Blog Prompt 27 (the FINAL one!)

Please write a final artist statement. Please post this as a blog entry #27. This is due next Thursday (the final day of class).

Photobooth Resource

http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/sgrais/photobooth.htm

Contemporary Photographer Presentation 8

Find a photographer/artist who incorporates photography with some form of installation OR whose photography utilizes interesting installation techniques. You can choose any photographer/artist that you discover or already know whose work includes installation of/or with photography. Place the name of the photographer/artist you choose as a comment on this post.

Show about Skin

http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/hide/

international photography competition

http://www.images.ch/2011/concours_photo.html

LOOKING FOR A CAREER IN THE ART WORLD?

Sotheby’s Institute of Art invites prospectives to an information
session on Monday, April 11th in Berkey Hall Room 117.

Learn about the wide range of career options a graduate degree at
Sotheby’s Institute of Art will enable you to pursue and how to
apply. Graduate level programs include Art Business,
Contemporary Art, Photography, Fine & Decorative Art, East Asian
Art and Contemporary Design.

Sotheby’s Institute of Art is among the world’s leading institutions
for graduate art studies offering master’s degree programs,
summer study programs and specialized short courses in art
scholarship, connoisseurship and art business. Campuses are
located in London, New York and Singapore.

To begin your pathway to a career in the international art world,
please join us on Monday, April 11th from 6.30 - 7.30pm.
RSVP through MySpartanCareer.com by 4:00 p.m., Monday, April
11th

[Click on Events --> Workshops --> Name of Workshop]
Contact Courtney Chapin, chapinco@msu.edu, if you need
assistance.

Find out more at www.sothebysinstitute.com
Download our brochure/catalog:
www.sothebysinstitute.com/brochures/brochure.php

Blog Prompt #26 (to be completed with #25)

Many artists and photographers hope that their work engages with a larger audience outside of the museum/gallery/art&design school system. Describe how your project relates to a discipline or realm outside of art. For example, does it relate to the ideas learned through the study of human behavior/psychology or perception, preservation of wildlife, technological advancements in engineering, the anthropological study of humans and their relationship with the idea of time, outsider art, visitors to natural history museums, popular media audiences, etc? How might your work engage with this type of viewer if you presented it outside of the gallery context? How might your project engage with this type of viewer within the gallery context?

Contemporary Photographer Presentation 7

Find a photographer who incorporates one more more additional media with photography. Some examples are listed below, but you can choose any photographer that you discover or already know who uses mixed media + photography. Place the name of the photographer you choose as a comment on this post.

Collage
Paul Sietsema http://www.regenprojects.com/artists/paul-sietsema/
http://www.matthewmarks.com/artists/paul-sietsema/selected-works/
Natalie Czech http://www.jette-rudolph.de/ausstellungen/daily_mirror.html
Wangechi Mutu http://www.wangechimutu.com/
Martha Rosler http://www.martharosler.net/
Kim Jones http://www.pierogi2000.com/artists/kim-jones/
Jonathan Hernandez
David Hockney http://www.hockneypictures.com/
Andres Serrano Immersions (Piss Christ)
Holly Roberts http://www.hollyrobertsstudio.com/index.cfm?current_page=portfolio.cfm&type=current
Dinh Q. Le http://www.ppowgallery.com/selected_work.php?artist=16
Patrick Nagatani and Andree Tracey http://umfa.utah.edu/patricknagatani
Barbara Kruger http://www.barbarakruger.com/

3D Modeling
Sarah May http://santucciandco.com/#/sarahmay/stilllife
Collectif_fact http://www.collectif-fact.ch/habita/habita.html

Scanning
Fabian Marti http://fabian.marti.name/
Adam Fuss http://www.cheimread.com/artists/adam-fuss/

Projection
Krzysztof Wodiczko http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/wodiczko/

Installation
Janet Cardiff http://www.cardiffmiller.com/artworks/walks/index.html
David Spero (ball photographs) http://www.davidspero.co.uk/
Georges Rousse http://www.rousseprojectdurham.com/

