WEEK 05: Tuesday 24 october 2006
Site, identity, technology. Site-specific approaches to photographic work.
browsing for class and to view on your own:
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (Chicago project)
Stefan Gec.
NATURAL HISTORY.portraits of the first six firefighters to have died containing the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear power Station.
http://www.locusplus.org.uk/sg.html
Alison Marchant – Charged Atmosphere
http://www.uwic.ac.uk/fineart-research/staffdocs/am/am3.htm
http://www.uwic.ac.uk/fineart-research/staffdocs/am/amtxt.htm
Krzysztof Wodiczko.
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York, 1984-1985
http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/imagesandideas/pages/artistpicture.cfm?page=174
Edinburgh Projections1988 http://www.artangel.org.uk/pages/past/88/88_wodiczko.htm
http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Krzysztof/krzy.htm
jenny holzer: electronic display boards
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/context/artists/holzer/holzer0.html
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/context/artists/holzer/jhtext.html
ARTe
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s series of «Relational Architecture». Scan
http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/eproyecto.html
Ga Zhang. Peoples’ Portrait, connected cities,
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/peoples-portrait/
Giselle Beiguelman. Poetrica. Teleintervention. allowed to anyone submit messages, by the web and SMS to there electronic billboards located in São Paulo
http://www.poetrica.net/
Tim Etchell. Alphabet Billboard Cambridge. residents of the area, send images taken with picture-messaging phones provided exclusively for the project
http://www.junction.co.uk/PublicArtVE/etchells.html
Speakers Corner
http://www.speakerscorner.org.uk/
assignments to be read PRIOR to class meeting and be prepared to discuss them in class:
Steve Dietz. Public Sphere_s
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/public_sphere_s/public_sphere_s/1/
Comment the quote from Patricia Phillips: «A growing number of artists and agencies believe that the responsibility of public artists and agencies is not to create permanent objects for presentation in traditionally accepted public places but, instead, to assist in the construction of a public—to encourage through actions, ideas, and interventions, a participatory audience where none seemed to exist.» // In the chapter Space as Public Art, discuss: “Increasingly…the fabric of physical public spaces, not just what happens in them, is becoming hybrid, reactive, virtualized. This is happening with all of the traditional public spaces…”/// Discuss Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s series of «Relational Architecture» as examples of space as public art. Comment: «Since the 1970s, artists have used their work to address the way public space is increasingly being transformed by the influence of (mass) media and private commercial interests.
Wikipedia: Site-specific art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_art
be prepared to discuss the problems inherent to new art media practices when the authors are “parachuted” into historically and/or socially compex situations and examine jeremy deller’s battle of orgreave at the light of this criticism
DUE on class 6 | POST ON blog
Brief 3- [CONTINUATION] mapping : articulate a photo-narrative about the perceived conditions and the imagined answer
statement 3 (300-500w): Document /discuss it in your blog
photocultures 
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