The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat: Emily Snyder’s pain and joy at failing to find… and later finding… a hidden geocache. With Andrea Casamitjana.

Fall Break

New for 2015!
Lucky you guys! We’ve never had a Fall Break before! 2015 is the 1st one in CSULB history!

As you know, Wk 12 was the last “Activity”. For weeks 13-14-15 it’ll be just our 2 Conversations at the galleries and so just 2 blog posts a week. For the Final, aka “Week 16” we’ll have a School of Art Scavenger Hunt!

This week we’re in UT-108 on Tuesday as usual, and then at the SOA Galleries on Thursday as usual. And then next week, Nov 23-27 – Fall Break! Whether you’re traveling, catching up on school or other work, or just resting, I hope you have a great Fall Break – you’ve earned it!

The week after that, Tuesday, Dec 1 and Thursday, Dec 3, will be Week 14 and we’ll be back to our usual activities.

What’s that? You want to know when the final is?

Final: Thursday, December 10, 10:15 – 12:15, Art Gallery Courtyard

Jackie Tester & Toni Abad

Matt Carder goes Geocaching!

Points so Far

All points through Week 12 are now up on BeachBoard. The total points possible so far is 640. Here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:

640 points = “A+” pace – 44 peeps
576 points = “A” pace – 49 peeps, or 44+49=93 A’s
512 points = “B” pace – 15 peeps
448 points = “C” pace – 9 peeps
384 points = “D” pace – 4 peep
383 & below = “F” pace – 6 peeps

This works out to an overall class GPA of 3.46 which is pretty good, and also a step up from our average of 3.32 two weeks ago!

Armando De La Mora making a mold of his hand at the beach!

Jennifer Palacios and everybody!

Leaderboard

A bunch of 1st timers on the leaderboard – awesomesauce! A bunch of familiar names too – great! And guess who’s #1 again with 782 / 640 or 122%! She’s on track for a final course grade of “A++”. Or if grades were t-shirts, it’d be Size A-XXXL!

1. Jennifer Palacios – 782
2. Emily Snyder – 739
3. Toni Abad – 714
4. Vanessa Marquez Guerrero – 711
5. Rosario Fino – 711
6. Armando De La Mora – 707
7. Matthew Carder – 702
8. Jackiee Fernandes – 692
9. Tony Nguyen – 687
10. Genesis Jacobo – 687

Vanessa Marquez

Rosario Fino

Activity “Grades”

Here’s your Up Votes, Down Votes, and Totals from those of you who chose to do the optional evaluation of our Fall ’15 Activities:

• Web Design +1 -0 = +1
• Editing Writing +1 -0 = +1
• Geocaching +8 -7 = +1
• ePortfolio +1 -0 = +1

Cooking with Jaclyn Fernandes

Galleries This Week

November 15th-19th

Illustration & Animation BFA Group Exhibition – Gatov West, Gatov East & Merlino Gallery

The Illustration and Animation BFA group exhibition features work from graduating Illustration/Animation BFA students.

Shahrzad Ahrar, Graphic Design MFA – Dutzi Gallery

Shahrzad Ahrar’s MFA thesis exhibition focuses on the narrative of immigrants coming to the United States seeking freedom.

Ashley Berg, Makalia Palmer, Sery Kwon, Vanessa Gamboa, Drawing & Painting – Werby Gallery

Berg, Palmer, Kwon & Gamboa present their individual interpretations of the Long Beach city landscape, emphasizing light and the idea of home.

Kahlia Cadle & Tony Nguyen

Classmate Question OTW

Compare your definition of “Art” 13 weeks ago, and your definition of “Art” today.

Genesis Jacobo

Vanessa Marquez goes Geocaching!

Activities

Great work by everyone on Location Based Gaming last week! This week it’s on to Fiber Art! And you can optionally find a few of your classmates Geocaches from last week for EC.

LBG EC

Our Location Based Gaming / Alternate Reality Gaming / Geocaching page now has 11 active Geocaches from your Activities last week. If your cache goes live on the Geocaching website, you can still add it to our list. For EC this week I’ll give you 10 points per cache for finding up to 5 of your classmates caches.

1. Pick a cache from the comments on our geocaching page.
2. Find it!
3. Log It! – on the paper logbook and on the Geocaching.com site (just click “found it” on your phone)
4. Take a photo of yourself with the cache.
5. Blog it! – Post links to the caches you found and your pix. Write a little about your experience and how maps and coded information alter our perception of the spaces we exist in and pass through.

Andrea Casamitjana & Emily Snyder: Sadness at not finding the Geocache! :(

Understanding Your Points

I’ve gotten many emails asking about point deductions. This is great! I’m always happy to explain how your post was scored. And if we didn’t have 127 peeps in the class, you’d be getting more detailed feedback automatically.

However, as I reply to all of these emails, I notice that I’m often typing the same thing over and over. So I thought I’d explain here. And actually, all the info you need to understand your scores is right in the syllabus.

If you visit the Rubrics section of the syllabus:

• Syllabus > Rubrics

You’ll see a list of “deductions” from a perfect score. You’ll notice that there are only 2 ways to get -15 points:

1. Misspelled Artist’s name
2. Missing or incorrect Artist Tag

So if you score is 15/30 then you almost certainly made 1 of these 2 mistakes. Take a look at your post to find the mistake. There are a lot of missing or incorrect tags. Note that if you use something “like” the correct tag, that isn’t good enough. In a way, these Artist Tags are our “thank you” to the artists for coming in early and opening their galleries just for us. Being able to read our feedback on their work helps them understand how their work is being perceived. So an incorrect tag makes for a pretty poor “thank you”.

For example, if a show is in the Gatov Gallery West, a tag like “Gatov Gallery West” is close, but it will not allow the artist to read your post. Only the correct tag “gatov-west” (without quotation marks) will work. You can see all of the correct tags in the syllabus under Artist Tags:

• Syllabus > Artist Tags

If your score is 20/30 there are a few more possibilities for what mistake you made. Again, they’re all listed right in the syllabus:

• Syllabus > Rubrics

Earlier in the semester we had a lot of bad post names, but I think most of you are on the right track with those now. From the list in the syllabus, the most common issue is posts that are very short and/or not really analytic. As for what I mean by “analytic writing” the syllabus also has a section explaining the length and style of a well-written Artist Conversation:

• Syllabus > Artist Conversations

If you take a look at those 3 sections of the syllabus: Rubrics, Tags, and Writing About Artist Conversations, I think it will explain almost of all of your questions.

If you still have questions after that, of course just send me an email.

Points so Far

All points through Week 10 are now up on BeachBoard. The total points possible so far is 520. Here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:

520 points = “A+” pace – 47 peeps
468 points = “A” pace – 42 peeps, or 47+42=89 A’s
416 points = “B” pace – 15 peeps
364 points = “C” pace – 7 peeps
312 points = “D” pace – 7 peep
311 & below = “F” pace – 9 peeps

This works out to an overall class GPA of 3.32 which is pretty good, and as you can see, lots of A’s! However, if you’re on the bottom end of the scale, you’re really running out of time to lift your grade. If you:

1. Turn Everything in
2. Turn Everything in On Time

from here on in, you should still have enough time to lift your final grade at least one letter.

Ryan Bravo & Alexandra Mendoza

Leaderboard

1. Jennifer Palacios – 618
2. Toni Abad – 594
3. Rosario Fino – 591
4. Armando De La Mora – 590
5. Emily Snyder – 584
6. Mikel Soco – 571
7. Vanessa Marquez Guerrero – 566
8. Diana Nguyen – 559
9. Serina Khoury – 556
10. Samantha McFeely – 556
11. Ryan Bravo – 556
12. Jackie Tester – 556

Kahlia Cadle & Jackie Tester

Classmate Question OTW

• Make Your Suggestions Here!
• This week’s question courtesy of Kim Pham:

Question OTW: Are Tattoo’s art? Does it matter if you’re involved in designing a unique tattoo for yourself, or pick one from a book? What tattoo would you get?

SOA Galleries – November 1st-5th

Sculpture Group Exhibition – Gatov West & East

The Sculpture Group Exhibition features thematic work from the BFA Sculpture program.

Katherine Yoon, Ceramics BFA – Merlino Gallery

Katherine Yoon’s BFA Ceramics exhibition showcases a collection of small ceramic works scattered throughout the gallery space.

Nathaniel Glauninger, Sculpture BFA – Dutzi Gallery

Nathaniel Glauninger’s BFA Sculpture exhibition features process sculptures installed on the gallery floor, walls, and ceiling.

Chelsea McIntyre, Sculpture BFA – Werby Gallery

Chelsea McIntyre’s BFA Sculpture exhibition merges performance and video that is thematically centered on the exploitation of interpersonal relationships, audience-performer interaction, and semi-autobiographical narratives regarding control.

Natalia Chang’s Periscope Weekend

• Natalia Chang’s Periscope Weekend

Periscope Hearts

Lots of nice work from everyone on last week’s Periscope Activity!

We’ve talked in the past about where the value in New Media is. When Facebook buys Instagram and it’s 17 employees for US$1B or WhatsApp and it’s 30 employees for US$19B, are these Designers and Engineers really “worth” tens, or hundreds of millions of dollars each? Or is what Facebook is really buying… You!? Is Facebook actually buying millions and millions of “users” aka “unpaid employees”? Instagram might have a decent UI/UX (User Interface and User Experience) but that’s not worth a billion dollars! It’s the views that people like You or Guy Tang or the Kardashian Family bring in that make Instagram worth anything.

Machines can already do many things that humans used to do. Better. Machines can diagnose x-rays better than a Radiologist with an MD Degree and 10 years of experience. One by one machines will replace all human tasks. What’s left for us to do with ourselves? What’s left for us to do to earn a living? Creativity! Machines continue to suck at this. By “creativity” I don’t only mean “great art”. Yes I mean beautiful poetry and breathtaking architecture, but I also mean Keeping up with the Kardashians and silly YouTube videos. “High Art” or “Low Art” we humans just make lots and lots and lots! We probably enjoy this more than manual labor anyway, and lucky us, machines suck at it!

