AMAZING WORK, LIFE, SHOW.
31 March 2008
27 March 2008
power point pecha-kucha
"Let us now bullet-point our praise for Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two Tokyo-based architects who have turned PowerPoint, that fixture of cubicle life, into both art form and competitive sport. Their innovation, dubbed pecha-kucha (Japanese for "chatter"), applies a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. That's it. Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down. The result, in the hands of masters of the form, combines business meeting and poetry slam to transform corporate clich into surprisingly compelling beat-the-clock performance art."
25 March 2008
SPREENG BRAKE!!!
I'm DJing tonight and I made a video flyer:
And heres an hour long, totally dated (but nonetheless relevant) BBC4 Documentary called (don't laugh) "Rave New World". The stern baritone british narration make it feel like your watching a nature documentary about "techno-hippies". This is almost my ideal date movie.
And heres an hour long, totally dated (but nonetheless relevant) BBC4 Documentary called (don't laugh) "Rave New World". The stern baritone british narration make it feel like your watching a nature documentary about "techno-hippies". This is almost my ideal date movie.
24 March 2008
John Gage's Colour and Culture
Please read Intro only (pp 7-10). Comment with a 2 paragraph response (thoughtful, intelligent, etc.)
21 March 2008
19 March 2008
Silvia's list
How to Read Donal Duck. Dorfman & Mattelard
This book was burnt by the Pinochet Government in Chile, censored in Argentina and banned in the USA in 1975. It is a classic popular study on cultural imperialism and children's literature.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Paulo Freire.
It deals with the philosophy of education for the practice of freedom. It is based in the conviction that every human being, no matter how ignorant or how submerged in the "culture of silence" is capable of looking critically at reality and transform it.
One Hundred Years Of Solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
It made me think about literary possibilities. How to think about time, history and memory. How history, culture, magic and the supernatural can be expressed.
The Catcher in The Rye. J.D. Salinger.
I identified with Holden when I was 19, and felt that Salinger understood.
It is towards the end of the book when Holden decides that he would leave and take off to California or somewhere. He wants before he leaves, to give a note to his sister and takes it the her school. When he’s going upstairs to the Principal's office to deliver it he sees the word “Fuck you” written on the wall and he erases it. He didn’t want the children to think about it and to worry. But when he comes back downstairs by a different staircase he sees another “fuck you” on the wall. He says : “ I tried to rub it off with my hand again, but this one was scratched on, with a knife or something. It wouldn’t come off. It’s hopeless, anyway. If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the “Fuck you” signs in the world. It’s
impossible."
Sister Outsider. Audre Lorde.
For many things, and her essay Poetry is not A Luxury.
"For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt - of examining what those ideas feel like being lived on a Sunday morning at 7 A.M., after brunch, during wild love, making war, giving birth, mourning the dead - while we suffer the old longings, battle the old warnings and fears of being silent and impotent and alone, while we taste new possibilities and strengths."
There are many many more.....
This book was burnt by the Pinochet Government in Chile, censored in Argentina and banned in the USA in 1975. It is a classic popular study on cultural imperialism and children's literature.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Paulo Freire.
It deals with the philosophy of education for the practice of freedom. It is based in the conviction that every human being, no matter how ignorant or how submerged in the "culture of silence" is capable of looking critically at reality and transform it.
One Hundred Years Of Solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
It made me think about literary possibilities. How to think about time, history and memory. How history, culture, magic and the supernatural can be expressed.
The Catcher in The Rye. J.D. Salinger.
I identified with Holden when I was 19, and felt that Salinger understood.
It is towards the end of the book when Holden decides that he would leave and take off to California or somewhere. He wants before he leaves, to give a note to his sister and takes it the her school. When he’s going upstairs to the Principal's office to deliver it he sees the word “Fuck you” written on the wall and he erases it. He didn’t want the children to think about it and to worry. But when he comes back downstairs by a different staircase he sees another “fuck you” on the wall. He says : “ I tried to rub it off with my hand again, but this one was scratched on, with a knife or something. It wouldn’t come off. It’s hopeless, anyway. If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the “Fuck you” signs in the world. It’s
impossible."
Sister Outsider. Audre Lorde.
For many things, and her essay Poetry is not A Luxury.
