A reminder that we have Ruba Katrib with us tomorrow night (7:00pm FAB 249) as out visiting artist. Here is her short bio:
Ruba Katrib is Curator of SculptureCenter in Long Island City, NY. Previously she was Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. Recent curated exhibitions include Puddle, pothole, portal (2014),Jumana Manna: Menace of Origins (2014), David Douard: )juicyo’fthe nest (2014), and Better Homes (2013).
Nathaniel Stern
Friday, June 20th
3:30-4:30 pm
Room 332 Fine Arts Building
Nathaniel Stern is an artist and writer, Fulbright grantee and professor, interventionist and public citizen. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from ecological, participatory and online interventions, interactive, immersive and mixed reality environments, to prints, sculptures, videos, performances and hybrid forms. His book, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance, takes a close look at the stakes for interactive and digital art, and his ongoing work in industry has helped launch dozens of new businesses, products and ideas. Stern has been featured in the likes of the Wall Street Journal, Guardian UK, Huffington Post, Daily Mail, Washington Post, Daily News, BBC’s Today show, Wired, Time, Forbes, Fast Company, Scientific American, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Leonardo Journal of Art, Science and Technology, Rhizome, Furtherfield, Turbulence, and more. According to Chicago’s widely popular Bad at Sports art podcast, Stern has “the most varied and strange bio of maybe anyone ever on the show,” and South Africa’s Live Out Loud magazine calls him a “prolific scholar” as well as artist, whose work is “quite possibly some of the most relevant around.” Dubbed one of Milwaukee’s “avant-garde” (Journal Sentinel), Stern has been called “an interesting and prolific fixture” (Artthrob.co.za) behind many “multimedia experiments” (Time.com), “accessible and abstract simultaneously” (Art and Electronic Media web site), someone “with starry, starry eyes” (Wired.com) who “makes an obscene amount of work in an obscene amount of ways” (Bad at Sports). According to Caleb A. Scharf at Scientific American, Stern’s art is “tremendous fun” but also “fascinating” in how it is “investigating the possibilities of human interaction and art.”
Stern is an Associate Professor of Art and Design in Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and a Research Associate at the Research Centre, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Johannesburg. More information: http://nathanielstern.com/
As a part of the formLab Project Fellows program at FAR, Sam Kronick will be conducting a free workshop this coming Friday (9AM-1PM) and Saturday (10AM-6PM). Spaces are limited to 10 people. To RSVP, please email me at mlray@fsu.edu.
Workshop description:
SENSING INFRASTRUCTURE will be a 2-day workshop about tools and
techniques for space exploration in the Tallahassee area. Participants
will walk along a portion of the 14.3-mile-long path traced by the
Tallahassee Fiber Loop, a piece of anonymous infrastructure that will
act as our guide. The TFL is a buried fiber optic cable that surrounds
the Tallahassee area and provides high speed networking connections for
research and commercial clients, but for the purposes of this workshop
it will function primarily as a structuring device for seeing the region
from an unconventional perspective. How does this otherwise-invisible
piece of technology inhabit and occupy space? As a line, does it act as
a connector or a boundary? Does it create new spaces or is the
surrounding landscape left unchanged? As we walk, we will discuss and
use tools for sensing and recording space ranging from drawing and
photography to 3D scanning and WIFI network logging. Simultaneously, we
will experiment with actions and techniques that provide algorithmic
structure to our exploration in a tradition spanning Situationist and
Surrealist games to contemporary architectural sites studies.
Workshop participants should bring cameras, sketchbooks, audio
recorders, or any other materials/tools they wish to use to document the
space we will move through.