So, why not be paid for it!? If your “work” on Instagram makes it worth US$1B, you should be paid! That’s what Jaron Lanier argues in his book Who Owns The Future? One of Lanier’s solutions is micropayments, to give people tiny payments when others view or modify their creativity.

I’ve decided to put my “money” where my mouth is. Or at least what passes for “currency” here at the university, “points & grades.”

What I love about Periscope Hearts is that they translate directly to real creativity as consumed by the community. Katy Perry is #1 on Twitter with 76,133,157 followers. But in this case it’s not because she’s got a big presence on Twitter. Rather it’s because she’s so successful in other media: record sales and concert tickets. That’s great. It’s just that her Twitter ranking isn’t about Twitter performance. But with Periscope you can’t get millions of hearts like Bree Olson just for being popular. You have to generate content on the platform and have people appreciate it enough to keep tapping their screens.

Periscope Payout

So here’s what I’ve decided to pay you. For everyone who followed me on Periscope, and who got 1,000 or more Hearts by Sunday night, I’ve “paid” you 1/50th of an Art110 point for each Heart you received. 12 peeps from Art110 received 1,000 or more Hearts last week, and here’s what I’ve paid them:

Points so Far

All points through Week 6 are now up on BeachBoard. The total points possible so far is 280. Here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:

280 points = “A+” pace – 68 peeps
252 points = “A” pace – 27 peeps, or 68+27=95 A’s
224 points = “B” pace – 9 peeps
196 points = “C” pace – 12 peeps
168 points = “D” pace – 3 peep
167 & below = “F” pace – 8 peeps

• Mark Flores plays Periscope

Leaderboard

1. Jennifer Palacios – 388
2. Kirlous Tadros – 373
3. Armando De La Mora – 355
4. Toni Abad – 354
5. Emily Snyder – 354
6. Rosario Fino – 351
7. Tyler Nakashima – 344
8. Diana Nguyen – 341
9. Alexandra Mendoza – 341
10. Miguel Lopez – 340

Artist Conversation Points

Some of you have asked me why you got 15/30 on your Artist Conversation. Be sure to check the Syllabus > Rubrics for an explanation of all Points & Deductions! As you’ll see there, there are 2 mistakes that lead to -15 point deductions and hence a 15/30 score:

• No Artist Tag: -15
• Misspelled Artist Name: -15

All of the other criteria matter a lot too, but Spelling the Artist’s name correctly and Tagging your post, and Spelling the Tag correctly, these are basic and essential!

Proofread Your Work!

I’m still seeing Artist Conversations that are not being proofread. In some cases you’re writing nice reviews of the work but it winds up being embarrassing to the artist because of mistakes in grammar. Blogging is “informal writing”. You can write in 1st person. You can write casually. You can write in vernacular. But you still should pay a lot of attention to Spelling, Grammar, Clarity, and Analysis of Ideas.

• Syllabus > Grading Rubrics

Classmate Question OTW

• Make Your Suggestions Here!
• This week’s question courtesy of JenRod:

Question OTW: If you could dye your hair a certain crazy color, which color would it be and why?

Activity: Snapchat

• Read all about it on our Snapchat page!
• Snap, Draw & Share on Thursday!!

Option: Up Periscope!

Hey guys!

I was chatting with your awesome classmate Julia Hodgdon:

• Millie Herrera: Conversation with Julia Hodgdon
• Erika Cobarrubias: Julia Hodgdon
• Natalie Mai: Julia Hodgdon
• Erika Cobarrubias: Julia Hodgdon
• Julia Hodgdon: Hello World!

Yeah, that Julia!

Anyway, we were saying what powerful Vlogging tools Periscope and YouTube were, and Julia inspired me to offer you the “Up Periscope” option. For your blog posts on Activities and Conversations you now have the option of doing Periscope or YouTube in addition to, or instead of, writing text.

To use this option you’d upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo, and then embed (place) your video on your blog page. These days to “embed” all you probably have to do is place the YouTube or Vimeo URL on a blank line in your blog. If the URL you paste is https://blabla, sometimes it helps to take the “s” out of https, and make it just http://blabla. If you still have any trouble, try a laptop/desktop instead of mobile, and maybe try clicking in the upper-right, on the tab that says TEXT, then paste your URL, then you can click back to VISUAL. LMK if you need any help with this, but mostly it’s easy!

Vlogging an Activity or Classmate Conversation should be fairly easy. For an artist conversation it’d probably require 2 things:

1. Get the artist’s permission
2. Wait a while, maybe till 11:30 or so, when the crowd dies down and you can actually do a little video with the artist

You could either record to your phone and then upload to YouTube or Vimeo (with optional editing, or not). Or for Periscope you can just “save” your ‘Scope and then upload it to YouTube or Vimeo. On Periscope, if you go:

Profile > Settings > Autosave

Then you should have a copy in your Photos/Videos/Gallery.

Flip the “Autosave” button to automatically save your Periscopes to your phone

LMK if you have any questions!

Dr. Karen Kleinfelder, Director of the CSULB School of Art, asked me to send her a few photos of Art110 visiting the SOA Gallery Complex. Whenever anybody asks me to do anything, what I almost always hear is, Would you please put up a blog post about…

So here’s my blog post with a few pix from 3 Thursdays at the SOA Galleries: September 10, 17, and 24, which were Weeks 3, 4 & 5 of Fall 2015.

Thank you so much to all the SOA artists for sharing their work with us! And thanks to all the Art110 students for making a real effort to understand and explore the artists’ ideas.

What emotion does the color Red bring up for you?

Hi guys!

This is the place to suggest Questions of-the-week for our Classmate Conversations. Just drop your question suggestions as comments here and each week we’ll pick one! It’ll be great if your questions have some Art aspect to them.

Thanks Aron Chek for making this page happen!

Periscope Week

Hi guys! It’s Periscope (Identity Art) week this week! Our Activity details will be on the Periscope page very soon!

Meanwhile, exciting news, Bree Olson, the #3 Periscoper in the world is coming to talk to us tomorrow!

It’s going to be an informal conversation between us and her, so please try to watch a few minutes of her live or replay broadcasts and bring some questions! She’s on Periscope at “BreeOlson”.

There are a lot of ways to use Periscope: Interviews, Demonstrations, Travelogues, Lectures, Identity Projects, and more. I recently saw a bunch of Hair Stylists do a cool thing called Pass the ‘Scope. The way Bree Olson uses Periscope is often referred to as “Lifecasting.”

Lifecasting

A very brief history!

1748 – Clarissa: or the history of a young lady

Samuel Richardson
A novel is not exactly Lifecasting as we’d think of it today, but this is an important milestone. Many people would argue that the rise of Western Liberal Democracies would have been impossible without the rise of The Novel. That it was The Novel that let us experience other people’s lives, create empathy, and ultimately create change.

One of the spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mill. She was 51 inches high. Has been in the mill one year. Sometimes works at night. Runs 4 sides – 48 cents a day. When asked how old she was, she hesitated, then said, “I don’t remember,” then added confidentially, “I’m not old enough to work, but do just the same.” Out of 50 employees, there were 10 children about her size. — Lewis Hine, 1908-1912

1908-1912 – Child Factory Workers

Lewis Hine
Again different from Lifecasting as we think of it, but like The Novel, Lewis Hine’s photography changed culture, specifically it changed labor laws in America. People had been aware of children working in factories, had talked about it, but congress did nothing about it. When Lewis Hine gave us the visual experience of child labor, American laws changed.

O.B.I.T., The Outer Limits

1963 – O.B.I.T.

The Outer Limits
O.B.I.T. is Lifecasting, but like The Truman Show, which we’ll get to shortly, it is not an individual choosing to broadcast their life, rather it is surveillance. O.B.I.T. is a bit like XKeyscore and other technologies revealed by Edward Snowden. But unlike Snowden’s revelations of NSA technologies, in this Outer Limits episode, the technology comes from aliens who believe that surveillance will result in the demoralization of humankind and make The Earth easier to invade and conquer:

The machines are everywhere! Oh you’ll find them all, you’re a zealous people. And you’ll make a great show of smashing a few of them. But for every one you destroy, hundreds of others will be built. And they will demoralize you, break your spirits, create such rifts and tensions in your society that no one will be able to repair them! Oh, you’re a savage, despairing planet, and when we come here to live, you friendless, demoralized flotsam will fall without even a single shot being fired. Senator, enjoy the few years left you. There is no answer. You’re all of the same dark persuasion! You demand – insist – on knowing every private thought and hunger of everyone: Your families, your neighbors, everyone — but yourselves.

1979-2015 – Eyetap

Steve Mann
Steve Mann essentially invented “Google Glass” and has been wearing it non-stop for the past 36 years. In a way Eyetap is a sort of Inverse Lifecasting since instead of showing a view of Mann, it shows a view of what he sees and experiences.

Jennicam, Jennifer Ringley, 1996-2003

1996-2003 – Jennicam

Jennifer Ringley
In 1996 Jennifer Ringley invented what we would today call Lifecasting. In the early days of the web she set up a web cam in her Dickinson College dorm room in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Earlier webcams showed things like the view out the window or a fish tank. Ringley pointed the camera at herself.

1998 – The Truman Show

Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank
The Truman Show is Lifecasting, but unlike Jennicam, and like O.B.I.T., it is not intentional Lifecasting, but surveillance. Nonetheless, for many the term “Truman Show” has become synonymous with Lifecasting.

2000-2003 – Lifesharing

Eva & Franco Mattes

For Life Sharing we turned our private lives into a public artwork. We made each and every file on our computer, from texts and photos to bank statements and emails, available to anyone at any time through our website. Unlike social networks, which didn’t exist at the time, its focus was sharing. Anything on our computer was available to search, read and freely copy, including the system itself, since we were using only free software. To extend the idea of exposing ourselves through the internet we started wearing a GPS transmitter so that anyone could know exactly where we were at any given time. We were obsessed with traffic logs, waking up in the middle of the night to check how many people were viewing Life Sharing. Where did they come from? What were they watching? For how long?

2006-2008 – Lonelygirl15

Bree Avery (Jessica Rose)
In an early YouTube series Bree Avery starts as a vlogger. Her playful circumstances gradually become sinister. At first audience members believed the YouTubes to be “real”, but after a couple of months they discovered it was a Web Series and that Bree Avery was being performed by actor Jessica Rose. The revelation did not seem to hurt viewership.

