Oscar Nominated Shorts 2011: Animation (NR)
Fri – Thu: 3:15 PM
Oscar Nominated Shorts 2011: Live Action (NR)
Fri & Sat: 5:00 PM
Sun: No Show
Mon – Thu: 5:00 PM
Artists over the ages have used sleep and dreams as a theme for their art projects…
‘El Sueno de la Razon Produce Monstrous’ by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 1797/1798
Puvis de Chavannes: The Dream, 1883
‘Mary J. MacDonald dreaming of her father [George MacDonald] and brother Ronald’
about 1864
‘Headthinker V’ by Laura Ford
Various art movements make strong associations between dreams and art:
See Symbolism and Expressionism and Surrealism.
Links to Art + Dreams:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_art
Marc Chagall The Dream 1939
Dreams, Illusions and Memory:
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/online_subject/4:323/?subjectId=502941&submit=1
Sleeping and Dreaming
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/sleeping–dreaming.aspx
Gothic Nightmares
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/gothicnightmares/about.htm
Henry Fuseli / Satan Starting from the Touch of Ithuriel’s Spear 1779
Dream Theories:
http://www.ondreaming.com/theories/index.htm
http://www.guidetopsychology.com/dreams.htm
Concept of Dreaming in Aboriginal Art
http://aboriginalart.com.au/gallery/gallery_intro.html
Contemporary artists continue to explore dream imagery through a range of media…
Fuzzy Dreams:
http://www.doctorhugo.org/dreamz/
You Were in My Dream
http://www.youwereinmydream.com/
Robert Wilson Installation : Perchance to Dream
http://lafemmearchitecte.posterous.com/perchance-to-dream
© Mark Ryden – The Snow Yak Show, Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2009
View this collection of Picasso collages. He was a great innovator with materials, form and positive/negative space.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/02/11/arts/design/20110211-picasso.html
Sundance FIlm Festival’s 2011 New Frontier Exhibit showcasing alternative format cinematic artworks.
From
http://www.random-magazine.net/2011/02/face-to-facebook/
Face to Facebook is the latest project by Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio, the third work in a series that began with Google Will Eat Itself and Amazon Noir.
The artist/authors explain their new net artwork:
“Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software and then posting them on a custom-made dating website, sorted by their facial expression characteristics…”
Find out more about this netart project :
http://face-to-facebook.net/
This group is dedicated to Remixing the public photo archive of NASA.
Any image, collage, artwork, or photo that uses at least one image from NASA in the form of a remix, mash up or new artwork is acceptable.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/nasa-remix/
They use images from NASA image gallery, GRIN archive (Great Images in NASA library) or the biggest collection of them all www.nasaimages.org .
Want to test using inkjet transfer methods in your art projects?
Art 2016 and other students can now purchase this kit of experimental inkjet paper samples at the UMD Stores / Art Supplies Area…
Mixed-Media Inkjet Kit INCLUDES:
1 sheet cotton inkjet
1 sheet silk inkjet
2 white t shirt transfers
2 inkjet transparencies
1 sheet lazertran
2×2 white sheet-like material
Each sample has directions folded around the matching item.
The kit sells for $14.82 and we have them on the flat file.
Reading: Digital Art (World of Art, Thames & Hudson)
As you are selecting a digital artist to do a presentation on, please note the chapter + category in the Digital Art book. Choose an artist whose work intrigues you. Make sure you can locate good visual examples of their work on the web. You can also access library periodicals and books to search for more detailed info about their important works. (reviews + articles in art magazines)
Please post your research about the artist to my blog by Friday FEB 11 at 3pm.
POST your research as a comment under THE ENTRY FOR YOUR SECTION. You will show the links to the class + do a brief (but engaging!) presentation about your artist (Mon Feb 14 or Wed Feb 16).
Please post an overview about the work of this artist, including:
1.YOUR NAME
2. Your artist’s name
3. Background info on the artist + their work
4. Description of their digital art
5. Context + category of their work in the book
6. A specific work you like + why
7. How their work might influence your digital art
++++ ALSO INCLUDE >
3 links to the artist’s work on the web (use FULL URL > http…)
Digital Art + Culture 