and the underdog.
7. I want to return to previous photographic work after working exclusively in moving image for the past year, expanding on photogram techniques, printing, using a more physical approach to working with the materials. And I want to continue making video work.
8. Making art is a hopeful process to counter balance the crummy aspects of life.
1. Mary Heilmann, for her humor, particularity, and autobiographical but not self-indulgent paintings; Philip Guston, for his humor and brilliant conflation of heroic and virtuoso painting with vernacular form and content; Charles Ray for giving me the idea that a thought made visible can be a work and making me realize that the dimensions of a work exceed far beyond its material form. 2. Canned emotional sentimental stuff that sucks me: such as Pop Music and Lifetime Movies, Visual Codes in the built environment / a Semiotic approach to Graphic Design, Color: found color in the world and reading about Color Philosophy and Logic and comparitive studies of how it has been understood. 3. Those who get pleasure from considering the historical and contemporary discourses of painting and art, especially in regard to its purpose. 4. I’d like it to be like entertainment-like comedy, but the audience who finds it funny is so tiny….so, closer to philosophy in that epistemological problems are considered, analyzed, and mulled about; problems having to do with how we know and understand. 5. My answers to #2 are what inspire me; arrogance is a biggie, ignorance another; love, my family, my friends, being thoughtful and mindful, constantly learning and growing. 6. do a good job teaching, complete many paintings. 7. mixed; little hope for American politics, government, and society (and its effects on other world populations) at large at the moment, little hope for the environment, but somehow hope for my own little world, community and most importantly, major hope for my son (which defies explanation due to said pessimism). 8. Yes, I am considering graduate degrees in Philosophy, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Fashion Design, and International Law.
1. Niki Karimi, Majid Majidi, and Samira Makhmalbaf for their contribution to their societies by addressing social issues to perhaps put a dent in the big buddy of ignorance.
2. It is hard to choose just three. My art is about existence and every moment in my life is influenced by something new, children, old people, inequality, etc………
3. That is the sad part about conceptual art, looking for audience. Who is to blame, artists or audience?
4. I think my art is about activism a little bit more than everything else.
5. ( If #5 was left out for a free thought, here you have it.) I am in moving image to express my thought in that way. I would have been a writer or public speaker, if I wanted to write or talk about my art.
6. Music inspires me the most. Stupidity and selfishness anger me more than anything else
7. Nothing specific in mind. Not knowing so many things in art, anything I learn would be an accomplishment.
8. Life continues only based on hope.
9. Yes, that was my reason for coming back to school.
1. cindy sherman, sally mann, lauren greenfield and their approach to environmental and self- portraiture have influenced my work.
2. photo-journalism, social activism, and current events inspire me to think deeply about this country, where it's going, and in what ways it needs to change
3. my audience has been my fellow classmates, my friends and my family; it will probably continue to be
4. my art is most like activism/philosophy. my main goal is to educate my audience on topics they may not have thought about
5. my surroundings, my family, my friends, and my experiences are often what inspire me.
politics, inequality, injustice, and poverty anger me.
i care most about family, truth, and believing in change
6. i would like to finish a comprehensive project that i am proud of this semester.
7. i hold onto hope as tightly as i can
8. i am not considering graduate school at this time, maybe in the future.
1. -Maurizio Cattelan-Overall aesthetic and his use of humor and sense of humor in present within the work. -Tom Friedman-Obsewssive qualities and dedication to projects and detail, execution and humor. -David Shrigley-Playfulness and simplicity-sophisticated yet sloppy.
2. -Minnesota and the Midwest- influences on my idea of the world and the way in which I percieve the unknown territory in my sense of the world. -Books about the outdoors, Field and Stream magazine, in their ability to stimulate my curiousity and imagination. -Lives imagined and lies in general whcih I am constantly fabricating and elaborating on. -Tools and Machines and the possibilities they present.
3. My primary audience is myself although I am incredibly greatful and pleased when others are interested in my work. My audience seems to be those intersted in a strong sense of well crafted, playful and intereactive work. In general children seem to be most intersted in my work at shows, which is unfortunate as they have the smallest wallets and lack checkbooks.
4. Entertainment and Activism in a less active way. My work is primary for my pleasure and entertainment and often entertains others however upon closer inspection a viewer will find a response or some sort of activism to various topics in the work, perhaps they find it in their interpretation of the work.
5. Others working around me, competition at times. Primarily however I am inspired by my curious nature and self motivated. I dislike public speaking as it makes me extremely uncomfortable at times, the relationship I have with my stomach and digestion, wasting time. I am most concerned about the future as I cannot worry about the past.
6. A strong series in the same vein of work I have been working with-fabricated responses to actual locations, lies, etc..., a new website, a show or two for the Fall line-up.
7. I am extremly optimistic and I believe that anything and everything is possible, it is only a matter of time. Is that hope?
8. I plan on attending graduate school someday as it almost seems necessary given the path I'm on right now. We'll see.
1. Shinichiro Wantanabe: I loved Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo and his artistic sense in the two animes.
Paul McCarthy: I like the low tech special effects and how they make people cringe.
Salvador Dali: I very much enjoy making similar works.
2. Sports: If something as basic as putting a ball in a hoop or past a line can be thrilling, then so can my art.
Video games: Storytelling, ingenuity, video games go beyond movies in the sense they bring more to the table.
Music: Music can affects moods!
3. People my age and older. I'd say the threshold would be 50?
4. entertainment/psycho therapy; sometimes I want to entertain, sometimes I want to bore.
6. I'm inspired by music, movies, unique and odd things. I'm angerd by people who use other people as emotional punching bags (and more if its physical.) The thing I care about the most is my family.
7. Coming up with a great idea and sticking to it!
1. Shinichiro Watanabe: I loved his two animes; Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. These two series in no doubt have influence my artistic style.
Paul McCarthy: His low tech scene make people cringe.
Salvador Dali: I enjoy making similar works, albeit not on canvas.
2. Sports: if something as basic as putting a ball shaped object through a hoop or past a line can be thrilling than so can my work.
Video games: Great storytelling and often times just the uniqueness can inspire me.
Music: Affects mood and thoughts.
3. Everyone my age and older. I'd say the threshold would be 50?
4. Entertainment/ Psycho Therapy. My work can entertain or it can bore you, either way its a trip.
6. Talking to people inspires me, you learn something everyday. People who use other people as emotional punching bags make me angry, even more when its physical.) I care about my family the most.
7. I'd like to come up with a great idea and stick to it.
8. My relationship to hope is that I never lose it.
9. I am considering graduate school, but I want to explore the world first.
1) Robert Frank, because his keen eye could immortalize fractions of seconds that would otherwise have disappeared.
Sally Mann, for doing what I want to do, which is creating beautiful and passionate images from the heart... but using her most readily available resources.
Orson Welles, because he opened my eyes to the art of film-making/cinematography. Film is so much more than the story.
(And just for kicks...) John Waters, because art doesn't have to be tasteful/taste does not make art.
2) My family: the tree is thin and tangled; I don't know more than half or my own history. This is a driving force behind a lot of work I do.
Social issues: representations of women and minorities always give me something to think about.
Media: be it the way I get my information about social issues, art, etc. the media will always shape artists and their work; it's inescapable.
3) My audience at this point in time are my classmates and instructors. I wish for anyone and everyone to be a part of my audience because I want to be a part of theirs.
4) Because I often try to learn about myself through art I could say that my art is like a psychotherapy. However, it isn't always a way to learn about myself, literally. You can learn about yourself through art even if it is work based on the life of someone else.
5) Anything can inspire me, even if I don't like it or find it repulsive. For instance, I really do not like the work of David LaChapelle or Jill Greenberg, but they inspire me through their work ethics and the fact that they have established their own styles. I can see a photograph/advertisement in a magazine or a commercial on television and may recognize it as their work (I'm usually right, too). Who doesn't want to achieve that?