Performance
Paul Ramirez-Jonas http://www.paulramirezjonas.com/selected/new_index.php#4&15_1994&sub44&10_Multicell%20Sq.%20Box%20Kite
Zhang Huan http://www.zhanghuan.com/
Yinko Shinobare http://www.yinkashonibarembe.com/
Sophie Calle http://www.iniva.org/dare/themes/space/calle.html

Books
Clarissa Sligh http://clarissasligh.com/

Call for work!

call for work http://www.shotsmag.com/current.htm

Constructed Realities Photographers

http://www.naziftopcuoglu.com/photographs.html
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/hannah_starkey_january.htm
http://seungwooback.com/
http://www.kimiko.fr/art/thumbnails.php?album=25
http://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/luisa-lambri

Camilo Vergara, April 14, 2011: Talk and Photographic History of Detroit

The luncheon will be 12:00-1:30 on April 14, 2011 at the Henry Center and will focus on a talk and photographic history of Detroit by renowned photographer, writer, and documentarian Camilo Vergara. If you would like to attend the luncheon, please RSVP directly to Kate Durkee (durkeeka@msu.edu) to ensure we have enough food and space.

Blog Prompt #25

Challenge: Think of a location that your thesis project could be displayed, exhibited, disseminated, installed, shop-dropped (http://shopdropping.net/), placed, hidden, mounted, projected, inserted, etc. that is outside the traditional gallery setting.

Blog Prompt #24 (Related to M.F.A. talks)

1. Which of the presenters’ work did you most relate to or were most inspired by?

2. Which of the presenters’ ideas did you most relate to or were you most inspired by?

3. Describe how one of the presenters revealed new layers of meaning in her/his work through their talk. How did your understanding of the work change or what did you learn that you were not aware of when viewing/experiencing the work prior to hearing the talks?

4. What would you have wished to hear more about through their talks?

5. Did you find that the ideas discussed were clearly represented in the formal/visual/sensory aspects of work? Did you find that the work revealed other ideas beyond what the artist discussed? Did you find that there were disconnects or that the words and visual elements of the works connected?

Call for Entries: Art & Film Exhibit at MSU!

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_133923873338964

Calling all artists,
Are you interested in a showing your artwork in a relaxed setting for your friends and classmates to see? Then you might be interested in submitting art for the Film and Art Festival in RCAH on April 4th. All types of artwork are acceptable. If you need to install the piece, remember that it will only be up for a couple of hours, so easy-to-install pieces are preferable.

Email kimberens@gmail.com a description or image of your piece and how it needs to be displayed (on the wall, on a table, etc.). The artwork will not be juried.

The deadline for submissions is March 31st. The show is April 4th from 7-9pm, and set-up is at 6:00. If you cannot make the event but still want to enter, we can meet and I will retrieve your artwork for the show and give it back afterward.

People can vote on their favorite art pieces and at the end of the night, 1st, 2nd, 3rd place winners are announced. The winners receive a certificate and the satisfaction of popular vote!

Blog Prompt #23

1. What is the concept driving your thesis project at this point in the semester? Has your concept changed since the beginning of the semester? If so, describe the changes?
2. How has your process of experimentation and image creation throughout the semester expanded, redirected, altered, or tightened your concept?
3. How has your process of experimentation and image creation throughout the semester affected the visual aspects of your work?
4. Describe how the visual aspects of your project align with the content and concept of your project. Are there ways in which they seem contrary to your concept? How might you tackle this misalignment?

Art of Photography Show

Call for work http://www.artofphotographyshow.com/prospectus.html

Past Winners http://www.artofphotographyshow.com/aops2010.html

Adobe Museum

http://www.adobemuseum.com/index.php

M.F.A. Students' Gallery Talks

Tuesday, March 29, 11:30

Foster, Gerber, Martens, Zhang

Wednesday, March 30: 11:30

Brown, Howell, Prillwitz, Sullivan

Interviews with Photographers in ReGeneration

http://www.aperture.org/exposures/?cat=756

Michigan Photo Expo Trade Show! (tomorrow)

http://www.ppm.org/
http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/booking/reservation?id=1005213674&key=BF66E

GET DISCOUNTED PHOTO GEAR!

