Article in LA Times:

Making Art in the Now World

Torture Device

Important exhibition and lecture at St. Pete's Museum of Fine Arts:

FREE Lecture by artist LESLIE DILL on Sun. Oct. 11 at 6:30 PM

at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg in conjunction with:

I Heard A Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill

an exhibition by sculptor, photographer, printmaker and performance artist, Leslie Dill

October 10-December 27, 2009

FA faculty: Andrew Scott Ross

http://andrewscottross.com/home.html

FOUR PART VIDEO OF DAVID HICKEY TALK

(Speaking at School of Visual Arts in New York a few days ago: 9/17/09)

Topic: BOREDOM! THE ART WORLD NOW, ETC.

REMINDER: OPEN CALL, CROSSLEY EXHIBIT

Call to all Artists!
Open call for submissions for the upcoming, curated, Game show: “We’ve Got Game”

The theme of the show is games; board games, sports games, mind games, word games, computer games, cooking games, video games, web games and guessing games.

Open to any and all media, and any and all Ringling students.

The judges of the show are Ann Albritton, Tiffany Gosselin, Heather
Jackson and Wendy Wischer.

The exhibition will be held at the Crossley Gallery opening October 23rd, 2009, 7-9pm.
We will begin accepting proposals immediately with the deadline Oct 2nd at 4pm

The proposals need to include the following:

*Written description of the artwork, the materials used, the size and
the concept.

*CD with 3 images, 72 dpi 6 x 9” (the images may include drawings,
photos or video stills)
or
*DVD 2 minute maximum
*All materials need to be labeled with your name, title and contact
information; phone and email.

Submissions should be delivered to the School mailroom, box 393

Submissions will be returned upon request. Please indicate in your
proposal if you would like to get them back.
The selected artists will be announced on October 7th via email.

Please contact Tiffany Gosselin at tgosseli@c.ringling.edu with any questions.

New Season of Art:21

NEW WORK SHOWING NOW IN NEW YORK AND L.A.!!!

JONATHAN VAN DYKE

JOANNE GREENBAUM

DASHA SHISHKIN

Baker's Dozen, at The Torrance Art Museum:
Ann Diener, Mark Dutcher, McLean Fahnestock, Aragna Ker, Chuck Moffit, Jared Pankin, Matthew Picton, Tia Pulitzer, Nathan Redwood, Allison Schulnik, Keith Walsh, Augusta Wood, Eric Yahnker

SHOW ORGANIZED BY RINGLING GRADS, THIS FRIDAY:

SPARSE

art and music show!!! Kristen Bellomo, Jessie Bowie, PJ Birshke, Michelle Fisher, Katie Foster, Jack Gessley, Natalie Molinari, Annie Schor, Stead Thomas, and Alex Wallis!

Host:	the Joint
Type:	Music/Arts - Exhibit
Network:	Global

Start Time:	Friday, September 18, 2009 at 8:00pm
End Time:	Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 6:00am
Location:	The Joint Art Space
Street:	1335 12th St
City/Town:	Sarasota, FL

Remember the Gerhard Richter paintings of the German terrorist group we were talking about? A new film on the group is at Burns Court this week. It got rave reviews:

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Also another great classic film there this week ROSHOMON by Akira Kurosawa.

Who wants to go?

Charlie Finch Article on Film about Richter's Baader Meinhof Paintings

OCTOBER

by Charlie Finch

Nicolas Bourriaud on Relational Aesthetics

ALTERMODERN MANIFESTO

From Relational Aesthetics - Relational Form

Bourriaud Video Interview

THESIS CLASS CRIT SCHEDULE, rinse and repeat!

Monday on Sept. 14: Aislinn Stone, Sarash Valdez, Lauren Nelson, Josh Weinstein

Monday Sept. 21 Catherine Villenewe, Jenny Vu, Kristi Forbes, Christine Pronske, Josh Fuller

Monday Sept. 28 George Retkes, Tiffany Gosselin, Allison Pineau, Victoria King, Heather Jackson

Monday Oct. 5 Guy Abate, Amanda Seckington, Wayne Levy, Sarah Graves, Jessica Asp

Chromophobic Artists Article Link

Chromophobic Article Link

Quotes by E. O. Wilson, American biologist, theorist, naturalist, and author:

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Ftd.

E. O. Wilson on Ted Talks

Cartoon Theory:

Articles:

PROVISIONAL PAINTING

by raphael rubinstein 5/4/09

Paragraphs on Conceptual Art

By Sol Lewitt

LOOK AT MORE VIDEOS OF ARTIST HERE AT ARTFORUM

Summer Reading Gumbo Presentation Schedule:
MONDAY, AUGUST 31
Heather Jackson
Allison Pineau
Wayne Levy
Sarah Graves
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2
Josh F.
Jenny Vu
Kristi Forbes
Sarah Valdez
Christina P.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 9
George Retkes
Lauren Nelson
Guy Abate
Josh W.
Amanda Seckington
WEDNESDAY, SEPT 16
Catherine Villeneuve
Jessica Asp
Tiffany Gosselin
Aislinn Stone
Victoria King

Great taste of:

Contemporary Art Daily

TATESHOTS (short videos from the Tate Modern in London)

Meet the Artist: Thomas Hirschhorn

Meet the Artist: Cory Arcangel

WELCOME SENIOR ARTISTS 2010 TO YOUR THESIS BLOG

Welcome Senior Ringling Artists to your FA Thesis Blog:

This blog will become a tool both in and out of Thesis class. We will add content, live, during class, as we explore various topics during our 'Gumbo Sessions' and during our Professional Practices discussions and exercises. Assignments and due dates, links, announcement, etc. will be posted here regularly.

Ringling FA Class of '10 blog will produce for us an archive of our content throughout the year. And a place for you to contribute to that content. You are encouraged to add articles, links, announcements, breakthroughs, discoveries, etc.

Blog-Jocky's needed! We need two alternating volunteers to be at the internet keyboard during class discussions to pull up images and content on the big screen pertinent to our conversation. And to post the crucial links to this blog.

YOU MUST BECOME A 'FOLLOWER' OF THIS BLOG IMMEDIATELY.

See you in class tomorrow with your papers on your summer reading.

Looking forward to an amazing senior year with you guys.

Mark & Bradley