Thursday, April 1, 2010

Fall & Winter - Bruce Damer

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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

syllabus update

Catherine Page Harris
Assistant Professor, Art and Ecology
Spring 2010, Tuesday/Thursday 9-10:15, Room 1020
Inside the Outside

This course is a survey of ecological issues and art practice to be taught in lecture and seminar format. The first meeting will outline ecological research and issues and second will discuss artists’ work and responses. Guest lecturers are invited from Geology, Landscape Architecture, Planning and other disciplines, as well as outside the University. The philosophy of this course is to involve ourselves in the conversation of ecological art and to read the original texts of American ecology, the words of ecological artists, and critics.
Expectations:
• Take notes and sketch the slides presented during class. Your notebook should be dedicated to this class and will be part of your final grade. You will not be graded on the “worthiness” of your drawings, simply that you tried to make a visual note of the image. You will turn this notebook in twice, once at mid-term and once at finals. Please don’t include other classes in the notebook.

•Write a short, (SHORT) paper in response to the readings every week. This paper will be 300-500 words and indicate your understanding of the readings. Take this as an opportunity to practice simple declarative writing. Use active verbs. Compare two authors, discuss artworks, respond. I will give you an example of a response paper. This is an opportunity for you to synthesize the notes you will be taking during your reading and help you be ready for class discussions. The paper is due at 10 am the week the reading is due. I will return it to you with comments during our Thursday discussions.

•Make four object/image/actions. Though this is a lecture class, this is meant to feed into your art practice. I will give you prompts and you should incorporate a response to the lectures and readings.

•Have fun. This is the best kind of academic entertainment, when someone fills your mind full of images and stories about a topic dear to them. Take advantage.
Grading:
Undergraduate students:
One 350-500 word paper a week
responding to reading and lectures 40%
Attendance (inc. field trip) 10%
Four projects 20%
Midterm exam 10%
Final exam 20%

Graduate students:
Discussion section participation 15%
One 350-500 word paper a week
responding to reading and lectures 45%
Presentation 20%
Final project 20%

Texts: Environmentalities: Linda Weintraub
American Earth, Bill McKibben
Land and Environmental Art, Kastner
Art Nature Dialogues, Grande
And others as assigned: to be available on e-reserve




Outline of Course

January 19 Introduction – lecture overview from 1960 to the present, Catherine Harris and Bill Gilbert:
Beuys, Smithson, Denes, Johanson, Harrisons, Chin, Francheschini, Coolidge, Mogul, Alys
Chrissie Orr, talk about her project 10-15 minutes,

January 21 Bill Fox Director of Nevada Museum, conference and field looks like from his perspective.

January 25 first response paper due, 10 am
January 26 An Ecology of Land, Humans as keystone species or interrelated partner
Readings:
American Earth: Linda Hogan, Dwellings, Kingsolver, Our Place, Durning, The Dubious Rewards of Consumption, John Burroughs, The Art of Seeing Things, Thoreau, Walden, Gene Stratton-Porter, The Last Passenger Pigeon

January 28 Discussion and artists:
Readings:
Art Nature Dialogues: Betty Beaumont, Alan Sonfist, Bruni & Barbarit, Herman de Vries,

February 1 response paper due, 10 am
February 2 Lea Rekow: Mining
Readings:
American Earth: Julia Butterfly Hill: The Legacy of Luna, Abbey, Industrial tourism and National Parks
White, Historical roots of our Ecologic Crisis, Boulding, The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth

February 4 Discussion and artists
Readings:
Art Nature Dialogues: Mike MacDonald, Jerilea Zempel, Mountain top removal, Alan Komp and AMD, Bill Gilbert, Lucy Raven,

February 8, response paper due, 10 am
February 9 Melinda Benson - Environmentalism – legal movement, standing for the environment
Readings:
American Earth:
William O Douglas, Dissent in SC v Morton
The Wilderness Act of 1964

February 11 Discussion and artists
Amy Balkin, Mary Miss (Temporary Memorials), Gordon The SoundTracker (http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/3627/), Hand outs: Bread and Puppet Theater, The Nuclear Test Sites, Art in the Streets, Redwood Summer

