Week 9 – April 10

Yes Men – http://theyesmen.org/
La Pocha Nostra – http://www.pochanostra.com/what/

Discussion Augusto Boal

Augusto Boal In-class Excerise:

In teams of 3
15 minutes to find story- 20 minutes prep time to rehearse

Pick a story (15 min) from http://nytimes.com or http://cnn.com or http://msnbc.com or any other online news source.   Assign roles and act it out, preferably in mime but sound effects (clapping, whistling, humming, fine). It should have an event that builds up, has a crisis, and has a specific resolution of the crisis. Each group will act out their scenario with their particular situation.Everyone will take notes on what the situation is…  and then another group will “re-enact” it (re-enactments opened-ended) Keep in mind staging, imaginary props, etc.

Critical Art Ensemble

(CAE) is a collective of five tactical media practitioners of various specializations including computer graphics and web design, film/video, photography, text art, book art, and performance.

Formed in 1987, CAE’s focus has been on the exploration of the intersections between art, critical theory, technology, and political activism. The group has exhibited and performed at diverse venues internationally, ranging from the street, to the museum, to the internet. Museum exhibitions include the Whitney Museum and The New Museum in NYC; The Corcoran Museum in Washington D.C.; The ICA, London; The MCA, Chicago; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and The London Museum of Natural History.

The collective has written 6 books, and its writings have been translated into 18 languages. Its book projects include: The Electronic Disturbance (1994), Electronic Civil Disobedience & Other Unpopular Ideas (1996), Flesh Machine: Cyborgs, Designer Babies, Eugenic Consciousness (1998), Digital Resistance: Explorations in Tactical Media (2001), Molecular Invasion (2002), and Marching Plague (2006).

Biotech Art (forgive, from Wikipedia):

BioArt is an art practice where humans work with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes. Using scientific processes such as biotechnology (including technologies such as genetic engineering, tissue culture, and cloning) the artworks are produced in laboratories, galleries, or artistsstudios. The scope of BioArt is considered by some artists to be strictly limited to “living forms”, while other artists would include art that uses the imagery of contemporary medicine and biological research, or require that it address a controversy or blind spot posed by the very character of the life sciences

Biotech Art
http://therestisart.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/art-and-biotechnology-when-art-looks-into-science/

Biotech Art- We Make Money Not Art
http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/biotech_art/

Biotech Art – Networked Performance
http://turbulence.org/blog/2010/09/25/biotech-art-workshop-skopje/

Screening- Strange Culture
Web site for Director Lynn Hershman Leeson
http://www.lynnhershman.com/

For April 17 –

Prepare for Deliverables Lab
downloading as many images as possible emulating your project and/or any aspect of it.
manupulating those images which seem most successful
Writing “brochure” text
Creating diagrams, animatics, animations….

Reading – NO Lead Respnder:

Pick one of these chapters and post a one-page report on it – category -Criticial Art Ensemble at http://www.critical-art.net/books/mp/

 

 

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