Blog Prompt #22

Watch the video in the link below. Write a few sentences in response to this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDYDxWSjVJw


Also, see these links.
http://www.canstockphoto.com/images-photos/cgi.html
http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/featured/if-it-seems-too-good-to-be-trueits-cgi/
http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/view/176/32/

Photography + CGI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDYDxWSjVJw

Submit Work!!

http://pdncuratorawards.com/entries.shtml#whichentrant=Mother_and_Daughter_/_New_York
http://pdncuratorawards.com/index.shtml
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/index.shtml

Useful Photography

http://www.usefulphotography.com/

Two MSU Fine Art Candidates will be having a dual exhibition at Art Alley

Two Michigan State Fine Art Candidates will be having a dual exhibition at Art Alley
located in Reo Town, Lansing, MI.
Saturday March 12th at 7pm
Follow the link for more
information.
Also, featuring the feminist band-BITCH cover $15

Deborah Wheeler
Rebekah Zurenko

http.//www.reoartalley.com/special-events.html

Nature Photographer Presentation!

Joe Zammit-Lucia

http://www.jzlimages.com/artist.asp?ArtistID=6350&AKey=PQGJP8BG

Conservation as Human-Nature Relationship: Art or Science?
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2:30 - 4:00
Location: 115 International Center Room
Speaker: Joe Zammit-Lucia, photographer and special advisor to the Director General, IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature

Julie Mack Works-in-Progress Critiques

Julie Mack http://www.juliemackphotography.com/

Julie Mack will be visiting class on March 17th. Please post your name as a comment to this blog entry if you would like to sign up for a works-in-progress critique with her.

Contemporary Photographer Presentation 6

Select a photographer/artist from the list on the "VERY LONG list of Photographers" handout. Post your selection as a comment added to this blog entry. If you see your photographer listed, please select another photographer/artist from the list. For this presentation, pick TWO photographers from the category "The Synthesized Image".

Submit work for Adobe Design Achievement Awards

http://www.adobeawards.com/us/?trackingid=IETQC

Association of International Photography Art Dealers

http://www.aipad.com/

Photo Contest about "Face"

http://uforgegallery.com/assignments.html

Call for cell phone photographs

http://mobileuploadsproject.tumblr.com/

Blog Prompts #20 & #21

#20 Describe some common aesthetic/formal qualities, content, and conceptual threads in “snapshot” photography.

#21 Brainstorms! (In an effort to expand, improve, push your thesis projects further, pick 5 of the following to discuss.)

a. Ideas sometimes grow out of irritation. What is a negative thought you are having about your project? What is the opposite of this negative thought? How could you implement a change in your project so that this negative thought will subside?

b. What is the “opposite” of your thesis project? How can you rework your project to include the “opposite”?

c. What is a consistent theme/visual element in your project? What would be the opposite of this? How can you implement that into your project?

d. Type twenty words or phrases that relate to your project.

e. At the deepest core, describe why you like this project. Dig deep!

f. Expand your project. If time, money, materials, etc would not affect you, how would you expand your project?

g. Contract your project. What would it boil down to if squeezed and contracted to its simplest form?

h. Look at one of your images/projects. Redesign it entirely.

i. Divide your project into three components. Rearrange and reassemble them in your mind.

j. List your assumptions about your project. Reverse these.

k. What would your project look like 100 years ago? What would your project look like 100 years in the future?

l. Remove something from your project. How does it change?

m. Persuade the reader that your project works well and is the most amazing project you have ever completed.

n. Persuade the reader that your project stinks. Then, persuade the reader that you will make changes so that it no longer stinks.

o. Think of one of your most memorable dreams. How could you add elements from this dream to your project?

p. How would you convert your project into a narrative? How would you remove any narrative from your project?

q. How would you connect your images physically and conceptually? How would you make them disconnected physically and conceptually?

r. What would happen if you demolished your project and reconstructed it physically or conceptually?

s. Name an artist/photographer/designer/videographer who would love your project. Why?

t. Name an artist/photographer/designer/videographer who would hate your project. Why?

u. How would you make your project more edgy, saccharine, provocative, empty, revealing, concealing, funny, sad, mysterious, blunt, honest, disingenuous, fast, slow, playful, austere, hateful, lovable, bold, subtle, long, short, big, small, connected, disconnected?

