End of year Reviews

Nigel has sent this proposed schedule for end of year reviews:
 Wednesday 9th December:

9.30 Liz Coats

10.30 Ben Backhouse

11.30 Kerry Shepherdson

1.30 Peter Adsett

2.30 Micky Allan

3.30 Julie Brooke

Any problems, let him and me know please. Finding a venue is tricky given the end of year show- how about either in your studio, in the spare studio at AbLock or in what is now Dan Vukovjlak’s space which will be clear by then? Any other thoughts? I guess the downstairs painting studio might also be a possibility… thanks R

 

 

Melinda Hinkson studio visits

Melinda Hinkson is planning to visit Lennox House studios next Wednesday morning, to talk to anyone who’s around.

Julie

Article from Nature on painting

I’ve put an article in the media library about visual perception by (art historian) Martin Kemp, from the latest edition of Nature

KempNature

Liz’s texts for reading group Fri 23 Oct 2009

Liz Coates has supplied four single page readings for Friday 23 October. I’ve sent them by email as I’ve had a bit of difficulty posting them on the blog. Here’s the reference and Liz’s comments.- Viv

Ref: John Berger, The Sight of a Man, in: Selected Essays & Articles – The Look of Things, Pelican, Penguin Books Ltd, UK, 1972.
The book in SofA library is a small paperback with yellowing pages and I had to do some adjusting in photoshop to make it readable.
A great writer talking about visual perception; leads well into more scientific and cognitive discussions.

I’d also like to refer to two additional texts for interested readers. Both these texts have a great deal of insights to share:

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Cezanne’s Doubt, in: Sense and Non-Sense, (trans. Hubert L. Dreyfus & Patricia Allen Dreyfus), Northwestern University Press, 1964, p.9-25.

Lawrence Gowing, Cezanne: The Logic of Organized Sensations (1977) in: Conversations with Cezanne, (ed.) Michael Doran, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2001, p.180-212.
(I was tempted to submit this as the reading, but it is very long. Full of insights about painting in general, B&W images of Cezanne’s paintings scattered through the text.)

Best wishes, Liz

Weekend 17,18 Oct A Block

This weekend Robbie is giving key access to some participants in a university event so they can use the A Block toilets. He has assured me that this will be carefully monitored, but if you are not around (or even if you are) it is probably a good idea to lock your studio doors. Just dont be alarmed! It is all under control! thanks Ruth

Micky’s texts for Reading Groups 1 and 2, Sept 25

DorisvonDrathenVortexofSilencep13-26

HazratInayatKhanTheInfluenceOfWorksOfArtp193-197

Intense thanks!

Thanks to all who presented last week for the Intensive- everyone was terrific – you have all clearly been working really hard, and again the sessions were really stimulating. And thanks to all who contributed so thoughtfully to discussion. And special thanks to Vanessa who was mostly at a rival conference(!)and yet brought the week to a fabulous conclusion on Friday night with the  wonderful King Hits. A great way to weather a ten week term….a fabulous nights’ letting down of hair!

Melinda Hinkson was really pleased that people were so receptive to her project, which I think could have very interesting benefits for us. She is also very sensitive to your responses, so if any of you have concerns about her involvement with the group (coming to intensives etc) it would be good to let me know – just email me.

If you are keen to be part of her project and havent told her yet,  I think you should email her melinda.hinkson@anu.edu.au

Alistair was also really delighted to have been involved and is very keen to maintain this kind of interaction. Isnt he terrific? I recommend his lectures which are on Tuesdays at 10am in music lecture theatre 3.

So, that was our final intensive for 2009 but I am thinking we should have a postgrad lunch sometime before year ends- and invite some of these extras along. And have a bit of discussion about how we might do things even better next year….

That’s all fffffolks!!! see you in Sydney on Thursday? R

Text by Semir Zeki related to Julie’s choice – Zimmer Abstract for RG 2

Thanks for this Julie

Artistic Creativity and the Brain

All in the mind- the creative process

There was a very interesting broadcast yesterday on radio national, closely aligned to Julie’s reading. Worth checking out!
Art on the Mind: Neuroaesthetics, and the artist as brain scientist!
Acclaimed neuroscientist Semir Zeki pioneered the field of neuroaesthetics to probe the biological basis of the aesthetic experience, art, literature, love and beauty. He thinks scientists have lots to learn about the brain from the works of visual artists and romantic literature. And visit London’s Hayward Gallery, where the Walking in My Mind exhibition has been described as a ‘vast humming cranium’ as artists unearth their creative process through vast installations. Full transcript available

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/default.htm

Reading for Group Two- Friday 4 September 2009

Hello everyone – Here are the links for Julie’s readings, she has also emailed the texts to you. Please let her know if there’s any problem with this, or if you’d like a hard copy instead.

Julie also Viv the editor.

BorgesExactitude

ZimmerAbstraction