artists for next week

Paul Pfeiffer
He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1966. He moved to New York in 1990, where he attended Hunter College and the Whitney Independent Study Program. He is a video, sculpture and photography artist. He uses his computer technology to dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping consciousness. He plays a lot with sports, taking the players out of the game, and keeping close watch onto spectators, the equiptment, and trophies. Several of his works include eerie regenerated props from movies such as "The Exorcist" and "Poltergist."

http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/?artist=62

Vito Acconci
Acconci grew up in New York. He is an architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. A known piece created by Acconci is "Seedbed", 1971. He laid hidden underneath a gallery-wide ramp, masturbating while vocalizing into a loudspeaker his fantasies about the visitors walking above him on the ramp. He has recently been working on more architect-related projects. "Walkways Through the Wall" is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Another piece of his, called "Dirt Wall" made in 1992, is at the Arvada Center Sculpture Garden in Colorado. Besides making art, Vito has taught at various amounts of places throughout his life.

http://www.acconci.com/

Alex Bag - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E0D71331F93AA25750C0A9629C8B63
Female video artist.


next assignment: had to bring in an image/ piece of art...
recreate ur peice of art as a one minute video.
this means...
if ur peice of art is a painting of a baraque woman in the S curve, u have to find an actress, match the background, someone to immitate the exact image.
(make sculpture small, then zoom in?)
bc its video, n in time, bring life into video...have something that gives it reason for being a video. subtle movements, breathing, just some kind of movement. something that tells us that time is moving through this peice.
timing for a minute??!!
brainstorm on how to recreate the piece. set design, n set building. detailed!
in class on tues - working on set, costumes, etc. building of main scene.
how are you going to show movement? is there a narrative to ur peice? the figure can move, w/o moving away from the original. MUST BE A MINUTE LONG
can add sound if it makes sense.
due date: TBA