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Contemporary Art, -Artists depicting themselves or others while in prison.…

- - - - Video Art
        
        Camile Henrot, Grosse Fatigue, video (2013) This video employs the atmosphere of a computer desktop. This imagery then feels contemporary and is utilizing modern tech and imagergy to engage the audience
        
        Hand Painted Cinema:
        -Introduces the moving image as art.
        -Intersection of painting and cinema.
        -Artist Walter Ruttman saw this media as one which has potential to evolve, and establish conversations of art and technology.
        -Ruttman painted on glass and recorded frame by frame to make moving abstract images.
        -give rise to new kind of artist. new media
        
        Walter Ruttman Lichtspiel Opus 1. (1921)
        
        Structural Film
        
        Brakhage is using film as a material by painting, cutting, and scratching directly onto film stock. The artists hand is present in the work.
        
        Reading: Between the Still and Moving Image
        
        Charles Iles writes about the phenomena of the moving image and how this heightens a viewers experience.
        
        Cinema and moving image are physical both in presentation and experience.
        
        How video artists and performers utilize 3D spaces to heighten their work
- - - - "my blackness was there- dark and inarguable" (P.261)
        
        Tom Lloyd: Black American Abstract Artist.
        
        Lloyd criticized by fellow black artists for work being shown in popular galleries and spaces hosted by whites. Also, that his work was not emblematic of being black. Lloyd argues that by being black, his work is inherently about being black
      - "I was an object amongst other objects" (P.257)
- - - - feminist performance art
        
        Yoko Ono
        
        Yoko Ono is a Japanese American artists associated with the Flux and Dada art movements. Her work often explores ideas of imagination, human experience, peace, and love.
        In her famous work Cut Piece, Ono allows viewers to remove her clothing piece by piece with a pair of scissors. This work is a conversation about the female body and how violence, and actions are often taken against them.
        
        Carolee Schneeman
        
        Carolee Schneeman, Fuses, 1967
        This work consists of two characters having sex, and is edited and collaged to blend the bodies of the sexualized figures present. This is a portrait of sexual bodies. This was criticized as an act against feminism, as critics suggested this work existed to sexualize the female body.
        Schneeman disregards these ideas, and instead argues that this work is a reclamation of the female body that reduces the stigma of female sexuality
  - - - Cassils
        
        The artist known as Cassils is a transgender artist and body builder. Their work explores their own body, and contemplates the history of violence inflicted upon queer bodies. In their performance work Becoming an Image, they violently attack a massive mound of wet clay.
- - - - READING: KRUASS, SCULPTURE IN THE EXPANDED FIELD
        In this work, Kruass is unpacking the challenges and nuances of contemporary sculpture. A key take away from this reading is her emphasis on the "peripheral" functions in sculpture. One of which is science. This intersection of science and art can be witnessed in the Land art Movement.
        
        Land Art Movement
        
        Nancy Holt.
        had a background and education in biology. Her interest in biology manifested into her Earthworks, and how this is an example of the many intersections art has.
        
        Sun Tunnels
        
        Robert Smithson.
        Had a background in science as well, and also produced large scale earthworks.
        
        Spiral Jetty
  - - - art has been stolen, sold, and relocated throughout history. Much of which occurred during colonization and global warfare.
      - How art forms have evolved as a process of appropriation
        
        Reading: Jones Tea bowl Cultural Appropriation
        -History of the tea ceremony
        -How the ceremony has moved in between cultures
        -questions of ethics of white people using traditional tea bowl practice
- - - - Kerry James Marsall Untitled Policeman (2015)
        
        created during BLM movement in 2015. New/continuing conversations about police reform and anti-black violence that exists in the justice system.
  - - - criticisms include:
        -lack of diversity
        -long and unspoken issues of racism
        -possession of "stolen" or unethically owned works of art (a product of colonialism)
        
        Hans Haake
        creates installations that break down the barrier between the formality of museams, and the grit of the real world. His work is political, and Haake wants his work to communicate with current discourse in a gallery setting
        
        Hans Haake MoMa Poll
        poll set up for visitors of the MoMa to respond to a controversial topic which was related to Governor Rockefeller
- - - - contemporary artists pushing, and redefining the boundaires of material and what can be considered as material
        
        Light as Material
        
        Dan Flavin: Constructed Light
        Flavin uses light installations to transform spaces. The light in his work is the material present and has a sculptural and painterly quality
        
        Kara Walker: American artist uses paper silhouettes to create immersive installations