painting and the technical image world - pratt 2012
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Artist Joy Garnett to Speak on Painting and the Technical Image World, Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 @ 12:44 pm Artist Joy Garnett will deliver a lecture titled "Painting and the Technical Image World" as part of the Department of Digital Arts' fall 2012 lecture series. The talk will take place on Wednesday, November 28th from 12:45 PM to 1:45 PM in Myrtle Hall, Lecture Room 4E-3, on Pratt's Brooklyn campus. Garnett is a New York-based artist whose paintings are based on news photographs, scientific imagery, and military documents she gathers from the Internet and uses to examine the apocalyptic-sublime at the intersections of media, politics, and culture.TRANSCRIPT
Source Material
• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism (mass media)• Influences/direct references to other art works
Dad’s Lab…
Source Material
• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism (mass media)• Influences/direct references to other art works
Science Textbooks, TV shows, Time-Life books… The Internet
Chromosomes series (ca. 1997)
Embryos series (ca. 1997)
Cloud Chamber series. 1998. Oil on canvas. 11 x 12 inches
These paintings are based on photographs of particle trails recorded with the use of a cloud chamber, a device used in early particle physics experiments (c. 1911) to map the passage of charged particles emitted as a result of radioactive decay. While these trails appear as aesthetically pleasing abstract designs, this aspect of the experiment is wholly unintended, bringing into focus the human tendency to project meaning and beauty onto even the most banal or arbitrary imagery.
De-familiarization
Source Material
• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism (mass media)• Influences/direct references to other art works
Declassified Cold War Imagery
Paintings: 1997-1999
Declassified government files
"Trinity" July 16, 1945the first nuclear test
Alamogordo Test Range Jornada del Muerte Desert
(“Journey of Death”) New Mexico
Developed by Dr. Harold Edgerton in the 1940s, the Rapatronic photographic technique allowed very early times in a nuclear explosion's fireball growth to be recorded.(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)
Frederick Church: Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860
Trinity 3 (1998) 15 x 30 inches. Oil on canvas.
Fireball with Joshua Trees (1998) 48 x 48 inches. Oil on canvas.
Christmas Island (1998) 50 x 42 inches. Oil on canvas.
Boltzman (1999) 20 x 26 inches. Oil on canvas.
"The Bomb Project [...] open database on nuclear information exemplifies the manner in which new technologies can simultaneously decentralize and organize information."
- Rachel Greene, INTERNET ART, Thames & Hudson, Ltd. (Spring 2004, World of Art series)
Rocket Science
1999 - 2001
Public domain:
declassified military documents
Television: Night vision / Tracer fire : The First Gulf War (CNN)
Kosovo: Gun camera imagery (Mpeg)
Eject (1999). Oil on canvas. 38 x 62 inches.
Flame-out (1999). Oil on canvas. 15 x 18 inches.
Crash (1999). Oil on canvas. 44 x 84 inches.
Contrails (1999). Oil on canvas. 44 x 84 inches
Ex Trails (2000). Oil on canvas. 60 x 78 inches.
Night Vision (2000). Oil on canvas. 26 x 32 inches.
Cluster (2000). Oil on canvas. 60 x 78 inches.
Kill Box (2001). Oil on canvas. 38 x 48 inches.
Rocket Science. (2001) 28 x 38 inches. Oil on canvas.
October 2001: Hijacker portraits
Untitled (Abdulaziz Alomari) (2001) 15 x 10 inches. Oil on canvas
Direct Hit 1 (2002) 38 x 48 inches. Oil on canvas
Signal (2002) 35 x 40 inches. Oil on canvas
Source Material
• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism (mass media)• Influences/direct references to other art works
The Media Narrative
News Anchor (Kabul) (2002) 26 x 32 inches. Oil on canvas
Jog. 2003. 26 x 46 inches. Oil/canvas
Molotov (2003) 70 x 60 inches. Oil on canvas
Leap. (2003) 54 x 60 inches. Oil on canvas.
Stones. (2003) 60 x 78 inches. Oil on canvas.
Air Strip. (2003) 44 x 84 inches. Oil on canvas.
Guardian Angel. (2003) 30 x 35 inches. Oil on canvas.
Emo. (2003) 78 x 60 inches. Oil on canvas.
Riot. (2004) 35 x 30 inches. Oil on canvas.
