Dates to Remember

Wed., Nov. 17 - Field Trip (see right sidebar) and Zine #2 due.  I need a hard copy of Zine #2.  The mailroom will make copies for each of you.  I will return copies to you on Friday, Nov. 19.  Assemble your Zine and turn in Monday, Nov. 22.  NO LATE ZINE'S ACCEPTED.

Friday, Nov. 26 - No Class.  Thanksgiving Break.  DUE - TEXT FOR PROJECTION.  E-MAIL TO ME.

Monday, Nov. 29 - Response to Magazine Article Due.

Friday, Dec. 3 - Magic Lantern Presentation during First Friday Art Walk.  6:30 pm, location to be announced.  Reception for our learning community, student center, 5 - 6:00.

Monday, Dec. 6, 12 - 1:45, our classroom - Test #3 administered during our final exam time.  NO MAKE UP TESTS.  IF YOU MISS THE FINAL EXAM TIME, YOU RECEIVE A ZERO FOR TEST #3.

Thanksgiving Break Homework

Purchase one of the magazines listed below.  Write a response to an article of your choice.  Type your response.  Xerox the article.  Put your name on everything.  Due Monday, Nov. 29.  I expect the article to be of substantial length and your response to be thoughtful and insightful.

The magazines listed below are: Juxtapoz, Art Papers, Art Lies, Modern Painters, Hi Fructose, Art News, Cabinet, Art in America.

Wednesday, Nov. 10, Visit to Crisp-Ellert Gallery, Flagler College Campus

Damond Howard, work currently on view at Crisp-Ellert Gallery.
Link here for artist statement.

Damond Howard of African American decent depicts the ideas of identity and preprsentation as it relates to his culture and history. He uses racist imagry to point to existing racism in our cultural climate.
Monday, November 01 to Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Opening Nov 5 from 5-8pm

Crisp-Ellert Gallery
48 Sevilla St. at Flagler College, St. Augustine
Event Pricing: free




Further reading and research from the New York Times.

Recalling History on A Day of Light and Darkness.  Link here.

Grace and Culture Intertwined.  Link here.

Met Is to Repatriate to Egypt Artifacts from King Tut's Tomb.  Link here.

TED Talks

Patrick Chappatte
The Power of Cartoons


Alison Jackson Looks at Celebrity

Zine #1, Observation, Winners (4 way tie)

Mona Hatoum & Justine Cooper (Chapter 7)

Justine Cooper, Living in Sim.  Link here for article and more pics.

The Mexican Cage, Mona Hatoum, 2002. The friendly colors of the cage work in contrast with the unfriendly nature of the cage.

Hatoum's The Mexican Cage (2002) represents a colorful birdcage. The work suggests a metaphoric connection between a caged canary and the life of a Mexican factory worker. How does The Mexican Cage suggest tension? Do you think that the "friendly colors" of the work contrast with the object that is an "unfriendly" cage?  Link here to source.

The Mexican Cage, Mona Hatoum, 2002. The friendly colors of the cage work in contrast with the unfriendly nature of the cage.

Interior Landscape | 2008 | steel bed, pillow, human hair, table, cardboard tray, cut-up map, wire hanger | dimensions variable.  Link here.
More here.





In Interior Landscape (2008), an installation created specifically f

Chapter 7, Biology and Crime: Degeneracy and the Visual Trace

Some interesting tidbits and visuals  here.

Henry Faulds, 1843 - 1930, Scottish scientist who is noted for the development of fingerprinting.    From Chapter 7:

"There are similar markings in the grain of woods, in the veining of leaves, and in the spots and stripes of flowers.  The barks of some trees often display the very patterns that are so useful and interesting in finger prints...Photography shows furrows exactly like those of finger prints in the overflowing lava of a volcano." -Henry Faulds

Training for criminal identification.  More here.

More here.

Alphonse Bertillon