Projections

http://www.patricktosani.com/main.php

500 Photographers

http://500photographers.blogspot.com/

Collage Artist

http://www.ashkanhonarvar.com/

Quote of the Week

"I took them all in the alley and shot them." ~Erica T.

Blog Prompt #19

Analyze your creative process by answering the following questions.

1. How do you ensure that your work is relevant to you?
2. How do you ensure that your work is relevant to the contemporary world?
3. How do you brainstorm? Do you sketch? Do you use the camera as a brainstorming tool so that you “look” at the world through the frame of the camera and capture bits and pieces of your environment?
4. Do you combine elements of various media? How do you do this? Do you do it physically with printed images or objects? Do you combine elements virtually in the computer?
5. How does your process relate to your ideas/concept? How does your process relate to your outcome/final pieces? Why are you using digital technology (if you are)? Why are you using analog technology (if you are)?
6. How do you judge your work? When do you think it “works”? When do you think it is “not working yet”? What criteria do you use to make these decisions?
7. How do ensure that your work is new, unique, ground-breaking, and/or you are breaking the mold/thinking outside the box/pushing the limits?

photos using multiple/long exposures

http://www.witzenhausengallery.nl/artist.php?mgrp=0&idxArtist=21

Another show about Falling

http://www.hkw.de/en/programm/2011/der_traum_vom_fliegen/projekt_detail_53779.php

Broken Fall

Exhibition about falling....

http://galleriaastuni.it/index.php?page=future_eng

Contemporary Photographer Presentation 5

Select a photographer/artist from the list on the "VERY LONG list of Photographers" handout. Post your selection as a comment added to this blog entry. If you see your photographer listed, please select another photographer/artist from the list. For this presentation, pick TWO photographers from the category "Directorial Photography, The Fabricated Scene, Constructions, and Fictions".

Contemporary Photographer Presentation 4

Select a photographer/artist from the list on the "VERY LONG list of Photographers" handout. Post your selection as a comment added to this blog entry. If you see your photographer listed, please select another photographer/artist from the list. For this presentation, pick THREE photographers from the categories "The Portrait, the Figure, Nude, Gender, Sexuality and Identity" and "Postmodernism and Photography".

Contemporary Photographer Presentation 3

Select a photographer/artist from the list on the "VERY LONG list of Photographers" handout. Post your selection as a comment added to this blog entry. If you see your photographer listed, please select another photographer/artist from the list. For this presentation, pick a photographer from the category "Snapshot Aesthetics".

Contemporary Photographer Presentation 2

Select a photographer/artist from the list on the "VERY LONG list of Photographers" handout. Post your selection as a comment added to this blog entry. If you see your photographer listed, please select another photographer/artist from the list. For this presentation, pick a photographer from the category "Place/Landscape: The Classical Tradition Continuum & New Topographics".

Photography to Drawing

http://www.drawingcenter.org/images/artwork/DrawnFromPhotography.pdf

http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm?exh=772&do=vexhI

Text + Photo (Doug Aitken)

http://www.303gallery.com/artists/doug_aitken/index.php?exhid=17&p=images

Blog Posts #17 & #18

#17 What do you think the next technological innovation will be in photography? What is the "future" of photography? What will photography become or how will it evolve in the next 100 years? How do you see photography melding with or distancing itself from other types of media?

#18 Create your own definition of the word "photography".

Collage

http://leslieshows.com/work/

http://www.gibsonejessop.com/gallery/artists/kiron_khosla/hubris_is_terminal/

http://gordoncheung.com/PAGES/works_2008.html

http://www.crggallery.com/artists/siobhan-liddell/

http://www.johannkoenig.de/48/nathan_hylden/selected_works.html?dclp=aca1abfb778964bf324f1657d3c6b592

http://www.aurelscheibler.com/artists-represented/neil-gall?works-on-paper

http://www.ludovicagioscia.com/collages-new.html

Fun

Thomas Mailaender http://www.thomasmailaender.com/no-pain-no-gain/

Make a Sculpture with Photographs

Osang Gwon http://osang.net/works/deo.html#

Show in Ann Arbor

Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz

http://www.martin-munoz.com/recent/index07.html

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/humin#

Photographer Presentation 1

Select a photographer/artist from the list on the "VERY LONG list of Photographers" handout. Post your selection as a comment added to this blog entry. If you see your photographer listed, please select another photographer/artist from the list. For this presentation, pick a photographer from either of the two categories " The 1950’s and the Classical Metaphorical School" OR "The 1960’s and The Urban Landscape, the documentary continuum".

