Art 1A Assignments to Clear Unexcused Absences

If you have missed a lot of classes, with unexcused absences throughout the quarter, then you should do these assignments to clear them. As you know, 5 or more unexcused absences will result in failing the class. However, if you had emergencies, and can provide me with a note from your doctor, from Student Health, or from your CAPS, DSP, CARE Counselor (for the specific dates in question)– then those absences will be excused. These are not extra credit assignments to improve your grade. These papers are due no later than Friday, March 13 by 5:00 PM. Submit them to KeyShawn via email.

Please note: If you did not go on the museum field trips, or the alternate museum field trip, then you have 2 unexcused absences for each of the trips, and you will also be missing the graded weekly assignment those weeks.

To clear unexcused absences: Watch the recorded Arts Colloquium Artist Talks found below, and write a 2-page Artist Talk response. Each talk and written assignment clears a single absence. Therefore, if you need to clear more than one absence you will need to do more than one of these assignments. 

You may submit up to 3 assignments total:

1) Tia-Simone Gardner: Recorded Talk

2) Nicholas Galanin: Recorded Talk

3) Alisha Wormsley: Recorded Talk

Art in the Age of the Internet

    

ART IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNETThe internet and social media have changed the way that we go to, and experience, exhibitions in galleries and museums (and large monuments as well). People often visit these spaces not just to experience the works of art, but often with the express purpose of recording where they have been.
In a way, this can take something away from the intentions of the artists and curators– because one is able to curate their own “online museum” on Instagram that can be a very highly mediated experience with a particular point-of-view (that may have little to do with the original intentions).

The firsthand experience of viewing is often mediated by the digital apparatus (your phone or camera), and the intention is to post it to mark that you were there, but also for it to be seen and experienced by your followers. 

Therefore, while you are there in person experiencing the original works of art, you may be looking at them largely through the lens of your camera or the screen of your phone. Think about the ramifications of the theories posited by Walter Benjamin in "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction."

Video above: Art in the Age if the Instagram featuring Jia Jia Fei.

Art in the Age of Internet (26m 46s. The first segment deals with Art in the Age of the Internet):

https://www.pbs.org/video/art-in-the-age-of-the-internet-playwright-claudia-rankine-wukk6b

Amalia Ulman. Excellencies & Perfections #2 (2018)

Some artists create works of art that intentionally reference the internet and social media, and often the system of surveillance that they embody. These types of social critique are often intended to make us aware of our complicity in these very systems, and are often meant to leave us uncomfortable about our role in this system.

What one posts online can embody ideas about the way that we see ourselves, or the way that we want to be seen, and about the way in which we create these constructed mediations.

These idealized and mediated expressions of self are created to be consumed online, and are often fictionalized accounts of the “reality” that the spectator is meant to understand as “real”– but they are often actually more irreal than they are real. 

They also serve as raw source material for artists who use these types of mediated images to engage in a larger cultural critique.

Amalia Ulman (shown above) is an artist who created a body of work where she pretended to be an Instagram influencer, and her online performance helps underscore and contextualize the way in which the epoch of social media sharing and over-sharing has become a normalized way to consume online content. It also points out the extent to which Instagram feeds should be understood as fictionalized accounts of "reality."

See Also:

https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/amalia-ulman-excellences-perfections

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160307-the-instagram-artist-who-fooled-thousands

The Art History of the Selfie (8m):

https://www.pbs.org/video/art-assignment-selfie/

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Surface Tension. 1992 (Installation)

Some artists, such as Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, deal with the exploration of the systems of surveillance, and our complicity in those systems when we surf the internet.

Surface Tension "is an interactive installation where an image of a giant human eye follows the observer with Orwellian precision.This work was inspired by a reading of Georges Bataille's text The Solar Anus during the first Gulf War: first wide-spread deployment of camera-guided 'intelligent bombs'. Present-day computerised surveillance techniques employed by the Department of Homeland Security in the United States through the Patriot Act, provide a new and distressing backdrop for this piece."

See Surface Tension videos HERE.

