OK, it has to do with this article he wrote in artforum. It’s called “cut and paste” which is the same name of the class I’m teaching at SVA. It’s about the change in collage aesthetic in the last 100 years.
Collage started as this really radical art form in the 19 teens, concurrent with the birth of photography but has evolved to be the main aesthetic of teen age consumerism.
The part of it that gets embarrassing is I don’t really give a shit about “Collage” Have you ever listened to Prarie Home Companion when they do the “Bob the Artist” segments. They’re really funny. But pathetic little Bob is a “Collage Artist”
So in the article on collage. Charlie White writes how collage has become mainly practiced by teen-age girls. He sites the website Polyvore as his main evidence.
And sure enough in my class this year I have 7 sweet young girls. One sculptor, and she’s really butch, but otherwise just these nice young ladies that want to “Cut and Paste”
So anyway, I guess citing this, and digging into what Charlie is talking about is actually making me take my role as an authentic “College Professor” more seriously. And helping me sort out the fact that my work, although it didn’t start this way, is sometimes seen as “Collage”
yeah, he is interesting. and this exchange made me get out my photocopied copy of this article and my collage textbook that i had my students buy last year and never used, and didn’t make my students buy this year.
the thing is, i’m so NOT an academic. I guess it’s easier to just say that. Charlie White is impressive because he is, both an academic and a decent artist. That’s a rare combination.
I kind of love The School of Visual Arts because it’s basically a trade school. It has always prided itself on being the “Non-Academy” and in a weird thing like “Art” that’s probably pretty important.
Art is more of a trade or craft than an academic discipline.
Somebody appears to have come up with the idea about a year ago, that it would be really cool if a page’s content could scroll whilst the background image remains still and it just mystifies me why they would have thought that. Twitter adopted this in a big way and some other sites too. Never saw it with two columns scrolling in parallel with a strip of background between them, that definitely makes it worse.
It actually dates back further than that — it’s easy to do with a css background declaration. I’ve seen it used a lot on eyeball-bleeding MySpace pages.
I don’t like it. Too easy.
ok, that particular work? yes, perhaps.
his website is interesting. he has an article in this month’s Artforum on collage in contemporary culture which i found interesting.
perhaps this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dKcrCkbcDQ&feature=related
although that piece would be better youtube material if the credits weren’t as long as the piece itself.
That second one is creepy/gross. Are we given a reason as to why she turns pink, or is it just for the shock value/coolness of the look?
Because Adidas asked for pink.
Kate i’m not sure. Dave is it an Adidas ad?
OK it’s a little creepy. But interesting too I thought. All the material excess of modern suburban America takes her over. Thought provoking.
Charlie White lives in LA and makes art that often involves Hollywood techniques in ways hollywood would never do.
Anyway, whatever, it’s just some dumb “artist’
Anyway, whatever, it’s just some dumb “artist’
Cop-out, Lane. Stand up for your people.
OK, it has to do with this article he wrote in artforum. It’s called “cut and paste” which is the same name of the class I’m teaching at SVA. It’s about the change in collage aesthetic in the last 100 years.
Collage started as this really radical art form in the 19 teens, concurrent with the birth of photography but has evolved to be the main aesthetic of teen age consumerism.
The part of it that gets embarrassing is I don’t really give a shit about “Collage” Have you ever listened to Prarie Home Companion when they do the “Bob the Artist” segments. They’re really funny. But pathetic little Bob is a “Collage Artist”
So in the article on collage. Charlie White writes how collage has become mainly practiced by teen-age girls. He sites the website Polyvore as his main evidence.
And sure enough in my class this year I have 7 sweet young girls. One sculptor, and she’s really butch, but otherwise just these nice young ladies that want to “Cut and Paste”
So anyway, I guess citing this, and digging into what Charlie is talking about is actually making me take my role as an authentic “College Professor” more seriously. And helping me sort out the fact that my work, although it didn’t start this way, is sometimes seen as “Collage”
There you go, THAT’S the underlining tension.
Yeah, you don’t really do collage.
That Polyvore site is amazing. And yeah, one of the women art students I know (of, like, three) does collage — but cool collage.
Anyway, I liked that Adidas thing. Charlie White’s okay.
yeah, he is interesting. and this exchange made me get out my photocopied copy of this article and my collage textbook that i had my students buy last year and never used, and didn’t make my students buy this year.
the thing is, i’m so NOT an academic. I guess it’s easier to just say that. Charlie White is impressive because he is, both an academic and a decent artist. That’s a rare combination.
I kind of love The School of Visual Arts because it’s basically a trade school. It has always prided itself on being the “Non-Academy” and in a weird thing like “Art” that’s probably pretty important.
Art is more of a trade or craft than an academic discipline.
Polyvore!
OMG!
that IS cool!
Hey Lane, dig the page background at kooLDSgirlz.
OMG, TMK. LOL.
Somebody appears to have come up with the idea about a year ago, that it would be really cool if a page’s content could scroll whilst the background image remains still and it just mystifies me why they would have thought that. Twitter adopted this in a big way and some other sites too. Never saw it with two columns scrolling in parallel with a strip of background between them, that definitely makes it worse.
It actually dates back further than that — it’s easy to do with a css background declaration. I’ve seen it used a lot on eyeball-bleeding MySpace pages.
<internal>reminds self that next time he has a css question he should check with DB</internal>
myspace sucked. i always hated the way that looked.
i miss the old FB.
I’ve tried to use this one in some manner. but it’s not nearly as groovy as the old one.