February 15 response paper due, 10 am
February 16 Basia Irland?
Readings:
American Earth: Barry Lopez, A presentation of Whales
George Catlin Letters and notes on the Manners, Customs….,Rick Bass, the nine mile wolves, mega fauna
Turner, The Song of the White Pelicans,

February 18 Object One due, discussion
Basia Irland, Water, (polluted waters, water use, water in drought ridden places, water collection, water regulation) (Basia Irland, Olafur Eliasson (the Waterfalls), Simparch, and others)
February 22 response paper due, 10 am
February 23 Food and Farming, Bruce Milne
American Earth: Thoreau, Huckleberries, (farming, human relationships to land), Solnit, On Thoreau
Pollan, Omnivore’s Dilemma, COMING IN TO THE FOODSHED, Agriculture and Human Values 13:3 (Summer): 33-42, 1996, Jack Kloppenburg, Jr., John Hendrickson and G. W. Stevenson

February 25 Discussion and artists,
Food (the rise of the organic food movement, the demise of the small farm and its return, food miles, food deserts, diabetes) (Future Farmers, ArtFarm, Mark Van Brest Kempen, Fallen Fruit and others)


March 1 response paper due, 10 am
March 2 Land Art, Bill Gilbert
From Land and Environmental Art
Reading: Land and Environmental Art: Preface, Survey and Works through Page 103

March 4
Readings: Land and Environmental Art, Works through Page 192, Dave Hickey, Earthscapes, landworks and Oz,
Art Nature Dialogues, Patrick Dougherty
Object Two due

March 7 Field Trip to Bosque School on bus. Meet at the Yale and Central bus stop at 10:30 to catch the 10:38 Rapid Ride Blue Line (799)


March 9 Review
March 11 Midterm and notebook due

March 14-21 Spring Recess

March 22 response paper due, 10 am
March 23 Storm Water, Jerry Lovato from AMAFCA
Readings:
American Earth:Muir, Hetch Hetchy
McPhee, Conversations with the Archdruid
Porter, E, The Living Canyon

March 25 David Schmidly – Natural History as an interdisciplinary practice

March 29 response paper due, 10 am
March 30 Walking – the slow movement, Peace Pilgrim, walking as engagement, Bill & Catherine, book
Readings: American Earth
Fletcher, A sample day in the Kitchen, Will Self excerpt, Francis Alys on reserve

April 1Graduate Student presentations
Excerpt, Wanderlust, Rebecca Solnit,
Walking, (The slow movement) (Hamish Fulton, Robert Long, Brett Stalbaum and Paula Poole, Francis Alys, Bill Gilbert and others)

April 5 response paper due, 10 am
April 6 Unintended consequences
Readings: American Earth: EB White Sootfall and Fallout , Carson, Silent Spring, Bullard, Dumping in Dixie
Williams, Refuge, Steingraber, Having Faith

April 8 Discussion and artists, Environmentalities, tba
(Mel Chin Fundred Dollar project, and reclamation, Mapping, Surveying, Information gathering (GIS and how satellites change the world) Lize Mogul, Matt Coolidge and the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Trevor Paglen, Stacy Levy others

April 12 response paper due, 10 am
April 13 Garbage art and other matters Jeanette Hart Mann
Readings: American Earth: FLO Central Park, Peattie, Birds that are NYers
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Citites
Carl Anthony and Renee Soule, A Multicultural Approach to Ecopsychology
Robert Smithson on Central Park

April 15 Discussion and artists from Environmentalities, tba
Reclamation Art, (water purification, biofilters, grey and stormwater usage, bio-remediation) (Mel Chin, Jackie Brookner, Angelo Ciotti, Recyling, Garbage, (The politics of garbage, borders, dumping and landfills) (Merle Laderman-Uekeles, the residency at the San Francisco Dump and others)


April 19 response paper due, 10 am
April 20 Mark Childs: Planning and art
Readings: to be announced

April 22 Object Three due
Planning, Community organizing (Helen and Newton Harrison, Allan Komp, CUP Lize Mogul)

April 26 response paper due, 10 am
April 27 Landscape Architecture and Land Art, Alf Simon
Readings: to be announced
April 29 Graduate Student Presentations
Landscape Architecture/Landscape Urbanism, (Julie Bargmann- Dirt Studio, PWP, James Corner, and others)