I am angered by a lot of things, among them: the Bush Administration and the radical right, the weak spines of the Democratic Party, modern music's complete lack of soul and talent, drug addict siblings, oppression and exploitation of poor people, elitist hipsters, people who use religion as a justification to hate and harm others, etc. etc. etc.
The things in the world that I care the most about (in no particular order) are: my family and friends, the protection of the environment and animals, the saving of people whose lives are torn by war, getting a degree so I don't have to work in a bookstore for the rest of my life, and growing as an artist so that I can use that to help other aspects of my life.
6) This semester I would like to possibly expound on and refine work from previous classes so that I might get closer to achieving a style that I can call my own.
7) This is a strange question that I don't quite know how to answer, so I'll have to say that my relationship to hope is open right now.
8) I have no desire or intention to go to graduate school. Also, I can't pay for it. But regardless, I have been an undergraduate for long enough.
Alain Fournier who died at 18 in WWI and wrote Le Grand Meaulnes (translated as: The Wanderer). The book made me think about how to depict light, inner struggle, and enchantment.
Glauber Rocha, Brazilian Filmmaker for questioning social reality mixing history, myth and poetry, and for what he said: “Art is not only talent, but mainly courage.”
Chris Marker, because of his politics, his use of photography in film, the questions of time, memory, and space in his work.
2. Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist and writer. The Open Veins of Latin America; Days and Nights of Love and War, and Memory of the Fire. His views on Latin America and his writings about history gave me tools for analysis.
Helene Cixous for questioning, authority, master language and her theory of “Writing the Body.”
The economy and the changes in technology influenced my work. I stopped making objects-photographs to favor other means of production, display and distribution.
3. I find this question of audience limiting and problematic. I rather think of context. Context determines audiences and audiences are generally culturally diverse. There is no homogeneous audience as there is not homogeneous community. An experimental documentary may have an audience of filmmakers. However, the issues and the conceptual framework of the film may engage different communities and its audiences, not only at home but abroad also.
4. My work is philosophical, theoretical, political and experimental. I address questions of being in space and time. The question of being is multifaceted, it engages thought, emotion, will and intuition – individual and collective. I practice that “being” through art making. I change mediums and techniques, I play with ideas within the coordinates of space and time.
5. Kindness inspires me. Human Rights Organizations inspire me.
Arrogance, injustice, dogma make me angry.
I care about love and loving.
6. This semester I would like to start and finish some projects. Teach well. Be cool and sleep better.
7. I do hope. I see reality through the filter of Historical Materialism, the String Theory, and the Theology of Liberation. When this doesn’t work I say the mantra “Nothing can harm me. I am a grain of sand”
8. Other graduate degrees...mmm...perhaps in another lifetime.
1.Frida Kahlo - documenting her life in paintings and having a strong passion for life and art. Carmen Lomas Garza- West Texas artist, much like myself, uses childhood memory and latin urban legends in her raw paintings. Mark Ryden - for his color usage and comments on religion.
2.Musically I'm inspired by my favorite Spanish Punk band Cafe Tacuba only because they reinvent their sound every album and yet still remain truthful to themselves as artist and musicans.
My family - being the youngest of ten, I really observed everyone in their happiest and saddiest moments and the in between. Our experiences individually or as a group, growing up as a Migrant farming family.
My culture - much like Carmen Lomas Garza's paintings are really an untapped pool.
3.For the most part my work is directed towards my family.
4.I definately touch on the psycho- therapy in my work.
5.Again, my family and culture fuel my motivation to paint. I find impatience in myself and others is annoying. I care about the environment.
6.I'd like to finish up my series of paintings I began last sememter.
7.Hope does not exist in my world. I really feel that if you want something you make it happen. There is no in between.
1. Edward Burtynsky for his subject matter and industrial landscape photos. Allen Sekula for his documentary work. Mainly his use of writing in the documentary stuff. Robert Frank for the Americans work. That has influenced me since I started photography and continues to.
2. The neighborhood and the people i have met here has gotten me interested in the work I am now doing. My peers help steer my projects and lead down different paths. My father has also had a large impact.
3. My audience is this class, me, peers, anyone interested, specifically in urban consumption.
4. Activism to an extent. I am not trying to change anyones mind but make them of aware of certain situations.
5. The city of Chicago inspires me, movies, music, the night. I'm angered over America's healthcare and some people's complete disregard of basic human rights. I care about being active, family/friends, living life to the fullest, etc.
6. I would like to have a finished piece at the end of this semester. Something with no loose ends.
7. It's pretty good.
8. Not for a few years. Gotta make that money, man.
1. Michel Gondry - For his film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" which ultimately influenced me to go into film. Also his use of visuals to in conjunction with the theme of his films.
Kip Fulbeck - for his approach to experimental documentary and humor. As well as being one of the first apparent Asian American artist to speak out for the asian american community.
Haruhi Murakami - a writer who's writing has influenced the way i write my narratives and build characters.
2. Christianity - This is a very important aspect of my life and with anything that is an important aspect of a persons life it will in someway influence everything you do.
Social Justice - my pursuit of social justice in the world to speak out for the issues which remain silent and bring to light the things which are often unseen.
social Interaction - I like to observe the way people interact with one another and take that into account into my art. I also use the way I interact with others and use that as material for my works.
3. You.
4. Activism cause i believe that all art has the potential to move someone to act in someway.
5. The things that are unseen and needs to be seen.
6. This semester I would like to finish what i started last semester as well as complete a formal narrative in one form or another.
--thats so cold Mrs. Fraser. 1. Damien Hirst in his ability to depict broad ideas in a succinct manner; Nan Goldin by the way she examines subculture; Leon Golub for his ability to illustrate perpetrators of violence. 2. Things that are a part of my (everyday)life, friends, situations, escapades etc 3. Those who are interested in painting who understand painting. 4. I'm not sure how to respond to this, my initial answer was religious due to the iconic nature of some of my paintings, but i guess also entertainment. In the end, i try to make paintings that i would want hanging on my own walls that i can enjoy. 6. Moments of clarity; Toby Keith; my friends and family and no one else! 7. Confidence in my preparedness for graduate school. 8. Rocky at best. 9. Very much so, I would have applied this winter but mono set me back, so i plan to apply next winter.
Rita Tobar 1. Adrian Piper: calling cards, letters, performance with rhetorical speaking and working with identity. Jennifer Montgomery: Art For Teachers of Children-her inclusion of self, the underacting for the implicit exhiliarating feeling of young sexual love and dangers of such. Christopher Wool: the way he aesthetically brands a painting, they beg for settings other than museums.
2. Gender/cultural issues; my self-interest in knowing our adequacies and prejudices Catholicism: the communication of their principles. Death: a perverse need to render it in a way that it is a living death, but not in the goth sense.
3. anti-political parties, democrats, if you are republican and like what you see, you are more than welcome but you should pay for it.
4. religion, activism; i dont like being called an activist because i just work on the effects and the hows. This is what you get when this happens.
5. Staring inspires me. What i consider beautiful people. Reading Dr. Seuss's The Sleep Book and Shel Silverstein Poems. The sign of the cross angers me. I care about good skin; health.
6. A great plan for graduate school, a good situational installation.
7. Hope sounds weak, maybe it is just the sound or spelling of the word. Crave, desire, covet is more like it.
Holly Huff - (sorry its late, been at work for 15hrs) 1) Jessica Rowe - I share a lot of her sentiments on objects and personal histories attached to them Sharon Lockhart - 'Pine Flat' blew me away, she creates a new dimension for the viewer to exist within Bill Brown - I envy his writing style 2)Grandparents basement-houses many things that initiated my recent work Attics-same reasons as above The natural environment-helps me break everything in my life down down to its roots 3)me, class, folks who own things 4)therapy - helps me work through my odd habits 6)success inspires me, failure angers me, I care about feeling content, family, integrity/honesty 7)To develop a better/solid vocabulary and dialogue about my own work to help me better work through the kinks and sell my ideas 8)good pals, it doesn't always pull through, but if it always did, why would we ever need it? 9)yes, after some time off
1) Lee Friedlander put chaos into order into chaos, made those lines of the everyday skew in all directions.