"For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt - of examining what those ideas feel like being lived on a Sunday morning at 7 A.M., after brunch, during wild love, making war, giving birth, mourning the dead - while we suffer the old longings, battle the old warnings and fears of being silent and impotent and alone, while we taste new possibilities and strengths."
There are many many more.....
18 March 2008
colin's list
Young Lonigan by James T. Farrell
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Highlights Magazine (which is what truly shaped me in to the terrible man i am today)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Highlights Magazine (which is what truly shaped me in to the terrible man i am today)
Rand's Upcoming Performances
Saturday Randall Bailey, Camilla Ha and I play dress-up in Club Sashay (music at myspace.com/clubsashay)
Sunday Rotten Milk and I play kitchen electronics
Tuesday I'm DJing sweet italioelectrdisco and sour ghettotronix
Sunday Rotten Milk and I play kitchen electronics
Tuesday I'm DJing sweet italioelectrdisco and sour ghettotronix
17 March 2008
pamela's list
1. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
2. "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" by Jorge Luis Borges
3. A History of Colors by Manlio Brusatin
4. if on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
5. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
2. "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" by Jorge Luis Borges
3. A History of Colors by Manlio Brusatin
4. if on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
5. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Karen Kilimnik Possessed, NYTimes Style Section
Karen Kilimnik, Possessed, NYTimes Style Section, January 20, 2008THE world is a complicated place. So perhaps it is fitting that we should conjure a pointedly optimistic way of thinking just to dispel the voices of certain doom and jaded irony. The first says, “It can’t be done”; the second says, “It has been done to death.”
Proponents of blue-sky thinking often cite the Wright brothers as validation. But why not the artist Karen Kilimnik? Like an all-too-human version of Giselle, the blithe princess in “Enchanted,” Ms. Kilimnik has expressed her brand of blue-sky thinking, most recently with a show, at 303 Gallery in Chelsea, of small paintings of, yes, blue skies. Some are even circular, suggesting the bowl of heaven. And though there are a few cirrus-y wisps wafting across her skies, they are, like all of her paintings, free of irony.
It is hard to believe that Ms. Kilimnik is sincere in a world ruled by archness and artifice, but there it is. The woman loves a forest, loves Kate Moss, loves an Alpine landscape, loves a blue sky, and her paintings say so. It’s kind of conceptual minimalism.
“I don’t know why, I just like it,” she said last week. She was talking about one of her favorite things: a bottle of Penhaligon’s Bluebell perfume. But Ms. Kilimnik, who is notoriously shy, could have been explaining the reasoning behind any of the myriad subjects she has painted, or articulating an entire aesthetic manifesto.
In the case of Bluebell, at least, the reasons can be documented. In the 1970s, when Ms. Kilimnik was a struggling artist, she saw the flowery British perfume at Saks Fifth Avenue. “I couldn’t afford it,” she said, recalling how the old-fashioned packaging and English heritage tugged at her heartstrings.
“I always loved England,” said Ms. Kilimnik, whose Anglophilia was practiced at great distance, from her childhood in Philadelphia. “I liked the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Sherlock Holmes and Mary Poppins and ‘The Avengers.’ But mostly the Beatles.”
Over the years she also developed a soft spot for British royalty, especially Prince Charles and Diana, who, as luck would have it, was herself an ardent fan of Bluebell — at least, according to Penhaligon’s, which holds the royal warrant. “I read all the books about her, and none of them ever mentioned Bluebell,” Ms. Kilimnik said suspiciously.
By late 1998 Ms. Kilimnik had become enough of a success to go to London in style on an art fellowship. There, in a pharmacy, she came face to face with her old flame.
“I thought, I shouldn’t spend all that,” she said. “I had never bought a real perfume for myself.” But spend all that she did. (Today a 100-milliliter bottle is $90.) One might think that the perfume reminds her of this glorious moment, of having arrived professionally, and in London no less, but Ms. Kilimnik said no.
“I love the apothecary shape of the bottle,” she said. “I love the label, which is so old-fashioned, and I love the royal warrants. But primarily I just love the smell. It’s very pure and essential. It smells like fresh-cut grass.”
The perfume is stored in Ms. Kilimnik’s refrigerator; she’s not taking any chances with its going bad. “Although it didn’t stop the last bottle from turning green after a while,” she said.
More than a sweet aroma, though, the perfume distills rather nicely the genius of Ms. Kilimnik’s blue-skied world. In a culture where you open yourself up to ridicule for liking anything — headbands, Kelly Clarkson, Los Angeles — unless you’re doing it ironically, Ms. Kilimnik has tapped into the sweet smell of her own world, and her own creation.
