Below are links to various projects produced by students in last year’s run of this course: dumpster dive art Whiteaker architecture Kinetic Sculpture race (NorCal) Eugene live music venues UO stained glass parkour worldwide Eugene tatoo parlours performing… Continue Reading
I’ve been thinking about a conversation we had in class on Tuesday based on the discussion of “things” vs. “art” and the processes that push us to call things art or not. Duchamp came up briefly in class,… Continue Reading
Took way to long to pull this together, but here is an almost complete pile of links to field guides produced by students in the 2011 run of this course: Eugene drag scene Sustainable Cities Year: Springfield work… Continue Reading
The snafu around President Lariviere’s ‘firing’ has given rise to an emergency meeting of UO statutory faculty on Wednesday, and I will attend that meeting—so we’ll not have class on 11/30. I encourage all of you to follow the story… Continue Reading
Check out this post on the the Americans for the Arts ARTSblog, as it highlights a cultural asset mapping project in Los Angeles County that seeks to demonstrate solid connections between community, health, and the arts. While certainly of… Continue Reading
Just ran across this post looking at a new NEA report on artists in the U.S. You can access the full report here, but the summary in the post does a nice job of pulling out relevant demographic and economic… Continue Reading
This Friday (10/14), “Part A” of your Transmedia Field Guide assignment is due, and in order to alleviate any stress associated with this (also, because we aren’t meeting this week!), here are some tips: choose something you are interested in!… Continue Reading
Please review these guidelines by tomorrow’s class meeting and bring any questions you have! Remember that these slides will illustrate the short presentation each student gives on the final day of class (Dec 1). Due: Sunday 11/28, by midnight… What:… Continue Reading
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