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Art 39 – Field Trip. Sonic an exhibition featuring sound at Art Ark Address: Art Ark Gallery 1035 South Sixth Street, SJ, CA 95112 ( Between Martha and Keys, next to Best Art Park ) Meeting Date and Time: Thursday, October 20 at 9:30am. Assignment Info:
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Sonic an exhibition featuring sound at Art Ark Address: Art Ark Gallery1035 South Sixth Street, SJ, CA 95112 (Between Martha and Keys, next to Best Art Park) Meeting Date and Time: Thursday, October 20 at 9:30am
Assignment Info: Please write a few paragraphs about your overall experience of the show. What was your favorite piece/ sculpture and why? Include the title and the name of the artist. Describe it in detail (size, materials used to create it, the idea behind it). Your paper should be no longer than 1 page. Please print it out. Due: Tuesday, October 25.
Andy Warhol • An American artist and filmmaker born in 1928 • A leading figure in Pop Art • Began making paintings of iconic American products and celebrities and founded “The Factory”, his studio, during the 1960’s Short interview with Andy Warhol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA4aBvnaTpo
Andy Warhol “Andy Warhol was naturally drawn to the movie camera… he was not immune to fame, to say the least, knowing well that ‘movies’ were the most alluring path to it.”- Michael Rush. He made over 60 films between 1963 and 68 that became classics of the underground genre.
Warhol’s Films from the 60s Screen Tests of Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol, 1964-66, video More tests Empire State Building Time-lapse, Andy Warhol
Video & Performance Art • Performance art was born in New York in the 60s as the • result of cross fertilization between theater, dance, film, • video and visual art. • Some examples of performance art involved: • - Live performers interacting with filmed images projected onto surfaces • - Artists performing in front of the camera in their studios • - Artists using cameras and monitors as both theatrical propsand sculptural elements in their performances (Ex: Joan Jonas)
Peter Campus – Video Art • An American artist born in 1937 and brought up in New York • Developed an early interest inphotography, which his father taught him, and painting. • After military service, Campus studied film editing and worked in the film industry as a production manager and editor, making documentaries. • Known for his pioneering interactive and single channel video work of the early 1970s
Peter Campus Three Transitions, Peter Campus, 1973, video
Peter Campus Shadow Projection, Peter Campus, 2010, interactive video
Joan Jonas – Video, Performance Art Was born in New York in 1936 Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art. She began her career as a sculptor. By 1968 she moved into what was then leading edge territory: mixing performances with props and mediated images.
Joan Jonas – Performance, Video Art Joan Jonas, This is My Right Eye, 1970s
Bruce Nauman – Video Artist American artist born December 6, 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking and performance.
Bruce Nauman - Performance Art Walking in an Exaggerated Manner by Bruce Nauman
What is Installation Art? An artistic genre of site-specific, three-dimensional works designed to transform the perception of a space.
Video Installation Art Is a type of installation art in which video is an integral component.
Nam June Paik TV Buddha, Nam June Paik, 1974, video installation
Tony Oursler Was born in New York in 1957 Got his BFA degree at CalArts in 1979 His art covers a range of mediums: • video • sculpture • installation • performance • painting • His art explores the relationship • between the individual and mass • media with humor and imagination.
Tony Oursler Coo, Tony Oursler, 2003, video installation
Tony Oursler Open Obscura, Tony Oursler, Installation in Milan, Italy - 2011
Video Installation Art – Bill Viola Is one of today’s leading video artists Designs environments that envelop the viewer in image and sound Employs state-of the-art technologies Main focus - universal human experiences: • birth, death, rebirth • the unfolding of consciousness His art has roots in both Eastern and Western art and philosophy
Bill Viola The Making of Emergence - Interview
Referencing Old Masters “I am interested in what the old masters didn’t paint, those steps in between.” - Bill Viola Christ Carrying the Cross, Hieronymus Bosch, 1515-16 The Quintet of the Astonished, Bill Viola, 2000 (video rear projection on wall-mounted screen)
Referencing Old Masters The Visitation, Jacopo daPontormo, 16th Cent. (left) The Greeting, Bill Viola, 1995 (right)
Vera Fainshtein Video Installations