Intermedia Grad Seminar
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY School of Art Intermedia Program, FALL
2001
ART 621 SLN: 41308 Wed. 6:40-- 9:30 TWR A 202
Instructor: COLLINS. Office hours: by appointment Twr A-105.
phone: 965-8311 e-mail: dan.collins@asu.edu
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Activity/Event |
1st Half of Class |
2nd Half of Class |
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August
22 |
Introductions |
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Friday,
August 24, 1 – 3 pm |
Discussion with Heather and John and the ASU Art Museum, Shirin
Neshat and Andreas Gursky |
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August
29 |
John Spiak overview of local events |
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Sept.
5 |
Studio
Visits |
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Sept.
12 |
Studio
Visits |
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Friday |
Closing
Reception ASU Art Museum |
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Sept.
19 |
Studio
Visits |
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Sept.
26 |
Studio
Visits |
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Oct.
3 |
Studio
Visits |
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Oct.
10 |
Studio
Visits |
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Oct.
17 |
Studio
Visits |
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Oct.
24 |
Studio
Visits |
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Thursday,
October 25 |
Panel:
Eduardo Kac and Transgenics Neeb Hall |
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Oct.
28 – 30 (Sun-Tues) |
Ethics and the Arts Symposium |
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Oct.
31 |
Discussion: Ethics and the Arts |
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Nov.
7 |
Studio
Visits |
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Nov.
14 |
Preparations
for Intersculpt |
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Nov.
15 – 16 |
Intersculpt Int’l Sculpture Interconnection |
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Nov.
21 |
Thanksgiving? |
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Nov.
28 |
Last
Meeting |
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Current Exhibitions locally:
James Turrell, Scottsdale Center for
the Arts (ends early Sept.)
Joe Segura, Collaboration, Scottsdale Center for the Arts (ends early Sept.)
Wolfgang Laib, Scottsdale Center for the Arts (Oct.)
Phoenix Triennale, Phoenix Art Museum (John Haddock and others)
Shirin Neshat and Andreas Gursky, ASU Art Museum (ends early Sept.)
Possible Guests
Richard Loveless, former director, Institute for Studies in the Arts
Eduardo Kac, Transgenic artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
John Spiak, Senior Curator, ASU Art Museum
Laurie Lundquist, Civic Artist, City of Mesa
Jeff McMahon, Performance and Media Artist, ASU Institute for Studies in the
Arts
Gregory Sale, Performance artist and public art curator
Angela Ellsworth, Performance and Media Artist, Phoenix, AZ
Toni Dove, Interactive Media, New York
Some Starting Points
--La Ferla, Ruth, ”Perfect Model,” New York Times, May 7, 2001 (Discussion of
synthetic models/actors)
--Kac, Eduardo, “GFP Bunny” (Discussion of Transgenic organisms and art)
--Stafford, Barbara Maria, Body Criticism, “The Aesthetics of Almost”
(Discussion of the difference between seeing and knowing relative to the body)
--Collins, Dan, “Models of Interaction,” New Art Examiner, March 2001
(Discussion of interactive systems)
--Rosen, Jonathan, “A Retreat from the World Can Be a Perilous Journey,” New
York Times, May 7, 2001. (Finding a “voice”)
--Muschamp, Herbert, “Fitting Into History’s True Fabric,” New York Times, May
6, 2001 (Where does one person stop and another person start?)