And if you don’t like it, well, why don’t you try?
16 March 2008
3/17: The UIC Faculty Screening Series, Part One (BEN RUSSELL)
To Whom It May Concern;
You are cordially invited to attend an informal screening of THE SELECTED WORKS OF BEN RUSSELL on Monday the 17th of March at 6:00pm. This screening of film and/or video works* by UIC Faculty Member BEN RUSSELL (in person) will take place in The Screening Room (ADH 3320) on the 3rd Floor of 400 S. Peoria. Discussion and refreshments are encouraged.
Yours Truly,
The Management
*FEATURING: Black and White Trypps Number One (6:30, 16mm, 2005), Black and White Trypps Number Two (9:00, 16mm, 2006), Black and White Trypps Number Three (12:00, 16mm, 2007), Black and White Trypps Number Four (10:30, 16mm, 2008), Trypps #5 (Dubai) (3:00, 16mm, 2008), Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai) (8:00, 16mm, 2008)
* * * * * * * * *
NOTE: This screening marks the first of THE SELECTED WORKS OF UIC
FACULTY screenings. Numbers 2 - 6 shall transpire as follows:
#2) 31 March: The Selected Works of JENNIFER MONTGOMERY
#3) 07 April: The Selected Works of BUKI BODUNRIN and EMILY KUEHN
#4) 14 April: The Selected Works of SILVIA MALAGRINO
#5) 21 April: The Selected Works of DOUG ISCHAR
#6) 28 April: The Selected Works of DEBORAH STRATMAN and PAUL DICKINSON
quick reads on big art
http://grammarpolice.net/
light weight industry stuff.
also:
A 35-minute documentary on the discourse surrounding the 2005 vandalism of a deer sculpture by New York artist Marc Swanson, titled 'Fits and Starts.' More than just a timeline of events, the documentary traces the public discussion about the vandalism--from Facebook to the DePauw newspaper, to the 'rally' and D3TV, student/faculty protests and some considered thoughts, from faculty, staff and students in the following weeks. The film doesn't attempt to sway opinion or incite emotion, but it instead works to capture the local reaction to a very unique and largely polarized event.
On a larger scale, the film is an examination of university culture at a small liberal arts school that was the setting for the vandalism of a $60,000 work of public art. Was this incident specific to DePauw or is it just as probable at any liberal arts school or university? Who points at whom when public art is vandalized? And most importantly, who is responsible?
light weight industry stuff.
also:
A 35-minute documentary on the discourse surrounding the 2005 vandalism of a deer sculpture by New York artist Marc Swanson, titled 'Fits and Starts.' More than just a timeline of events, the documentary traces the public discussion about the vandalism--from Facebook to the DePauw newspaper, to the 'rally' and D3TV, student/faculty protests and some considered thoughts, from faculty, staff and students in the following weeks. The film doesn't attempt to sway opinion or incite emotion, but it instead works to capture the local reaction to a very unique and largely polarized event.
On a larger scale, the film is an examination of university culture at a small liberal arts school that was the setting for the vandalism of a $60,000 work of public art. Was this incident specific to DePauw or is it just as probable at any liberal arts school or university? Who points at whom when public art is vandalized? And most importantly, who is responsible?
12 March 2008
Oh, The Excitement of the Weekend!