Tony Conrad got me to lose my mind and find my body by overwhelming both with his eye/ear tricks (see also: Flavin, Eliasson, McCall).
James Benning pointed at the relativity of time as the essential quality of cinema and spectatorship.
2) Live noise/drone music keeps me present in the present, constant traveling helps me understand where I am, and the war(s) reminds me that what is important has to stay important, even if that often doesn't matter in the least.
3) My audience is active, engaged, and quite varied. They care about me and I care about them.
4) Magic.
5) Films inspire my films, photographs inspire my photographs, kindness in humans inspires me. Violence totally freaks me out.
6) Improve as a teacher, cut out some more sarcasm, plan another tour, and print a lot of large photographs of screening spaces and bicycles.
7) I'm really glad that hope is back - I've missed it dearly.
8) A PhD in Visual Anthropology will continue to seem like a great idea for another 20 years. We'll see.
1. Sento for maximizing his time and space in the NYC graffiti culture. Brian Eno for his use of 23 tape recorders and innovation in music since he jumped onstage in a pair of football shoulderpads, feathers and a mullet that would make most hockey players envious. Michangelo Antonioni's sparse use of sound and cinematic composition continuously impresses me. James Turrell gets me to think about my environment differently and opens my senses to become more acute while experiencing work.
2. Travelling shifts my environment, forces me to see life differently and impacts my perspective in more ways than I know.
Interpersonal communication fascinates me. I am intrigued by cultural codes, secret handshakes and eye contact on the street....when those work and especially when they breakdown, this informs my work and inspires me endlesssly.
Shifting furniture in my living space offers countless alterations in my surrounding space. The way light is altered and how I relate to specific objects within this seemingly new environment had a strong effect on how I feel out my own art pieces.
3. My audience is me, my friends and for this semester, you. Until I build an audience beyond this, that's all I got.
4. My art is philosophical in the sense that I like to make work which considers the place where logic ends and where words cease functioning as the best way to communicate. I also like to think of this semester as a time for me to develop an experiential aspect to my practice.
James Turrell's work has had a profound impact on how an art piece can impact the audience, I would like to better my grasp of this methodology.
5. I am inspired by the city and its immense deposits of life and culture. I am angered by indifference and trafffic. I care most about my family, friends and feeling excited about life.
6. I want to accomplish more this semester than ever before. I would like to better develop my ability to communicate my ideas and to reinforce the sorts of practices that I can carry with me after my tiem at UIC is over.
7. My relationship to hope is mostly hot and sometimes lukewarm
8. I am considering graduate school at some point.
i posted mine yesterday but when i did it had an error, but then said it needed to be approved before it would post. today i don't see it! so if the other one is still 'waiting for approval' disregard this one.
1. Tom Friedman- patience and humor. Harrel Fletcher and Bruce Naumann- conceptual ideas, non traditional use of materials
2. critical thinking/problem solving, quantum physics and existence, feeling uncomfortable and reactions
3. situational- i try to make my work according to who i think will be viewing it.
4. putting my philosophies of art and life into practice in an entertaining/humorous way to engage people.
6. pursuit of knowledge and obsessions with efficiency inspire me. dishonesty, people who don't want/try to learn, waste anger me. i care most about my 6 legged tarantula, Booby.
7. better communication through art, how to write better, feeling challenged and engaged
8. i am very optimistic which most people would probably call hopeful? but i don't think it's hope when i don't have a doubt in my mind.
1.Jasper Johns through the eyes of Julia Fish for grey and inovation, Prof. Carswell for language in a painting.(That's art?)and Christa Donner for line. 2.I am influenced by classical music, western landscape, red rocks, trees and deep canyons and my pioneer heritage. 3. Friends, family and peers. My granddaughter took 2 of my paintings home for her apt. from last semester's final 4. My art is more involved in activism, last year I did a series on biracial identity. 5.? 6.Am inspired by what I think is good art, been working on a quick angry temper for years when things are not just or there is waste and stupidity. I care about my environment, my development. 7.A decent final project, leaning Powerpoint@ and finishing school. 8.Without hope life would be bleak. I hope these times are not any more serious than what our forefathers thought about how serious and terrible their times were. 9. Not at this time. Funds are a big consideration.
1. Warhol, for his egalitarianism, the expansiveness of his vision and his ability to bridge hi and low. i could go on but i think i'll wait for my lecture.
Sol LeWitt said "i make the machine that makes the art"-the machine being the "idea". He taught me what conceptual art meant.
Charles Ray-I appreciate how few works he makes, the spectacle of his objects and his ability to communicate.
2. Name three examples other than art or artists that influenced your art and how?
Miles Davis reinvented himself over and over musically. He said "repetition is death."
Neil Young wears his heart on his sleeve, he is not ironic, he has also reinvented himself several times.
I read the New York Times religiously. Timing is everything. I am very interest in trends, the zeitgeist-the moment we're in.
3. It's different for every piece and for every location. But in general, I have been working towards communicating to as wide an audience as possible. My strategies for communication include humor, shock, spectacle, craft and scale.
4. I'm philosophysing!
6. Other art inspires me. I may get frustrated but I really don't get angry much. I have a pretty Zen attitude. I think everybody is doing the best they can. Scientist tell us free will is an illusion so how can we get angry at others actions? I try not to care about things but to care about people, but c'mon i love my house,my car, my clothes, my music, my books, my...
7. I want you to think this was the greatest class you ever had.
Nicole Kaye 1.) DuChamp- really smart artist who I think really helped to turn the art world on its head. Aida Mae (elderly neighbor of my grandmother) and Ana (lives in the best house in Costa Rica filled with artwork and her own studio)- two women I've met in my life that have shown me the magic of art and an example of lives of sheer joy from living and creating.
2. I love international food, music and artwork. Though I myself don't identify with a religion, I especially enjoy traditional and ancient religious art work from east and south Asia, the Middle East and to a lesser extent, central and South America.
3. I wouldn't mind having a general appeal like that of Monet, but at the same time I want to produce work that is deeper than that, so that a variety of people could appreciate it on different levels. I have a feeling my work may appeal slightly more to women.
Nicole Kaye 4.) Art making at school is the opposite of therapy. I am, however, extremely interested in promoting other's creative interests and I enjoy talking to other artists about their work, what it means to them and how they got there. 5.)inspired: children, beauty, doing the right thing though its the harder path angered: judgmentalism, uptight-ness care for: kids, animals, nature (i sound like a hippie now) 6.) I want to put on a thesis show that I am proud of, and make art that I think is worthwhile and appreciated. 7.)If I didn't have hope, I would not have the career aspirations that I have. 8.)I will pursue either a Educational Specialist degree or a PhD in school or educational psychology (my other Major).
1.Adrian Piper: for her unrelenting use of self identity.
Lorna Simpson: for her attention to black female contemporary and historical issues through use of languge, text, and photograph.
David Hammons: for his ability to create metaphor elegantly in space.
Kehinde Wiley: for his slick interpritations of comtemporary blackness within a historically european framework. With particular interest in his sculptural works.
2.Lesbian sex, nature, habits, and rituals. Black being bigger than just the U.S.A and Africa. And MINA, my daughter the reason why I struggle everyday.
3.Ma Public:Here in America, mostly caucasians, but I would like it to expand to include all people who have not been exposed to the perspectives, thoughts, and desires of a contemporary African American women.