2015 – Bree Olson

Periscope
In a few short months Bree Olson’s Lifecasts have lifted her to #3 Periscoper in the world.
* March 26, 2015 – Periscope launched on iOS
* May 26, 2015 – Periscope launched on Android
* Sept 10, 2015 – Periscope adds the ability to broadcast in landscape

Top 10 Periscopers in the world, with Bree Olson at #3. Unlike other social media where, for example, Katy Perry’s #1 ranking on Twitter is due more to her record & concert sales, because Periscope ranks “by Hearts”, you can only reach the top by having a huge presence on the platform and a lot of interaction with your audience.

Bree Olson, cawfeeee

Bree Olson, fitbit

Homeless Project

Recently Bree Olson has interwoven Periscope, Amazon.com, Paypal, Her own charisma, and the goodwill of her audience in a project to benefit Homeless in Los Angeles.

Who but Art110 badass (and #1 student this week) Jennifer Palacios takes cans of spray paint into an art gallery!!??

Respecting Art Galleries

Jennifer rocks! But the rest of us probably shouldn’t try that at home! Or at least not in any Art Galleries or Museums. The security guards will probably throw us out!

And when we’re in the SOA Galleries, please be really careful about the art. Please don’t touch it! If you’ve got a backpack on, be mindful of how much is behind you when you’re backing up to take a photo. Don’t lean on the walls or use the walls as a surface to put paper on to write on. Thank you for your care!

Points so Far

All points through Week 4 are now up on BeachBoard. The total points possible so far is 160. Here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:

160 points = “A+” pace – 83 peeps
144 points = “A” pace – 20 peeps, or 83+20=103 A’s
128 points = “B” pace – 9 peeps
112 points = “C” pace – 2 peeps
96 points = “D” pace – 3 peep
95 & below = “F” pace – 10 peeps

Armando’s the bomb! Photo of Armando de la Mora by Brianna Ortiz

Leaderboard

1. Jennifer Palacios – 268
2. Armando De La Mora – 251
3. Emily Snyder – 234
4. Diana Nguyen – 234
5. Tyler Nakashima – 233
6. Kirlous Tadros – 230
7. Kristine Nguyen – 207
8. Jack Nguyen – 207
9. Stephanie Chang – 206
10. Vanessa Marquez – 205

Conversation about the inspiring Art Education show in the CSULB Werby Gallery!

Activity: Deep Ethnography

The electric grid and the light bulb as we know them today are each around 100 years old. Your parents and grandparents may have known them as you do, but before 1915 or so, for 99,900 years or so, human beings did not. Obviously The Internet and Mobile Devices are much younger. In your 20-or-so years of life I’m sure you’ve seen change, but you’ve also had the constancy of light and electricity as your backdrop. Even though virtually none of the human beings who preceded you on this earth ever did.

What was human life like before electricity & the light bulb?

That’s a pretty huge question to ask. But we can get a small piece of an answer by spending one night in a time-traveling ethnographic adventure. See our Deep Ethnography Activity brief for full details!

Stephanie Chang writing “Chang” in Chinese at the Venice Art Walls

Tyler Nakashima sitting on top of his name at the Venice Art Walls!

Shannelle Cruz sitting on her name at the Venice Art Walls!

Kayla Improves Her View

Kayla Sanchez was bored with the view out her window. So she used this week’s Activity to change a plain brick wall into something she enjoys looking at each morning when she opens the blinds:

Painting Clinic w Kristine Nguyen

SOA Galleries This Week!

September 20th-24th

Shannon Leith & Kimberly Morris, Photography & Sculpture – Gatov-West

Shannon Leith and Kim Morris create a dialogue between beauty and food through sculpture and photography.

Krista Tsukashima Group, Drawing & Painting – Gatov-East

Krista Tsukashima’s group drawing & painting exhibition focuses on the interplay between the collaborative and individual work of six artists exploring the effects of time and space on artistic vision.

Jaycen Mont Rios, Printmaking – Merlino-Gallery

Jaycen Mont Rios defines local aspects of South East Los Angeles using lithography.

Kiyomi Fukui, Printmaking – Dutzi-Gallery

Kiyomi Fukui presents an installation of small paper sculptures and sound that explore the notion of invisibility—seeing the unseen, hearing the unheard.

Joanie Ellen, Wood – Werby-Gallery

In I am Dirty—You are Dirty: Daybeds for the Soap in the Meisner Technique, Joanie Ellen uses an acting repetition exercise to explore the mastery of technique in wood and to define her identity as a craftsperson.

For details on what I’m looking for in your posts, see the Writing About Artist Conversations section of the syllabus!

Artist Tags

The tags for your Artist Conversations are:

• Gatov-West
• Gatov-East
• Merlino-Gallery
• Werby-Gallery
• Dutzi-Gallery
• SOA-Courtyard

Classmate Question OTW

What do you swim in?

Cindy Kim & Yeji Yang making faces.

Using Excerpts & Featured Images

• Natalia Chang.wordpress.com

Using mobile apps like Slack, WordPress, Instagram & Snapchat to reinvent university general education for the 21st century

… and Periscope… and Meerkat… and Blab…

Stephanie Mejia, Diana Martinez, Anna Joy Floresca, C-Dawg & Allison Wendell, “The Homies,” Art110, Fall ’14

Mobility & Modern Web Conference
Wed 16 Sept 15 • 4:15 – 5pm
Upstairs Room • Track 1 • Mobile Strategy

• Talk at BeachArts.ca/mmwcon

• And (hopefully) Streaming live on Periscope: glenn_irs
• And (hopefully interacting with you live at 4:55 on Blab: blab.im/glenn-zucman-mmwcon-ucla-edu-mobile-2
• Ask questions at any point!

Abstract

In many ways our 21st century university classrooms are indistinguishable from classrooms of the 19th century. Marshall McLuhan noted the disparity between the ubiquity of information & rich media everywhere outside the classroom and the paucity of it inside the classroom 40 years ago. Since his observation the disparity has only grown worse. An iPhone 5 is 1,000 times faster and has 15 million times more memory than the Apollo Guidance Computer that landed humans on the moon, yet our educational system was designed a century before that moon landing.

In a world where Google can find any journal article, Wikipedia can explain any concept, and YouTube can teach any skill, what is the role of a modern educator? By siting instruction on accessible, agile environments students today are familiar with I believe we can leverage the skills and aptitude students have today, in the service of developing the knowledge and abilities that will serve their careers tomorrow.

MMWCON ’15, Mobile Strategy Track. Paul Schantz speaking before me.

Small Epiphanies

5 small epiphanies that set the stage for my increasing move to mobile in the classroom

It doesn't behoove an emerging generation to placate the world view of those who came before them.
-- Hennessy Youngman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2011

• UCLA Art History Professor
• CSULB Art History Essay
• CSULB University Library 1st Floor: 2005 – Books • 2015 – Starbucks, Computer Lab, and no books.
• LGBTQIA Priest > Nike & Chipotle lead, not church

As Educators, are we leading? Or following?

What is Education in 2015?

Gen X & Baby Boom faculty teaching Millennial students.

What’s different between Baby Boom, Gen X and Millennial experiences, expectations & values?

• Colonialism
• Language
• Mobile

Lets Prototype a Mobile App for EDU!

• Groups of 3(ish)
• 5 minutes

Things that are dead

Here are a few things that I think are dead:

• PDF
• PowerPoint
• Player Piano Rolls
• Writing in PageMaker, LaserPrinting it, waxing it down & photo-mechanically reproducing it

So, what’s alive?

Course Platforms

• iClicker 2005 – 2014 (on & off)
• LMS: Blackboard & Desire to Learn 2005-2015 (used sparingly)
• The Big Wiki – 2006 – 2011
• Facebook Groups – 2011 – 2012
• Individual Blogs – 2012 – 2015
• Tout – 2013
• Google Hangouts – 2014
• Slack – 2015
• ePortfolios – 2014 – 2015

Activity Platforms

• WordPress
• Instagram
• Snapchat
• Periscope

The Moving Mobile / Online Target:

• 5 years ago my students loved Facebook
• 2-3 years ago they loved Instagram
• Today they hate Facebook, like Instagram, and love Snapchat

Facebook = Boring (Context Collapse), Instagram = Sacred (Manufacturing Identity), Snapchat = Fun (Casual w Friends)

Like fashion or being the cool dance club of the moment, perhaps the cool platform will continue to evolve. What we see is that all of these platforms, besides being owned by, or had acquisition attempts by Facebook, are platforms that engage Millennials in the media of their time.

Course Formats

• F2F
• 100% Online
• Hybrid or Flipped

Students do want interaction with peers and F2F access to faculty. Many report that they are less engaged by lecture format experiences.

Slack (Android, iOS, Win, Mac)

Here are a few screen caps from Slack Mobile

Periscope (Android, iOS)

• Lectures, Identity Projects, Bree Snow
• Demonstrations, Travelogues, Lifecasting, Pass the ‘Scope

Blab (iOS, Win, Mac)

Worked great from my home studio, but had more issues than Periscope on “Beachnet+” our campus WiFi network.

A successful Blab broadcast from my home studio

Instagram (Android, iOS)

Class Activity documenting a day in the life of 127 CSULB Art110 students. “Group Portrait” aggregated via Instagram hashtag #art110f15

Snapchat (Android, iOS)

Honestly, I was a little lost for a way to document an Art Activity with an Ephemeral Messaging platform. So I made the Activity for my students to design Snapchat Activities.

A few student ideas:

• Janet Cardiff-like mini-tours
• Snap every hour of a day and “chronologize” them with classmates Snaps
• Pass-the-snap – take inspiration from classmates Snaps
• Snap your street view and paint over it
• Partner snapping, take a day-in-the-life of a classmate and write a story about it

Plaster Casting at the Seal Beach PIer

Week 3

Great work on our Sculpture Experience (Plaster Casting) last week! This week, on to Social Photography (Instagram).

Full details about this week’s Activity are on our Social Photography page. The big mistake that a few people always make is to post pix during the day, but not to do a Blog Analysis of the Activity. Like ALL Activities, you should do a Blog Analysis of our Social Photography group portrait!

