September 2 | Introduction to the course: Topics, objectives & requirements. Discuss work brought into class. Create groups to Install for exhibition space for first three slots. Exchange phone numbers and emails. “Move into” senior studio spaces. WORK: Studio Assignment Meet in Group A & B to discuss themes, artworks and installing concepts. Groups will present September 9. Reading Assignment # 1: 1. Timelines of Modernism:The Roots of Modernism by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe 2. Has Modernism Failed? by Suzi Gablik. Andrew Surge and Meghan Baier will discuss these readings and present additional research to the class next week. | |||
September 9 | Groups A & B present installation concepts to entire class Andrew Surge and Meghan Baier lead discussion on readings to studio parameters to extend your work: Conceptual and concrete skill development Contextualizing Practice
WORK: Studio Assignment INTERNAL sourcing and references modernism (styles, techniques, philosophies, approaches). Bring work in-progress September 16th. Reading Assignment #2 IN THE MAKING, CREATIVE OPTIONS FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Weintraub, Linda, 2003 –Internal sources of Inspriration, pgs 126-I –External Sources of Inspiration. Pg 150-181 Chelsea Siciliano and Ariel Capellupo will discuss these readings and present additional research to the class next week. | |||
September 13 | INSTALL FIRST EXHIBITION: GROUP A, 5:30-10:30PM | |||
September 15 | EXHIBITION OPENING, 5:30-7:30 | |||
September 16 | – Assess Exhibition #1 – Chelsea Siciliano and Ariel Capellupo lead discussion on readings – Critique of work in-progress -– Internal sources of Inspriration –PRESENTATION: Qualities of Modernism: Where we’ve come from part II Studio Assignment In response to readings, develop a new work(s) that addresses external sourcing. Bring work in-progress September 23. Reading #3: 1. Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; 2. Clement Greenberg, Modernist Painting  | |||
September 18 | 12pm Saturday- Meet in Philadelphia at the ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 · Vox Populi 319A North 11th Street · Tiger Strikes Astroid http://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com/current.html · Marginal Utility http://www.marginalutility.org/ | |||
September 23 | VISITING ARTIST: Andrew Suggs Cristina Rutkowski and Ranna Chaudry lead discussion on readings. WORK: Studio Assignment external sourcing. Bring finished works September 30. Screening Assignment 1. Modernism and relation to Time-Media: video screenings -Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin -Ballet Mécanique, Fernand Léger -Rhythmus 23, Hans Richter- Un Chien Andalou Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí | |||
September 26 | GROUP A : DE-INSTALL, 12-6PM | |||
September 27 | GROUP B: INSTALL, 5:30-10:30PM | |||
September 29 | EXHIBITION OPENING, 5:30-7:30 | |||
September 30 | April Moorhouse and Daniel Ditzel lead discussion on readings. ALUMNI EXHIBITION panel discussion11:00am-12pm in Mayo Concert Hall (class meets early)
WORK: Studio Assignment Reading Assignment #5: 1.Modernity- An Incomplete Project by Jurgen Habermas 2.Postmodernism and Consumer Society by Fredric Jameson. Katie McFarland and Jessica Hauck will discuss these readings and present additional research to the class next week. | |||
| October 7 | Continuation of Critique: Teri /Ranna/ Jess / Meghan/ Dan/ April Ariel / Katie R - Katie McFarland and Jessica Hauck lead discussion on readings. –PRESENTATION: POSTMODERNISM and the Anti-Aesthetic – Plans for Student exhibition spaces Studio Assignment In response to readings, develop new work(s) that addresses external sourcing. Bring work in-progress October 14. Reading Assignment #6 The Death of the Author Roland Barthes ( go to http://theoryandpractice498.blogspot.com/p/readings.html) Scroll down to readings #6 Handout: Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 Kim McCauley and Therese McCans will discuss these readings and present additional research to the class next week. | |||
October 10 | GROUP B DE-INSTALL, 12-6PM | |||
October 11 | THESIS CLASS COLLABORATION INSTALL, 5:30-10:30 | |||
October 13 | EXHIBITION OPENING, 5:30-7:30 | |||
October 9 | Class trip: New York: PS1, Greater New York | |||
October 14 | – Kim McCauley and Therese McCans lead discussion on readings. – PRESENTATION: Postmodernism: Loss, Identity(ies) and Gains – Discuss works in Student exhibition spaces; evaluate Group B exhibition WORK: Studio Assignment external sourcing. Bring work in-progress on October 21. *** REWORK EXHIBITION**** Reading Assignment # 7 (on SOCS resources) 1.IDENTITY: From Themes in Contemporary Art 2.THE BODY:From Themes in Contemporary Art 3. TIME: From Themes in Contemporary Art Katie Rossiter and Spencer Denauski will discuss these readings and present additional research to the class next week. | |||
October 21 October 28 | Katie Rossiter and Spencer Denauski lead discussion on readings Outline of Research paper due WORK: Studio Assignment In response to readings, develop a new work(s) that addresses external sourcing. Bring finished works for critique November 4. Reading Assignment #8 1. Lev Manovich, Post-media Aesthetics, 2001 http://www.manovich.net/ 2. The Reconfigured Eye (Intention & Artifice) by William T Mitchell ________________________________________________ In -class critique. OUTLINE OF RESEARCH PAPER DUE | |||
October 31 | THESIS CLASS COLLABORATION DE-INSTALL, 12-6PM | |||
November 4 | – PRESENTATION and SYNTHESIS: how to more fully expand on projects
WORK: Studio Assignment work, create works that further expand your most successful works as a body of work. First exploration of this due next week. | |||
VISITING ARTIST: Jim JohnsonFirst Draft of Research paper due | ||||
November 18 | VISITING ARTIST Willie Cole 11:30-12:30 SAC (class meets early) – PRESENTATION: STRATEGIES OTHER ARTISTS HAVE EMPLOYED – Critique – Preparing for Senior Faculty Crits WORK: Studio Assignment In response to class presentation and your subsequent studio work, create works that further expand your most successful works as a body of work. Second level exploration of this due December 1. | |||
November | ||||
DECEMBER 1 | FACULTY CRITIQUES 5:30-9PM This is a Wednesday, please plan ahead to arrange this to be an available date. | |||
Not meeting during regular class-time as we met the night before! | ||||
– Assess and synthesize critiques from 12/1 – Visual Presentations of Research paper (half the class) – Paper due | ||||
| Monday 11:00AM - 1:50PM in 121Visual Presentations of Research paper (remaining half of class) |
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