May 4 Review
May 6 Review

May 10? Exam Object Four due and notebook due

Monday, February 1, 2010

first assignment for making

touch organism movement network

Object One:
Due 2/18
at the scale of touch, create an ecology.

bring your object to class in your pocket.

you may only display your object by handing it secretly to another person in the class.

we will pass around the objects silently until they return to their owner.

we will then discuss what we understand about each object

be prepared to turn in your object and a digital copy of it

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

syllabus

Catherine Page Harris
Assistant Professor, Art and Ecology
Spring 2010, Tuesday/Thursday 9-10:15, Room 1020
Inside the Outside

This course is a survey of ecological issues and art practice to be taught in lecture and seminar format. The first meeting will outline ecological research and issues and second will discuss artists’ work and responses. Guest lecturers are invited from Geology, Landscape Architecture, Planning and other disciplines, as well as outside the University. The philosophy of this course is to involve ourselves in the conversation of ecological art and to read the original texts of American ecology, the words of ecological artists, and critics.
Expectations:
• Take notes and sketch the slides presented during class. Your notebook should be dedicated to this class and will be part of your final grade. You will not be graded on the “worthiness” of your drawings, simply that you tried to make a visual note of the image. You will turn this notebook in twice, once at mid-term and once at finals. Please don’t include other classes in the notebook.

•Write a short, (SHORT) paper in response to the readings every week. This paper will be 300-500 words and indicate your understanding of the readings. Take this as an opportunity to practice simple declarative writing. Use active verbs. Compare two authors, discuss artworks, respond. I will give you an example of a response paper. This is an opportunity for you to synthesize the notes you will be taking during your reading and help you be ready for class discussions. The paper is due at 10 am the week the reading is due. I will return it to you with comments during our Thursday discussions.

•Make four object/image/actions. Though this is a lecture class, this is meant to feed into your art practice. I will give you prompts and you should incorporate a response to the lectures and readings.

•Have fun. This is the best kind of academic entertainment, when someone fills your mind full of images and stories about a topic dear to them. Take advantage.
Grading:
Undergraduate students:
One 350-500 word paper a week
responding to reading and lectures 40%
Attendance (inc. field trip) 10%
Four projects 20%
Midterm exam 10%
Final exam 20%

Graduate students:
Discussion section participation 15%
One 350-500 word paper a week
responding to reading and lectures 45%
Presentation 20%
Final project 20%

Texts: Environmentalities: Linda Weintraub
American Earth, Bill McKibben
Land and Environmental Art, Kastner
Art Nature Dialogues, Grande
And others as assigned: to be available on e-reserve




Outline of Course

January 19 Introduction – lecture overview from 1960 to the present, Catherine Harris and Bill Gilbert:
Beuys, Smithson, Denes, Johanson, Harrisons, Chin, Francheschini, Coolidge, Mogul, Alys
Chrissie Orr, talk about her project 10-15 minutes,

January 21 Bill Fox Director of Nevada Museum, conference and field looks like from his perspective.

January 25 first response paper due, 10 am
January 26 An Ecology of Land, Humans as keystone species or interrelated partner
Readings:
American Earth: Linda Hogan, Dwellings, Kingsolver, Our Place, Durning, The Dubious Rewards of Consumption, John Burroughs, The Art of Seeing Things, Thoreau, Walden, Gene Stratton-Porter, The Last Passenger Pigeon

January 28 Discussion and artists:
Readings:
Art Nature Dialogues: Betty Beaumont, Alan Sonfist, Bruni & Barbarit, Herman de Vries,

February 1 response paper due, 10 am
February 2 Lea Rekow: Mining
Readings:
American Earth: Julia Butterfly Hill: The Legacy of Luna, Abbey, Industrial tourism and National Parks
White, Historical roots of our Ecologic Crisis, Boulding, The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth

February 4 Discussion and artists
Readings:
Art Nature Dialogues: Mike MacDonald, Jerilea Zempel, Mountain top removal, Alan Komp and AMD, Bill Gilbert, Lucy Raven,

February 8, response paper due, 10 am
February 9 Melinda Benson - Environmentalism – legal movement, standing for the environment
Readings:
American Earth:
William O Douglas, Dissent in SC v Morton
The Wilderness Act of 1964