There is much afoot in our fair city this week-end - here are some suggestions:
FRIDAY - SCREENING
Experimental Film Club Presents SANS SOLEIL 7:00 at Film Studies Center, 5811 S. Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall 301 (at U of C) - FREE
One of the true classics of the essay film genre, Chris Marker's travelogue of a trip through the contemporary global society is brimming with a remarkable range of wit, stylistic invention and insight. (1993, 35mm, 100 minutes)
FRIDAY - SCREENING
Experimental Film Club Presents ALTERNATE VIEWPOINTS 9:00 at Film Studies Center, 5811 S. Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall 301 (at U of C) - FREE
Women are the focus, but not the object of Trinh T. Minh-ha's influential first film Reassemblage (1982), a complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through a complicity of interaction between film and spectator, Minh-ha reflects on documentary filmmaking and the ethnographic representation of cultures. Literally and stubbornly a remake - that is a perfect replica in color and in English of Harun Farocki's hugely influential essay film Inextiguishable Fires, What Farocki Taught (Jill Godmilow, 1998) explores the political and formal strategies of Farocki's film about the development of Napalm B by Dow Chemical during the Vietnam War. (16mm, 70 minutes total)
SATURDAY - SCREENING
Roots and Culture Presents MICHAEL ROBINSON 8:00 at Roots and Culture Gallery, 1034 N. Milwaukee Ave (at Noble St.) - FREE
An award-winning local filmmaker (AND UIC MFA GRAD), Robinson's work focuses on "the poetics of loss and the dangers of mediated experience." This screening will feature four of Robinson's films, including "And We All Shine On" and "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," which won the Best International Film prize at the 2006 Images Festival in Toronto. Supplementing these films will be four movies by other filmmakers that Robinson has selected to highlight his influences and interests, including work by Kent Lambert and Lewis Klahr. Michael Robinson's films have screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, the London Film Festival, and Anthology Film Archives. He is a co-founder of Philadelphia's Small Change Film Series, and recently curated and presented a program of American film and video at multiple venues in Moscow and St. Petersburgh. Originally from upstate NY, Michael holds a BFA from Ithaca College, and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. More information on his work can be found at his website, www.poisonberries.net
www.rootsandculturecac.org
FRIDAY - SCREENING
Experimental Film Club Presents SANS SOLEIL 7:00 at Film Studies Center, 5811 S. Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall 301 (at U of C) - FREE
One of the true classics of the essay film genre, Chris Marker's travelogue of a trip through the contemporary global society is brimming with a remarkable range of wit, stylistic invention and insight. (1993, 35mm, 100 minutes)
FRIDAY - SCREENING
Experimental Film Club Presents ALTERNATE VIEWPOINTS 9:00 at Film Studies Center, 5811 S. Ellis Ave, Cobb Hall 301 (at U of C) - FREE
Women are the focus, but not the object of Trinh T. Minh-ha's influential first film Reassemblage (1982), a complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through a complicity of interaction between film and spectator, Minh-ha reflects on documentary filmmaking and the ethnographic representation of cultures. Literally and stubbornly a remake - that is a perfect replica in color and in English of Harun Farocki's hugely influential essay film Inextiguishable Fires, What Farocki Taught (Jill Godmilow, 1998) explores the political and formal strategies of Farocki's film about the development of Napalm B by Dow Chemical during the Vietnam War. (16mm, 70 minutes total)
SATURDAY - SCREENING
Roots and Culture Presents MICHAEL ROBINSON 8:00 at Roots and Culture Gallery, 1034 N. Milwaukee Ave (at Noble St.) - FREE
An award-winning local filmmaker (AND UIC MFA GRAD), Robinson's work focuses on "the poetics of loss and the dangers of mediated experience." This screening will feature four of Robinson's films, including "And We All Shine On" and "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," which won the Best International Film prize at the 2006 Images Festival in Toronto. Supplementing these films will be four movies by other filmmakers that Robinson has selected to highlight his influences and interests, including work by Kent Lambert and Lewis Klahr. Michael Robinson's films have screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, the London Film Festival, and Anthology Film Archives. He is a co-founder of Philadelphia's Small Change Film Series, and recently curated and presented a program of American film and video at multiple venues in Moscow and St. Petersburgh. Originally from upstate NY, Michael holds a BFA from Ithaca College, and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. More information on his work can be found at his website, www.poisonberries.net
www.rootsandculturecac.org
SIGN UP! THE SIGN IS UP!
Dear AD463,
We wanted to let you know that the SIGN-UP SHEET for faculty advising on Thursday and Thursday-Next is on the door of the 5th floor faculty office. Slots are for 20:00 each and advising will take place during the first half of each studio class. Students who want to meet with a specific faculty member and/or plan for a meeting are advised to use this sheet. All others will be subject to the whims of wandering professors (in the second half of the class)...
Yours,
The Management
We wanted to let you know that the SIGN-UP SHEET for faculty advising on Thursday and Thursday-Next is on the door of the 5th floor faculty office. Slots are for 20:00 each and advising will take place during the first half of each studio class. Students who want to meet with a specific faculty member and/or plan for a meeting are advised to use this sheet. All others will be subject to the whims of wandering professors (in the second half of the class)...
Yours,
The Management
10 March 2008
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