This week we also finally head over to the School of Art, Art Gallery Courtyard between FA2 & FA3. We’re now on our regular schedule and will meet every Tuesday in UT-108 and every Thursday in The SOA Gallery Courtyard.

Points so Far

All points through Week 2 are now up on BeachBoard. The total points possible so far is 40. Here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:

36 points = “A” pace – 105 peeps
32 points = “B” pace – 11 peeps
28 points = “C” pace – 0 peeps
24 points = “D” pace – 0 peep
23 & below = “F” pace – 11 peeps

Jackie Tester, 82/40 in 2 weeks! Rock on Jackie!

Leaderboard

1. Jackie Tester – 82
2. Jasmynn Nguyen – 81
3. Aida Gonzalez – 80
4. Grace Kim – 79
5. Emily Snyder – 79
6. Diana Nguyen – 79
7. Tyler Nakashima – 78
8. Kim Pham – 78
9. Tony Nguyen – 77
10. Jennifer Palacios – 77
11. Geraldine Meono – 77
12. Chris Chang – 77

Jasmynn Nguyen

Marina Barnes

Marina Barnes

Art 110’s #1 student from last semester, Marina Barnes (1147/1000) is visiting us today! She’s working on a Special Project and she wants your help!

Marina Barnes having a “Mina Show” moment.

Judy Phan, Kristine Nguyen & Jacob Kim

SOA Galleries This Week!

September 6th-10th

Nicholas Bamford, Ceramics – Gatov-West & Gatov-East

Nicholas Bamford creates large-scale figurative sculptures and murals that serve as a narrative, immersive environment.

William Brigham, Metals & Jewelry – Merlino-Gallery

William Brigham presents an exploration of laminated materials and a manipulation of layers to create both simple and complex patterns in physical objects made of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, ceramics, and wood.

Kyle Kruse, Printmaking – Dutzi-Gallery

Kyle Kruse’s printed installation focuses on the tactile and intimate experience associated with the shamanism of artmaking.

Art Education Group Show – Werby-Gallery

Art Education highlights the community-based art projects developed by Art Education majors in collaboration with “Woman to Woman,” “Art & Services for the Disabled,” and “Acacia Senior Center.”

For details on what I’m looking for in your posts, see the Writing About Artist Conversations section of the syllabus!

Artist Tags

The CSULB School of Art, Student Artists, are being generous with us. They galleries normally open at Noon, so they’re opening an hour early to talk to Art110. And they’re dealing with a big class like ours coming through their carefully assembled exhibition. And answering lots of questions from us! So lets try to thank them for their hospitality and for sharing their work with us. One great way to do this is to TAG your post. This gives them a tag they can click on to see all the posts we’ve written about them. The tags for your Artist Conversations are:

• Gatov-West
• Gatov-East
• Merlino-Gallery
• Werby-Gallery
• Dutzi-Gallery
• SOA-Courtyard

Grace Kim

Millie Herrera

Classmate Conversations

It’s funny, but the bigger the class is, the harder it seems to be to meet people. So in a big class like Art110 with 130 peeps, you’re surrounded by cool classmates, but it’s so weirdly easy not to meet them. So each Thursday in addition to a Conversation with an Artist, you’ll do a conversation with a classmate. Just pick anyone you don’t already know. You’ll meet a bunch of different classmates this semester, and by the end you’ll probably have at least a few new friends.

You can talk about anything in these conversations, ask each other questions, learn about backgrounds, interests, majors, hobbies, and so on. And you can look at and discuss some of the work in the SOA Galleries. Each week we’ll also have a Classmate Conversation Question of the Week for you to discuss. Since we talked about “Art & Fun” on Tuesday, that should be a great topic for you to discuss. It’s the beginning of the semester and a great time to ask yourself and each other “What is art?”

Try to avoid cliche’s here. They don’t really say very much. For example, peeps love to say “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. That’s probably true, but where does it get me? What insight does it offer? Or is it just a thing that we’ve always said without thinking? Try to really think through the nature and purpose of Art in your own mind and in your own words. And discuss the idea of Art & Fun. Or Art vs Fun.

One of the most extraordinary paintings ever made was Pablo Picasso’s Guernica.

Guernica was Picasso’s response to the horrors of war. Specifically to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country village in northern Spain, by German and Italian warplanes at the request of the Spanish Nationalists.

Is Art wide enough to include a work like Pablo Picasso’s Guernica and an Andy Warhol painting of a Campbell’s Soup can?

Perhaps the power and beauty of art is that it can include a Mozart Requiem, and a Taylor Swift song that you might sing and dance around the house to in your underwear.

Periscope, Blab & BeachNet+

Hi Guys!

As you know I broadcast our 1st class on Tuesday via Periscope. I tried to broadcast our Thursday website workday on Blab, and when that total failed I went over to Periscope. Between my “broadcasting skills” and various technical issues, it was kind of a so-so week for streaming mobile video. It’s almost too early to ask you what you think since there’s kinks to still work out, but here’s a little recap of what happened in Week 1.

Blab

I think, you tell me, that the Tuesday Periscope went pretty well technically. The big issue I was aware of was how hard it was to talk to the F2F audience and read the comments & questions of the Periscope audience as they scrolled past. I was excited to try Blab because it had 2 ways to potentially solve this: students at home could take a “video seat” and actually talk, and also unlike Periscope, Blab comments can be scrolled up and down so you can check for things that went by.

A successful Blab broadcast from my home studio

The short answer is that after a few minutes, 10 or 15 maybe? of trying, Blab didn’t seem to let peeps in, I got logged out or crashed and lost the Blab, started a new one, which made the link everyone had obsolete, and various video freezing, and so on. I had previously tried Blab from my off-campus studio and it worked pretty well. So the problem might not be “Blab’s fault”. It could be BeachNet+. We just got an email Tuesday afternoon about the tremendous load the 41,024 of us (students + faculty + staff) place on the network, especially at the beginning of the academic year:

This email is to remind you that the first weeks of the semester are always heavy traffic times for the University networks, especially Wi Fi. One of the big reasons for this is the huge number of mobile devices using our network during this time of year. It seems everyone sets their phone, pad, and laptop to be on the Wi Fi at all times nowadays. Not only do people use their phones for everything, but these devices are chatting to the network all the time, even when their owners aren’t looking at them, so the load on our network is tremendous. The University has been adding capability every year, but it is a tall order to keep up at peak times like this. If you or your students have problems logging on or getting to University services, bear that in mind. You may have to try a few times or wait awhile to make a connection.

— Pat Mullen, Technology Coordinator, School of Art, College of the Arts, California State University, Long Beach

IDK why we had such poor results: Blab, or BeachNet+, or something else. For whatever reason I think Periscope functioned better. So back to our original plan. Well, we never left the original plan, this was just a Thursday test actually.

Periscope

I think technically Periscope worked ok. In trying to project it on the UT-108 theater screen, sometimes my device would work ok, but the projection would freeze. Tuesday I used a Moto-G to broadcast and an iPad to project on the screen. Thursday I used an iPod Touch to both broadcast and project on the screen. Maybe streaming video out to the cloud and also over to the Theater Projector was too much.

If you checked out the Periscope, or the Blab, any reactions?

• Did it work technically?
• Was it useful?
• Was my often not reading comments / questions a problem?
• Was my turning to Periscope from time to time and asking “any questions from Periscope” helpful? (it seemed like that sort of worked out)
• Is the whole thing not that great and would it be better if I skipped Periscope and just focused on everyone in the F2F class?

#art110 Tweets

Twitter Hashtag

I did try to say occasionally “any questions from Periscope” and at least a few of you got to ask things. Was that good? Or did you feel left out?

One thought I had to deal with Periscope just floating comments off and not scrolling them was that you could also ask with a Twitter Hashtag #Art110, and then they’d stick around and I could read them. But maybe having another place to go is too much hassle?

We’ll see how it goes in Week 2. Please do give my your thoughts and suggestions in the comments below or F2F!

Thanks everyone!

Welcome!

It was great meeting you guys yesterday! I hope to learn more about your interests, majors, and career goals as we have a chance to chat through the semester. Here’s a few links to get you started:

• Website: BeachArts.ca
• Syllabus: beacharts.ca/fall15-syllabus
• Materials: beacharts.ca/fall15-materials
• Roster: beacharts.ca/fall15-roster
• This Week’s Activity: beacharts.ca/activity/web-design
• Next Week’s Activity: beacharts.ca/activity/plaster

As we discussed in class, we won’t start our Thursday Gallery Visits till Week 3. Starting then, and for the rest of the semester, you’ll do 3 blog posts / week. For week’s 1 & 2 you only have the activity to do.

Who’s “We”?

The students enrolled in Art110 for Fall ’15, aka You Guys! are:

Year

• Freshmen – 33
• Sophomores – 71
• Juniors – 8
• Seniors – 13

Major

• American Studies – 1
• Chinese Studies – 2
• Business / Marketing / Management – 16
• Engineering – 12
• Computer Science – 3
• Bio / Chem – 6
• Math – 2
• Communication – 4
• Psychology – 3
• Sociology / Social Work – 8
• Criminal Justice – 11
• Nursing – 4
• Health – 11
• Human Development – 2
• Child Development – 4
• Recreation – 1
• Kinesiology – 6
• Athletic Training – 1
• Fashion – 4
• Film & Electronic Arts – 4
• Dance – 1
• Undeclared – 19

Where

We discovered on Tuesday that almost all of us are from California! Mostly SoCal, but with some San Jose, Sacramento & Stocton’s mixed in. We do have 2 students from other states and 3 from other countries. I might be remembering wrong (please LMK!) but I think it was:

• Virginia
• Nebraska
• South Korea
• Spain
• Germany

I wish we had even more international students and students from other states, but it’s awesome to have these 5! Be sure to chat with them when you have the chance. As I tried to describe on Tuesday with the “Designed by Apple in California; assembled in China” discussion, I think diversity is at the heart of creativity. We often think of style as something that comes top down, from people like Tory Burch or Taylor Swift, but if you really look around, style so often comes bottom up from street culture. Of course creativity is valuable in “creative” fields like Art or Design or Marketing, but I’m convinced that “creativity” is also an essential element in being a great Accountant or Biochemist or Physical Therapist.