4.I would describe my art and educational entertainment from an under cited source.
5. I am inspred by: the elasticity of black.
I am angered by: the exclusion of black
I care about: all things moved to create positive material change in the world. b moved to create a differance in your subjective opinion in order to make a positve material change in the objective world.
6.This semester: I want to learn some welding technique.
Have a complete portfollio.
Be able to take about my work in a professional manner.
7.Hope: I have not seen or heard from it in a while but I have seen Change... good, bad, and indifferent.
8.Yes, I will be trying to apply for fall of 2009. Some schools. Northwestern, Yale, Columbia NY, Art Institute, UIC, Cal Arts
1. Emory Douglas for his use of complex subject matter in simplified iconic forms and his use of black dialect: Renee Cox for using herself and body in her work to explore identity and power shifts. Kerry James Marshall for his historical knowledge of art.
2. I was raised in a single female-headed low-income household
3. currently classmates and professors, youth of color, women
4. Cultural, political, youth based, therapy
5. Love and struggle inspire me, indignant and ignorant shit along with crazy republicans who make me angry
6. I hope to make a video and a few wall drawings and two paintings
7. I hope for many things to happen but action is where it’s at
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Rand Sevilla A's
1.Peter Halley:use of color and formal abstraction to articulate Foucauldian principles.
Negativland: hybrid appropriation and tactical copy wrong infringement. Taking on Disney, U2, Pepsi and Jesus
Paperrad: psychedelic family issues and community cultivation.
Other D00ds:
Mike Kelley, Takahashi Murakami, Santiago Sierra, Tom Sachs, Randall Christopher Bailey, PFFR
2. Joe Frank: Sunday night radio system domination through misty LA tinged narration laden with philosophical musings.
The Internet: A tool, a pool, a fool. The best thing to happen to me since puberty.
Singularity: The eventual merging of biological and technological manifestations. AI, VR and other acronyms
3. My audience is me, my actively engaged art peers, artistic practice patrons and people who smoke weed.
4. Art making is a type of therapy for me but to the broader audience it would appear as entertainment. Consider reality an alternative to reality television.
5. I'm inspired by real, mystic irrational passionate love. I am angered by real, mystic passionate love. I care about real, mystic passionate love.
6. This semester I want to build something really big and also something really small. IT might be the same thing.
7. Hope exists when one stops acting. Replace hope with Faith and it won't be so devastating.
8. No grad school now. I want to tour.
Christine Sorich:
1. I'd like to thank...
-Roman Signer for your genius collaborations with nature and it's elements.
-Sharon Lockhart for your ability to create a harmonious composition, complete with subject and environment.
-Jeff Wall for inserting a sense of awkwardness into reality.
2. The Golden Mean, the wind, and Magic hour (that golden moment before sunset)- because these are all natural, daily occurrences that are art in themselves.
3. My peers, of course, and as my art career persists, I hope to extend and communicate to the general public. *most importantly, not to be exclusive to the art world.
4. My art is most like entertainment, simply because of its visual appeal. - but conceptually- most like a personal therapy.
5.-Nature inspires me (its elements, colors and forces)
-The need for sleep angers me.
-I care about furthering my physical abilities and living life to the fullest.
6. I'd like to learn how to document performance works
7. I like hope, but not as much as I like becoming what I hope for.
8. Yes, grad school- but not until I get a free-ride.
Nick Sgarioto
1. Richard Serra, for his use of 'heavy metal' but, yea i think his work is cool and scary in an interesting way. The brothers Quay, stop motions animations are creepy, and Dan Seagrave because his paintings are just amazing.
2. Metal music, specifically black metal, human nature and Conflict. metal is a vent i've used to release emotion that i can't seem to out-grow. Human nature gives me reason to reflect and react. Conflict and and violence are driving forces behind most of my intentions.
3. Peers, non-artists, warriors, free-thinkers
4. philosophical, therapeutic
5-6? War, Violence, Humanism, natural laws, destruction, love.
7. i would like to make another animation that shows off my conceptual and technical sKILLZ.
8. hope is a good thing to have and keep..
9. Yes but not right away..
1. Jean Spencer - uses personal experiences, like I do, in her writing.
Jim Henson - the unique creation of characters that arent original and outside the box.
Cindy Sherman - i like her using one idea and doing it repetativly, but also differntly.
2. Relationships, books, life experinces and my professional work.
3. I had never conisdered my audience before, but for the future project my audience parents and young children under ten.
4. My art is therapy, I am usually trying to figure out my personal thoughts and feelings on things.
5. People: family and friends are what i care about and what inspire me. People also are what anger me: stubborn and spiteful.
6. This semester I want to use photography is ways other than just hung up on a wall or for a portfolio. I want something tangible other than just a photograph.
7. I wish I had more confidence in hope, but sometimes its the only thing I have to hold onto in certain situations (i.e. love)
8. Maybe grad school, but I dont see it in the near future!
Sarah McHugh
1. Jasper John-His experiments with materials.
Eva Hesse-The use of materials that makes an object/painting that lies in the grey area of where painting ends and sculpture begins.
Van Gogh-His use of color and texture.
2. The experimentation with different materials. How the materials act/react to one another allows me to figure out what the next step in my process. And just taking drives in my car and looking closely at my surroundings to become more aware of situations that are taking place.
3. My audience is the class, teachers, and me.
4. My art is most like activism because I want my audience to be aware of what is around them that is easily dismissed or subconsciously ignored.
5. The materials I use inspire me while I work with them. In my work I get angry if I feel that I started a project wrong. I care about what I learn from the materials I use for each project for they lead me to the next.
6. I would like to accomplish writing a strong artist statement that has states my intent clearly.
7. Hope is always in my work that things will work out either by accident or by a well thought out plan.
8. Maybe...Down the road.
1. Reading the images in 'Moving Out' by Robert Frank and seeing how a photographer’s work can evolve in content and shape; Every time I watch Le Jette by Chris Marker I find something new and interesting. I find that a film built entirely of stills that can do that is very influential; Marcel Duchamp for quitting art to play chess.
2. Researching the genealogy of my family has given me a glimpse into the threads of what I am and have the potential to be; My experiences with dependency and overcoming addictions; Working at newspaper companies has built a sense of deadlines and work ethic in my work.
3. I strive to stay connected to as many people as possible and not to over saturate my work with themes that divide, and therefore I tend to focus on my personal sense of aesthetics.
4. I think my art is most like visual beats - closely related to music in function and form, but not grounded in music for its inspiration or foundation.
5. I miss #5.
6. Children smiling, new lovers, physical sensations; Anger makes me angry, laying in bed and thinking about the very moment after life ceases makes me angry; My health, happiness and prosperity.
7. To complete my intended work I set for myself last semester and possibly a few other side projects, develop my critique abilities, find agency for my work, even more side projects.
8. My relationship to hope is bi-polar. As a borderline Atheist/Buddhist/Agnostic I fully believe in the here and now and know that the "small" hope is a personal adjective for concentration on completing a goal but that the "big" hope is a bucket swinging and spilling water about here and there with enthusiasm.
9. No, It's already been considered and pursued. I hope to find out soon.
1. NAn Goldin- Her work is vulnerable exposing herself and her friends, allowing the core of what makes everyone human to surface through othered or stereotyped communities.
Tim Burton- I can always relate some aspect of my life to THe NIghtmare Before Christmas.
Kiki Smith-Her sculptures refer to the waste of the body and the taboo and degradation that society places on these excretions. Everyone does it-its human, natural, and yet makes people extremely vulnerable.
Also inspired by Warhol, Sherman, Yves Klein
2. I am also inspired by the current state of this country (relationships through identity, location, race, business, etc.) and the interchangeability of consumerism and democracy.
