ALLISON MILLER SAVE THE DATE: THURSDAY MAY 20 7:00 pm Visual Arts Facility Performance Space

ALLISON MILLER
SAVE THE DATE:
THURSDAY MAY 20
7:00 pm Visual Arts Facility Performance Space


Allison Miller uses abstract drawing as a medium to convey various subjects that span the mundane, such as Ribbon (2006), to loftier concepts as seen in her works Transference (2008) or Future Optimism (2009). Each work fluidly fills the confines of the page with a certain spontaneity, enlivening her drawings in a manner which is most often akin to happenings or compositions by John Cage, or even the Situationist derive. Miller was born in Evanston, IL and lives and works in Los Angeles. She has exhibited widely and is represented by ACME in Los Angeles.

-- Contributing Writer, Lara Bullock (Phd)

A Couple of THINGS..

For this week read Brakhage and bring questions. You may want to also start reading the Eno article, since we looked at a little bit of his work, it will help you to think about sound.

I want everyone to give me a concise 1-4 sentences about their project along with a production and post-production(editing) rough schedule outline by tonight (Monday May 17). Email is fine.

About your final video:

• DO NOT take cameras to the beach, it will kill them. Sand gets inside, no matter how careful you are, and kills the camera. The only way is if you have a housing the camera can be placed inside, and no, these are not available in the equipment room, and they are quite expensive. (do what you want with your own personal cameras)

• DO RESEARCH, you will not come up with a unique original idea, it will always be able to be contextualized by other work dealing with similar ideas. So do research around your idea to complexify it, your video should make us think.

• GET SHOOTING, don't delay. Bring a fair amount of footage to Lab this week so you can start messing around with all the crazy techniques I am going to show you.

• SCHEDULE,
week 8 week 9 week 10

finish shooting edit edit/sound

DUE FRIDAY JUNE 4, 12:00pm WEEK 10

Read Metaphors of Vision for this week here:

Metaphors OF Vision

Craig Baldwin Thursday, April 29th, 2010 :: 6:30 pm

Visual Arts Department Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents:

Craig Baldwin

Thursday, April 29th, 2010 :: 6:30 pm

Visual Arts Facility Performance Space

Craig Baldwin (b. 1952, Oakland, CA) is an experimental filmmaker who is best known for his eloquently provocative collage films that challenge the fine line between high and popular art. His outlandishly spectacular assemblages utter sharp, subversive commentary of contemporary consumerism and society. Baldwin pulls his digital sources from various overlooked corners of the image world and mixes with his own to construct narratives that address topics ranging from geopolitical crisis and conspiracy and copyright disputes, to mainstream media culture and the imagery of the middle class. He teaches at UC Davis and lives and works in San Francisco.

--Contributing Writer, Lesley Ma (PhD

Portrait Lighting

http://www.professionalphotography101.com/portrait_lighting/lighting_names.html

WATCH

http://www.redhairedlady.com/WHOLPHIN_NO2.mp4

Hippopotamus

Hippopotamus
An Exhibition of Works by the MFA Candidates in the UCSD Visual Arts Department
Running in conjunction with Open Studios 2010

Visual Arts Facility Gallery
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093

Exhibition Dates: April 6 - April 10, 2010
Hours: Noon - 4:30 pm

Herbert Marcuse had 20-30 different figurines of hippopotamuses - a bizarre animal that embodies the reality of the absurd and the immense possibility of the imagination. Conceptually, it is the conduit between land and water. It reaps in one area and spreads itself across another. A facile metaphor for UCSD’s mission, which is to “promote and facilitate the transfer of UCSD innovations” where the capitalistic machine gleans knowledge from one area and spreads it across the global market place.

Attached is the complete curatorial statement for Hippopotamus.