studios clean and clear

Sadly (and/or happily), below is information regarding the deadline to have your 4th or 5th floor studio space clear and clean by. Studio should be in the condition they were when you started working in them.

By 11:00 a.m., Monday May 12:

Clear work space & return it to previous condition:

Repaint / touch up walls & floors if the space has evidence of "substantial use." ( use only paint from 4th floor Woodshop).

All projects must be removed.

All Lockers must be cleared.

Personal supplies, tools, equipment must be removed from the building.

No ADH ACCESS for undergraduate studio work during summer break.

ID card /access validation ends on Saturday May 10. ADH is closed Sunday May 11. ADH building day-time hours resume 8 am Monday May 12 .

Space will be checked 11:00 a.m., Monday May 12.
Grade will be withheld if space is not cleared / re-painted at that time.

OPRAH BURIAL MASK

http://leokesting.com/

“The Oprah Burial Mask depicts for the viewer a celebration of an inner beauty for which we could all aspire,” says gallery director David Kesting of the life-sized hollowed bust. “If we each imagined an object that represented us at our most ideal for all eternity, we might hold ourselves to the highest standards, both morally and spiritually.”

“Standing before the burial mask of King Tut’s great-grandmother when it was displayed in Philadelphia, I finally understood how the creation of an object could be the act of preparing for a better place. It inspired me to create such an object,” explains the artist, whose favorite reference for his contemporary burial mask was a photo of Oprah Winfrey praying. “I tried to depict the feeling of inner peace that was so evident on Oprah’s face in that photo.”

yale art student controversy

hype machine

free passes to ArtChicago

black is, black ain't @ the renn

april 20-june 8
the renaissance society
university of illinois campus
check out this show and essay.

security detail: new and improved

PLEASE NOTE: THIS HAS BEEN UPDATED!
Security Schedule
(Will sit in great space, except during opening when will stand at 2 entrances to building)

Friday 4/18
11-1:00 Alberto
1-3:00 Pat
3-5:00 Jerry
5:00-5:45 CUPPA entrance: Rand
ADH entrance: Nick
5:45-6:30 CUPPA entrance: Liz
ADH entrance: Joe T
6:30-7:15 CUPPA entrance: Josh
ADH entrance: Nicole
7:15-8:00 CUPPA entrance: Rita
ADH entrance: Luke

Saturday4/19
11-1:00 Rafael
1-3:00 Summer
3-5:00 Joe T

Sunday 4/20
11-1:00 Holly
1-3:00 Chris
3-5:00 Josh

Monday 4/21
11-1:00 Nicole
1-3:00 Rita
3-5:00 Ben B.

Tuesday 4/22
11-1:00 Anna
1-3:00 Linda
3-5:00 Christine

Die Artspeak Die!

No, I don't read Time magazine, but I found a link to this article and enjoyed it....

http://time-blog.com/looking_around/2008/04/the_decline_and_fall_of_wester.html

aktionizzm

When is a Fashion Ad not a Fashion Ad

Press release.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact: Phantom Laureate Promotions
Contact Person: Rand Sevilla
Company Name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Telephone Number: 312.315.1802
Email Address: randsevilla@gmail.com

Year of the Rat: UIC BFA Thesis Show

Chicago, IL, April 18th-April 23rd — The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Art and Design is pleased to welcome all interested parties to the 2008 Spring Undergraduate Thesis exhibition opening Friday, April 18th from 5 pm to 8 pm at the school’s Great Space Gallery at 400 S Peoria Street.

Titled Year of the Rat, this semester’s crop of creative hopefuls present their respective bodies of work: video, painting, sculpture, photography, drawing and other media will be on display and up for discussion over catered food and rising talents. Consider this your opportunity to be able to say “I knew them before they were big”.

If you can’t make it on Friday, you need not fret. Year of the Rat will be open for viewing everyday from 11am to 5 pm until April 23rd.

For additional information or Questions Contact:
Rand Sevilla 312.315.1802 or randsevilla@gmail.com
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Gustave Courbet

AMAZING WORK, LIFE, SHOW.

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."

Interesting "State of the Arts" article - Museums Refine the Art of Listening

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.

John Gage's Colour and Culture

Please read Intro only (pp 7-10). Comment with a 2 paragraph response (thoughtful, intelligent, etc.)

CANCELLED: My show on saturday

see a few posts below

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.....

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)

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