Gilbert and George (don't suck?)

Suck. 1977. Gilbert & George.

We mostly know Gilbert and George from their large scale photo pieces, often annoyingly unattractive and covering large parcels of gallery real estate. There's more to these boys however, and their concept of 'living sculpture' took Joseph Beuys 'social sculpture' idea into new territory, making themselves diplomats for gay (they prefer queer) identity and reinventing the notion of the artist as prophet/seer/catalyst for social change. We'll forget about the inspiration annoying street performers took from them...

 

Smoking in 1973...

 

Gilbert and George in 2007...

Yves Klein, Out of the Void

A human paintbrush propagates the Yves Klein beauty trip.

A 2013 propagation of the Monotone and Silence Symphony.

The legacy propagated by the Walker Art Center.

Marcel Duchamp Speaks

Obviously he already understood the scope of his influence here. Did he accept his role as prophet or was he simply smugly amused by the whole misunderstanding?

Beck's Song Reader

Beck’s latest project comes in a form that peaked in popularity about 100 years ago—twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music, never before released or recorded. It's up to us to put these into audible form. 6680+ performances of these songs have been posted to YouTube...

ALLATONCENESS NEW MEDIA PROJECTS

Monday, March 17, 2014

11:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Warch Campus Center Cinema

New media projects by 11 ART 240 Digital Processes students responding to Marshall McLuhan’s ideas of the global village from his seminal book The Medium is the Massage. Writes McLuhan, “Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness. “Time” has ceased, “Space” has vanished. We now live in a global village…a simultaneous happening…we have had to shift our stress of attention from action to reaction.” 

Steven Alexander - WAR V. YOUTH is a video detailing the loss of innocence from the modern child due to the power and existence of sensationalized news media

Zain Ali -  Speeding Speech: Pigeon Mail to the 21^st Century is a video about how technology has helped connect lives from the 1800s to the 21st century providing a closer look into how far we have come in electric circuitry - reconstituting dialogue on a global scale
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Rachel Jo Arnow - The New Twitch is a video experience portraying our minds in a digital process, as our environment becomes a new graphic interface

Erin Davis - The Growth of a Global Village is a stop-motion video utilizing modular origami to represent the technological evolution and spread of information that accompanied the evolution of the global village

Ariel Garcia - YouTube Beauty Gurus of Babel is a digital video with a soundscape combining elements from YouTube beauty videos from all over the world to shed light on how vast technology’s impact is on the beauty industry on a global scale

Christopher Moore and Laura Udelson - Photoshop® Meets Medieval is a collaborative image manipulation project looking at historical iconography associated with active viewing

Jade Peterson - Chronicles of Connection is a series of images showing how connection and harmony can exist at the same time. States the artist, "I am pushing aside the idea that humanity is savage because of intimacy and comparing that closeness to Mother Nature."

Mackenzie Rech - A Narrative of Music is a video collage of music and lyrics from the 1950's to present commenting on society's tendency to consume media, specifically music, all at once with no understanding of the historical and cultural context from which it emerged

Kate Siakspere - Streaming Through the Global Village (1998 - present) is an interactive art experience showcasing four computers (Mac and Windows) from 1998 to present.  Each computer will show a short one-minute video clip of viral videos that exploded on the web and in media pop culture from the specific year the computer was made 

Rachel Wilke - Uncovering Hidden Messages is a video commenting  on our evolving interaction with television, as intellectual human beings, as we grow older. States the artist, "We grow to understand the content of television differently, and in a more mature and sophisticated manner than we did when we were young children; we see things through television now that we originally missed."

Bruce Conner's (dated yet) timeless found aesthetic

Bruce Conner created this film in the style of his early work to accompany the DEVO song Mongoloid in 1978. Conner, the quintessential 1950s west coast beatnik artist, crossed generational divides to integrate himself into the SF punk scene. His collage of 16mm educational films meshed perfectly with the camp aesthetic of DEVO's post-modern robot rock rave-ups.

“Art is anything (what) you can get away with”

It seems that many of Andy Warhol's beloved quotes may have originated from the words of Marshall McLuhan. Should we expect that he would have attributed them? Wouldn't it be a bit of a disappointment to learn that any of Warhol's quips weren't stolen? (or in this case exist in a slightly modified from, as the word 'what' replaces 'anything', implying that he hadn't gotten away with everything at the time)

(From Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up, Bob Colacello)