Blogging Baby

Dear Intermedia-ist!

I am excited to check in on your process and experiences of intermedia so far, and looking forward to your reading comments to each other…so, let’s get those blogs started! (why am I hearing heavy techno beats and bobbing my head back and forth like a chicken after writing that?!)

If you are already blogging and want to stick with the blog you’ve got, just send me the name/access link to your current one and I will post onto our intermedia blog, right here!

And, if you are ready to start reading each other’s posts, check out links under “Students 2011” (obvious, right?) I will keep adding your blogs there as they come in.

If you are completely new to blogging, the simplest place to create one that I know of is www.blogger.com.

You will need to set-up a gmail account to log on- please don’t forget to write down your password!!!!

Blogger will walk you completely through the process, but in case you do by chance get stuck, call on me, I am happy to help as much as I can in my limited knowledge of blogging. In case you are wondering, tho, your blogs can be VERY, VERY simple. But I do expect images and text with (nearly) every post. We are artists, afterall, so give me the eye-candy, please!

The blogging assignment is not just a way to get us looking at each other’s works, but as you have probably already intuited, I consider the internet another medium for intermedia artmaking, so if you want to have your blog be an art project, that is absolutely great. No need to share your internal process if you’d prefer to make an art project out of this assignment. It’s all up to you! (but it doesn’t preclude the other projects…unless you talk to me about why it should).

That is all for now. I hope I have not confused. I hope you remain inspired. I look forward to our creative 2d presentations on Tuesday the 25^th! Yay!

Robbyn

Notes on Intermedia-What is it?

1. blending different artistic media

2. art as experience

Roots in FLUXUS: conceptual/experiential/time

work in a participatory manner to create & experience avant-garde, multi-disciplinary art.

FLUX/Intermedia has associations with Dada, Duchamp, Situationiste, Futurism & Surrealism.

Avoids limiting art theories, spurns pure aesthetic objectives.

FLUXUS produced mixed-media works:

found poems, mail art, silent orchestras, collages of readily available materials (scavanged posters, newspapers, and other ephemera). Experiemental films, installations, happenings, situations and events (including performances, guerilla or street theater, concerts of electronic music.)

George Maciunas (Lithuanian-American, 1931-1978) coined the name Fluxus. He described it as "a fusion of Spike Jones, gags, games, Vaudeville, Cage and Duchamp." He co-ordinated and edited numerous Fluxus publications.

Artist:

Fluxists include Joseph Beuys, George Brecht (German, 1926-), John Cage (American, 1912-1992), Robert Filliou (French, 1926-1987), Henry Flynt (American, 1940-), Ken Friedman, Al Hansen (1927-1995), Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins (American, 1938-), Ray Johnson (American, 1927-1995), Alison Knowles (American, 1933-), George Maciunas, Jackson MacLow (American, 1922-), Larry Miller (American), Charlotte Moorman (American, 1940-1994), Yoko Ono (Japanese-American, 1933- ; married to the "Beatle" John Lennon), Nam Jun Paik (Korean-American, 1932-), Daniel Spoerri (Swiss, 1930-), Benjamin Vautier (French, 1935-), Wolf Vostell (German, 1932-), Robert Watts, Emmett Williams (American, 1925-), and La Monte Young (American, 1935-), among many others.

Get Your Mind Blown!

It's all happening!

Intermedia Happening

Friday, March 19, 2010
7-10pm

Come join us for an eclectic evening of boundary-bashing installation, provocative performance and intriguing art between forms- created by the Arts & Consciousness students of the 2010 Intermedia group studio practice. This is a one time only, one night only, event of strange and unusual curiosities, rituals, art-object-relations and experiments in form...you won't want to miss it, folks!

Invasion of Consciousness

http://flavorwire.com/73250/highlow-art-la-billboards

Visual ArtsBillboards Los Angeles Pop Art Visual Arts
High/Low Art: LA Billboards
12:03 pm Thursday Feb 25, 2010 by Kelsey Keith

In New York, street art is tagged on the sides of buildings and pasted on empty storefronts. In Los Angeles, a city of automatic transmissions and three-hour traffic, public art may best be viewed, well, on a billboard. The MAK Center for Art & Architecture is doing just that: the center has selected 21 contemporary artists to make their marks on decommissioned billboards all over West Hollywood, from Sunset Boulevard to the Santa Monica Freeway. How Many Billboards? — up through the end of March — is intended as a reflective tool in the middle of quotidian life; as the director for the project notes, “Channels are opened for experimentation, innovation, and cultural exchange.” Replachttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8101784582002381853#ing media noise with smart art in an urban space? We like. Peep a few of the billboards after the jump and let us know your favorites.


Kori Newkirk

Fast Company reports:

At least five years in the making, How Many Billboards? Art In Stead was organized by the MAK Center (who also co-operates the Schindler House in West Hollywood). When Kimberli Meyer was appointed its director in 2002, she began the arduous process of raising enough money to swap sweating Bud Light bottles with the sharp wordplay of [the billboards]. The break came when she met Rick Robinson, who works for MacDonald Media and negotiated on the MAK Center’s behalf with behemoths like Clear Channel, CBS Outdoor, and Van Wagner. In fact, the show capitalized on the fact that ad sales for the billboards were down, said Meyer last night on a preview ride. “This could never have happened three years ago.”

From Flavorwire

Of interest, methinks....

http://flavorwire.com/60012/2010-and-beyond-trends-in-contemporary-art

Winter 2010 Begins!

The Winter 2010 class is already deep in the throws of 2D/mixed-media-making. We spent all day Saturday playing with paper, paint, beeswax and film, just to get the ball rolling. Its going to be an exciting quarter, and I can't wait to see how the abstract words that were chosen at random morph into physical, tangible objects of art. Stay tuned, and mark your calendars now for the "Happening", Friday, March 19th from 7:30-10pm!

Intermedia Projects

Here's a little taste of some of the cool projects that came out of Intermedia Gang 2009.