Practise Discours 2

Hello again.

I have had regrets by not starting sooner but we still haven't had any lectures in the course yet apart from the 15 min lec that Richard Gant had. I went to the WoW organisation awearness lecture that was mainly for the students in collaboration option module.

Though I got to know more about WoW than I did for the whole last semester, it making me think that I missed loads of sessions. I was a bit upset because I did the WoW self awareness thing and was under the impression that I didn't have to do more than that, we did have to print it out and submit it with my blogg. I missed that. I feel a bit sorry for it.

Well, today I have been working on my sculptures. I am working one two quit bigscale hares in my livingroom. They are done in about a weeks time. Im so happy that im might post a pic. Right now I am making a sculpture out of sellotejp and I got the idea from Mark Jenkins - I first came across Jenkins in 2004 in a art magazine and his art just got stuck in my mind for some reason. I really like his way of working, he is originally an street artist but now also has exhibitions. He got a current exhibition in LA at the moment - Meaning is overrated.

Some pics of his art-

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Practice Discourse

This is my blog for the optional module Practice Discourse LSAXS2009

Brendan Dawes

Brendan Dawes is a designer and works a lot with interactive webdesign which ivites people to use websites in a new way. Dawes and his co workers in Magnetnorth (webdesign company) wants to break bounderies and create something new, as they work a lot with flash, they can create somthing that are more 3D and more interactive with the user than the normal webpage you would find.

I really like Brendan Dawes for what he worked with, I found it really interesting and he was such a good person as well. Dawes got some unusual methods to prove his point as well which I really liked in his lecture. MagnetNorth has worked with the BBC and Diesel with their websites. I can't get on the their website mnatwork.com, I need to download flash, thats I don't like about flash, got it at home though as all the facebook games are made in flash and you need flash to use them. I'm downloading it now, we'll see how it goes. It didn't go that well unfortunately, I needed some kind of administrative priviledges. Dawes got his own website as well, I found his project Cinema Redux that he talked about in his lecture, really good that he got to exhibit it in modern museum in NY.

The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)

This blog.

I am really trying to write about every artists and my reflections from the lectures and such. I have unfortunately missed out on two of the visiting lectures, the first Ian Anderson and the second Anab Jain these are both designers but different in their areas of work.

I have already written a few lines about Ian Anderson so a guess it is only fare to do the same about Anab Jain. I finding this women interesting, She is working with design that makes people interact with each other. This is very important in my opinion as people today lives in their own little bubble, Their home base, social circle and surroundings. We are suspicious about other human beings and as Wayne Hemingway pointed out in his lecture when he showed a sign placed in a public space that said "Say NO to strangers".

Anab Jain is an Indian artist, educated in India, Vienna and London and have now got 7 years of experience in different areas, film making, research and design. She is the founder Superflux a new "think and do" design company that working with the intersection of people and technology.

One of her projects was to share her internet with neighbors and strangers that walked past her house. Jain sat a yellow chair under a sign that explained that they could use her WiFi for free on the yellow chair. This is a test towards people's close mindedness, thinking probably that there was some kind of catch to this as it is not common to walk by a yellow chair that offers them FREE internet. Also a experiment to bring people together and to research the reactions this brought on.

Doug Fishbone

Doug Fishbone is an american artist that lives and works in London. Fishbone held a really strong presentation of his work. He came across like a stand-up comic kind of way and had a series of pictures taken from google to complement his speach, to tell a story, a narrative. subverting advertisement to something really bizarre.

I thought his point about taking a sculpture by Jeff Koons out of context, by taking it to a less developed country that has no idea about balloon sculptures or stainless steel as a material. How these people would think and reflect about such an object.

I really liked his banana project as well, the concept was great. This is Fishbones most famous art project. He piled up up to 40.000 bananas at most in different public spaces national and international in 2002. This is clearly dealing with the issues of the consumer society and globalization.

One of Fishbones other works I really liked is where he employed a Arab American actor to sit without any expressions in a cage in the gallery space while the visitors were just walking around watching the art in the gallery. This is a really strong statement. This is a protest against the war and how western people now looks at this people. I saw Presepolis yesterday and have read the book as well and It surly can't be easy to be seen as a terrorist wherever one goes. It isn't easy to come in to a new country and life in the first place.

I got pics and some info here

People need to be more open minded about art and take in the concept and the meaning of the art work instead of dismissing it because of how it's made.

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Doug Fishbone

This lecture was really interesting, even though I really thought it was going to be Jermey Deller who held the lecture. I have been into blackboard today to check who was having the lecture so I could write about it in advance. Eventhough I only had time to write a couple of lines about the guy. So half way through the lecture me and my mate discover that it's not Jermey Deller becaus he is british and this guy is american (and dealing with other issues and in other mediums). Confusion. Blackboard, changed info in last minute. Well atleast it was a very interesting lecture.

I'm going to write more about the lecture at a better time.

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Ian Anderson, Jermey Deller

I unfortunately I couln't attend Ian Anderson's lecture last wednesday. I have talked to some of my mates that attended and they had mixed reviews. What I first thought of hearing his name was that his surname is really common in Sweden. I had no idea who this guy was.

Now after a bit of research I know that he is an graphic designer, That worked within TDR (the design republic)

Anderson has helped develop the PS game Wip3out (Witch one of my housemates love.) He has been working with labels as coca cola and others.

This is quite breif about him as I'm stressing to go to the library before the 4 a clock lecture with Jermey Deller witch I'm really looking forward to.

Deller won the Turner Prize 2004 for his installation memory bucket(2003).

I have put the label socio political on Deller after looking at his webpage. His art is a very strong protest against the war in Iraq. He is using performance and installation as his mediums.

This was also breif, writing more after the lecture.

See you there.

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