Stones (2) (2004) 38 x 30 inches. Oil on canvas
Paris Riots (3) 2005. 11 x 14 inches. Oil on canvas
Paris Riots (6) 2005. 15 x 20 inches. Oil on canvas.
Strange Weather
2005 - 2007
Flood 2 (2005) 26 x 46 inches. Oil on canvas.
Plume 2 (2005) 26 x 46 inches. Oil on canvas
Flood 5 (2006) 54 x 60 inches. oil/canvas.
Night Vision, Baghdad (2006) 38 x 44 inches, Oil/canvas
Road. (2007) 35 x 38 inches. oil on canvas
De-familiarization
Noon. (2007) 56 x 60 inches. Oil on canvas.
Oil. (2008) 38 x 44 inches. Oil on canvas
Yellow Smoke. (2009). Oil on canvas. 26 x 30 inches.
Explosion, Yellow & White (2009)Oil on canvas. 32 x 26 inches
Crash. (2009) 38 x 48 inches. Oil on canvas
“Riot”
a solo show at Debs & Co. in the spring of 2004…
Molotov (2003) 70 x 60 inches. Oil on canvas
Halfway through the show, I receive an ominous email……
Susan Meiselas: NICARAGUA, Esteli (1979).
“Cease and Desist”
Meanwhile, on Rhizome’s ‘Raw’ list-serv,
a discussion ensues between myself, net artists, coders and musicians…
“Cease & Desist”
Am I a Pirate?!
“Joywar”
Spring/Summer 2004
Revisited 2012
Artist Tim Whidden mirrored the image on his own site…
Artist Michael Sarff created a “derivative” work based on Molotov that represents this “mirroring”:
On Rhizome, 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
Freddy Alborta, Che Guevera’s Death, 1967
Giovanni Antonio Bazzi “il Sodoma”: Lamentation Over the Dead Christ (1503)
The feedback loop between
vernacular objects and art….
In the 1900s, Picasso produced extraordinary collages that incorporated "found" newspaper images.
John Heartfield (1891-1968). A Communist German, he montaged appropriated Nazi symbols to subvert and undermine their power as propaganda.
“Adolph, the Superman: Swallows Gold and Spouts Junk.” 1932Photomontage
Andy Warhol:
Red Race Riot (1963)
Silk screen, paint on canvas.
Gerhard Richter
RaketeRocket 1966 93 cm X 73 cm Oil on canvas
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.
Thomas Ruff: jpeg ny02 (2004) 8 ft. 10 in. x 11 ft. 11 3/8 in
“I see the world because it comes to me through media. Through film, through newspapers. Through TV.”
-- Leon Golub
“Boom & Bust”
2010 - 2011
Source Material
• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism (mass media)• Influences/direct references to other art works
James Ensor. Fireworks, Oil and encaustic on canvas, 1887. 40-1/4 x 44-1/4 inches Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Marc HandelmanNurnberg, 19372006oil on canvas335.3 x 335.3cm
Saatchi Gallery, London
Claude Monet: Le pont japonais (1918-24) Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Jay DeFeo, The Rose, 1958–66. Oil with wood and mica on canvas, 128 7/8 × 92 1/4 × 11 in. (327.3 × 234.3 × 27.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Jack Goldstein. Untitled, ca. 1983. Acrylic on canvas
Jack Goldstein. Untitled, 1983. Acrylic on canvas. 84 x 144 inches
Bridget Riley
….all of Op-Art
O.P.P. (2010) oil on canvas. 60 x 70 inches
Burst (2010) oil on canvas. 60 x 70 inches
Lost (2010) oil on canvas. 60 x 70 inches
Sploosh (2010) oil on canvas. 54 x 60 inches
Roil (2010) oil on canvas. 54 x 60 inches
Poof (2010) oil on canvas. 48 x 60 inches
Rose (2010) oil on canvas. 48 x 60 inches
Vertigo (2010) oil on canvas. 48 x 60 inches
Pot of Gold (2010) 38 x 44 inches. Oil on canvas
Pink Bomb (2011) 54 x 60 inches, oil on canvas
2011 - 2012
Predator 1 (2011) Silver acrylic + oil on canvas 18 x 18 inches
Predator 4 (2011) Silver acrylic + oil on canvas 18 x 18 inches
Predator 1 (2012) oil/canvas, 16 x 16 inches
Predator 1 (2012) oil/canvas, 16 x 16 inches
Facture (2012) Oil on canvas. 30 x 26 inches.
THE END
or
To Be Continued……