You Are Here:

23 Campuses

The California State University (CSU) is composed of 23 campuses and eight off-campus centers enrolling 437,000 students with 44,000 faculty members and staff. The CSU is the largest four-year public university system in the United States. With nearly 100,000 graduates annually, the CSU is the country’s greatest producer of bachelor’s degrees. The CSU system headquarters are right here in Long Beach, at 401 Golden Shore.¹

8 Colleges

California State University, Long Beach is composed of 8 Colleges:²

• College of the Arts
• College of Business Administration
• College of Education
• College of Engineering
• College of Health & Human Services
• College of Liberal Arts
• College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
• College of Continuing & Professional Education

6 Departments

The College of the Arts is composed of 6 Departments:³

• School of Art
• Department of Dance
• Department of Design
• Department of Film & Electronic Arts
• Cole Conservatory of Music
• Department of Theatre Arts

Here’s a welcome to you from College of the Arts Dean, Cyrus Parker-Jeannette

Here’s a welcome to you from School of Art Director, Karen Kleinfelder

• Coming Soon!

It doesn’t behoove an emerging generation to placate the world view of those who came before them.

— Hennessy Youngman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2011

Syllabus

Contents

A. Class Overview
B. Schedule Overview
C. Full Syllabus

Full Syllabus

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Final
• Format
• What’s Due?
• Late Policy
• Attendance
• Points and Grades
• Extra Credit
• Rubrics
• Post Names
• Writing about your conversations with artists
• Artist Tags
• Other Details

Art 110: Introduction to the Visual Arts

• Section 2: Class No.4568 – F2F Course
• Instructor: Glenn Zucman

Class

Office Hours

• Tuesday 12:15 – 12:45, School of Art, Art Gallery Courtyard
• Thursday 12:15 – 12:45, School of Art, Art Gallery Courtyard
• By Appointment, FO4-267

Contact

• [email protected]
• 415-203-5571 or Glenn_IRS (WhatsApp, Telegram, Line, Kik, or LMK if you like another IM app)

Art 110 – Vision

I’ve tried to honor the Hennessy Youngman quotation at the top of this syllabus. This course is designed to try to “speak in your language.” As much as possible the design of this class will reflect Millennial Culture rather than Gen X or Baby Boom Culture.

Gone

• Paper Textbooks
• Work “turned in” via ink on paper
• Class “lectures” with me talking while you sit and listen

Instead

• Your Phone is your Textbook
• Activities are “turned in” by posting on your own website
• Class Activity time focuses on meeting artists and discussing their work

Yes, there will still be times when we need to be “academic” about it. Each week you’ll write about a CSULB Student Artist exhibiting that week in the School of Art Galleries, and those essays will need to be carefully written for compelling ideas, correct details, proper grammar and punctuation, and so on.

Prerequisites

• None

Objectives

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to Art and Ideas as practiced in the 21st century. Each week students will try a wide range of art media from traditional tools like paint, to contemporary media like Snapchat. Each week students will visit the CSULB School of Art Galleries, see the work of 4-5 different student artists, have conversations with the artists, and write blog posts about the work.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, the student will have:

• Been introduced to a dozen creative media tools
• Produced an ePortfolio of their work in Art110 and at CSULB
• Seen 50 – 60 different art exhibitions at the CSULB SOA Galleries
• Conversed with a dozen or more student artists about their work
• Conversed with a dozen or more classmates about the work on exhibition at the CSULB SOA Galleries

Format of the Course

Each week this course includes:
1. Art Activity
2. Conversation with a student artist exhibiting in the CSULB SOA Galleries
3. Conversation with an Art110 classmate about the work in the CSULB SOA Galleries

Each week you’ll make 3 blog posts on your WordPress.com website, 1 for each item.

Due Dates

Each week’s posts are due by 11:59pm on Sunday night.

Late Policy

You may submit work up to 1 week late. After 1 week late work is not accepted. On time work will automatically be graded. Late work you should email me asking me to take a look and letting me know what items (URLs) you want me to look at.

All points below are “up to” full value for excellent work. Deductions listed in the Rubrics.

• Artist Conversations: On time: 30. Late: 20.
• Activities: On time: 20. Late: 14.
• Classmate Conversations: On Time: 10. Late: 7.

Textbook

• Your Mobile Device

Materials

• See the Materials page for info on the Art Kits available in both the Main Bookstore and the CSULB Art Store located in FA3.

Attendance

This is not a “textbook” course, but an experience course. If you don’t come to class, you haven’t done the course. Each Tuesday in class we’ll look at some of your best projects from last week and prepare for this week’s activities. Each Thursday we meet at the CSULB School of Art (SOA), Art Gallery Courtyard where you can have your Artist & Classmate Conversations. On Thursdays in the SOA Gallery Courtyard you can also prepare for, and sometimes complete, the week’s activity. (you can’t do activities like Spray Painting or Plaster Casting in the Gallery Courtyard)

Drawing Your Student ID Card

Starting Week 2 I’ll be taking attendance via your ID Cards. You’ll turn in, not your physical ID card, but a drawing of it. Your art kit includes a package of 3×5 index cards for this purpose.

Draw your ID card. As long as your name is clearly legible, the rest is up to you. A simple copy of the card. A detailed self-portrait. A campus landscape. An alien world. Highly representational. Abstract. Every class it’s your choice. Have fun!

Give your ID Card Drawing to Glenn at the end of every Tuesday class, and anytime during Thursday class.

• NO Scraps of paper! Please use the 3×5 index cards in your Art110 Art Kit.
• You can only turn in Your Own card: no turning in cards for friends!

Periscope

• You must attend the Thursday Gallery visits in person.
• Tuesday class you may attend in person or via Periscope. You can switch back and forth on Tuesdays, attending F2F or by Periscope as you like. My Periscope ID is:
• Glenn_IRS

Our Tuesday sessions are not intended to be be “watching a lecture” but participating in a discussion. Therefore your Periscope viewing must be during classtime, Tuesdays 11-12:15.

In some ways its even easier to ask questions and offer comments via Periscope than F2F – be sure to participate!

• If you participate via Periscope, you won’t turn in an ID card. Instead be sure to comment “Your Name” once at the beginning of the class and once at the end.

Missing 1 or 2 classes across the span of the semester should not be too detrimental to your final grade. If you need to miss more than that, you should see me immediately and most likely plan to take Art110 a different semester.

Marina Barnes, Art110, Spring ’15

Points and Grades

Points

• 13 Artist Conversations x 30 = 390 points
• 12 Activities x 20 = 240 points
• 13 Classmate Conversations x 10 = 130 points
• Attendance: 26 classes x 7 = 182 points
• Final: 58 points

Course Total Possible = 1,000 points.

Grades

900 points = A
800 points = B
700 points = C
600 points = D
599 & below = F

Extra Credit

We have 3 extra credit opportunities this semester, each worth +35 points. If you do all 3 that’s +105 or over a full letter grade of EC. I hope you don’t even need any EC, but if you do, here it is:

Wk 1: Domain Name

When you make your website on WordPress.com in Week 1, you can either use a free domain name like “me.wordpress.com” or you can pay about $18 for your own domain name, like “me.com”. You can get full credit with any “me.wordpress.com” URL, or Extra Credit of +35 points if you go ahead and buy “me.com”. This EC Only Available in Week 1!

Wk 5: Painting

The best place to paint is at the Venice Beach Legal Art Walls. Just about everyone who has ever gone has had a great time. Yes it’s far. Yes, I know you hate to drive. Just paint at home for full credit, or go to the Venice Beach Legal Art Walls to paint for +35 EC.

Wk 9: 3D Chair

Congratulations on making a chair! You can have it 3D printed at the LB Maker Society. They’re on campus on the 5th Floor of Vivian Engineering. Include a photo of you holding your 3D printed chair for +35 EC.

Rubric: Artist Conversations

Each Conversation starts off with a perfect score of 30. Points are deducted from that if necessary:

1. No Photos: -10
2. Poor Post Naming: -10
3. Too short: -10
4. Not analytic enough: -10
5. No Artist Tag, or incorrect tag: -15
6. Misspelled Artist Name: -15
7. Other misspellings: -10
8. Poor Grammar: -10
9. No link to artist website: -10 (if they have one)

Rubric: Classmate Conversations

Each Conversation starts off with a perfect score of 10. Points are deducted from that if necessary:

1. No Photos: -3
2. Poor Post Naming: -3
3. Too short: -3
4. Not analytic enough: -3
5. No link to classmate website: -3

Rubric: Activities

Each Activity starts off with a perfect score of 20. Points are deducted from that if necessary:

1. No Photos: -7
2. Poor Post Naming: -7
3. Too short: -7
4. Not analytic enough: -7

Photos

Photos of what? For your Activities, document your process! For Classmate Interviews, a photo with your classmate would be great. For Artist Interviews, a photo of the artist, or their work would be ok. Photos of both would be great.

Post Names

Please use this format:

• Wk2 – Activity – Plaster Casting
• Wk2 – Artist Conversation – Brianna Allen
• Wk2 – Classmate Conversation – Geri Weckstein

Writing about Artist Conversations (Analytic Writing)

I’m going to try to be lenient and generous in grading your Activity and Classmate Conversation posts. But I’m going to really ask you to step up your writing game when it comes to writing about the artists we meet at the SOA Galleries. These are almost all young artists just beginning their careers. They’ve typically worked for many months to put up the work we see in the galleries, and you are very likely the 1st person ever to write about them and their work! That’s awesome! But it also gives us the responsibility to be accurate and informed about the work.

Please pay very careful attention to spelling! Get these things right:

• Artist’s Name
• Title of Show & Title of any specific works you discuss
• Name of Gallery the show is in
• Link to Artist’s website, Tumblr, Instagram, or whatever the best way to find more online about them is

This is still an “informal” blog post, and your writing doesn’t have to be completely “academic.” But it does have to have good grammar and be thoughtful and intelligent.

