joy garnett: art & its sources
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a guest lecture for Eric Doeringer's pre-college class @ SVA (july 20, 2010)TRANSCRIPT
Art + Its Sources
Art
&
Remix Culture
My Source Material
• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism• Other art works; the history of art…
Declassified government files
"Trinity" July 16, 1945the first nuclear test
Alamogordo Test Range Jornada del Muerte Desert
(“Journey of Death”) New Mexico
The Rapatronic is a Camera made by the EG&G Co. in the 1950's to photograph atomic explosions at the rate of 1/1,000,000 of a second.
"Dog“, November 1, 1951Operation Buster-Jangle, Nevada Test Site, Area 7
1417 Foot Airdrop from B-50
“Castle Bravo”High yield thermonuclear weapons test (H-bomb) detonated on an artificial
island at Bikini Atoll February 28, 1954 (GMT)
“Buster-Jangle”
Public military documents
Television: Night vision / Tracer fire : The First Gulf War (CNN)
Kosovo: Gun camera imagery (Mpeg)
“Rocket Science”
The Media Narrative
Joy Garnett: News Anchor (Kabul) (2002) 26 x 32 inches. Oil on canvas
Joy Garnett: Night Vision, Baghdad (2006) 38 x 44 inches, Oil/canvas
Joy Garnett: Road. (2007) 35 x 38 inches. oil on canvas
Joy Garnett: Jog. 2003. 26 x 46 inches. Oil/canvas
Joy Garnett: Paris Riots (6) 2005. 15 x 20 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Plume 2 (2005) 26 x 46 inches. Oil on canvas
Joy Garnett: Flood 2 (2005) 26 x 46 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Flood 5 (2006) 54 x 60 inches. oil/canvas.
Joy Garnett: Dusk (2007). 30 x 38 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Noon. (2007) 56 x 60 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Yellow Smoke. (2009). Oil on canvas. 26 x 30 inches.
Joy Garnett: Explosion, Yellow & White (2009)Oil on canvas. 32 x 26 inches
Joy Garnett: Crash. (2009) 38 x 48 inches. Oil on canvas
“Riot”
a solo show in the spring of 2004…
Joy Garnett: Riot. (2004) 35 x 30 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Leap. (2003) 54 x 60 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Stones. (2003) 60 x 78 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Air Strip. (2003) 44 x 84 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Guardian Angel. (2003) 30 x 35 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Emo. (2003) 78 x 60 inches. Oil on canvas.
“Joywar” (c. 2004)
Revisited, 2010
“Cease & Desist”
In the meantime, online, in a discussion with net artists, coders and
musicians…
“Cease & Desist”
Am I a Pirate?!
Susan Meiselas: NICARAGUA, Esteli (1979).
• Borrowing
• Copying
• Reference
• Resemblance
• Riffs• Development of ideas
History of Painting
Internet Culture
speeds up:
• Borrowing
• Copying
• Reference
• Resemblance
• Riffs• Development of ideas
Artist Tim Whidden mirrored the image on his own site…
Artist Mark River created a “derivative” work based on Molotov:
Artist Ryan Griffis declares “Joywar”( a reference to “Toywar” c. 1999)
Jess Loseby
Joseph + Donna McElroyhttp://electrichands.com/shanghai-pepsi.jpg
Michael Szpakowski : Solidarity webpage
Ottokin.com:
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:33:22 +0100Re: tshirt
Produce this shirt an fuck the Pepsi!
Bye from ItalyPaolo
“Spook” site
Quicktime movie: “Art not Crime”
Kate Southworth: Pirates of Penzancehttp://www.gloriousninth.com/piratesofpenzance.html
Molotov Remix - consists od a jpg of Joy Garnett's painting "Molotov" sliced into 121 43px X 52px images. Each sliced image is randomly loaded via java script into one of 121 cells of an html table.
Users may click on the "Recompose" link to achieve a new randomly generated recomposition each time. The chances of users hitting upon a perfect realignment of image slices is less than winning the lottery, but just in case I have a "fair use" argument ready.
http://art-design.smsu.edu/cooley/molotov/
mark cooley
Edward Tang: “Molotov Landscapes” created using a custom software in Windows C++ using Visual C++ .NET and OpenGL for graphics.http://antiexperience.com
Pau Waelder: http://www.sicplacitum.com/arte/molotov.htm
Creativity
Versus
Property
Kinds of Property
Tangible goods
apples
houses
Intellectual Property
expression
ideas
Not protected by copyright:
Ideas, facts
Protected by copyright:
Expression
Legal Limits on Copyright:
“fair use”
“transformative use”
[traditional Art?
Art-making has always been
remix
• Borrowing
• Copying
• Reference
• Resemblance
• Riffs• Development of ideas
History of Painting
Internet Culture
speeds up:
• Borrowing
• Copying
• Reference
• Resemblance
• Riffs• Development of ideas
Painting + Photography:
conscious and unconscious “borrowing”
between different mediums between painters and photographers
across centuries
Che Guevera’s corpse (ca. 1967)
Rembrandt : The Anatomy Lesson of Dr NicholaesTulp (1632)
Freddy Alborta, Che Guevera’s Death, 1967
Giovanni Antonio Bazzi “il Sodoma”: Lamentation Over the Dead Christ (1503)
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ by Andrea Mantegna (c.1490)
Painting directly from Photographs
Painters have been using photographs
and cameras ever since modern photography
came to into existence, and earlier…
"Officer & a Laughing Girl"Vermeer(1657-1659)Frick Collection, NY
Vermeer and other Dutch and Flemish painters of the period used the camera obscura...
"Bathers, Dieppe" 1902Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942) Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
The English Impressionist painter Walter Sickert developed a method of painting scenes of modern life from photographs.
This off-center composition, which features no horizon line, is an immediate, "snap-shot" moment, much like a photograph..
A few contemporary examples…
Andy Warhol:
Red Race Riot (1963)
Interview, Greater Boston Arts TV series and website: Artists & Violence (2002)
“I’m nuts on images. I cut them out of books and newspapers, mostly books and magazines. And this is absolutely crucial to me, because this is one of the ways I tap into the world.
“I see the world because it comes to me through media. Through film, through newspapers. Through TV.”
-- Leon Golub
Gerhard Richter:RaketeRocket 1966 93 cm X 73 cm Oil on canvas Catalogue Raisonné: 110-2
L: Confrontation 1 (Gegenüberstellung 1) (1988) R: Gudrun Ensslin from “October 18, 1977,” based on “ubiquitous photographs” of the Baader-Meinhof.
Gerhard Richter
Thomas Ruff: jpeg ny02 (2004) 8 ft. 10 in. x 11 ft. 11 3/8 in
“Culture is made of objects, expressions, stories, gestures, etc. that MUST be repeatable (and repeated) in various situations - precisely to create an identity to be held in common. …it is through this process of repetition that a group's consensus of history and identity is created.…
“….Culture is composed of copies that we as a society share and subsequently hold in common - and that fundamentally bind us together. (We ALL copy without authorization all the time - that is called memory. Technology extends its perception and there is no 'self' without it.)”
-- David Clarkson, artist, NYC (2009)
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