Lecture 012

3: Shelly: Piper

Write to give people who do not recognize Piper to be black

1. challenge social norm
2. fit socially vs fit black/white community
3. difference in performing gender and identity

Piper: professor think black identity is taking over department

• relate to "Mythic Being"

• challenge white people's product are better - Hammon

The reason behind racial pretentious

4: Machine as Collaborator

Machine collaborator: sougwen chung Site specific:

• 1960-1970 movable (modifiable)

• go against consumerism

• not phiscially tie to site, but tie to slavery, culture, black, history, replication is not the art

New media art: art work with technology

• Collaborator: as a partner, one to one

• light performance, light projection

• mechanical failure changing relationship between humanism and post-humanism

5: Shelley: Nam June Paik

Humanization

• technology use as decorative

• reductionalism

6: Peggy: Mark Bradford

abstract black artist

• social abstraction: abstraction as power

  • idea of childhood
  • map making
  • blackness to be pluralized, don't let other determinant what black means

• mimesis at midpoint

  • balance between representational and abstract

• map making: create perspective

  • how abstraction can be used

7: Nandini: Conceptual Site-specific in Zarina Hashimi

Print-making

• concept of home

• Indie American

• minimism, site-specific, but argue her work fit in conceptual: emphasis on process

• idea of perception, way to perceive work is important

A list of word, translate script, resulting print

• mimics own experience with home

• word -> symbol -> abstract

• images should be read as poem in line

Dividing Line: wood block print, not cutting line, but carved out white area than carve out land

not simplifying