Announcements:

Richard Herskavitz, Director of Cinema Pacific and AAD adjunct professor, invited students to assist in administration of Cinema Pacific by taking his winter and spring term classes.

Doug invites volunteers for the OFN Symposium on November 19.

Cartune Exprez tomorrow in John Fenn’s class tomorrow from noon-2 PM. All invited. Discussion will be around Cartune Exprez vision and community programming. More information on John Fenn’s Media Management blog.

This Friday is First Friday. Begins at Passion Flower. Linver dj-ing at DIVA.

University Theater – Love Labors Lost

Brava Breakfast this Friday at Hult at 7:30 AM

AESTHETICS

In the past the question had been “Is the re-mix the aesthetic of our time?” Based on our remix this year the question has been opened up. Question to provoke and ponder.

What do we mean by aesthetics? Appearance; judging and evaluating, historical –refers to time period; collective agreement and debate about what we find pleasing-ness; guiding set of principles around appearances, philosophical endeavor, bounds or unbounds “art,” not universally shared, sometimes linked to “beauty,” framework for judging/evaluating.

What is relationship of aesthetics to the work we do in community?

Practices: Judging salability and quality of work by youth, curating, pushing against the norm, reinforcing the norm, avant gardness + divergent opinions.

Aesthetics are constantly in motion.

What defines our time?

How do we know where we are in time?

Are we all now critics?

Blog Comments

(Course Capture Soundtrack:  ELO)

What is behind the remix / mashup that suggests aesthetic principles.

Is there no new music, art, fashion…? If accurate – when did that happen? What does this question assume?

Are there limits to our imagination?

Aesthetic arrogance

Is there an aesthetic ethos?

Access. A $1500.00 permits most anything?

Process –  (from Wordle) immediacy, compiling, moving, sharing, making, reaching, interactivity, mediating, responding…

How can process be fore grounded when considering aesthetics.

Can aesthetics be a verb?

Becker’s discussion of editing has relevance here.

(Class Capture Soundtrack: Girl Talk)

They just did… (said with a sneer).

(Class Capture Soundtrack: Beck – Two turntables and a microphone)

Wiggy wiggy thing, source material

What is originality?

Performance artist who eats chocolate and lard and then throws up

Moving pictures

Aesthetics and technology

What happens when everybody is  a Girl Talk artist?

Interrogating The Wire

The WIRE (see pdfs on Course Site Module 3)

Publication has become much more transmedia in its approach. How are aesthetics communicated in the pages of this magazine. Examine pages from the September and November issues and consider how aesthetics, programming, culture, etc. is communicated.

Prompts:

CONSIDER How the kinds of art/culture programming, practices, & issues discussed ARTICULATE aesthetics of the time.

THINK about how we, as arts managers, might tackle or approach such issues via our professional practice.

Responses: We need to find ways for more people to participate. How do we curate both experience, but also encourage participation? Ephemeral collectivity as programming. INSTAL – how to accommodate conversation as art – issues of framing. Collaboration as an aesthetic. Options for participation. Creating a conversation between performer and audience – interactivity. Letter to the editor – Let’s get small – importance of “smallness” in relationship to innovation. Let’s talk about what we are doing while we are doing it. What counts as performance? How do we navigate boundaries between genres? How do we judge things as programmers? Critique of aesthetics within aesthetics. Does history limit us? Wire as a transmedia institution – print, facebook, website, t-shirts/hoodies, etc. REVISIONING or REIMAGINING. FUSION – individuality & collective.

How do we accommodate both “old” and “new?” How to observe the “bandwagon” without jumping on it? What are similarities and differences between curating and programming? Is there an aesthetic dimension to each?

THE END