For the first handout, here's a related link to an illustrated review of an exhibition, Ecomedia - Ecological Strategies in Today's Art.
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/01/ecological-stra.php
It is in 2 parts. Also the handout was from over here:
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/010318.html
Check out Chris Jordan's exhibit of photos of waste, "Intolerable Beauty" at http://www.chrisjordan.com/
For next week the assignment is to finish reading the chapter from Steve Baker: Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, & Representation (to page 29) Also check out the links to visual ecocriticism and ecological strategies in art above. Leave your comment online here so the whole class can see your response.
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After viewing the photo series of Chris Jordan, I think no one will end up giving the comment like "the balanece of the photo is great!" or "the arrangement of the picture is good" and something like that, most of us can completely understand what the photographer is trying to convey, the abuse of resource and the environmental issues. I tried to show those photos to people around me and did some small interviews, before considering those pictures as Art, most of people simply sensed the issue within the photos, the photos speak out for the care of the Earth. Though we know the photographer might be intended to do so, it still reminds me the endless question contemporary artists have been asking, instead of "what contemporary is ?", they are more eager to know "what Art is?"
ReplyDeleteDespite of the definition, it's true that the contemporary artists have been using the "Art" as a media to speak out not only for themselves, but for something more critical to all human beings.