25 January 2008

Exhibit

Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print

January 18–April 6, 2008
Main Gallery

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art 40 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208-2410
Phone: 847-491-4000 Fax: 847-491-2261 E-mail:
block-museum@northwestern.edu

19 January 2008

a few upcoming shows, lectures, events of note















rirkrit tiravanija
speaks at the chicago cultural center on wednesday the 30th:
http://www.saic.edu/news/releases/index.html#current/SLC_16239

arturo herrera lecture at gallery 400 on monday the 28th:
http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400/02_voices.htm

adaptation at the smart museum, opening on thursday the 31:
http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/

18 January 2008

Describe and sketch-out your project for finals

If you know how to use PowerPoint or Keynote do the following:

1. Create one slide (page)

• Briefly, in one sentence describe your background. Include up to three images to illustrate your point (this is similar to your artist’s statement)

Example: In the last ……. (years or months) I have been creating …….. to address……… . I’ve done a series of …..

• Briefly, in one sentence comment on what you think is successful in the work and/or problematic.


2. Create one slide (page)

• Describe your proposed project answering and addressing the following:
What medium or mediums do you intend to use?
What issues will you address in the new work? Why those issues are important to you ? Describe plans to produce the project
How will this new work impact your development

Example: During this semester I intend to create….
I will be making a….
I will be dealing with….
This is important to me because….
I plan to….
This work will…

If you don’t know how to use PowerPoint or Keynote, you can use Photoshop and save as JPEGs. You can also use Microsoft Word and
save as a PDF. If you don’t know any of the above, well.. type and make sure you attend the technical workshops because final presentations will be done similarly.

Bring the presentation in your flash drive (if this applies to you)

10 January 2008

The Social Turn







Claire Bishop,
The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents
, 2006

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:enTO08zHDh8J:www.arch.kth.se/unrealstockholm/production_2006_07/Claire%2520Bishop.rtf+the+social+turn+claire+bishop&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us&client=firefox-a

plus related reading:


http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/arthistory/research/staffinterests/bishop/

http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2006/07/socially_engage.php

http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/170456721.html

http://www.kollectiv.co.uk/Labour.html

Doig & Ofili