Anna Sullivan, current finishing her MA research as part of the MA in Art and Media Practice invites you to dinner at TASTY! 09. By combining the traditional art form of painting with contemporary performative practice, Anna Sullivan is making her life as a painter in 1904, on canvas and as a person of the past in everyday life. You are invited to dinner by Ms Sullivan to explore if the life of an artist is more lifestyle than occupation and become a part of her ongoing project “Me Then Now”, that references a social history that seems far different from the present.
Me Then Now, Anna Sullivan 9th July 2009 Café Crema 7.15pm, Prices £6 / £5 (LBL) & £4 conc – students, JSA, OAP. All ticket prices include dinner. Booking in advance essential, see website for details www.tastydinersclub.com
Filed under: anna, paula roush
January 26, 2008 • 8:54 pm
The Emory University page is a huge resource for Post-colonial studies. It is broadly organised as a book might be organised. It has the appearance of an early contributor to the World Wide Web. The navigation feels limited and the sheer volume of information overwhelming once the uninspiring threshold has been crossed. It’s intimidating.
The Univeristy of Chicago site was, though flawed, more navigable and therefore more useful than this one. Both sites are very useful and of great help to the academic researcher or web-wandering curious however they could both be better suited to their medium.
Internet research is characterised by quantity in the first place. There are numerous sites that respond to, for example, a Google search on one’s chosen subject. In order to determine if a site is a good one the researcher needs to assess the value of each very quickly. Such assessments of these sites are difficult, our site should achieve this ‘hook.’ What benefit can our work be to others if it is difficult to engage with, or even appears to be difficult to engage with.
Of concern is that what we have as a group is research followed by discussion and only the research can be uploaded. The discussion is … nowhere. There is value in the discussion and surely this medium of the internet can present this better than any other meduim. Academic essays could then be presented as support to the presentations and discussions, as further reading.
To be an engaging and valueable presentation of all our work our site could take the form of the widget of expanding headings featured on this page and the heading featured on this page, a part of the artandculture.com website. If our entire site was constructed in this way with strong links between subjects in heavier type it could engage the researcher and facilitate connections between and within subjects. It could even set a precedent for other collaborative research projects. It does not have to be a sequence of pages between covers, it could be much more, it could be a new approach, a new opprotunity for sharing knowledge.
Filed under: anna, e-tivity 05
The pictures of bubbles of fizz on the label on the bottle are enticing but they are no subsitute for feeling the bubbles fizzing against my teeth, the sound they make felt rather more than heard.
The two appraisals of simulation, simulacrum are five years old but still seem current. Much of the information they reference is immune from date concerns such as the thinking of Aristotle. But there’s a lot of it. The writing is proper and measured. The writing is dry and not engaging.
The initial portal is compelling. It is presented as if a series of doors opening on to rooms full of knowledge. It is clear and simple. But a bit dull.
The information is presented but perhaps a list would be sufficient. Conclusions would be best succinct. And finally, for me the web is as much a place of images as it is a place of text. Some images would be nice.
Filed under: anna, e-tivity04-0708
January 23, 2008 • 9:59 pm
So i am to pick a theory. But surely the theory should pick me?
There are ideas i’m drawn to but nothing yet seems to fit comfortably with my work and me. Perhaps i don’t know enough.
I feel like a child in the midst of these intellects.
View my page on netbehaviour
Filed under: anna
November 21, 2007 • 10:17 pm
there snot much that sgood out there…
Filed under: anna, e-tivity02-0708
November 2, 2007 • 10:40 pm
I’m still struggling with the technlogy a bit. I can’t seem to find a way to transfer my posts so far into the Signs and Deconstruction page. Having them all accessible from a single source would make things much easier, and tidier.
