You young witches and wizards,
You did well on your final. The grades are not going to be online for you until after January 2nd, because we took the final so late in the semester, but if you need to know your grades before then, I can email them to you individually this week some time, just let me know. And the graded finals will be in your folders at school soon. I also saved the flash slide presentation on this blog as a draft so that we don't have to sign in everytime we view the blog. We can reactivate them at anytime, and I will let you know if the password changes for the slides website. Enjoy the cold you enchanted Jersey folk.
Warmly, Yuley, and Scatologically Yours,
Nathan Shafier,
Professor of Defense Against the Dark Visual Arts,
Mason Gross School of the Farts
Friday, December 21, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
???????
why is the slides list on sldies.rutgers.edu the ones from the first test? theyre the slides from fall only i dont get it! and the username is slides, password user right? HELPPPPP
Friday, December 14, 2007
Seminar Exam Review Notes
I was unable to attend the exam review due to the weather and a long risky commute. Nathan suggested that I obtain notes from someone in class. Would anyone be able to provide me with the notes as soon as possible? My e-mail address is susannap@eden.rutgers.edu. Thank you very much. Mayissa Susanna
The Final Exam
To all my wizards and witches,
The final; exam will be on Thursday, get there by 7:00 pm, bring a pen and pencil, there will be paper provided. Sleep well the night before, know the artists you want to talk about, and you will do well. Good luck to you all and have a festive Yule, Christmas, Eid, Hanukka, Kwanzaa, or however you folks celebrate good times and cold weather.
Nathan Shafier,
Servant to the Jingle Bells of the Black Lectroids
The final; exam will be on Thursday, get there by 7:00 pm, bring a pen and pencil, there will be paper provided. Sleep well the night before, know the artists you want to talk about, and you will do well. Good luck to you all and have a festive Yule, Christmas, Eid, Hanukka, Kwanzaa, or however you folks celebrate good times and cold weather.
Nathan Shafier,
Servant to the Jingle Bells of the Black Lectroids
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Questions for the Final and Study Guide
Okay, so it is crazy outside, but we gotta study for the final.
I am going to give you four questions on the final, you are going to pick two and answer them. You guys gotta give at least three examples for the questions, so get ready to talk about the artist, and example of their work, and issues they are working woth which are relevant to their work. An example of a right answer is "Smithon was dealing with issues of entropy, which he developed in his spiral jetty on the great salt lake." and then you would explain all of those things in detail. A wrong answer is just shoving things together, "the Vienna Actionists were dealing with color and form, they wanted to make murals in LA like the Vietnam War Memorial." That is not right, think about what you write abd don't just sling info together, build up an essay that makes sense, and thats something you know.
The questions:
1)
Discuss, compare and contrast issues of site-specificity in the postminimalist practice of at least three artists, gives names and examples of their work.
2)
What are the issues important to artists working with performance art? Give the names of at least three artists and examples of their work, then relate the issues to their art.
3)
Discuss the issues of appropriation, the aura, documentation, simulacra, advertising and technology in relation to photography and video, give three examples (name, example, etc.)
4)
Discuss Duchamp's importance in the development of conceptual art, what topics, issues and forms did he pioneer that became important for conceptual artists and their practices (give three examples).
Now we will study like the friggin winds of change.
Hazah!
Le Prof Shafier of the Obliqueness and Teen Poems about Dead Birds
I am going to give you four questions on the final, you are going to pick two and answer them. You guys gotta give at least three examples for the questions, so get ready to talk about the artist, and example of their work, and issues they are working woth which are relevant to their work. An example of a right answer is "Smithon was dealing with issues of entropy, which he developed in his spiral jetty on the great salt lake." and then you would explain all of those things in detail. A wrong answer is just shoving things together, "the Vienna Actionists were dealing with color and form, they wanted to make murals in LA like the Vietnam War Memorial." That is not right, think about what you write abd don't just sling info together, build up an essay that makes sense, and thats something you know.
The questions:
1)
Discuss, compare and contrast issues of site-specificity in the postminimalist practice of at least three artists, gives names and examples of their work.
2)
What are the issues important to artists working with performance art? Give the names of at least three artists and examples of their work, then relate the issues to their art.
3)
Discuss the issues of appropriation, the aura, documentation, simulacra, advertising and technology in relation to photography and video, give three examples (name, example, etc.)
4)
Discuss Duchamp's importance in the development of conceptual art, what topics, issues and forms did he pioneer that became important for conceptual artists and their practices (give three examples).
Now we will study like the friggin winds of change.
Hazah!
