'In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective' by Hito Steyerl

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/222

Is social media changing museums?

link to ny times article

Blade Runner and summer reading

For anyone that wants to do some summer reading around the issues broached in Blade Runner and in this class throughout the semester Boris Groys' book Art Power is relevant. The chapter 'Art in the Age of Biopolitics: From Artwork to Art Documentation' makes explicit reference to Ridley Scott's film.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11408

Interesting Frieze article on the Virtual Museum via André Malraux and La Musée Imaginaire

http://www.frieze.com/comment/article/virtual-museums/

http://www.googleartproject.com/

Roy Arden's image blog is worth a look

This might be particularly relevant in light of our recent project to do with channels.

http://www.royarden.com/blog

Jer Thorp

Some of you might find this artist's work interesting. He is known
for working from an idea of data visualization using keywords that
generate abstract pictures.

http://blog.blprnt.com/
 http://serialconsign.com/2009/04/jer-thorp-interview
http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/the-art-itself-is-the-software-jer-thorp-on-the-aesthetics-of-data/

summer residency

	School of Visual Arts SVA Summer Residency: Call for Applications Application deadline: April 1st, 2011 http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/
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The MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts announces an intensive, four-week summer engagement for professional photographers, filmmakers, and artists to develop their creative visions with new camera technology.  A new discipline is developing in the lens and screen arts. With technological advances in still and moving imagery, professionals no longer work solely in the traditional divisions of photography and video. High-definition, video-capable DSLR cameras have transformed the conventional image and enabled us to create professional-quality films. While still and moving imagery may be produced with the same set of tools, each requires very different approaches and practices. The still photography practitioner must understand the language of the moving image, and vice versa.  Available for four undergraduate credits, this summer residency program will introduce video to photographers in four areas: TECHNIQUE: This component of the residency addresses the technical issues of making moving images. It will include instruction for using equipment and production methods as well as editing and post-production workflow. Technical assistance provided by FotoCare. CONCEPTUAL: Senior faculty members Charles Traub and Grahame Weinbren will hold a twice-weekly seminar on the theory and history of the lens arts. Lectures include The End of Indexicality, The Digital Challenge, Stillness in Cinema, Motion in Photography, Narrative and Abstraction, and Composition and Editing.  CRITIQUE: Residents will attend two critique sessions per week, one led by core faculty and one led by a visiting critic. Critics will be in the form of artists, curators and other faculty from the department.  LECTURE: Twice a week, the residents with gather together for a lecture and a screening in the department. The screenings will consist of rare films and videos discussed in the conceptual module of the program. Lecturers will be in the form of artists, curators, industry professionals and directors.  The program will conclude with a screening of the participants' work created during this four-week session. Summer Residency runs July 6th-August 3rd, 2011. Registration deadline is Friday, April 1st, 2011. Department Chair Charles Traub Core Faculty Grahame Weinbren Michelle Leftheris Lecturers, Guest Speakers and Critics include: Alan Berliner Jennifer Blessing Chris Callis Anthony Forma Roger Phenix Bob Richman Shelly Silver Amy Taubin For further information, please contact mfaphoto@sva.edu.

Humans and Machines Merge

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html

electronic intelligence could become greater than human intelligence sooner than we think. I found this quite interesting

Kailey

The robot uprising will commence sometime in 2017

Man vs Machine
http://gawker.com/#!5760443/jeopardy+playing-computer-shows-no-mercy

susan hiller was here and bob will bring proof next class

Here is good article on Susan's work which includes a brief description of Monument (1980-1) which she installed here in Halifax for the Eyelevel Gallery.  

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/second_sight/


She also has a show at the Tate in Britian.

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/susanhiller/default.shtm

fatboy slim and public/private

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtg4NN3k0K4

CHECK THIS OUT! Movies of the Mind.

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/the-globe-and-mail-for-ipad/id381347650?mt=8

Sylvère Lotringer writing on Roland Barthes

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/barthes-after-barthes/

Wafaa Bilal

This artist is doing some fascinating work regarding technology and the body. The aesthetic cyborg.

http://wafaabilal.com/

Facebook Privacy

Here is the interview with the Facebook employee I found. The comments from the readers are interesting too.

Conversations About the Internet

-rachael

Public and Private...

I was just trying to get some inspiration for the project and stumbled across this Danish photographer... I thought you all might find his work as interesting as I do! I especially like "The Thought Project".

http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/

Enjoy!
- Brittany

Link to Frank Gehry exhibition in Copenhagen highlighting the use of BIM (Building Information Models) in contemporary architectural practice.

Frank Gehry and associates video interview at page bottom

Billy Idol's Cyberpunk

Musically, disastrous.  But, I guess you have to give him credit for trying something a little different...

My favorite cyborg.

See Billy morph:

 

 - Bridget

Kodak DC-215

This was the first digital camera to enter my house...

http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/DC215/DC215A.HTM

-rachael

MyWar: Participation in an Age of Conflict exhibition at Queen's University, Kingston

MyWar: Participation in an Age of Conflict

Contemporary Feature and Davies Foundation Galleries
15 January - 10 April

Union Gallery, Stauffer Library
15 January - 12 February

Blog!, participate! and share! are the battle cries of a media culture in which boundaries between private and public have been decisively eroded. In this context, MyWar: Participation in an Age of Conflict attempts to locate the moral implications and accommodations of war in an era of continuous global unrest. The show examines the experience of war through the work of 10 international artists: Joseph DeLappe, Dunne & Raby, Harun Farocki, Harrell Fletcher, Oliver Laric, Renzo Martens, SWAMP, Thomson & Craighead, Milica Tomic and Sarah Vanagt. Their art investigates how we encounter armed conflict and its effects at a time when digital networking has transformed the way we receive and respond to information.

more info here

Thomas Demand interview

from the Monocle

Ron Galella

Paparazzi photographer who was obsessed with Jackie O. and got punched out by Marlon Brando.
The Smash His Camera film details Ron's tricks of the trade in accessing the private moments of his celebrity subjects. One notable aspect of Ron Galella's technique is that he is highly visible at the moment of capture and could be considered a celebrity in his own right. The camera(s) are also obvious and Ron even sports a stitched camera patch on the back of his eccentric 'hunting' jacket.


Introduction to Smash His Camera doc on youtube

camera eyes and intimate spaces

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/268771

Interview with Andreas Gursky

http://www.foto8.com/new/online/blog/903-andreas-gursky-interviewed

Obsolescence

Kodachrome and Nostalgia

Season 5 of the art 21 series (Transformation) features Cindy Sherman along with the aforementioned Paul McCarthy. This is available at the VRC here at NSCAD.

http://guides.nscad.ca/content.php?pid=85345&sid=775726

or you can have a look on the pbs website

http://video.pbs.org/video/1281770054/

abject

Paul McCarthy talks about Heidi in a couple youtube videos