Bad @ sports: 330 Carolee Schneeman

       Carolee Schneeman is a character! This was a pretty interesting talk and good overview of Schneeman's thoughts on her own work. It was interesting to hear her talk about how she viewed her work at the time of creating it. She talked about how she was not misunderstood but that she had misunderstood her culture and what they were ready to receive. She mentioned was always shocked when her pieces were censored but now she is equally shocked when the censors are removed. Schneeman describes her early work at the juncture of sexuality and politics, but also how her painting was a personal venting of energy.
        She talks about how her early work studied gender roles a lot but in a way that focus more on men and how they would handle domestic normalcy that women are so often placed into. She talked about one of her first models being a man and how that was so different than the norm or women as models. It was interesting to listen to Schneeman who sounded like such a soft spoken lady, when her work had been anything but. I wonder how much has changed over the years. I think she feels she has spoken her peace on the body, saying that she will leave the body to other artists and seek to regain privacy in her own life.
    My favorite line was when the interviewer asked her "what is the most important truth you have discovered as a multidisciplinary artist and educator?" to which she responded: "To have a psycho, sensitive cat that sleeps with you every night."

Carolee Schneemann - Whitney Ratliff

Last week, I messed up. I posted the BAS about everyone but Greg Sholette! Guess, I didn't listen to all of it. Oops. 

In Carolee Schneemann's podcast, Schneemann talks about her artwork from when she first became an artist and what fueled her inspirations to create artwork that pushed the discourse of the human body, sexuality, and gender within society's perspective. One point she makes is that her and her respective artists were all hugely influential bringing together the intensity of their cultural discoveries and that she had brought issues of painting, not only with what she was doing but what she was learning at the time as well. Most of her works that were the most iconic even to this day were created in the 60's and 70's. Her mantra now is, "My use of my body reflected the body of the work." 

This podcast was a good overlook at all of Carolee Schneemann's past and present works. I felt like the questions asked were very insightful and well presented. It covered a lot of and Carolee was very open and humble with her responses. 

Alejandro's response

Ok so I accidentally listened, and made a response to this weeks podcasts last week. I could do the responsible thing and say that it was a mistake in my part, but instead I;m going to blame Mike, this is his fault :). Anyways, one question I still have for this podcast is whether the artist feels like there has been a tremendous amount work done by female artist, in means of have they gain better recognition or say in the art world, to does she think that there is still plenty more to do? She's been in this line of work far longer than any of us so I feel she would be a good candidate to help answer this question.

Bad @ Sport #413

   This was really interesting, I liked that they talked to a few different people during the podcast. That being said I feel like there were a couple different thoughts going on, as each person was being asked different questions. I think overall this podcast is really trying to give listeners a view of what SIGGRAPH is and what it hopes to achieve.  I think the first segment with Victoria Szabo was one of my favorites and made the most sense. I loved how she described the work on display, normally a difficult task but I could very nearly picture it. Szabo mentioned being inspired by William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence", and quoted a segment:

  "To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower 

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand 

And Eternity in an hour."

1) I loved this. 2) I think this is just a great picture of what New Media is, especially the last line. I think about how is my own work I've loved the exploration of manipulating time digitally. Szabo also talked a lot about how SIGGRAPH hopes to bridge the gap between art and technology. I think Jackie Morie also mentioned collaboration and how SIGGRAPH encourages artists and scientists to work together and inspire each other.
  This is one of the things that I think is the most beautiful about New Media. I think it is so versatile and really reaches and branches out into different fields that would otherwise not be paired with art. Ultimately New Media makes connections that couldn't otherwise happen.
   The last segment about "dark matter" was most confusing to me. It involved a lot of politics the speakers seemed a bit argumentative. They talked a lot about the art world and how some people sink into invisibility and others make it big. I think that is what they mean when they talk about "dark matter?"

Bad at Sports XYZN Scale Response

I guess the main theme I hear is about bringing the spatial element in art back into the digital world, where it can become so screen based ( the science ) into a blend ...right brain/left brain art with all kinds of art-making. It feels free to be personal and use whatever media you want with a piece that will express something even if only to you, but successful when it can express to many. Always a coin toss I suppose, but I agree when combining functionality (science) to artfulness it truly is a marriage of science and art that might benefit humanity. Scientist and Artist...both experiment.

Bad at Sports

What is interesting about SeaGraph is the ability that it has to bring artists and scientists together in a meaningful way that becomes mutually beneficial. I often find that artists represent scientific concepts very well, but in ways that aren't really very beneficial in any way to the scientific community. When we really create functionality with our art is when we can hone in on the needs of scientific community and provide aesthetic in any number of various forms. For it has always been artists who present science in an aesthetically meaningful way, ever since we first began illustrating anatomy and new species. As we develop and learn new technologies we have the ability to teach society in a very exciting and engaging ways.

VIDEO ARTIST TYPES: CHECK THIS OUT

On Sunday the 14th of this month, The Texas Theater in Oak Cliff will be playing a recent classic of the essay genre: Los Angeles Plays Itself. Those of you interested in video art or experimental film, especially non-fiction, essay, or appropriation, should definitely check this out:
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