Art 199 Cohort Glass Box Gallery Exhibition & Art 1A Artist Talk

What: Art 199 Cohort Glass Box Gallery Exhibition

When: March 2 - March 6

Reception: Thursday, March 5 from 4-6

Who: Bethany Close, Elyse Harris-Crayton, Payton Gomez, Kelly Andrade, Maddie Cupples, Sarah Howard, Arpie Hakobyan

ART 1A ARTIST TALK: Monday, March 9 12:30-1:45

Who: Bethany Close, Elyse Harris-Crayton, Payton Gomez, Kelly Andrade, Maddie Cupples, Sarah Howard, Arpie Hakobyan

Where: Ellison 2626

Art 1A Artist Talk Featuring Eric Beltz on Monday, March 2

Who: Eric Beltz

What: Art 1A Artist Talk

When: Monday, March 2 from 12:30-1:45

Where: Ellison 2626

Website: ericbeltz.com

Instagram: @poisonoakman

About Eric Beltz,

Eric Beltz is a pencil artist who lives in Buellton and works in Santa Barbara. He teaches drawing at UC Santa Barbara where he also received his MFA in 2004. Beltz has shown extensively across the United States including at the Museum of Arts and Design (NY), the Mint Museum (NC), the Contemporary Arts Museum (TX), the Frye Museum (WA), and both the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Art, Design, and Architecture Museum at UCSB. His work has been featured in Art in America, the LA Times, the Village Voice, the New York Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, and other publications. Beltz has had numerous solo shows in Los Angeles and New York.

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