Memory (the game) via .gif

http://www.patrickasanchez.com/projects/memory.html

focusing out

hey guys,
the tony wight gallery show is great,
in the back there's a video that is a great example of 'focusing out' as we discussed in class (lucy/kathy/dana ahem!)
highly recommended!

Focus Out / Out Focus

def. 
out focus:  1.) from a path of inquiry that encourages extreme focus on a minute detail of a problem, question or theory. 2.) the shifting out of detailed inquiry on a specific subject back into the world from which the idea originated. 3.) fu**(^) blurry.

According to Google, the term means / could derive from:

http://api.jquery.com/focusout/

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cts=1330790979149&ved=0CEoQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshinzen.org%2FRetreat%2520Reading%2FFocus%2520Out-Summary.pdf&ei=VkBST7-OLcnZgQfXqLzdDQ&usg=AFQjCNGkwCBnCFsVQxcitWThcFsk54T8Sg

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Out-of-Focus-Out-of-Imagination/170652019642716

http://forum.dhtmlx.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19938

http://www.juxtapoz.com/Graffiti/focus-in-focus-out

http://www.123rf.com/photo_349096_naked-woman-model--focus-out-of-model.html
(stock photo version of...)

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22out+focus%22&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=KMD&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=_UJST_yyLYqygwfR4aTXDQ&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=1436&bih=775

http://focusleadership.org/Display.asp?Page=AboutUs

for Dana / Lucy (mostly)

Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago professor who made the work regarding the highway exit by her childhood home. She includes collage / photo work with text and vocal performances of the text in her presentation.)

http://oikost.com/projects-2/exit-43/

from UBU Web
Aspen Magazine: http://www.ubu.com/aspen/
(This is just a great magazine of conceptual art / craziness... kind of reminded me of an older version of the .gif format.)

from the UBU Web Papers Section, which can be found near the top of the page here: http://www.ubu.com/papers/
(These really just give a different sort of background for the use of text in visual or otherwise non-linear, but narrative work... e.g. cultivating a familial history for a personal reason through the display or use of images.)
William S. Burroughs -- "The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin"
John Robert Colombo -- "On Found Poetry (A FOUND INTRODUCTION)"

the cave

click on the image

links

Nico Krebs and Taiyo Onorato

Allison Grant

Olaf Breuning

tomorrow

tomorrow we'll be going over the Irwin text pages up through page 154...
there's a great moment when Irwin moves to site-specificity, which seems so obvious of a notion that it's funny to see him have moved there so slowly and carefully, but also surgically methodical and inspiring.

here's the reason i'm missing class:
The main exhibition at BIP2012 "ONLY YOU ONLY ME" will occupy the whole of Mamac – the city’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – including the basement areas that were originally intended and used for preserving paintings and sculptures and now totally given over to art-themed installations and videos. Nan Goldin will have pride of place at Mamac with a monumental projection of her major work, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, surrounded by Erwin Olaf, Sylvie Blocher, Jason Lazarus, J.H. Engström, Eric Rondepierre, Elina Brotherus, Thomas Chable and very many others.


pretty excited and a bit nervous--the best feelings to have in both pockets.


start picking out a reading and bringing it in to plop on the calendar...i'm excited to receive your submissions.


i will be assigning a reading on jean-francois lyotard--i just got his book so i need a couple weeks to find the highlights and get them digitized...
i think i will bring in an adrian piper pdf tomorrow
and also hakim bey's TAZ!


i think kathy was going to bring in a selection from on longing?  please confirm this with me kathy


here's my artist statement i promised, this gets edited all the time per context:

ARTIST STATEMENT

By employing subjective re-envisioning of shared cultural moments, I aim to capture the moments and spaces in which our political, cultural, and historical landscape reveals itself from the personal to the public.

My artistic strategies include traditional photography and photograms, collected, appropriated, and solicited photographs and image-related texts, video, sculpture, and installation. The accumulated collection of these gestures functions as an archive of heightened moments—both personal and collective— that elucidate quotidian and epic contemporary experience.

Implicitly, the form and shape of each project enacts an ongoing dialogue about the flexibility and potency of photography based media, and the opportunities for meaning that reside in its margins.

i hope that helps you see how a statement can be short and cover a lot of ground.  i tend to almost always think shorter is better...


also, can everyone review two exhibitions between now and our next meeting (after tomorrow) on March 16th?  there are two i'm going to friday night, one at aron's space document 6-8pm, and the other at johalla projects 7-10pm.  post short reviews (200 words) on each to the class blog by 3/16/12...


see you tomorrow, bring energizing snacks...