Archive for the ‘ Theory ’ Category
First day of classes at KU today. I’m terribly excited to begin teaching my Installation Art class. Our first project is going to be about scale – everything from theoretical issues of size + scale to the practical skills of learning to use scale models. In honor of this first day, I’d like to share one of my favorite artists with everyone.
Her name is Katrin Sigurdardottir. She hails from Iceland and works in sculptural installations. Enjoy!
It all started with trying to identify a painting with nested green squares.
We had a strong feeling that the painter’s name started with an A.
A few Google searches later, we found it. But the image led us to this great website out of Amsterdam.
“The Institute of Artificial Art.”
Enjoy.
“…Never has the American art world functioned so efficiently as a full-service marketing industry on the corporate model…” [full text here]
From February of 2009, but still relevant none the less. Worth a read.
The last paragraph in particular might even give one hope.
A lot of our work lately has been involved with looking at the human:digital interface. Is that the same as the human:machine interface? What are the differences that I am interested in exploring? How does our work in Performing the Self (the avatar as the real), as well as our work with the digital (trying to perfect our way of speaking to a camera by interviewing ourselves, editing, memorizing and repeating), etc. open up these ideas – but on the other side of the machine equation?