Stills + Moving

Inci Eviner http://www.incieviner.net/work.htm

Projections by Sylwia Kowalczyk

http://www.sylwiakowalczyk.com/#/selfprojections-%282002%29/?view=4

Blog Prompts #12-#16

#12 Describe some differences between still photographs and moving images.

#13 Describe some similarities between still photographs and moving images.

#14 Describe some links between photography and the concept of “time”. Describe some links between photography and the concept of “stillness”.

#15 Describe how you can you “activate” a photograph that you have already taken. In other words, how can you transform a “still” image into a “moving” one?

#16 Describe how you might take a “moving” image and make it “still”.

unExhibit

http://foundation.generali.at/index.php?id=928&L=1

Scanograms

Walead Beshty http://www.wallspacegallery.com/artists.html?id=2,6

http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=artists&page=artist_beshty

http://hammer.ucla.edu/watchlisten/watchlisten/show_id/450643

More 3D + Photo

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/jan/28/infinite-column-tv-2011-lance-wakeling/

Video Portraits

http://www.dissidentusa.com/robert-wilson/subjects/

3D graphics + photography

Richard Kokler http://www.axisweb.org/grCVFU.aspx?SELECTIONID=19273

Florian Joye http://www.swissdesignawards.ch/federaldesign/2007/florian-joye/index.html?lang=en

Daniel Kaufmann http://www.marshall.edu/cofa/?p=209

Blog Prompts #9, #10, & #11

9. Pick a sculpture that you like. Write a description of how you might use 3D modeling in Photoshop to make this sculpture part of a photographic image.

10. Describe an impossible scenario. Describe how you can create this scene using digital photographic compositing.

11. Collages, montages, assemblages, and composites often bring together disparate items, objects, scenes, places, and people. The process of combining seemingly unrelated or unexpected items can be inspired by spontaneous thoughts/experiments. Describe some ideas, thoughts, and things that come to mind when you think of “combination” or “assemblage”. Try to perform this brainstorm using a stream of consciousness technique in which you list anything that comes to mind. You can add to this list… Here goes… fractured/combined identities, old newspapers + grass, constant bombarding of images via mass media, looking through a kaleidoscope, doll + baby, cut a bike in half and add a tree, etc. …

moving stills

http://jstchillin.org/anne_de_vries/forecast.html

Blog Prompts #5, #6, #7, & #8

#5. Think of various cultural, religions, political, personal, scientific associations and symbols of “light” and “darkness”. Discuss some that come to mind. http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/

#6 Think of some experiences that you have had in which you felt a sense of “lightness”. Describe one or some of these experiences.

#7. Think of some experiences that you have had in which you felt a sense of “darkness”. Describe one or some of these experiences.

#8 From the reading on light and shadow, pick an artist/photographer whose work inspires you. Describe why you like her/his work.

Photoshop Tutorials

http://psd.tutsplus.com/category/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/

http://photo.tutsplus.com/

Blog Prompts #1, #2, #3, #4

1. Think of various ways in which your “view” or visual perception of the world is altered, distorted, manipulated, reframed, blurred, disrupted, obstructed, etc. List some.

2. What objects “change” the way you “see” things in the world?

3. What experiences change the way you “see” things in the world?

4. What is the relationship between the way you visually “see” the world and the way you “experience” the world?

Fancy Fine Art Photo Paper (canvas, etc)

http://www.atlex.com/epson_paper/canvas_fine_art_inkjet_paper.htm

http://www.atlex.com/hahnemuhle/hahnemuhle-fine-art-canvas-daguerre-monet.htm

http://www.atlex.com/hahnemuhle/hahnemuhle-digital-inkjet-paper-index.htm

Sweet Station

http://sweet-station.com/blog/category/photos/

http://www.photoeye.com/gallery/photoshowcase/homepagePSNew.cfm

Reframing Photography Textbook Website

http://reframingphotography.com/