Group Effort with Geoff Cox

Faculty: Geoff Cox Description:

Radical changes in the nature of work have lead to the current tendency to regard curatorial, artistic and cultural work as indicative of the ways in which all work is increasingly (forced to be) creative, flexible and precarious - making artists exemplary contemporary workers. Through selected projects of contemporary artists and groups we will explore the increased sharing of skills and expertise as well as the rising importance of communicative interconnections in what the autonomists call the 'social factory'.

Goals:

• To introduce concepts and examples of contemporary interdisciplinary arts praxis.
• To develop strategies for research and future creative production that is informed by historical and theoretical references.

Reading Diary: Group Effort

With the introduction of computer as a labor process the work has radically transform. What was driven by the labor workforce in terms of ability and exclusively communal labor is now more intensively automatized and machine related. Labor is no more conditioned by workload and force standards but how the machine should do the tasks. The machine as a generator of economy and subsequently as a producer of goods that increase and duplicate the Capital necessary to continue the process.

Collections, Obsessions, and the Display of the Other.

Faculty: Mary Ting Description:

The collection, documentation, study and display of other creatures, cultures, and objects dates back to earliest civilizations. This tradition continues today in an updated interactive look. Within contemporary art, the critique of the institution both as content and form has become a well-established trend.

The workshop will combine presentations of historical and contemporary models with daily hands on activities suitable for all art forms. Historical models such as wonder cabinets, medical libraries, natural history museums will be examined for their cultural and political significance and the ongoing obsessive desire for the consumption of other cultures and life forms. Contemporary examples that mimic, comment, subvert and utilize these systems and display methods will also be presented. Students will discuss and examine these models, systems, research, and create a work specific to their medium and interests.

Goals:

Via examination of historical models and contemporary examples, participants will develop their own inventory and angle of inquiry.

Dynamic Neuro-Facial Dis-Association

The internet is a complex media, everything in it turn into tangible realities that make it possible to turn crime and sabotage into identities dis-associations. The fake is more real than real and so is the result of this combination.