3. I would like my audience to be people who are unaware: people in cycles of corporate work people in cycles of consuming, or people in cycles of destruction. A moment for a brief pause or release. I would like my job to be a bringer of awareness.
4. I Think my art is most like activism/philosophy. I want people to think and question the systems of their lives and the truth behind them. Even if there is no answer, just think, just act.
5.& 6. Inspiration: music that expresses heavy emotions: anger, passion, sadness, aliveness. Poetry- the way words can illicit imagery and emotion so simply, being a visual artist I enjoy just words sometimes, the freedom to keep images in my head. I love the feel of the sun and the wind on my face, even if it’s hot or cold. It reminds me that I am awake. Things that make me angry are rude people on the CTA, and inconsideration for the environment and animals.
7. This semester I hope to accomplish to bring my technical skill to the level that my conceptual ideas are at.
8. I don’t believe there is a point to living if you don’t have hope. A teacher once told me that it’s not foolish for having hope but not to have any at all. My favorite poem about hope- http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/blackberry-picking/
9. I plan to go to graduate school after a year out of the system and in “the real world”.
1. The Museum of Jurassic Technology and Mark Dion use methods of authoritative institutions to play with material culture and artifacts. I like that. Duchamp is the fount of such activities. pardon me.
2. Python vs. alligator in the everglades is a spectacular incident for discussion of contemporary global issues. Frank Zappa was prolific and a genius. Much of his work is genius, even more of it is complete shit. Robert McNamara is a social/political pariah. Everything he says offends the sensibilities of the divergent groups and actors concerned with his role in history.
3. Besides the obvious, I hope for anyone who is willing to be a detective, scrutinize what they see and have a conversation.
4. It's most likely philosophy, I fear. It is about ideas; spacial relations, history, memory, forgetting, terrain, digging...
6. In equal parts: consumption, illusions, ghosts, identity, media, sincerity, dishonesty, power, other...
7. By semester's end I would like to have made both art that I like and art that I think is bad. I'd like to try and figure which is which. I want to offer myself to the spectacle of failure; failed art, the failed artist, maybe some success.
8. Like Groucho Marx. It's cynical and mocking, ranting gallows humor from a big black mustache with my eyes rolling to the back of my head. My relationship with hope is estranged.
9. Yes, time and finances allowing.
1. Yayoi Kusama - I'm making an ongoing series of videos/films inspired by her description of the visual hallucinations she's experienced since childhood, which appear in all of her installations and other work.
Guy Maddin - his use of film emphasizing "old" techniques and the feel of film & its surface.
Kaucyila Brooke - "Kathy Acker's Clothes" and her photographs of museum interiors; using clothes to express the writer's personality, the reinterpretation of museum spaces as they're being renovated/gutted.
2. Isabella Blow - her life story, the way she presented herself to the world by the unorthodox way she dressed and spoke.
Vivienne Westwood - an outsider to the fashion world though she had a major impact upon it, her naive approach to garment construction, diving in & re-constructing from the bottom up.
Japanese culture - the opposing aesthetics of elemental simplicity and visual excess, the sometimes bizarre reinterpretation of Western culture.
3. People in the fashion and art "worlds" & people looking for something more beneath the surface.
4. Philosophy-Entertainment with a subversive quality; using advertising & products as the basis for artwork. Also using other artist's work as a foundation for something new. A focus on objects, giving them life and personality.
6. Dead technologies and their relationship to new technologies, randomness, imperfection, mistranslation. I'm upset by the lack of respect for, and interest in, art in this country; the influence of capitalism over culture; politics. I care about world events, my friends, and the underdog.
7. I want to return to previous photographic work after working exclusively in moving image for the past year, expanding on photogram techniques, printing, using a more physical approach to working with the materials. And I want to continue making video work.
8. Making art is a hopeful process to counter balance the crummy aspects of life.
9. Yes, at UIC.
Ben Brandt
1. Joseph Bueys--I think about his odd formal invention often, also, his subjects of systems and transformation.
Anselm Keifer-- scale, mythological themes, materiality, painting and sculpture combined.
Cy Twombly-- gesture, mark-making, poetic space, evidence of the hand, touch
2. the built environment-- history, evidence of use, construction of space, and ordering of experience
personal loss and the search for meaning--it's a part of who I am and its a part of what drives my need to create/investigate
toothpaste/paint squeezing out of a tube--contents under pressure may explode
3. people that care about craftsmanship, people that are willing to slow down a little to look.
4. My art is most like psycho-therapy--take THAT Doug Ischar!
6. walking, music, books with pictures, and fear of death.
bad art in the museum, people's bullshit/dishonesty.
my wife, my dog.
7.complete a "body" of work, pick a direction to go from there, refine my "voice".
8. I'm mostly aware of feeling hopeless in the face of confrontation.
9. not now.
I would like to see the instructors respond to this questionnaire.
Pamela Fraser:
Questionnaire
1. Mary Heilmann, for her humor, particularity, and autobiographical but not self-indulgent paintings; Philip Guston, for his humor and brilliant conflation of heroic and virtuoso painting with vernacular form and content; Charles Ray for giving me the idea that a thought made visible can be a work and making me realize that the dimensions of a work exceed far beyond its material form.
2. Canned emotional sentimental stuff that sucks me: such as Pop Music and Lifetime Movies, Visual Codes in the built environment / a Semiotic approach to Graphic Design, Color: found color in the world and reading about Color Philosophy and Logic and comparitive studies of how it has been understood.
3. Those who get pleasure from considering the historical and contemporary discourses of painting and art, especially in regard to its purpose.
4. I’d like it to be like entertainment-like comedy, but the audience who finds it funny is so tiny….so, closer to philosophy in that epistemological problems are considered, analyzed, and mulled about; problems having to do with how we know and understand.
5. My answers to #2 are what inspire me; arrogance is a biggie, ignorance another; love, my family, my friends, being thoughtful and mindful, constantly learning and growing.
6. do a good job teaching, complete many paintings.
7. mixed; little hope for American politics, government, and society (and its effects on other world populations) at large at the moment, little hope for the environment, but somehow hope for my own little world, community and most importantly, major hope for my son (which defies explanation due to said pessimism).
8. Yes, I am considering graduate degrees in Philosophy, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Fashion Design, and International Law.
1. Niki Karimi, Majid Majidi, and Samira Makhmalbaf for their contribution to their societies by addressing social issues to perhaps put a dent in the big buddy of ignorance.
2. It is hard to choose just three. My art is about existence and every moment in my life is influenced by something new, children, old people, inequality, etc………
3. That is the sad part about conceptual art, looking for audience. Who is to blame, artists or audience?
4. I think my art is about activism a little bit more than everything else.
5. ( If #5 was left out for a free thought, here you have it.) I am in moving image to express my thought in that way. I would have been a writer or public speaker, if I wanted to write or talk about my art.
6. Music inspires me the most. Stupidity and selfishness anger me more than anything else
7. Nothing specific in mind. Not knowing so many things in art, anything I learn would be an accomplishment.
8. Life continues only based on hope.
9. Yes, that was my reason for coming back to school.
Thank you Ben. I wish I hadn't sent my comment before reading Pamela’s.
keri harshbarger
1. cindy sherman, sally mann, lauren greenfield and their approach to environmental and self- portraiture have influenced my work.
2. photo-journalism, social activism, and current events inspire me to think deeply about this country, where it's going, and in what ways it needs to change
3. my audience has been my fellow classmates, my friends and my family; it will probably continue to be
4. my art is most like activism/philosophy. my main goal is to educate my audience on topics they may not have thought about
5. my surroundings, my family, my friends, and my experiences are often what inspire me.
politics, inequality, injustice, and poverty anger me.
i care most about family, truth, and believing in change
6. i would like to finish a comprehensive project that i am proud of this semester.
