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Williams Burrough’s famously said of his cut-up experimental writing technique: “when you cut into the present the future leaks out”.

How might creative practitioners invoke chance as a productive process or technique in their work? How might accidents and the unexpected open avenues for new discoveries?

Video: William Burroughs describes his ‘cut-up’ experimental writing technique

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These 1920s botanical photographs are breathtakingly beautiful: http://bit.ly/1SwCrZ0

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According to the American artist Ed Ruscha, there's a simple rule for distinguishing between bad and good art. Bad art makes you say 'Wow! Huh?' Good art makes you say 'Huh? Wow!' It's a good rule, certainly as compelling as any philosophical criteria. (Much of the writing in the philosophical subfield of aesthetics is of the 'Wow! Huh?' variety.) But 'Huh? Wow!' is most revealing when considered in terms of Ruscha's own work, divulging what makes his art so enduringly great. It's been there practically from the start, and Ruscha seems instinctively to have understood that it was worth more than a roomful of midcentury Picasso paintings.... Essay by Jonathon Keats.

“The Diagnosis”

My work for SART1002 “Gravitas” assignment.

Work in progress

“Gravitas”. Printed collage and oil on paper.

Based on Rene Magritte’s “The Castle of the Pyranees” I have pasted medical diagnostic reports inside the rock formation. This work is a progress piece for my SART1002 assessment on “Gravitas”.

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Watch live now: New Photography 2015 curators Quentin Bajac and Roxana Marcoci & artists Ilit Azoulay, Lucas Blalock, David Hartt, Katja Novitskova; and artist collective DIS discuss their work and the Ocean of Images of our post-Internet world.

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Enjoyed listening to Katja Novitskova talk about her work and process.

Assessment 3 - Pages 1 - 10 of our final assessment (PDF)

“All the World’s Future”

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcl90msTE60)

Examining Collective Memory - Assessment 2 PDF research

The Collective memory is the shared pool of knowledge and information in the memories of two or more members of a social group. The English phrase “Collective Memory” and the equivalent French phrase “La mémoire collective” appeared in the second-half of the nineteenth century. The philosopher and sociologist Maurice Halbwachs analyzed and advanced the concept of the collective memory in the book La mémoire collective (1950). Collective memory can be shared, passed on, and constructed, by large and small social groups, e.g. a board of directors, the American culture. Collective memory parallels the memory of a person who is better at recalling images than words; but also exhibits key differences and features, such as cross-cueing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_memory

Cofa 1002 Assessment 3

Collection of images for PDF.

Assessment 3 research

PETER DOIG: left: Ski Jacket, right: Walking Figure by Pool

Peter Doig's paintings are "eerie, sparsely populated paintings". p.145

Regarding discovering Doig's point of view: "I have to leave somewhere before I can paint it". Regarding his Canadian landscapes Gompertz states: "On reflection, what he really wants to say wasn't specifically about anywhere: Canada was simply fulfilling the role of messenger. This message was about memories: what they are, the part they play, and the habit they have of evolving into a collage of experiences". (p. 147-148).

The landscapes are actually METAPHYSICAL. "...the ethereal place between real and the remembered".

I’m looking at Peter Doig’s ideas as a way to help be bring my ideas for the group PDF to a conclusion - looking at collective memory and how in the future we will look back on our memories. Will our ‘true’ memories be obscured by the influx of technology, media creating a brain fog - will they not be individual and just a regurgitation of images on the internet.

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Left: Talitha Getty - 60s socialite and wife to Paul Getty Jr died a few weeks after Jim Morrison in 1971. Right: Edie Sedgwick, star of Andy Warhol’s Factory group died also in 1971.

I’ve been reading about Collective Memory and conspiracy theories about this topic. I’ve just finished reading an essay in “Open: Cahier on Art and the Public Domain - (No) Memory: Storing and recalling in contemporary art and culture”.

Essay: “The Conspiracy of Publicness” Sven Lutticken

Opening Quote: “Reality is defined by the needs of the media. History is rewritten faster than it can happen. Culture is a weapon that’s used against us.” Pere Ubu, “Woolie Bullie”.

Rest of lyrics: http://www.vmusic.com.au/lyrics/pere-ubu/woolie-bullie-lyrics-2597115.aspx

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“Perhaps Debord [Guy Debord] was exaggerating only mildly when he claimed that the society of advanced spectacle, which is seemingly so focused on making things public, is in fact based on a ‘total victory of the secret’.

Where does this leave the notion of the public sphere as constituted - above all - by the mass media? Every medium is based on selection, and in the case of mass media there are immense interests at stake in this selection process. It can well be argued that the mass media’s most important function is to hide and erase; to keep things from being said, written, or shown; to prevent or pervert the formation of historical consciousness and thus of a public, collective memory of a non-trivial nature.”

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From ’Series I - Studies in The Daily Paper & Overlay Technique’

By Arian Behzadi

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COFA1002 Assessment 3

We’re hoping to build in a group collage from our instagram and other images a as part of group PDF. Here are some examples by Arian Behzadi. (American artist),

COFA1002 Assessment 3

As a group we looked at how to best collate our ‘zine’ idea. Inspiration: Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeurgen Teller, Purple Magazine, Another Magazine, BUTT magazine (!).

COFA1002 process - assessment 3 PDF catalogue / zine group project Looking at Instagram search results for Jim Morrison and 1971 - the year I was born.

COFA2001 assessment 3 Working on our group PDF. Title: 719694 I'm looking at significant events that happened the year I was born: 1971 Jim Morrison from The Doors died in 1971. I've always been a huge fan - even wrote a mad paper when I majored in Creative Writing at Curtin University W.A - on a Freudian reading of one of their songs. Here I've taken a photo of a work friend wearing my Doors t-shirt. A present day image to use in my work.