Le Prof Shafier of the Obliqueness and Teen Poems about Dead Birds
Friday, December 7, 2007
im posting!
What draws the line between video art and day to day television?
Can an episode of seinfeld really go up in a gallery?
What elements constitute a photograph worth being called art?
are other photographs just not as important or is there something else?
Can an episode of seinfeld really go up in a gallery?
What elements constitute a photograph worth being called art?
are other photographs just not as important or is there something else?
Thursday, December 6, 2007
1973
Ok....here goes...I'm finally posting my second question...
In what ways has television contributed to the progression of visual art?
(I thought I'd ask a question that pertains to my major :] )
What truely is the definiton of "video art" ?
Short and sweet :]
Shoutouts to Bri Bri, Mich Mich, and Angelrey...
WORD.
In what ways has television contributed to the progression of visual art?
(I thought I'd ask a question that pertains to my major :] )
What truely is the definiton of "video art" ?
Short and sweet :]
Shoutouts to Bri Bri, Mich Mich, and Angelrey...
WORD.
Minimalist Photography
Ok.
So after reading all the material, I realize that all the work is repetitive and mundane. The work is non-representational, anonymous and boring. Also, if you watch any of Nam june paik's video installations, you may have an epilleptic seizure even if you dont have epillepsy. Does anyone understand the point in the photographs and video installations? Can anyone justify it?
Postmodermist "Picture"
Douglass Crimp said "We are not in search of souces of images...but of structures of signification: underneath each picutre there is always nother picture" how does this relate to the legal authorship problem where Sherrie Levine took a couple of Weston's Untitled, AFter Edward Weston series of his nude son and cropped as to include no more than his torso? Does it Make her the legal author of these series of pictures?
It is kind of confussing but quite true to some of male statues from the High Classical period, as the book says: itself (the original statue) the model for endless Roman copies.
Hey Nathan I just saw you!!! lol What did you think of Joanna's video final?
It is kind of confussing but quite true to some of male statues from the High Classical period, as the book says: itself (the original statue) the model for endless Roman copies.
Hey Nathan I just saw you!!! lol What did you think of Joanna's video final?
question
in 1964b, warhol talks of his appreciation for "boring things" when talking about his repetitive images he goes on to say "I dont want it to be essentially the same, i want it to be exactly the same. because the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel." warho claims to want a life of repetition with no meaning, empty of emotion or feeling. is this related to another famous warhol quote "i want to be a machine"? perhaps, like machines, warhol thinks that feelings and emotion are destractions to his productivity. does repetition or daily routine, like warhols claim of eating the same lunch everyday for 20 years, create a lack of emotion and meaning, like a machine, or frustration and discontent?
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Photography and Video
Okay,
So this is our last lecture class before the final. We are going to meet again in the slide library next week for the review. And someone has got to remind me to get you guys to fill out the course evaluation forms. I forgot to do it last week!
But here we go into the world of the lens. Go back to some of our first post and think about 'Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', the idea of the 'aura', it will be on the test.
To study:
1) the aura
2) simulacra/simlucarum
3) appropriation
4) originality (think of the modernist holy trinity of origin, original, and originality)
5) the idea of photos or videotape as reality, or as documentation, remember that video is inadmisable in court, think of Rodney King, OJ Simpson, the show COPS, all that stuff, legally video tape is not REAL!
6) the role of technology in art making and our ability to make art
7) the connections between advertising, magazines, newspapers, photos, pop art, journalism, documentary
8) how can art exist without the lens of a camera?
We have gone over everything you need to understand this text, just grab it all and make a friggin' salad!
Professor Shafier goes into the night like a recumbent moon over Miami...
So this is our last lecture class before the final. We are going to meet again in the slide library next week for the review. And someone has got to remind me to get you guys to fill out the course evaluation forms. I forgot to do it last week!
But here we go into the world of the lens. Go back to some of our first post and think about 'Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', the idea of the 'aura', it will be on the test.
To study:
1) the aura
2) simulacra/simlucarum
3) appropriation
4) originality (think of the modernist holy trinity of origin, original, and originality)
5) the idea of photos or videotape as reality, or as documentation, remember that video is inadmisable in court, think of Rodney King, OJ Simpson, the show COPS, all that stuff, legally video tape is not REAL!
6) the role of technology in art making and our ability to make art
7) the connections between advertising, magazines, newspapers, photos, pop art, journalism, documentary
8) how can art exist without the lens of a camera?
We have gone over everything you need to understand this text, just grab it all and make a friggin' salad!
Professor Shafier goes into the night like a recumbent moon over Miami...
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