Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Week 1

Here's what we viewed in class:


Maya Deren - Meshes of the afternoon (1943)



"[Meshes of the Afternoon] reproduces the way in which the sub-conscious of an individual will develop, interpret and elaborate an apparently simply and causal incident into a critical emotional experience" -maya derek



The Lead Shoes (Sidney Peterson, 1949)

"It was part of the special confusion of the time to combine belief with dis-belief, treat half-beliefs as ready-mades. which had only to be conceived of as objects (like the lead shoes themselves) to be found. If this was reification (treating abstractions as "real" things), it went with alienation–the two being generally regarded as twin diseases of the then generation, involving among other things, a loss of the soul." -Sidney Peterson


The End (1953) - Part 1

Christopher Maclaine


Photography of Cartier Bresson


Last Year at Marienbad

Alain Resnais -1961


Paul McCarthy: Black and White Tapes, 1972


Performer / Audience / Mirror -1975

Association Area -1971

Dan Graham, Body Press, 1972


Richard Serra and Carlotta Fay Schoolman


Woody Vasulka C-trend




Art Herstory



Are You The Favorite Person of Anybody?

Directed by Miguel Arteta
Written by Miranda July


I mentioned Joseph Cornell's "Rose Hobart" (1936) (we will view more in week 9)




We did not view, but you may find of interest:


the subconscious art of graffiti removal


DAVID LYNCH PRESENTS INTERVIEW PROJECT


How To: Poke Pole A Monkey-Faced Eel

Brent Hoff

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  4. Calit2 Gallery Event
    Currently, the gallery at Calit2 is displaying a community outreach program of various departments at UCSD and around San Diego County, and demonstrating their efforts and progress though wall murals and video loops. The video loops reflected an interesting realm of video medium. In our last lecture, we viewed a few videos of investigators and scientists who narrated their stories and experiences to an interviewer without directly looking into the lens. Most of them dominated either the left or the right half of the screen and they didn’t have to strain their voices too to get their word across to us as their stories were not directed to us as an audience but were a converse with the interviewer only, and we as viewers seemed to be eves-dropping on their conversation. However, in the case of the video loops at this gallery that were informative and conveyed information to us directly, the speaker or presented always looked in to the lens and was highly motivated and loud towards the viewers. The speakers were speaking to us directly as the information they shared was solely meant for us and no one else around. Another interesting feature was video snippets of their on-site work where the camera placed itself in such a way that a viewer can imagine himself/herself standing amidst the group on the screen. (Sam Sharma)

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