Another set of interesting texts to read from the MA Book
Art Students – it really is a privilege to have access to such a range of
interesting strands of research – this important opportunity enables me to feed
this thinking back into the teaching I’m involved in both at Camberwell and
Norwich. cross fertilization is the key. Titles to this year’s
dissertations......
Eastern Art and Philosophies Influencing John Cage and
Western art Influencing Huang Yongping Xu Bing: representing the characteristics
of their time or acts of imitation
How book artists represent memory of a place and how these
memories are translated to communicate with the readers
How do Kenneth Goldsmith and Simon Morris use compositional
stratergies of copying to produce new works within the context of a digital
age?
The Work of Seance: How materiality affects absence in
translation in Anne Carson’s Nox and
Christian Hawkeys’s Ventrakl.
Colour in the Book
How colour contributes to the sequential flow, structure and meaning within in
artist books.
Image: consciousness and bliss A play of Visual Perception
and Meanings
THE INVISIBLE BOOKPRINT
How are different interpretations of place and memory
reflected in the imagery, design and structure of two different artists’ books?
Meanwhile ... Godzilla – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/
was most excellent – check out the sound track – the sounds are part
electricity part pure fear and always ‘other’. The film is a great thrill seat
of your pants experience with the action stopping not once in the entire film –
something or someone is always moving or in jeopardy. On the work front – I’ve
submitted some pieces for the proposed staff show at NUA titled in plain sight –
should be interesting
