Study Group- Wade Guyton
This week we looked at Wade Guyton AND HIS FREAKIN’ AMAZING PRINTS. I just love them so much. “Wade Guyton (b. 1972) is an American artist known for using large format printers, desktop computers, and scanners, to make digital “paintings” on canvas. Guyton’s process does not involve the traditional...
Study Group – Jon Rafman
This week the study group looked at Canadian artist Jon Rafman. We looked specifically at Nine Eyes of Google Street View, which is an ongoing project of images found on Google Street View. I first remember reading about his project Kool-Aid Man In Second Life though I just remember...
Study Group – Gutai
This week we looked at the post-WW2, Japanese avant garde art movement Gutai. Gutai was started by artist, critic, and teacher Jiro Yoshihara, along with Shozo Shimamoto with the instruction to ‘Do something no one has done before.” The word ‘gutai’ roughly translates into ’embodiment’ or ‘concreteness’ and the...
Study Group- I Am Sitting In A Room
I messed up this week and missed the first half hour. I was exercising and lost track of time! This week we listened to Alvin Lucier’s ‘I Am Sitting In A Room’. I’m interested in repetition and the unorthodox use of technology, so when I first heard this, it...
Study Group- Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore
This week in our independent study group we watched Mark Leckey’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore. I saw Mark Leckey’s show at the Tate Britain a few years ago https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/mark-leckey where Fiorucci was shown along with several other works of his. I’I’d only ever seen it on YouTube before, so...
Study Group – Jimmy Carr Destroys Art
This week we watched Channel 4’s show Jimmy Carr Destroys Art. I loved it! The premise: they take two piece of art both by ‘problematic’ people, they get two people to defend each piece (or explain why the other shouldn’t be defended), then the audience votes for the one...
Study Group – David Musgrave
A few of us decided to start an MA+ independent study group where we meet for an hour before our main MA meeting to discuss something we have all watched, listened to or read the previous week. The first week, I suggested a lecture called Thinking The Machine given...