Research progress has been good up to now but i’m now waiting for getting to the library again and then i’m not sure if i’m putting time into this at the expense of other classes. It could just be that because i’m not able to make the sort of progress i would like in the studio i’m using my time in other ways. It could be i’m going to have to accept starting some work at home a resign myself to having to struggle with it on the tube. But even that is fraught with difficulties, it’s only possible on wednesdays too as i can’t take advantage of the quiet travelling time because the studio isn’t open on the weekend.
Anyway, i had this idea to use Hans Christian Andersen to describe Deconstruction, or rather to begin the communication about Deconstruction. The idea being that to understand the story you have to understand the moral, or in the manner of Deconstruction understand the meaning behind the words.
In the meantime i stumbled across a link as i’m reading Donald Judd for my Project 1 research reference is made to an american philospher Charles S Peirce (d. 1914) who Judd read during the latter part of his career. Then reading around Derrida for tiip i find Peirce once again coming up because he wrote about Signs and Semitotics.
Anyway, it’s late and i’ve had a hell of a week.
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November 1, 2007 • 10:27 pm
Robert Irwin: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue³
December 9, 2006—January 27, 2007
NEW YORK, December 9, 2006—Today PaceWildenstein opens a new installation by Robert Irwin, Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue³, at 545 West 22 Street, New York City from December 9, 2006 through January 27, 2007.
Filed under: anna
October 27, 2007 • 1:19 pm
http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/
Fashion photography, Real?
Lifestyle – Sales tool – aspirational
from: http://almostgirl.coffeespoons.org/?p=782
quote:
“Simulacra and Simulation is most known for its discussion of images, signs, and how they relate to the present day. Baudrillard claims that our society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that in fact all that we know as real is actually a simulation of reality. The simulacra that Baudrillard refers to are signs of culture and media that create the reality that we perceive.”
So
The sign is more important than the signified. The sign sells the product, the sale is the goal. The product, the bit that is real is secondary to the sale, the bit that’s the simulacrum.
Filed under: Real Simulacra, anna
October 24, 2007 • 5:36 pm
An artist i have been researching for my project is Donald Judd. I have found similarities in his attitudes to space to my own. Whereas my focus is the interaction between art and design through space and surface he was concerned with how art and space interact as a part of his practice.
Photo from his New York Gallery www.pacewildenstein.com
Filed under: anna, artist of note, e-tivity 01-07/08
October 21, 2007 • 7:27 pm
I am a painter but to make ends meet work in architecture. I came to painting while earning my Bachelor of Architecture graduating in the class of 1997 from the University of Arkansas. That educational journey opened my mind to the world and the richness of culture.
My painting has developed as my confidence in my abilities has grown. I’ve made a lot of paintings that explore identity through colour and i am still finding ways of exploring this subject in this way. I use the primaries mostly, using blue to represent masculine, red for feminine and yellow as the balance between them.
I completed a series of what i’ve come to call Dot paintings that … well, i’m reticent about describing my work in any detail before the reader has seen some pieces. I have put a lot of thought into how i articulated the elements of the paintings and into associating those elements with ideas based on experience, investigation and observation but i don’t believe it is necessary to be aware of those ideas in order to enjoy one of my paintings as an image.
www.anna-id.co.uk
If the reader wants to know more about a specific paintings or the themes that link some of them do ask and i will share how i’ve committed my innermost musings to canvas.
My work in architecture has been much less fulfilling. I’ve come to specialise in housing and currently work for one of the larger firms in this specialism. Although my job hasn’t been particularly fulfilling i have had the opportunity to use and hone the design skills i developed at the UofA. My project at UoW seeks to explore how these skills and my painting can come together.
I’m a part time student so i get to spend two years exploring how art and design can work together, specifically through space and surface. I paint with acrylic on canvas and i draw with graphite and ink. At the moment i’m researching different ways of using these materials and will soon, finally, get the chance to actually make some work.
I’m a creative person so i’ve been feeling a little frustrated that a month into this MA course and i’ve really not made anything of note.
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Filed under: anna, e-tivity 01-07/08
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