As a long-time fan of Douglas Coupland, I bought both Souvenir of Canada books as soon as they were available. I read them both cover to cover but remained fairly neutral about either of them. There were parts that reminded me of the Canada I know, and other parts that felt as foreign to me [...]
Here is an essay that I wrote for a Conceptual Practices class. It could use a lot of refining but I think there are a few interesting ideas here about the body’s relationship to art. I’d be curious to hear what you think of these human/technological hybridities as mechanisms for art-making. Ray Kurzweil’s theory of [...]
This is a presentation report that I did for my Art of Europe: 1960s to 1990s class last semester. It’s one of the few papers I wrote in the last few months that is appropriate to share here — a lot of my assignments were more exercise than essay. The Grand Subversion: Gruppo 63 and [...]
Throughout the year I’ve become increasingly interested in space and its relationship to culture and authoritative voice. I had been reading all kinds of works by theorists dealing with collective memory, and I was stunned by how much its definition echoed criticism of museum spaces. This essay fleshes out why and ultimately suggests a move [...]
Walter Benjamin, the icon of any good art education, and the bane of many an art student’s existence, wrote a seminal essay in 1936 entitled “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” The essay deals primarily with how authorship, authenticity and accuracy figure in a world where things can be easily mutliplied [...]
So, I handed in my essay about the arpilleras movement in Chile. This essay lays the groundwork for a topic of research that I’d like to pursue in more depth. There seems to be an openness in Latin America for women leaders and I’m curious as to what social, political or economic factors contribute to [...]
I am exploring the subject of arpilleras for two assignments at school. The first is a virtual exhibition and the second is a critical examination of a subculture. For my virtual exhibition, I was first interested in using the work of exiled Chilean artists who were active during the time of the Pinochet regime. I [...]