Eva Respini: Art in the Age of the Internet Talk:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27u6a-kKl6I
Art in the Age of the Internet Exhibition:https://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/art-age-internet-1989-todayhttps://www.icaboston.org/video/art-age-internet-1989-todayhttps://umma.umich.edu/exhibitions/2018/art-in-the-age-of-the-internet-1989-to-todayArt in the Age of Internet (26m 46s. The first segment deals with Art in the Age of the Internet):https://www.pbs.org/video/art-in-the-age-of-the-internet-playwright-claudia-rankine-wukk6b

WEEK 8: Art in the Age of Internet (reading assignments for this week)

• Jeff Scheible: Longing to Connect: Cinema’s Year of OS Romance


• Katrina Sluis, Julian Stallabrass and Christiane Paul. The Canon After the Internet

• Lauren Cornell. Self-Portraiture in the First-Person Age 

• Gloria Sutton. CTRL ALT DELETE: The Problematics of Post-Internet Art

• Jeffrey De Blois. Hybrid Bodies 

• Susan Magsamen and Ivy Moss. Your Brain on Art (Chapter 7)

HONORS GLASS BOX GALLERY ART 1A TALK ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25

WHAT: Honors Cohort Glass Box Gallery Art 1A Talk

WHEN: Wednesday, February 25 from 12:30-1:45

WHERE: Glass Box Gallery (Arts  Building 534, Room 1328)

WHO: Tyler Alexander, Cameron Bibas, Bethany Close, Alex Edrozo, Payton Gomez, Elyse Harris-Crayton, Tomiko Osawa, Gaby Smith, Açúcar Viana Araujo and Jennette Wolfe

WHAT ELSE TO KNOW: The reception is from 4:00-6:00PM.

N.B.: Make sure to meet at the Glass Box Gallery, not Ellison Hall. Please arrive on time.

UCSB AD&A Museum Field Trip: Tiffany Chung Indelible Traces on Wednesday, March 4 from 12:30-1:45

What: AD&A Field Trip: Tiffany Chung: Indelible Traces exhibit.

When: Wednesday, March 4 from 12:30-1:45

Where: UCSB AD&A Museum

We are meeting in front of the museum, please arrive on time. The museum is adjacent to the University Center and Storke Plaza/Tower.

Department of Art Honors Open Studios on Wednesday, January 28 from 4:00-6:00

What: Honors Open Studios

When: Wednesday, January 28 from 4-6pm

Where: Arts 0242 & Arts 1352

Who: The Department of Art Honors Cohort

Mechanics of a Formal Research Paper & Scholarly Research Training Workshops

Scholarly Research Training Workshop: Wednesday, January 21 from 12:30-1:45 in lecture with Heather Nisen.

Mechanics of a Formal Research Workshop: Monday, February 2 from 12:30-1:45 in lecture.

Heather Nisen (Art & Architecture Librarian):
hnisen@ucsb.edu
http://guides.library.ucsb.edu/art1a

(805) 893-3026

Here is the link to the plagiarism tutorial that the Teaching & Learning Department created:

https://guides.library.ucsb.edu/citation/plagiarism

Paper Format (PAPER TOPIC HERE): 

- 10 pages of text (this does NOT include the cover page, bibliography or images)

- Double-spaced

- Cover page

- Footnotes or endnotes

- Bibliography

- Images (at the end of the paper)

- Use at least 10 different research sources (including peer reviewed 
journal articles, books, exhibition catalogs, monographs, etc.)

- Use at least 10-15 citations

QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF WHEN WRITING & EDITING YOUR PAPER:

1) Do I have the proper number of citations and sources?

2) Did I properly format my citations using MLA or Chicago?

3) Do I have a properly formatted formal bibliography?

4) Did I adhere to the proper paper length?

5) Do I have a clear, and specific thesis statement?

6) Does my thesis statement specifically relate to the final draft of my paper?

7) Did I run spell check (repeatedly)?

8) Did I carefully edit to make sure that I used proper grammar, and were my tenses consistent?

9) Did I formulate clear arguments and substantiate all of my claims with clear and concrete examples?

10) Did I avoid sweeping generalizations and vague assertions?

11) Did I use casual colloquial language in my formal research paper? If so, find more precise ways to describe the point being made.

12) Did I use scholarly research sources such as peer-reviewed journal articles, scholarly articles and books rather than sources such as blogs, Wikipedia, encyclopedias etc (that are not acceptable sources for a formal research paper).

