I have continued to talk with my friends and colleagues about Bill Ivey’s visit and his proposal to use “expressive life” to describe a range of behaviors, objects, and images that the terms “art” or “material culture” don’t adequately or… Continue Reading
Breaking Down the Fourth Wall: A Field Guide to Feminist Art in Olympia, is my final project for AAD 550: Art and (Sustainable) Society. Below are PDF versions of the text portion of the project, as well as the transmedia slideshow (Section 3 of the guide’s four sections). BreakingDowntheFourthWall_FeministArtinOlympia_FieldGuide Here is a link to Part […] Continue Reading
The following are reflections on learning objectives I set for the Art & (Sustainable) Society course at the start of the term (early October 2010). Become well-acquainted with a few creative web blogs. Be able to identify or conceptualize the art world(s) with which they engage and how they embody, employ, and contribute to transmedia. […] Continue Reading
Length: 1500 words Due: End of the day Tuesday November 23 (one group member should email essay to Doug at dblandy@uoregon.edu. Do not put your names on your essay. Only indicate what group your are in (letter and number). Our… Continue Reading
Gardner Campbell’s lecture yesterday on digital citizenship inspired me to post about Art and Society on my blog. Your comments welcome as participants in building the virtual spaceship.
Below is a response to Module 3 of the course AAD 550: Art and (Sustainable) Society: What is the aesthetic of our time? In what ways do practices, ideas, narratives, or ideologies associated with this aesthetic depend on transmediations? When I consider “the aesthetic of our time”, I picture layers, collaged bodies of images and […] Continue Reading
Group B2: Roya Amirsoleymani, Emily Dobkin, Kelly Johnson, Lauren Silberman, Kelly Tavares Cultural democracy can be understood as the universal human right to access, shape, experience, benefit from, and participate in the world’s infinite manifestations of arts and culture, ideally realized as a nation free of “official” culture or systemic barriers that prevent citizens from […] Continue Reading