Category: Research
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Curating is harder than it looks
My longest essay last term was on the subject of polyptychs, their format’s rich addition to meaning, and the concomitant curatorial nightmare they pose. (Sans pompous academic language: they’re cool, but it’s a real pain to show them to best advantage) My essay was righteously indignant about books and public displays which misleadingly or desultorily…
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Ye olde reading liste
Spring 2013 [Read in full unless otherwise marked] * = still working on it **=reread select parts or chapters ____________ Alexander, Jonathan. “Labeur and Paresse: Ideological Representations of Medieval Peasant Labor.” The Art Bulletin 72.3 (1990): 436-452. College Art Association. JSTOR. Web. 1 Sept 2013. **Barnett, Lincoln. The Universe and Dr. Einstein. New York: William…
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Tableau vivant
def. “a silent or motionless group of people arranged to represent a scene or incident” Those who have read Jane Eyre might recall the odd form of charades described midway through. In Charlotte Brönte’s version, participants dressed up and arranged themselves in a static position to provide clues for their audience. As with charades, the…
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Studio theory
[notes from a discussion/lecture by Astrid Bowlby and Gerard Brown at the University of the Arts on 6.26.13] With what metaphors do we define our studios? How does that affect our art? (Keep in mind that the context for this discussion is a low-residency program in which participants are assigned a space to occupy for…
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“The Uncanny Valley”
“The Uncanny Valley” …is an essay by Masahiro Mori about robotics. It’s been applied to animation as an explanation for why extremely illusionistic animation styles repel rather than attract. I feel it is a concept which must be understood in order to appreciate the conceptual strength or potential of trompe l’oeil painting.
Colleen Wampole 