Zaha Hadid | Heydar Aliyev Center | Baku, Azerbaijan
Richard Serra | The Matter of Time | Bilbao, Spain
John Singer Sargent | Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose | Tate Modern, London U.K.
THEORIES/THEORISTS
En Plein Air | En plein air “in open air” painting was pioneered by John Constable in Britain c.1813. Led by a desire to paint light and its changing, ephemeral qualities, this technique was an important technical approach in the development of naturalism.
Von Restorff Effect | Otherwise know as the ‘Isolation Effect’ theory was coined by Hedwig von Restorff (1906–1962), who, in her 1933 study, found that when participants were presented with a list of categorically similar items with one distinctive, isolated item on the list, memory for the item was improved.
Prospect and Refuge | Coined in 1975 by Jay Appleton. ‘Prospect’ refers to being able to connect with the surroundings, visual amenity, gaining an outlook or vista. ‘Refuge’ on the other hand refers to the ability to retreat, escape or withdraw, finding comfort in the ability to seek out more private, protective or intimate spaces. Vector Architects | Seashore Library | China
WEEK 3
PRACTITIONERS
Kengo Kuma | Darling Exchange | Sydney, AU Kengo Kuma champions an ideal of ‘losing architecture’ – intricate buildings that disappear into their environs. His style is dependent on place and available materials.
Leo Villareal | The Bay Lights | San Francisco, CA The visual manifestation of code in light is at the core of Villareal’s interest. The artist’s goal is to create a rich environment in which emergent behavior can occur without a preconceived outcome.
Dimitris Papaioannou | Still Life | Athens Dimitris received critical acclaim and global attention in 2004 as the artistic creator of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Olympics. Productions range from mass spectacles with thousands of performers to intimate pieces and have appeared in a wide variety of venues
Light and Space Movement | Dubbed West Coast Minimalist during 1960s and 1970s – movement concerned with how geometric shapes and use of light could affect the environment and perception of the viewer. Artists playfully flirted with Op art, Minimalism, and geometric abstraction with an emphasis on transcendentalist levity, boundary-dissolving luminescence. Light and Space artists embraced, rather than denouncing, the “theatricality” of Minimalist sculpture
Chukuka S. Enwemeka, Jeri-Anne Lyons, Janis Eells | Phototherapy – Light as Medicine | UWM, WI Studies exposure to a certain wavelength of light called near-infrared (NIR) and its impact on MS Further discoveries include some wavelengths of blue light can clear stubborn infections – even MRSA
Nicolas Bourriaud | Relational Aesthetics – artistic practices point of departure to look at the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space | Douglas Gordon Working across mediums and disciplines, Gordon investigates moral and ethical questions, mental and physical states, as well as collective memory and selfhood
WEEK 4
PRACTITIONERS
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Art and Architecture Come Alive: Tin Drum with architect Sou Fujimoto Debut New Mixed Reality Installation at London Design Festival
X + LIVING | FAB Cinema + Zhongshuge Bookstore | Taiyung, China
THEORY/THEORISTS
Biophilic Design | Eden Project | Cornwall, UK
Richard Kelly | Three Tenets of Architectural Lighting Design | Focal Glow. Ambient Luminescence. Play of Brilliants.
Adolphe Appia | Architect, stage designer and theorist of stage lighting and décor
Vitruvius Theory | Vitruvian Triad – stability, utility and beauty,
Lucy R Lippard | Key role in the development of Conceptual Art in New York
WEEK 6
Practitioners
Jean Nouvel | Sharaan Resort | Sharaan Nature Reserve, Saudi Arabia’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site
Christian Marclay | Visual Artist and Composer | Marclay’s work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film. A pioneer of using gramophone records and turntables as musical instruments to create sound collages, Marclay is, in the words of critic Thom Jurek, perhaps the “unwitting inventor of turntablism.”
Diane Paulus | Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, and was selected for the 2014 TIME 100, TIME Magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. | Pippin
Theory/Theorists
Found Object | A found object is a natural or man-made object, or fragment of an object, that is found (or sometimes bought) by an artist and kept because of some intrinsic interest the artist sees in it. | The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living – Damien Hurst
Rosalind Krauss | A critic and contributing editor for Artforum and one of the founders of the quarterly art theory journal October. She has been a highly influential critic and theorist in the post-Abstract Expressionist era.
