Response?

 AARON FOWLER on SeeSaw.

artist from United Arab Emirates

Maitha Demithan, from the United Arab Emirates, uses a scanner to make art. There is some interesting work coming from women in the Greater Middle East.

Christian Boltanski's new work is sound, heartbeats from around the world, and is on one of the islands in Japan that seem to be dedicated to art:
Naoshima, Japan

sally mann on npr today

listen to the npr story
for all of you who want to learn wet plate collodion this April.

Adrienne Grunwald

Adrienne Grunwald is a New York City based photographer

I went ahead and pulled a few images from her website.

(I like the way she designed her menu and info options).

this was taken from her (quite funny) series called "Better Something For Nothing"

from "Movements" series 

this one is from her series "Parc Chateau"

which was selected for Project Basho's Onward 11' 

Adrienne's blog

Libby Rowe

This is a link to Libby Rowe's "Dwellings" series. I don't know if you guys ever got a chance to hear her speak at Watkins (Tori had her speak for my photo II class) but she is really great. I have recently been most inspired by this "Dwellings" series.

Dwellings.

formatting for your papers

Here is the link to the Owl at Purdue - a great site to reference before you turn in your papers. Follow their ideas of formatting your paper (where to put your name) and citations.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Mary Daniel Hobson

Artist Statement

“Inspired by a dream, I have been gathering photographs from my past and bottling them. The torn edges of the photographs reference the fragmentary nature of memory. When grouped together in sets, the images take on a cubistic quality, emulating how the eye moves through a scene, never quite recording the entire picture.

I am also interested in the conflation of art and science. The photographs hover in mineral oil like specimens, once fully alive, now waiting to be analyzed. I have been particularly drawn to imagery of the natural world because it is nature that science has worked so hard to seal and study while paradoxically it is nature that holds mysteries larger than can ever possibly be contained.”

Last Week!

Is it required for art to be pleasurable?

How do we break down the binary system (masculine/feminine) in cultural ideology? 

Without destruction can there be creation?

Is it possible for a photograph to not be nostalgic?

How do we find our audience?

Sam's Questions

1. What defines a photograph?

2. Are there standards?

3. Is criticism necessary?

4. Who has the ownership of the photograph?

5. How important is the artist life's role in the art they are making?

Lauren's Questions

1. What is the importance of the title- and how does it effect the work?

2. Do we as viewers and artists have to agree with the 'authority' that a work IS art? If not, then what happens- how do we challenge the authority?

3. Which is more important when determining a work of art- the system behind it or the viewers opinion?

4. What is the role of the museum? Is the art still considered art once it has left the museum walls or if it even makes it to the museum walls... Does it's importance change?

5. Which audience is considered more important? (What I mean is, is the every day outside world more important or those who constantly attend gallery shows and are more 'trained'?)