13) Did I properly cite quotes and summaries of other people's intellectual property (footnotes and in-text citations)?

14) Did I avoid excessive biographical information about the artist? Instead I should only include biographical information that is directly relevant to their artistic practice.

15) Would anyone reading my paper understand what I am trying to convey, or do I need to more clearly define the scope of my research and ultimately the point of my paper?

16) Did I place the pictures at the end of my paper? If I embedded them in the text, I need to remove them and place them at the end of my paper.

17) Did I remember to put my name, perm number and section time on my paper?

18) Did I remember to frequently save, backup and email drafts of my paper to myself (just in case my computer crashes)?

19) When I had questions, or needed help, did I reach out to my TA, professor or CLAS?

GENERAL TIPS ON WRITING YOUR PAPER:

1) The selection of a good thesis and supporting examples is an important part of producing a good paper. Be selective. The paper is about how to look closely at works of art and how your evaluation of objects and images is expanded by the specific context in which they are presented.

2) Write primarily with nouns and verbs. Avoid unnecessary (especially vague and imprecise) adjectives and adverbs.

3) Revise and rewrite. Proofread your work. Do not rely solely on "spell check."

4) Use the dictionary to refer to words you do not fully understand.

5) Do not overstate, or excessively use qualifiers (such as very, rather, little, etc.).

6) Use orthodox diction and accurate spelling. ("Its" is possessive; "It's" is a contraction for "it is," "Its' " doesn't exist. "Their" is possessive, "They're" is a contraction of "they are," There is declarative).

7) Be clear. Make references clearly. (Do not use the word "this" as the subject of a sentence).

8) Do not let your opinions get in the way of your writing.

9) Avoid using Wikipedia, blogs, newspaper articles and other materials that are not scholarly. These ARE NOT research materials for a formal research paper.

10) Get to the point quickly. Concentrate on quality of writing not quantity of words.

11) For help with formatting MLA and Chicago citations, visit Purdue Owl: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html

For help writing the paper contact CLAS at 893-3269. They have a writing lab that will help you with papers, and will even proofread your papers. They also offer help specifically to students for whom English is a second language. CLAS site: http://www.clas.sa.ucsb.edu/

Art 1A TA Paper Grading Rubric

Paper Grading Rubric (100 Points Total)

Main Criteria (80 points total)

1. Attention to the Prompt – 30 points

●      30–27: Fully addresses all aspects of the prompt with depth and clarity

●      26–23: Addresses most aspects of the prompt, some areas underdeveloped

●      22–19: Limited engagement with the prompt, missing key elements

●      18–0: Off-topic or does not address the prompt

2. Implementation of Previously Given Feedback – 30 points

●      30–27: Clearly incorporates feedback, major improvement shown

●      26–23: Feedback is partially incorporated, some issues remain

●      22–19: Minimal evidence of applying feedback

●      18–0: No evidence of applying feedback

3. Writing Mechanics (Grammar, Punctuation, Citation) – 20 points

●      20–18: Grammatically correct, proper punctuation, citations correct in style (MLA/Chicago)

●      17–15: Minor errors, but meaning remains clear

●      14–12: Frequent errors that occasionally hinder clarity

●      11–0: Serious errors that obscure meaning or incorrect/missing citations

---

Secondary Criteria (10 points total)

4. Structure & Formatting – 5 points

●      5: Clear sentence structure, logical flow, and coherent paragraphs

●      4: Mostly clear, some awkward phrasing or organization issues

●      3–2: Frequent structural issues that hinder readability

●      1–0: Lacks coherence and structure

5. Adherence to Due Date (Weekly Writing Assignments Only) – 5 points

●      5 points: Submitted on time

●      3 points: Submitted late but within 24 hours

●      1 point: Submitted 1–2 days late

●      0 points: Submitted more than 48 hours late (results in a score of 0/100 for the entire assignment)

Note: Research papers require prior approval from the instructor for extensions. Late submissions without approved extensions may receive a score of 0.

---

Minor Deductions (up to –10 points)

●      Incorrect font size (–2)

●      Incorrect spacing (–2)

●      Missing page numbers (–2)

●      Other formatting issues (–1 to –4 at instructor’s discretion)

---

Total Possible: 100 points