Reviewing the Arts – Summer 07

Assigned Readings:  

Minsky, Richard. “FIRST-RATE ART IN “SECOND LIFE” – Jan. 2007
Petronilla Paperdoll, “Book Art Museum to Open in SL” SLArt, 2007 (be sure to click on links within the article to better understand what they are talking about)

NO RESPONSE ASSIGNMENT – just read the above.

Presentations  

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Hi folks — meet at the actual park this evening, not the classroom!  I’ll be running a bit late, so go ahead and go so you can get good seats!
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at Millenium Park / Jay Pritzger Pavilion 
Remembering Fela: Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, with special guest DJ Rich Medina (Music Without Borders) 
Nigeria’s [...]

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Thursday, July 5th: Cheryl, Elizabeth, Kevin, Malia
Tuesday, July 10th: Kaaren, John, Collin, Nicole
Thursday, July 12th: Carolyn, Gabriel, Laura, Robert, Michael 
* You will each do an oral presentation of a review or example of art or media that you have chosen, focusing on how it reflects, informs, or contradicts what we have read and/or discussed up to [...]

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From Edublogs News: Maintenance: We’ll be working on the servers this weekend (16th & 17th June) and there will be some downtime, apologies in advance and thanks for your understanding – more info here.
Not that this should affect many of you, since most of you will not be posting your response for next Tuesday’s blog [...]

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Review Assignment #1 (4-5 pages) DUE IN CLASS on June 12th: Choose any “issue-oriented” performance, set of images, film, cartoon strips, etc. to review. While writing the review, keep in mind the thoughts/ideas brought up in the readings we’ve done thus far in class. Write the review in first person and approach your writing with [...]

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Consider the following examples of culture jamming and street art:
Bubble Project Manifesto
The Bubble Project
Royall, Ian and Fiona Hudson. “Street Art Trash or Treasure?” Herald Sun, May 16, 2007
Howe, Jeff. “Art Attack,” Wired, August, 2005 (be sure to also click on the images on left).
Respond to the following questions:

In what ways might street art and [...]

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Read “Confronting Head-On the Face of the Afflicted,” by Joyce Carol Oates, from Crisis of Criticism, and then answer one set of the following questions:

Discuss Oates response to Croce with a focus on the term “victim art.” Does Oates take primary offense at the use of the term “victim art” or Croce’s claim that such art is [...]

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Hi folks! For weekly assignments, you will be asked to blog here. Respond to each assignment by clicking on the “comments” link (until someone posts the first comment, it’ll read “no comments”). The assignments will vary – between responses to your readings, thoughts about class discussions, assignments to locate images and/or other articles/blogs that refer to the [...]

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