7. i hold onto hope as tightly as i can
8. i am not considering graduate school at this time, maybe in the future.
Jim Zimpel
1.
-Maurizio Cattelan-Overall aesthetic and his use of humor and sense of humor in present within the work.
-Tom Friedman-Obsewssive qualities and dedication to projects and detail, execution and humor.
-David Shrigley-Playfulness and simplicity-sophisticated yet sloppy.
2.
-Minnesota and the Midwest- influences on my idea of the world and the way in which I percieve the unknown territory in my sense of the world.
-Books about the outdoors, Field and Stream magazine, in their ability to stimulate my curiousity and imagination.
-Lives imagined and lies in general whcih I am constantly fabricating and elaborating on.
-Tools and Machines and the possibilities they present.
3.
My primary audience is myself although I am incredibly greatful and pleased when others are interested in my work. My audience seems to be those intersted in a strong sense of well crafted, playful and intereactive work. In general children seem to be most intersted in my work at shows, which is unfortunate as they have the smallest wallets and lack checkbooks.
4.
Entertainment and Activism in a less active way.
My work is primary for my pleasure and entertainment and often entertains others however upon closer inspection a viewer will find a response or some sort of activism to various topics in the work, perhaps they find it in their interpretation of the work.
5.
Others working around me, competition at times. Primarily however I am inspired by my curious nature and self motivated. I dislike public speaking as it makes me extremely uncomfortable at times, the relationship I have with my stomach and digestion, wasting time. I am most concerned about the future as I cannot worry about the past.
6.
A strong series in the same vein of work I have been working with-fabricated responses to actual locations, lies, etc..., a new website, a show or two for the Fall line-up.
7.
I am extremly optimistic and I believe that anything and everything is possible, it is only a matter of time. Is that hope?
8.
I plan on attending graduate school someday as it almost seems necessary given the path I'm on right now. We'll see.
1. Shinichiro Wantanabe: I loved Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo and his artistic sense in the two animes.
Paul McCarthy: I like the low tech special effects and how they make people cringe.
Salvador Dali: I very much enjoy making similar works.
2. Sports: If something as basic as putting a ball in a hoop or past a line can be thrilling, then so can my art.
Video games: Storytelling, ingenuity, video games go beyond movies in the sense they bring more to the table.
Music: Music can affects moods!
3. People my age and older. I'd say the threshold would be 50?
4. entertainment/psycho therapy; sometimes I want to entertain, sometimes I want to bore.
6. I'm inspired by music, movies, unique and odd things. I'm angerd by people who use other people as emotional punching bags (and more if its physical.) The thing I care about the most is my family.
7. Coming up with a great idea and sticking to it!
8. I never lose it.
9. Yes, but I want to explore for a while.
A.C.
1. Shinichiro Watanabe: I loved his two animes; Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. These two series in no doubt have influence my artistic style.
Paul McCarthy: His low tech scene make people cringe.
Salvador Dali: I enjoy making similar works, albeit not on canvas.
2. Sports: if something as basic as putting a ball shaped object through a hoop or past a line can be thrilling than so can my work.
Video games: Great storytelling and often times just the uniqueness can inspire me.
Music: Affects mood and thoughts.
3. Everyone my age and older. I'd say the threshold would be 50?
4. Entertainment/ Psycho Therapy. My work can entertain or it can bore you, either way its a trip.
6. Talking to people inspires me, you learn something everyday. People who use other people as emotional punching bags make me angry, even more when its physical.) I care about my family the most.
7. I'd like to come up with a great idea and stick to it.
8. My relationship to hope is that I never lose it.
9. I am considering graduate school, but I want to explore the world first.
Liz Ramirez
1) Robert Frank, because his keen eye could immortalize fractions of seconds that would otherwise have disappeared.
Sally Mann, for doing what I want to do, which is creating beautiful and passionate images from the heart... but using her most readily available resources.
Orson Welles, because he opened my eyes to the art of film-making/cinematography. Film is so much more than the story.
(And just for kicks...) John Waters, because art doesn't have to be tasteful/taste does not make art.
2) My family: the tree is thin and tangled; I don't know more than half or my own history. This is a driving force behind a lot of work I do.
Social issues: representations of women and minorities always give me something to think about.
Media: be it the way I get my information about social issues, art, etc. the media will always shape artists and their work; it's inescapable.
3) My audience at this point in time are my classmates and instructors. I wish for anyone and everyone to be a part of my audience because I want to be a part of theirs.
4) Because I often try to learn about myself through art I could say that my art is like a psychotherapy. However, it isn't always a way to learn about myself, literally. You can learn about yourself through art even if it is work based on the life of someone else.
5) Anything can inspire me, even if I don't like it or find it repulsive. For instance, I really do not like the work of David LaChapelle or Jill Greenberg, but they inspire me through their work ethics and the fact that they have established their own styles. I can see a photograph/advertisement in a magazine or a commercial on television and may recognize it as their work (I'm usually right, too). Who doesn't want to achieve that?
I am angered by a lot of things, among them: the Bush Administration and the radical right, the weak spines of the Democratic Party, modern music's complete lack of soul and talent, drug addict siblings, oppression and exploitation of poor people, elitist hipsters, people who use religion as a justification to hate and harm others, etc. etc. etc.
The things in the world that I care the most about (in no particular order) are: my family and friends, the protection of the environment and animals, the saving of people whose lives are torn by war, getting a degree so I don't have to work in a bookstore for the rest of my life, and growing as an artist so that I can use that to help other aspects of my life.
6) This semester I would like to possibly expound on and refine work from previous classes so that I might get closer to achieving a style that I can call my own.
7) This is a strange question that I don't quite know how to answer, so I'll have to say that my relationship to hope is open right now.
8) I have no desire or intention to go to graduate school. Also, I can't pay for it. But regardless, I have been an undergraduate for long enough.
1. My artists are writers and filmmakers.
Alain Fournier who died at 18 in WWI and wrote Le Grand Meaulnes
(translated as: The Wanderer). The book made me think about how to depict light, inner struggle, and enchantment.
Glauber Rocha, Brazilian Filmmaker for questioning social reality mixing history, myth and poetry, and for what he said: “Art is not only talent, but mainly courage.”
Chris Marker, because of his politics, his use of photography in film, the questions of time, memory, and space in his work.
2. Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist and writer. The Open Veins of Latin America; Days and Nights of Love and War, and Memory of the Fire. His views on Latin America and his writings about history gave me tools for analysis.
Helene Cixous for questioning, authority, master language and her theory of “Writing the Body.”
The economy and the changes in technology influenced my work. I stopped making objects-photographs to favor other means of production, display and distribution.
3. I find this question of audience limiting and problematic. I rather think of context. Context determines audiences and audiences are generally culturally diverse. There is no homogeneous audience as there is not homogeneous community. An experimental documentary may have an audience of filmmakers. However, the issues and the conceptual framework of the film may engage different communities and its audiences, not only at home but abroad also.
4. My work is philosophical, theoretical, political and experimental. I address questions of being in space and time. The question of being is multifaceted, it engages thought, emotion, will and intuition – individual and collective. I practice that “being” through art making. I change mediums and techniques, I play with ideas within the coordinates of space and time.
5. Kindness inspires me.
Human Rights Organizations inspire me.
Arrogance, injustice, dogma make me angry.
I care about love and loving.
6. This semester I would like to start and finish some projects. Teach well. Be cool and sleep better.
7. I do hope. I see reality through the filter of Historical Materialism, the String Theory, and the Theology of Liberation. When this doesn’t work I say the mantra “Nothing can harm me. I am a grain of sand”
8. Other graduate degrees...mmm...perhaps in another lifetime.
1.Frida Kahlo - documenting her life in paintings and having a strong passion for life and art.
Carmen Lomas Garza- West Texas artist, much like myself, uses childhood memory and latin urban legends in her raw paintings.