Deconstructivism | It is not a new architecture style, nor is it an avant-garde movement against architecture or society. It does not follow “rules” or acquire specific aesthetics, nor is it a rebellion against a social dilemma. It is the unleashing of infinite possibilities of playing around with forms and volumes. | Bundeswehr Military History Museum
WEEK 7
Practitioners
Norman Bel Geddes | 1939 Futurama Exhibit | New York World’s Fair
Marcio Kogan | Sand House | Trancoso. Bahia. Brazil | There are limits, such as the ocean, that appear to our eyes and soul like boundless openings. When confronted with these powerful natural elements, architecture must also open itself and project towards the limit. The house on the Sand, with its extraordinary view to the Atlantic Ocean in the northeast of Brazil, undertakes this venture.
Trisha Brown | Roof Piece. NYC. 1973 | Each artist works from a single idea or image and later gauges the success of a work in comparison to that image. Not that it would look like the original, but that it would be of equal power. If this is true, then for me it is the forest, a memory of dampness, broken light, unbelievable density, stillness and secrets. —Trisha Brown
Theory/Theorists
Gestalt Design Theory | The fundamental core of the Gestalt theory is based on the psychological principle that humans see a picture as a unified whole instead of perceiving each individual part differently.
Arthur Danto | Danto advocates a strong essentialism, meaning that he thinks that one can arrive at a definition of art that holds for all instances of art, “irrespective of when they were made or will be made.”
Wanderer Above The Sea And Fog | Caspar David Friedrich | Romanticism is characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical. It is a reaction to the ideas of the Industrial Revolution, the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature.
WEEK 8
Practitioners
Jeanne Gang | Arcus Center For Social Justice | Kalamazoo. MI. US | “Good ideas come from everywhere. It’s more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.” J. Gang
Jennifer Tipton | CROSSING at A.R.T.
Carmen Beuchat | Two Not One | Beuchat’s fuses dance with photography, video, poetry, and performance art to create a body of transdisciplinary work. Her performances usually incorporate mobile structures, creating a connection between these visual elements and the choreography of the performers.
WEEK 9
Practitioners
Anthony McCall | Occupying a space between sculpture, cinema and drawing
Laszlo MoHoly-Nagy | Light Prop for an Electric Stage, 1930, is one of the key works in the history of twentieth-century sculpture, standing at the intersection of the histories of kinetic art, of the machine aesthetic, and of material innovation.
WEEK 10
Practitioners
Keith Sonnier | Keith Sonnier radically reinvented sculpture in the late 1960s employing unusual materials that had never before been used.
Presented by Superblue and BMW i, the art group Random International together with choreographer Wayne McGregor and his company collaborate on No One is an Island.
Studio Swine | (Super Wide Interdisciplinary New Explorers) is a collective established in 2011 by Azusa Murakami (JP) and Alexander Groves (UK).
Oxygen | An urban/contemporary dance crew based in the Netherlands. Oxygen is known for their outstanding creativity and for the choice of combining dance with visual illusion effects.
WEEK 11
Practitioners
Jack Coulter | Belfast based, abstract expressionist synthesete
Melissa McCracken | Kansas City based synthesete ‘Painting a Song’
Daniel Mullen | Amsterdam based artist collaborates with video artist, Lucy Engelman, a synthesete to create series titled Synesthesia
Week 12
Practitioners
Jeff Yang | In The Realm Of Senses, concept and creation of violinist Yang, engages all five senses with its symbiosis of artistic mediums.
teamLab | International art collective, an interdisciplinary group of various specialists such as artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world.
Artist Jasper Udink ten Cate and Designer Jeroen Prins | The Blind Spot exhibit in Utrecht attempts inclusivity for the visually impaired by allowing touch and adding the sense of smell to experience 3d recreations of famous paintings
OPTICAL DELUSIONS | Seeing Is Deceiving
Optical illusion. Illusion art. Abstract twisted black and white background. Vector illustration.
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