Installation art

Nam June Paik began using magnetic tape in Portapacks, SONY’s portable, analogue video recording unit, as well as experimenting with and exhibiting cathode ray tube televisions as a sculptural object, in 1960s Germany. By 1968, the Museum of Modern Art had already begun acquiring and exhibiting Paik’s video work. Yet the bonafide rise of video as a museum object, and the scholarship that would follow, is associated with the succeeding decade. Moving image, derived from magnetic tape, had a clear…

and used her own body as a main focus of her art. Her first major performance piece was Hannah Wilke Super-t-Art in 1974, which also became one of her most iconic photographic works. Her use of her body in her art also took off in 1974 with her nude photographic collection S.O.S — Starification Object Series. This work introduced her signature use of chewing gum vulva mini-sculptures stuck to her body and reflects her frequent use of the self-portrait. Wilke coined the term “performalist…

feature films. Outside film, Pierce experiments a great deal with sound and installation. His artistic style is similar to impressionism, an art style represented by fluid motion and obvious brushstrokes. Music is a large influence in his work, along with other art forms such as poetry and dance. In one interview he stated that his work has been influenced most by teaching moments he’s gained from experiences with these art forms. Pierce captures a moment and makes it timeless through its…

into intuitive, intellectual, contemporary artists that are fully prepared to transfer into a four-year program. I am searching for such a teaching opportunity—where I can engage students in art making as both a tool for personal expression and a means for career development. With roots in the liberal arts, I approach teaching…

In this portion of her text she also draws a line between the current text called An Artist Looks at Ethnographic Exhibitions, Sacred Circles, and her work Fragments (1976-78). Fragments is a archival installation which consisting of 186 gouache drawings, 210 potsherds, photographs, charts, diagrams and handwritten and typed text. This chapter is crucial to be read, it is quite dense and full of information that I believe really determines her position as an artist and everything else that she…

Monica Bonvicini, born in 1965 in Venice, a sculptor, video and installation artist, is arguably one of the leading Italian artists today. Bonvicini, educated at the University of Arts in Berlin (1986-93) and the California Institute of Arts in Valencia (1991-2), became seriously recognized by the international art scene in the late-90s. In her vast artistic repertoire, Bonvicini work through a wide range of media and thematics, primarily maintaining the critical, post-conceptual attitude. In…

Exploring Weiwei’s and Jonnson art style, I have become aware that both these artists uses art as a deliberate means of communicating meaning. Weiwei’s uses arts as a method to voice his rebellious opinions even when heavy consequence are as a result, to me is admirable. His work ethic and ability to continually fight for his others and human rights is inspiring as he has never given up, and has used his own experiences to fight for what he believes in even more. They way that he creates each…

Essay There is all kinds of artwork and amazing pieces that most people have never seen before. But I got the opportunity to go to and see and admire one of a kind art work, with my art appreciation class when we went to the Philbrook museum last Friday, April 7th. We got to look at the amazing architecture, sculptures, beautiful, art work, and to learn more about the museum and the history of it. When I got there my first impression of the building was that it was very beautiful and had a…

Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, artists including Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner and Dorothea Rockburne turned to site-specific, drawing-based installations in order to disengage aesthetic experience from the autonomous object, foregrounding the institution as its constitutive framework. Curiously, it appears to have escaped definition in reductive, purely material terms by even the most vociferous advocates of medium-specificity.4 Rather than positing an adherence to the ‘medium’ of drawing…

There are many exhibitions being shown at the SCAD Museum of Art. Two that caught my eye were "Considered” and “Blood Bound.” In the work of “Considered,” artist Carrie Mae Weems conveys a range of her work that is confrontationally different and but associated with the focus on the consideration of history. In “Blood Bound,” two brothers Steven and William Ladd worked together on their first all-inclusive look into their shared studio practice. In Carrie Mae Weems work tackles its…