Mark Ryden - for his color usage and comments on religion.
2.Musically I'm inspired by my favorite Spanish Punk band Cafe Tacuba only because they reinvent their sound every album and yet still remain truthful to themselves as artist and musicans.
My family - being the youngest of ten, I really observed everyone in their happiest and saddiest moments and the in between. Our experiences individually or as a group, growing up as a Migrant farming family.
My culture - much like Carmen Lomas Garza's paintings are really an untapped pool.
3.For the most part my work is directed towards my family.
4.I definately touch on the psycho- therapy in my work.
5.Again, my family and culture fuel my motivation to paint. I find impatience in myself and others is annoying. I care about the environment.
6.I'd like to finish up my series of paintings I began last sememter.
7.Hope does not exist in my world. I really feel that if you want something you make it happen. There is no in between.
8.Yes, I'd like to continue on to Grad School.
Joshua Clark
1. Edward Burtynsky for his subject matter and industrial landscape photos.
Allen Sekula for his documentary work. Mainly his use of writing in the documentary stuff.
Robert Frank for the Americans work. That has influenced me since I started photography and continues to.
2. The neighborhood and the people i have met here has gotten me interested in the work I am now doing. My peers help steer my projects and lead down different paths. My father has also had a large impact.
3. My audience is this class, me, peers, anyone interested, specifically in urban consumption.
4. Activism to an extent. I am not trying to change anyones mind but make them of aware of certain situations.
5. The city of Chicago inspires me, movies, music, the night. I'm angered over America's healthcare and some people's complete disregard of basic human rights. I care about being active, family/friends, living life to the fullest, etc.
6. I would like to have a finished piece at the end of this semester. Something with no loose ends.
7. It's pretty good.
8. Not for a few years. Gotta make that money, man.
IF YOUR COMMENT IS POSTED AT THIS POINT OR AFTER, YOU HAVE MISSED THE DEADLINE.
1. Michel Gondry - For his film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" which ultimately influenced me to go into film. Also his use of visuals to in conjunction with the theme of his films.
Kip Fulbeck - for his approach to experimental documentary and humor. As well as being one of the first apparent Asian American artist to speak out for the asian american community.
Haruhi Murakami - a writer who's writing has influenced the way i write my narratives and build characters.
2. Christianity - This is a very important aspect of my life and with anything that is an important aspect of a persons life it will in someway influence everything you do.
Social Justice - my pursuit of social justice in the world to speak out for the issues which remain silent and bring to light the things which are often unseen.
social Interaction - I like to observe the way people interact with one another and take that into account into my art. I also use the way I interact with others and use that as material for my works.
3. You.
4. Activism cause i believe that all art has the potential to move someone to act in someway.
5. The things that are unseen and needs to be seen.
6. This semester I would like to finish what i started last semester as well as complete a formal narrative in one form or another.
7. Chasing after it constantly
8. yes, and in the process of applying for one.
--thats so cold Mrs. Fraser.
1. Damien Hirst in his ability to depict broad ideas in a succinct manner; Nan Goldin by the way she examines subculture; Leon Golub for his ability to illustrate perpetrators of violence.
2. Things that are a part of my (everyday)life, friends, situations, escapades etc
3. Those who are interested in painting who understand painting.
4. I'm not sure how to respond to this, my initial answer was religious due to the iconic nature of some of my paintings, but i guess also entertainment. In the end, i try to make paintings that i would want hanging on my own walls that i can enjoy.
6. Moments of clarity; Toby Keith; my friends and family and no one else!
7. Confidence in my preparedness for graduate school.
8. Rocky at best.
9. Very much so, I would have applied this winter but mono set me back, so i plan to apply next winter.
Rita Tobar
1. Adrian Piper: calling cards, letters, performance with rhetorical speaking and working with identity.
Jennifer Montgomery: Art For Teachers of Children-her inclusion of self, the underacting for the implicit exhiliarating feeling of young sexual love and dangers of such.
Christopher Wool: the way he aesthetically brands a painting, they beg for settings other than museums.
2. Gender/cultural issues; my self-interest in knowing our adequacies and prejudices
Catholicism: the communication of their principles.
Death: a perverse need to render it in a way that it is a living death, but not in the goth sense.
3. anti-political parties, democrats, if you are republican and like what you see, you are more than welcome but you should pay for it.
4. religion, activism; i dont like being called an activist because i just work on the effects and the hows. This is what you get when this happens.
5. Staring inspires me. What i consider beautiful people. Reading Dr. Seuss's The Sleep Book and Shel Silverstein Poems. The sign of the cross angers me. I care about good skin; health.
6. A great plan for graduate school, a good situational installation.
7. Hope sounds weak, maybe it is just the sound or spelling of the word. Crave, desire, covet is more like it.
8. YES
Holly Huff - (sorry its late, been at work for 15hrs)
1) Jessica Rowe - I share a lot of her sentiments on objects and personal histories attached to them
Sharon Lockhart - 'Pine Flat' blew me away, she creates a new dimension for the viewer to exist within
Bill Brown - I envy his writing style
2)Grandparents basement-houses many things that initiated my recent work
Attics-same reasons as above
The natural environment-helps me break everything in my life down down to its roots
3)me, class, folks who own things
4)therapy - helps me work through my odd habits
6)success inspires me, failure angers me, I care about feeling content, family, integrity/honesty
7)To develop a better/solid vocabulary and dialogue about my own work to help me better work through the kinks and sell my ideas
8)good pals, it doesn't always pull through, but if it always did, why would we ever need it?
9)yes, after some time off
1) Lee Friedlander put chaos into order into chaos, made those lines of the everyday skew in all directions.
Tony Conrad got me to lose my mind and find my body by overwhelming both with his eye/ear tricks (see also: Flavin, Eliasson, McCall).
James Benning pointed at the relativity of time as the essential quality of cinema and spectatorship.
2) Live noise/drone music keeps me present in the present, constant traveling helps me understand where I am, and the war(s) reminds me that what is important has to stay important, even if that often doesn't matter in the least.
3) My audience is active, engaged, and quite varied. They care about me and I care about them.
4) Magic.
5) Films inspire my films, photographs inspire my photographs, kindness in humans inspires me. Violence totally freaks me out.
6) Improve as a teacher, cut out some more sarcasm, plan another tour, and print a lot of large photographs of screening spaces and bicycles.
7) I'm really glad that hope is back - I've missed it dearly.
8) A PhD in Visual Anthropology will continue to seem like a great idea for another 20 years. We'll see.
1. Sento for maximizing his time and space in the NYC graffiti culture.
Brian Eno for his use of 23 tape recorders and innovation in music since he jumped onstage in a pair of football shoulderpads, feathers and a mullet that would make most hockey players envious.
Michangelo Antonioni's sparse use of sound and cinematic composition continuously impresses me.
James Turrell gets me to think about my environment differently and opens my senses to become more acute while experiencing work.
2. Travelling shifts my environment, forces me to see life differently and impacts my perspective in more ways than I know.
Interpersonal communication fascinates me. I am intrigued by cultural codes, secret handshakes and eye contact on the street....when those work and especially when they breakdown, this informs my work and inspires me endlesssly.
Shifting furniture in my living space offers countless alterations in my surrounding space. The way light is altered and how I relate to specific objects within this seemingly new environment had a strong effect on how I feel out my own art pieces.
3. My audience is me, my friends and for this semester, you. Until I build an audience beyond this, that's all I got.
4. My art is philosophical in the sense that I like to make work which considers the place where logic ends and where words cease functioning as the best way to communicate. I also like to think of this semester as a time for me to develop an experiential aspect to my practice.
James Turrell's work has had a profound impact on how an art piece can impact the audience, I would like to better my grasp of this methodology.