Recommended Readings for Workshop Participants:
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PDF’s are available here:
http://slowerinternet.com/FSU/FSU_readings.zip
http://slowerinternet.com/FSU/FSU_readings_bonus.zip (optional)
“Invisible City (Telecommunication)” from The Infrastructural City (by
Kazys Varnelis)
Maps and diagrams of the Las Vegas Strip from Learning from Las Vegas
(by Venturi, Scott Brown, Izenour)
“Map Piece” and “Travel Piece” from grapefruit (by Yoko Ono)
bonus readings for the extra motivated:
“Situationist Space” (Thomas F. McDonough)
“Field Conditions” (Stan Allen)
Allan Sekula, 1951-2013 (East of Borneo).
Allan Sekula had a remarkable, indomitable spirit. For over two years, from the first word that his body could not be repaired, he fought against the inevitable with inner strength and grace. At first he continued to travel for his work, then his many collaborators traveled to him so that several projects could move forward. He lost weight and he lost energy, but he never lost that keen eye and sharp mind that saw so clearly what was wrong with this world. Hospitalized again after suffering a massive hemorrhage, he finally gave up the struggle on Saturday, August 10.
As a writer, Allan described with great clarity and passion what photography can, and must do: document the facts of social relations while opening a more metaphoric space to allow viewers the idea that things could be different. And as a photographer he set out to do just that. He laid bare the ugliness of exploitation, but showed us the beauty of the ordinary; of ordinary, working people in ordinary, unremarkable places doing ordinary, everyday things. And, like the rigorous old-style leftist that he was, he infused that beauty with a deep sense of morality.
From the beginning he was concerned with the numbing regime of the punch-card, but over the past two decades expanded his frame to encompass the contemporary maritime world, the complex trading routes of international shipping lines and the vast oceans on which they ply their trade. This epic project grew from a relatively conventional Fish Story (1989-1995), with its didactic arrangements of photographs and texts, to “The Forgotten Space” (2010), the extraordinary film he made with Noel Burch.
The website for the film, which includes essays and photographs, as well as a trailer that allows us once again to hear Allan’s voice, can be found at http://www.theforgottenspace.net.
The image above is from a part of Fish Story, and is titled Dismal Science: Part 1. Middle Passage. Mid-Atlantic, November 1993.
Respond:
Buttons in a project by Sascha Pohflepp playing on the notion of the camera as a networked object. Unlike a conventional analog or digital camera, this one doesn’t have any optical parts. It is a camera that will only capture a moment at the press of a button by recording only the time it was pressed. Quickly after it begins to continuously search on the net for other photos that have been taken in the very same moment and displays on the screen. Essentially, it is a camera that – using a SonyEricsson K750i hidden behind the boxing – takes other’sphotos. Photos that were created by someone who pressed a button somewhere at the same time as its own button was pressed.
This gallery just contacted me for the second time even though I told them I wasn’t interested once before. They just can’t get it in their heads people don’t like to “pay to play.”
From: The Brick Lane Gallery
Subject: Exhibition opportunity in London.
Date: November 24, 2011 8:37:47 AM EST
To: Owen Mundy
Hi there,
I stumbled across your art on the Fine Art America website and was really impressed with your work. I work for The Brick Lane Gallery in London; we are a rentable gallery space where artists can showcase their work in both group and solo shows.
If you are interested in exhibiting in our ‘Art in Mind’ group shows our next available dates run between the 14th – 27th February 2012 then please email our Gallery Manager, Daisy Darby on info@thebricklanegallery.com
We very much look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Mateusz
Gallery Assistant
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What a sweet rant this is…
It isn’t the kind of joke that actually makes you laugh, but the visual arts world isn’t all that good at making people laugh. The visual arts world likes to use words like “interrogate” and “notion” and “question”, which other people think are embarrassing art-school clichés, but which it seems to think are piercing poetic truths. It also seems to think that you can “interrogate” and “question” the values of a culture – its obsession with celebrity, say, or marketing, or hype — while also getting, and keeping, and eating, an awful lot of cake.
Read more in: Thank God For an Artist Who Thinks Art Isn’t Just About ‘Big Power’ by Christina Patterson
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