You don’t have to “like” the work. In fact, I’d really rather not even know if you “like” or “don’t like” the work. Try not to think in those terms. A chess master doesn’t have to “like” their opponent or even their style of play, but they do need to try to understand what’s on the other player’s mind and how they’re thinking about this game.

Artist Tags

The CSULB School of Art, Student Artists, are being generous with us. They galleries normally open at Noon, so they’re opening an hour early to talk to Art110. And they’re dealing with a big class like ours coming through their carefully assembled exhibition. And answering lots of questions from us! So lets try to thank them for their hospitality and for sharing their work with us. One great way to do this is to TAG your post. This gives them a tag they can click on to see all the posts we’ve written about them. The tags for your Artist Conversations are:

• Gatov-West
• Gatov-East
• Merlino-Gallery
• Werby-Gallery
• Dutzi-Gallery
• SOA-Courtyard

Each week when we visit the SOA Galleries, you’ll pick 1 of the shows for your Artist Conversation & Blog Post. This will almost always be in 1 of the 5 Galleries: Gatov West, Gatov East, Merlino Gallery, Werby Gallery or Dutzi Gallery. There may also be work installed or performed in the SOA Courtyard on occasion.

Another nice way to respect these artists is to try to have a real conversation with them about their work and their ideas first, and then ask to take a photo of them or their work. When 100 of us rush in with cell phones snapping all at once, the artists can start to feel like victims of paparazzi rather than appreciated artists.

Instagram by @alycehaliday. You have to wonder if the masses at The Louvre actually like the Mona Lisa, or even care about what’s going on in the work, or if they’re just collecting a “badge” for their Facebook page? Let’s try to not be them!

Other Details

Incompletes

The Art Department grants “incompletes” rarely and only for the most extreme conditions.

Withdrawal Deadlines

• By MyCSULB – September 7 @10pm
• w signature, Director, School of Art – November 13
• w signature, Director, School of Art and Dean, College of the Arts – December 9

Accommodation

CSULB will make reasonable accommodations for any student who has a disability. It is the student’s responsibility to notify me in advance of the need for special accommodations. This course utilizes many activities and many tools. Most of you should have no trouble with any of this, however if anyone has challenges with any course aspect for any reason, please be in touch ASAP and we can work to find suitable alternatives. A sincere effort should result in real learning and a good grade, so never be afraid to ask for any accommodations you need, but do make a sincere effort.

Fun

Art is, or should be, a fun, interesting, exciting, and enjoyable subject. Art offers pleasure to the viewer, consolation to the distraught, and wisdom to the seeker. Art will enrich your leisure time, resonate with your life, and offer surprising relevance to almost any career field you choose!

Stephanie Mejia, Diana Martinez, Anna Joy Floresca, C-Dawg & Allison Wendell, “The Homies,” on their way to the Veince Beach Legal Art Walls, Art110, Fall ’14 Photo: Diana Martinez

Once you make your WordPress.com website, leave Your Name and Your URL as a comment on this page. I’ll add you to the roster. After that, you don’t have to “turn in” your 3 weekly blog posts, you just post them and I’ll go find them each week.

1. Abigail Giron
2. Adrian Caluya
3. Aida Gonzalez
4. Aidan Dick
5. Aiyat Abdelhady
6. Albert Haddad
7. Alexandra Mendoza
8. Alicia Jones
9. Alissabeth Swisher
10. Anahi Ramirez
11. Andrea Casamitjana
12. Angel Meza Contreras
13. Anthony Simeone
14. Armando De La Mora, Jr.
15. Aron Chek
16. Brianna Lopez
17. Brianna Ortiz
18. Bryan Hernandez
19. Calvin Nguyen
20. Cameren Johnson
21. Cameron Cripe
22. Carolina De la Torre
23. Cesar Torres
24. Chris Chang
25. Chris Schumaier
26. Courtney Sakuma
27. Daniel Guerrero
28. Devin Nelson
29. Diana Nguyen
30. Diana Solis
31. Donna Tang
32. Edgar Navarro
33. Edwyn Reyes
34. Elizabeth Ochoa
35. Emily Quinonez
36. Emily Snyder
37. Erick Andrez
38. Erika Cobarrubias
39. Estrella “Star” Meza
40. Eva Drexler
41. Filimon Soltero
42. Forest Nutter
43. Franklin Chhay
44. Genesis Jacobo
45. George Estephan
46. Geraldine Meono
47. Gillian English
48. Grace Kim
49. Ha Young “Jenna” Lee
50. Huy Le
51. Inessa Lopez
52. Jack Nguyen
53. Jackie Bautista
54. Jaclyn “Jackiee” Fernandes
55. Jacob Kim
56. Jacquelyn “Jackie” Tester
57. Jasmine Acosta
58. Jasmynn Nguyen
59. Jeanine Pham
60. Jennifer “Christa” Hernandez
61. Jennifer Palacios
62. Jennifer Ramirez
63. Jennifer “Jen Rod” Rodriguez
64. Jonathan Juarez
65. Jonathan Pua
66. Judy Phan
67. Julia “Juju” or “Jules” but not “Julie” Clouse
68. Julia Hodgdon
69. Kahlia Cadle
70. Kayla Wiese-Sanchez
71. Kelvin Japco
72. Kim Pham
73. Kirlous Tadros
74. Kristal Torres
75. Kristine Dueno
76. Kristine Nguyen
77. Leslie Jovel
78. Leslie Lopez
79. Luis Rangel
80. Madeline “MadsMariees” Perez
81. Maria Leon
82. Marisol Gonzalez
83. Mark Flores
84. Matthew Carder
85. Meghan Arce
86. Miguel Lopez
87. Mikel Soco
88. Millie Herrera
89. Milton Coreas
90. Natalia Chang
91. Natalie Mai
92. Natalie Marquez
93. Nele Barber
94. Nestor Plascencia
95. Nicholas Cedeno
96. Nicholas Ramirez
97. Noah Heese
98. Perla Aguayo
99. Rachel Garcia
100. Raquel “Calexico” Salazar
101. Rosanna Ramirez
102. Rosario Fino
103. Roxana Talavera
104. Ryan Bravo
105. Samantha McFeely
106. San Yoon
107. Serina Khoury
108. Shannelle Cruz
109. Shiva Nadjm
110. Socheatey Yim
111. Soyeoun Won
112. Stefany Rodriguez
113. Stephanie Chang
114. Steven Argueta
115. Steven Gonzalez
116. Steven Shih-Hsien Yang
117. SuHyun “Cindy” Kim
118. Tabita Astorga
119. Thomas “Tommy” Lyons
120. Thomas Santillan
121. Toni Abad
122. Tony Nguyen
123. Tyler Nakashima
124. Vanessa Marquez Guerrero
125. Velen Garcia
126. Yeji Yang
127. Zeida Gonzalez

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Ngoc Tran, Seal Beach Pier, Summer ’15

Textbook

• There is no paper textbook to buy.
• Your textbook is your smartphone.

Materials

Your Own Domain Name – Optional (+30 EC)

We’re making free WordPress.com websites to document all your work this semester. When you sign up, you can get a free WP.com domain name, or for about $18 you can buy your own domain name for 1 year.

• http://GlennZucman.WordPress.com – Free
• http://GlennZucman.com – $18/year

I think it’s a really good idea to buy a domain name. It gives you a sense of empowerment, making your website really yours. It’s more professional. And it’s just plain easier for peeps, be they friends and family, or HR Directors, to type in. If you choose to go for a custom “me.com” I’ll “pay you back” with +30 of EC – OFFER ONLY GOOD DURING WEEK 1! EC will be posted with your regular points.

If you do choose to get your own Domain Name, you can get anything you like. But I’d encourage you to go for your own name. Before inserting numbers and other things, at least check if just your name is available. Sometimes even if your name is taken at places like Gmail, it’ll still be available as a URL. The simpler the better.

Art 110, Art Kit, Fall 2015, available in either the Main CSULB Bookstore, or the CSULB Art Store in FA3

Art Kits

Except for a shovel, and your smartphone, pretty much everything you’ll need for our Activities this semester is in the Art110 Art Kit. It’s available in the Regular Bookstore, and in the Art Store in FA3 (with way less lines!

If you do plaster casting in a group, 1 shovel is probably enough. But be sure it is metal! Plastic shovels break right away. A small garden shovel is fine. If you find a big shovel in your parents garage, that’s fine too.

Other Materials

Whatever materials you might need to realize your vision on various Activities. Mostly minimal cost or stuff you can find around the house.

Image: Kickoff 001

Slack the Messaging App

I used Slack as our course platform for a 12-week, 100% online, Introduction to the Visual Arts class this summer. During the academic year I typically teach F2F classes of 130-150 students. I thought that only having 25 students, and being 100% online, made this an interesting opportunity to see how Slack could facilitate our learning experience.

Slack the LMS?

We didn’t use “BeachBoard,” the CSULB branded installation of Desire2Learn (D2L) at all. Desire2Learn was completely replaced by Slack. To be sure, Slack is not an LMS (Learning Management System) and I don’t think I’d use it with 140 F2F students. But I thought it could work for our smaller online course, and that it’s clean and powerful design might make for an engaged student experience.

Other Tools

To compliment Slack we also used:

• Activity Briefs on BeachArts.ca
• “Art Talk” videos on Vimeo
• “Artist of the Week” videos on Vimeo
• I used a Google Doc Spreadsheet for grading and gave each student weekly points updates via Slack Direct Message
• Each student had their own WordPress website / ePortfolio for “turning in” their work

Student Feedback

At the end of summer, about half the class gave me their thoughts on using Slack. Their comments are below. This is 100% of the students who commented, and the comments are not edited for length or typos. This is all of their feedback on Slack:

At first, I was annoyed with Slack just because it took time to get used to, but once you do, it makes the dynamic of our class super easy and it was very helpful to keep organized. The two discussion posts had their own sections and you did not get confused. Also, the AOTW and Art Talk had their own sections too, so once you figured out the website, it was really helpful in keeping your work organized each week.

— DG
 

I think Slack is much better than Beachboard, I think it’s a lot more straightforward and organized, plus it’s easier to use. Although Slack was kind of hard to figure out how to use in the beginning, I figured it out quickly and I think it was good to use.