5. I am inspired by the city and its immense deposits of life and culture. I am angered by indifference and trafffic. I care most about my family, friends and feeling excited about life.
6. I want to accomplish more this semester than ever before. I would like to better develop my ability to communicate my ideas and to reinforce the sorts of practices that I can carry with me after my tiem at UIC is over.
7. My relationship to hope is mostly hot and sometimes lukewarm
8. I am considering graduate school at some point.
i posted mine yesterday but when i did it had an error, but then said it needed to be approved before it would post. today i don't see it! so if the other one is still 'waiting for approval' disregard this one.
1. Tom Friedman- patience and humor.
Harrel Fletcher and Bruce Naumann- conceptual ideas, non traditional use of materials
2. critical thinking/problem solving, quantum physics and existence, feeling uncomfortable and reactions
3. situational- i try to make my work according to who i think will be viewing it.
4. putting my philosophies of art and life into practice in an entertaining/humorous way to engage people.
6. pursuit of knowledge and obsessions with efficiency inspire me. dishonesty, people who don't want/try to learn, waste anger me. i care most about my 6 legged tarantula, Booby.
7. better communication through art, how to write better, feeling challenged and engaged
8. i am very optimistic which most people would probably call hopeful? but i don't think it's hope when i don't have a doubt in my mind.
9. yes, not immediately
Patricia (Pat) Steadman
1.Jasper Johns through the eyes of Julia Fish for grey and inovation, Prof. Carswell for language in a painting.(That's art?)and Christa Donner for line.
2.I am influenced by classical music, western landscape, red rocks, trees and deep canyons and my pioneer heritage.
3. Friends, family and peers. My granddaughter took 2 of my paintings home for her apt. from last semester's final
4. My art is more involved in activism, last year I did a series on biracial identity.
5.?
6.Am inspired by what I think is good art, been working on a quick angry temper for years when things are not just or there is waste and stupidity. I care about my environment, my development.
7.A decent final project, leaning Powerpoint@ and finishing school.
8.Without hope life would be bleak. I hope these times are not any more serious than what our forefathers thought about how serious and terrible their times were.
9. Not at this time. Funds are a big consideration.
AD 463 Questionnaire: Due January 17
Please answer the following questions as specifically and as succinctly as possible.
1. Name three artists who have influenced your work and how?
2. Name three examples other than art or artists that influenced your art
and how?
3. Who is your audience?
4. Is your art most like: psycho- therapy, religion, activism,
entertainment, philosophy or other, and how?
6. What inspire you? What makes you angry? What are the things you
care about the most?
7. What would you like to accomplish this semester?
8. What is your relationship to hope?
9. Are you considering graduate school?
1. Warhol, for his egalitarianism, the expansiveness of his vision and his ability to bridge hi and low. i could go on but i think i'll wait for my lecture.
Sol LeWitt said "i make the machine that makes the art"-the machine being the "idea". He taught me what conceptual art meant.
Charles Ray-I appreciate how few works he makes, the spectacle of his objects and his ability to communicate.
2. Name three examples other than art or artists that influenced your art
and how?
Miles Davis reinvented himself over and over musically. He said "repetition is death."
Neil Young wears his heart on his sleeve, he is not ironic, he has also reinvented himself several times.
I read the New York Times religiously. Timing is everything. I am very interest in trends, the zeitgeist-the moment we're in.
3. It's different for every piece and for every location. But in general, I have been working towards communicating to as wide an audience as possible. My strategies for communication include humor, shock, spectacle, craft and scale.
4. I'm philosophysing!
6. Other art inspires me.
I may get frustrated but I really don't get angry much. I have a pretty Zen attitude. I think everybody is doing the best they can. Scientist tell us free will is an illusion so how can we get angry at others actions?
I try not to care about things but to care about people, but c'mon i love my house,my car, my clothes, my music, my books, my...
7. I want you to think this was the greatest class you ever had.
8. I'm voting for hope.
9. No.
Sabrina Barnes
1. roy decarava - for beautiful images with a sociological messages and for capturing the essences of his subjects
jan vermeer - for his beautiful plays with light and his attention to detail in his portraits.
ron van dongen - for his beautiful and simple images usually consisting of a single flower. i enjoyed how engaged I feel staring at this object.
2. Nature for it is ever-changing beauty and uniqueness.
Music - jazz inspired hip-hop and jazz for being so innovative.
Color - for the effect it has on the mind.
3. My audience is me and my classmates.
4. My art is entertainment. It is simply meant to be visually pleasing and engage the viewer in the image.
5. I am angered when I am not happy with the work I've produced. I care about my family.
6. I want to produce a complete series of work. I would also like to learn how to talk about it.
7. No.
Nicole Kaye
1.) DuChamp- really smart artist who I think really helped to turn the art world on its head.
Aida Mae (elderly neighbor of my grandmother) and Ana (lives in the best house in Costa Rica filled with artwork and her own studio)- two women I've met in my life that have shown me the magic of art and an example of lives of sheer joy from living and creating.
2. I love international food, music and artwork. Though I myself don't identify with a religion, I especially enjoy traditional and ancient religious art work from east and south Asia, the Middle East and to a lesser extent, central and South America.
3. I wouldn't mind having a general appeal like that of Monet, but at the same time I want to produce work that is deeper than that, so that a variety of people could appreciate it on different levels. I have a feeling my work may appeal slightly more to women.
Nicole Kaye
4.) Art making at school is the opposite of therapy. I am, however, extremely interested in promoting other's creative interests and I enjoy talking to other artists about their work, what it means to them and how they got there.
5.)inspired: children, beauty, doing the right thing though its the harder path
angered: judgmentalism, uptight-ness
care for: kids, animals, nature (i sound like a hippie now)
6.) I want to put on a thesis show that I am proud of, and make art that I think is worthwhile and appreciated.
7.)If I didn't have hope, I would not have the career aspirations that I have.
8.)I will pursue either a Educational Specialist degree or a PhD in school or educational psychology (my other Major).
1.Adrian Piper: for her unrelenting use of self identity.
Lorna Simpson: for her attention to black female contemporary and historical issues through use of languge, text, and photograph.
David Hammons: for his ability to create metaphor elegantly in space.
Kehinde Wiley: for his slick interpritations of comtemporary blackness within a historically european framework. With particular interest in his sculptural works.
2.Lesbian sex, nature, habits, and rituals. Black being bigger than just the U.S.A and Africa. And MINA, my daughter the reason why I struggle everyday.
3.Ma Public:Here in America, mostly caucasians, but I would like it to expand to include all people who have not been exposed to the perspectives, thoughts, and desires of a contemporary African American women.
4.I would describe my art and educational entertainment from an under cited source.
5. I am inspred by: the elasticity of black.
I am angered by: the exclusion of black
I care about: all things moved to create positive material change in the world. b moved to create a differance in your subjective opinion in order to make a positve material change in the objective world.
6.This semester: I want to learn some welding technique.
Have a complete portfollio.
Be able to take about my work in a professional manner.
7.Hope: I have not seen or heard from it in a while but I have seen Change... good, bad, and indifferent.
8.Yes, I will be trying to apply for fall of 2009. Some schools. Northwestern, Yale, Columbia NY, Art Institute, UIC, Cal Arts
1. Emory Douglas for his use of complex subject matter in simplified iconic forms and his use of black dialect: Renee Cox for using herself and body in her work to explore identity and power shifts. Kerry James Marshall for his historical knowledge of art.
2. I was raised in a single female-headed low-income household
3. currently classmates and professors, youth of color, women
4. Cultural, political, youth based, therapy
5. Love and struggle inspire me, indignant and ignorant shit along with crazy republicans who make me angry
6. I hope to make a video and a few wall drawings and two paintings
7. I hope for many things to happen but action is where it’s at
8. Not for sometime, maybe in like 3-4 years.
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