— GC
 

Overall I thought slack was OK 1-10 i give it a 6. Hard to understand in the beginning. didn’t know where to find things. once settled in was pretty simple to use. Although i might add these functions can be done on beachboard and would be easy because of other classes that already use it, dont have to be jumping platforms.

— IP
 

I loved Slack. This platform was honestly so much better than beachboard. It was simple and easy to figure out. It is easily accessible and is almost like an instant connection to the other students. I know that beachboard has an app and I had it for a while but it kept crashing and it was just a pain to log into constantly and navigate. I’ve been in a few online classes/hybrid classes that required online discussion and I can say that having slack would have been a much more easy experience.

— KT
 

I love Slack! It is a great platform for online classes in my opinion. More modern, easier access and reliable. I feel BB can be hard to discuss on, on your phone. On Slack I had no problem at all. Of course it was a bit hard to navigate in the beginning, but I learned quickly. The notifications made it easy to keep the discussions going, compare to BB where I think I don’t receive any notifications on my phone in the same way. My professors quick responses and involvement made it so much easier to learn, greatly appreciated. And even though this was an online class, my professor made me feel more connected to the rest of the class and him as a teacher, than many of my “in class” courses.

— TW
 

Now when it comes to slack. As a person that hasn’t had to use beachboard I wouldn’t really know how bad it is. My roommate sure complains about it alot. Slack however is easy to use and kinda just works. I like it because it’s simple. There are some problems, if I type lack into my address bar it asks me to sign up instead of just bringing me to my slack groups. I’m logged in already just take me where I want to go. If i type in ‘slack bea’ it takes me to slack beacharts. so i feel like it just needs a few bug fixes.

— KS
 

Slack is a great platform, and I’m glad we used it. Couldn’t imagine doing our class discussions in any other platform, so slack is a great idea for this online class.

— LM
 

I think Slack was great because i can use my phone wherever i go and can write any comment. it was more easy than Blackboard.

— NT
 

Again, software is not my strong suit, but once I figured it out, I really enjoyed slack. everything was in one clean place and it was easier to search for certain messages or instructions. It made it easy to share ideas or pictures found of the certain subject and made it all more simple having more of an instant chat option rather than a email option.

— BV
 

Slack was definitely a lot more useful than BeachBoard. The thing I really like about Slack is that it allows for direct messaging. I also love the fact that Slack has a mobile app. I am able to receive notifications for anything new going on in any of the rooms. The thing about BeachBoard I hate is that you’re never informed when anything new is posted. It’s like you’re expected to be refreshing it every 5 minutes waiting for new content. Also, Slack is extremely easy to use. I liked the fact that our grades and progress in the class were sent every week via direct messages. This really helped me track my progress. I like seeing how my grade fluctuates throughout the semester, which I can’t do via BeachBoard. BeachBoard only allows you to see your most recent grade.

— RC
 

It’s a bit difficult for me to compare Slack and Beachboard because I think they have completely different purposes. I mostly use Beachboard to download documents, but we did not need to print any documents for this class. However, I do think it’s a worthy learning platform if you have classes that have online discussions. I’ve only taken one class that needed to use the discussion feature in Beachboard but I find slack much easier to navigate and the fact that they have an free app helps for when I don’t have access to a computer but still want to participate in discussions. The Beachboard is also pretty annoying/not phone friendly.

— SB

I’ve taken a lot of online courses over the years but this is the first one in which I’m so actively involved with others. You’ve done a great job setting that up. Makes the class enjoyable. Slack has definitely helped as the app gives me notifications whenever I’m mentioned so it’s easy to access and easy to respond. Slack is a sloppy initiation but once the first week goes by, it’s very easy to use. Better than beach board for sure.

— ZD

Annie Georgieva

Hi Guys!

It’s been a privilege and a pleasure to spend this summer thinking and talking and making about Art with you all. It was nice to meet some of you F2F at the Sculpture and Painting activities. And great seeing what you created and what you talked about each week.

Becca VanDeVelde

To the Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors – Good luck next year! For our Seniors, I know some of you are coming back for a few more units, so good luck to you too. For anyone who’s done at CSULB now, Congratulations!! Best wishes for your moving in to the next phase of your life.

Caitlin Jones

As you know, Fall Semester Classes start next week already! I’ll be in the School of Art, Art Gallery Courtyard, in-between FA2 & FA3, from 11am – 12:30pm every Thursday. Probably earlier and later than that. Possibly not for week 1. Drop by anytime and say Hi!

Cedric Vu

Top 10

I’ve given everyone their individual final points via private message on Slack. There was so much wonderful work from you guys this summer! Here’s our final top 10:

1. Lee Macklin – 1392
2. Tina Wisborn – 1205
3. Kimmy Toscano – 1196
4. Sherri Mae Bersabe – 1192
5. Jolene Wright – 1186
6. Ngoc Tran – 1105
7. Ryan Webster – 1029
8. Zeeshan Dadabhoy – 988
9. Guan Chen – 967
10. Raymond Poon – 963

Chau McCormick, dead in St Croix

Activity “Grades”

15 of you chose to do the optional evaluation of our 12 Activities for Summer ’15. Here’s your Up Votes, Down Votes, and Totals for our 12 Activities:

• Snapchat +4 -4 = 0

Cherry Mendoza at LACMA

Painting, Plaster Casting, and Instagram have been at the top of the list for as long as we’ve been doing these Activities. So they’ll definitely stay for next semester.

Chris Repanich & girlfriend – Automatic Drawing

Based on your votes it looks like Game Design 1 (Sketchup / Chair) and Architecture & Urban Planning really need to go. I feel bad about this in that I feel that Architecture, or more specifically, Urban Planning is such a powerful thing that we often don’t think nearly enough about. People like Francesca Woodman or Allan Kaprow are remarkable artists. Their ideas might change our lives. But most of us don’t encounter their work every day. But how we design our cities, how we think about Pedestrians, Cars, Commutes, Community, and so many other aspects of urban spaces, effects the quality and experience of life every single day.

Still, it seems like I’m not communicating that well with this particular activity. Maybe we should lose the AUP Activity, and instead have Jane Jacobs as an Artist OTW.

Thanks for the feedback! It’s helpful to know what’s working well or not so well for you all.

Connor Calhoun

Tomorrow

Well, if you’re returning to school I guess you only have 4 days of “summer” left! But enjoy them.

Dominique Gilpin at MOLAA

Whetever’s next for you: school, career, family, life, or elsewhere, I hope you have a wonderful experience. And I hope art can be a small piece of that. Whether it’s bringing “creativity” to your work, even technical work in Accounting or Biochem, or doing a craft project on a Saturday, or visiting an Art Museum or exploring Art, Creativity, & Culture online.

It’s been a great summer!

Thanks guys!

— Glenn

Glenn Zucman

Drew Sanchez at the Getty Villa

Guan Chen

Ian Padilla at LACMA

Jolene Wright, geocaching

Kimmy Toscano

Kristopher Smith’s Server

Lee Macklin

Natalie Klistoff (left)

Ngoc Tran (in blue top) with her sister and cousin at Venice Beach

Raymond Poon, automatic drawing

Regine Carino

Ryan Webster at Long Beach Museum of Art

Sherri Mae Bersabe at the Venice Beach Artwalls

Tina Wisborn trying Automatic Drawing with her mom, in Stockholm.

Zeeshan Dadabhoy

Initial contents of cache located at CSULB

It’s Game Design II > Location Based Gaming > Alternate Reality Gaming > Geocaching this week in Summer Art110! I’ve placed a couple of caches, one on the CSULB Campus and one at the Newport Aquatic Center. If you’re on the CSULB campus, or in the Newport Beach vicinity, come visit! You can grab a mobile app for your phone at Geocaching.com and check them out:

• Newport Aquatic Center: http://coord.info/GC60KA4
• Long Beach State: http://coord.info/GC60KDR

The cache at both locations is in a Magnetic Altoids Tin. The NAC Coordinates should take you right to the spot. At CSULB the GPS signal was a little weaker at the exact point, so these coordinates should take you to a point 20 feet away from the cache. Both shouldn’t be too hard to find, and if you scroll all the way down to “hints” it should be very easy. But maybe too easy. Up to you!

The Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve

The Art110 Game Deisgn > Location Based Gaming > Alternate Reality Gaming > Geocaching page is here: beacharts.ca/activity/geocaching

Long Beach State’s new Jack Rose Track Stadium

Hints (Spoilers!)

Scroll at your own risk!

Newport Aquatic Center Cache

Find My Cache!

So far – Friday 6 Nov ’15 – 40 peeps have logged visits to the CSULB Track Cache, and 10 have logged visits to the Aquatic Center. So far no one has posted pix at the Aquatic Center, but there are a few pix uploaded from CSULB Track:

• jzimmerm

Glenn, Ngoc, Ngoc’s Cousin & Chau. Photo by Tina Wisborn

Seal Beach

Hi guys! Welcome to Week 3 of Art110 Summer ’15! Last week I had a nice chance to meetup with 7 of you at the Seal Beach Pier for our Sculpture Activity (“Plaster Casting”): Annie, Chau, Guan, Jolene, Tina, Ngoc, and Ngoc’s cousin! BTW Ngoc, what was your cousin’s name again? It’s great that you brought her. We have an optional EC Meetup in Wk 5 at the Venice Beach Legal Art Walls. If any of you do go, you’re welcome to bring cousins, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, etc.

• Photos of Seal Beach Pier meetup

Fresno

One person we didn’t get a chance to “meet” last week was Becca VanDeVelde. Becca’s not only not in Long Beach this summer, she isn’t really near any beach. Becca’s spending the summer in cool Fresno! But it turns out we do get to “meet” Becca anyway because she made an awesome vlog for her Plaster Activity last week! I hope Becca does more and I hope others of you make some too. You’ll get better with video skills, better with speaking, better with lots of fundamental tools here in the 21st century. Anyway, check out Becca’s awesome video:

Ngoc Rocks!

Speaking of awesome, how awesome was Ngoc for picking up enough plaster for everyone who metup at Seal Beach, bringing shovels, and just totally organizing the whole thing! Rock on Ngoc!!

Ngoc Tran

Fear & Loathing on the way to SherriMae’s sister’s graduation

I’m not sure if I want to say that SherriMae was “organized,” or “disorganized,” or “overthought” the project, or what!? What I do know is that she took the complexity of a theoretically simple project and turned it into a brilliant narrative of her adventure! We still don’t know if “borrowing” sand from a public beach is “theft” or not, but what a great read! And then to keep the ball rolling SherriMae played with oil paint and finally covered her plaster hand with origami paper. So cool! Check out the whole adventure on her website!

Plaster casting of Sherri Mae Bersabe’s hand, covered in origami paper, with origami cranes

Summer Travels

Chau & Annie excavating Annie’s casting of her hand.

It was nice meeting all 7 of you. And extra nice to meet Annie & Tina since Annie left Long Beach the very next day to head up to Mountain View for a summer internship, and Tina leaves in about a week to head home to Sweden. I’m glad we got to say hello before you both headed off to your summer adventures.

Tina with her creation.

In the end there were lots of nice projects by peeps I met at Seal Beach, and also by everyone else wherever you worked. I’m looking forward to our giant “Team Selfie” on “Instagram Day” this Thursday.

Points

As you know, each week the points available are:

1. Activity (Blogged) – 25 points
2. Artist OTW – Blog – 20 points
3. Artist OTW – Discussion – 18 points
4. Art Talk Discussion – 18 points

For a total of 81 points per week. So after 2 weeks the points possible is 162. Most of you have really taken off and are already earning lots of points. A few of you still need to get started. If you’re on the low end of points, please don’t wait any longer. You can still collect plenty of points this summer, but time to get really going is running out.

Here’s what we’re on pace for at the end of Wk 2:

A – 16 peeps
B – 2 peeps
C – 1 peep
D – 2 peeps
F – 4 peeps

Leaderboard (162 points = 100%!)

1. Lee Macklin – 227
2. Tina Wisborn – 221
3. Sherri Mae Bersabe – 221
4. Jolene Wright – 220
5. Kim Toscano – 216
6. Becca VanDeVelde – 208
7. Raymond Poon – 205
8. Ryan Webster – 196
9. Ngoc Tran – 187
10. Connor Calhoun – 181

Whether you’re on that list or not, congratulations to everyone on 2 weeks of summer activity. Keep Going!

This Week

This week’s Activity is Social Photography (Instagram). Our Art Talk is on Classical Art: Ancient Greece & Ancient Rome. And our Artist OTW is Francesca Woodman. Everything is up on Slack, and I’ll also add it below.

Have a great week everyone! I’ll see you on Slack, and on Instagram on Thursday!

— Glenn

Once you make your WordPress.com website, leave Your Name and Your URL as a comment on this page. I’ll add you to the roster. After that, you don’t have to “turn in” your 2 weekly blog posts, you just post them and I’ll go find them each week.

1. Andrew “Drew” Sanchez
2. Annie Georgieva
3. Caitlin Jones
4. Cedric Vu
5. Chau McCormick
6. Cherith Mendoza
7. Chris Repanich
8. Connor Calhoun
9. Dominique Gilpin
10. Ericka Gustafson
11. Guan Chen
12. Ian J Padilla
13. Jolene Wright
14. Kimberly “Kim” Toscano
15. Kristina “Tina” Wisborn
16. Kristopher Smith
17. Lee Macklin
18. Natalie Klistoff
19. Ngoc Tran
20. Raymond Poon
21. Rebecca “Becca” VanDeVelde
22. Regine Carino
23. Ryan Webster
24. Sherri Mae Bersabe
25. Zeeshan Dadabhoy
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CONTENTS

A. Class Overview
B. Schedule Overview
C. Full Syllabus

Full Syllabus

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Format
3. Points & Grades
4. Other Details
5. Activities
6. Interviews

Art 110: Introduction to the Visual Arts

1. INTRODUCTION

■ Summer 2015
■ Section 1: Class No.10381 – 100% Online Course
■ Instructor: Glenn Zucman

OFFICE HOURS
■ 24/7 on beacharts.slack.com

CONTACT
■ 24/7 on beacharts.slack.com
■ If all else fails: [email protected]

ART110 – VISION
In 1439 Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. In 1991 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. 40 years ago Marshall McLuhan said that our classrooms were (I’m paraphrasing a bit) too Gutenberg and not enough Berners-Lee. For Summer 2015, Art110 will try to be a little less Gutenberg and a little more Berners-Lee.

This course will cover 3 million years of Art History: from a proto-human moment in a distant South African cave, to the autonomous, post-human, Images That Think out somewhere in cyber-space. Along this journey we will consider the constantly evolving nature of human consciousness and how our consciousness is revealed & redefined through art.

PREREQUISITES
• None.

OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with the practice, appreciation, and cultural interactions of art across the ages and across the globe. This course will survey the entire sweep of history from ancient art to the contemporary moment. Students will be introduced to the terms, principles, methods, theories and practices of art.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
• Describe some of the styles, ideas, and issues found in the Western canon.
• Understand and articulate some of the ways that art functions vis-a-vis human culture
• Build upon their direct, introductory experiences, in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Animation, and Data Visualization in both Physical and Virtual worlds
• Articulate their understanding of the relationship between art and: culture, speech, creativity, expression.
• Describe the role of the artist in culture / society.

2. FORMAT OF THE COURSE

Each week this course includes:
1. Art Activity
2. “Art Talk” Video
3. “Artist of the Week” Video

Art Discussion
Each week you’ll discuss the The Art Talk & Artist OTW on our beacharts.slack.com discussion site.

Art Blogging
Each week you’ll post a blog post documenting the week’s Art Activity and presenting your research & analysis of the Artist OTW.

DUE
• Discussion Posts by Thursday Midnight
• Blog Posts by Sunday Midnight

LATE POLICY
• There will not be any late work accepted for Summer 2015.
• You may do activities & blog posts early.
• You hopefully can participate in discussions with a smart phone from most places on earth.

TEXTBOOK
• Your Mobile Device

ATTENDANCE
Participation online is crucial. Obviously as a 100% online course, you don’t ever have to be in any specific place or at any specific time.

Marina Barnes, Art110, Spring ’15

3. Points & Grades

POINTS
• 11 Activities x 25 = 275 points
• Activity #12 is 53 = 53 points
• 12 Artist OTW Blogs x 20 = 240
• 12 Artist OTW Discussions x 18 points (3 discussion comments x 6 points) = 216 points
• 12 Art Talk Discussions x 18 points (3 discussion comments x 6 points) = 216 points

Course Total Possible = 1,000 points.

GRADES
900 points = A
800 points = B
700 points = C
600 points = D
599 & below = F

EXTRA CREDIT
We have 2 extra credit opportunities this semester, each worth +40 points.

Wk 1: Domain Name
When you make your website on WordPress.com you can either use a free domain name like “me.wordpress.com” or you can pay about $18 for your own domain name, like “me.com“. I think you are a lot better served by having your own domain name. At the end of summer we’ll be turning our Class Websites into Personal ePortfolios that I hope will be valuable to your career for a long time to come. Your own domain name makes it easier and more professional for anyone: friends, family, and HR Directors, to get to your website. Also I think your own domain name gives you more of a sense of ownership of your website. Even though that’s what I think, it’s your choice. If you do buy a domain name, what should you get? Again, your choice! I strongly encourage just getting your name. It’s probably the best in the long run. If you have a common name, you might use a middle initial or a nickname.

Wk 5: Painting
The best place to paint is at the Venice Beach Legal Art Walls. Just about everyone who has ever gone has had a great time. Yes it’s far. Yes, I know you hate to drive. So instead of requiring you to go there, it’s your choice. You can paint on a piece of cardboard or plywood in your backyard or anyplace that’s legal for full credit. If you can make it out to Venice, I’ll give you extra credit, 25+40.

RUBRIC: Activities
Each Activity starts off with a perfect 25, and points are deducted from that if necessary:
1. No Photos: -5
2. Poor Post Naming: -5
3. Too short: -5
4. Not analytic enough: -5

RUBRIC: Artist OTW
Each Artist Blog Post starts off with a perfect 20, and points are deducted from that if necessary:
1. No Photos: -4
2. Poor Post Naming: -4
3. Too short: -4
4. Not analytic enough: -4

PHOTOS
Photos of what? For your Activities, document your process! For Artist Blog Posts, see what you can find online. For most artists you should find many images of their work as well as images of the artist.

POST NAMES
What is “good” post naming?
• Wk2 – Activity – Plaster Casting
• Wk2 – Artist – Ana Mendieta

ANALYTIC WRITING
3 & 4 are a little subjective. But the idea here is that one paragraph that only states what the activity was or bare basics of the interviews is kind of short and not really analytic. 3-4 paragraphs each of decent length where you talk about your Activity Process, or Interview Conversations, and definitely try to analyze the ideas, is great!

By “analyze” I mean rather than restating facts, you try to make those ideas your own by seeing what truth you find in them, or alternative thoughts you have, or other artists that come to mind. Maybe this is art you’ve never even known about or thought about before: does it make sense? Does it expand your perspective on art and the practice of artists? Do you reject that this work even is art? Does it resonate with personal experiences in your own life or things you’ve seen in the world?

4. OTHER DETAILS

Incompletes
The Art Department grants “incompletes” rarely and only for the most extreme conditions.

Withdrawal Deadlines
• Drop without ‘W’ deadline Jun 8
• Withdrawal with ‘W’ deadline Aug 7

Accommodation
CSULB will make reasonable accommodations for any student who has a disability. It is the student’s responsibility to notify me in advance of the need for special accommodations. This course utilizes many activities and many tools. Most of you should have no trouble with any of this, however if anyone has challenges with any course aspect for any reason, please be in touch ASAP and we can work to find suitable alternatives. A sincere effort should result in real learning and a good grade, so never be afraid to ask for any accommodations you need, but do make a sincere effort.

FUN!
If you’re not having fun, you’re doing it wrong! Art is, or should be, a fun, interesting, exciting, and enjoyable subject. Art offers pleasure to the viewer, consolation to the distraught, and wisdom to the seeker. Art will enrich your leisure time, resonate with your life, and offer surprising relevance to almost any career field you choose!