February 11 Discussion and artists
Amy Balkin, Mary Miss (Temporary Memorials), Gordon The SoundTracker (http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/3627/), Hand outs: Bread and Puppet Theater, The Nuclear Test Sites, Art in the Streets, Redwood Summer

February 15 response paper due, 10 am
February 16 David Schmidly – Natural History as an interdisciplinary practice (may be rescheduled)
Readings:
American Earth: Barry Lopez, A presentation of Whales
George Catlin Letters and notes on the Manners, Customs….,Rick Bass, the nine mile wolves, mega fauna
Turner, The Song of the White Pelicans,

February 18 Object One due, discussion
New cartography, science and art, Leonardo da vinci

February 22 response paper due, 10 am
February 23 Food and Farming, Bruce Milne
American Earth: Thoreau, Huckleberries, (farming, human relationships to land), Solnit, On Thoreau
Pollan, Omnivore’s Dilemma, COMING IN TO THE FOODSHED, Agriculture and Human Values 13:3 (Summer): 33-42, 1996, Jack Kloppenburg, Jr., John Hendrickson and G. W. Stevenson

February 25 Discussion and artists,
Food (the rise of the organic food movement, the demise of the small farm and its return, food miles, food deserts, diabetes) (Future Farmers, ArtFarm, Mark Van Brest Kempen, Fallen Fruit and others)


March 1 response paper due, 10 am
March 2 Land Art, Bill Gilbert
From Land and Environmental Art
Reading: Land and Environmental Art: Preface, Survey and Works through Page 103

March 4
Readings: Land and Environmental Art, Works through Page 192, Dave Hickey, Earthscapes, landworks and Oz,
Art Nature Dialogues, Patrick Dougherty

March 7 Field Trip to Bosque School on bus. Meet at the Yale and Central bus stop at 10:30 to catch the 10:38 Rapid Ride Blue Line (799)


March 9 Review
March 11 Midterm and notebook due

March 14-21 Spring Recess

March 22 response paper due, 10 am
March 23 Storm Water, Jerry Lovato from AMAFCA
Readings:
American Earth:Muir, Hetch Hetchy
McPhee, Conversations with the Archdruid
Porter, E, The Living Canyon

March 25 Object Two due, Basia Irland, Water, (polluted waters, water use, water in drought ridden places, water collection, water regulation) (Basia Irland, Olafur Eliasson (the Waterfalls), Simparch, and others)


March 29 response paper due, 10 am
March 30 Walking – the slow movement, Peace Pilgrim, walking as engagement, Bill & Catherine, book
Readings: American Earth
Fletcher, A sample day in the Kitchen, Will Self excerpt, Francis Alys on reserve

April 1
Excerpt, Wanderlust, Rebecca Solnit,
Walking, (The slow movement) (Hamish Fulton, Robert Long, Brett Stalbaum and Paula Poole, Francis Alys, Bill Gilbert and others)

April 5 response paper due, 10 am
April 6 Unintended consequences
Readings: American Earth: EB White Sootfall and Fallout , Carson, Silent Spring, Bullard, Dumping in Dixie
Williams, Refuge, Steingraber, Having Faith

April 8 Discussion and artists, Environmentalities, tba
(Mel Chin Fundred Dollar project, and reclamation, Mapping, Surveying, Information gathering (GIS and how satellites change the world) Lize Mogul, Matt Coolidge and the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Trevor Paglen, Stacy Levy others

April 12 response paper due, 10 am
April 13 Garbage art and other matters Jeanette Hart Mann
Readings: American Earth: FLO Central Park, Peattie, Birds that are NYers
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Citites
Carl Anthony and Renee Soule, A Multicultural Approach to Ecopsychology
Robert Smithson on Central Park

April 15 Discussion and artists from Environmentalities, tba
Reclamation Art, (water purification, biofilters, grey and stormwater usage, bio-remediation) (Mel Chin, Jackie Brookner, Angelo Ciotti, Recyling, Garbage, (The politics of garbage, borders, dumping and landfills) (Merle Laderman-Uekeles, the residency at the San Francisco Dump and others)


April 19 response paper due, 10 am
April 20 Mark Childs: Planning and art
Readings: to be announced

April 22 Object Three due
Planning, Community organizing (Helen and Newton Harrison, Allan Komp, CUP Lize Mogul)

April 26 response paper due, 10 am
April 27 Landscape Architecture and Land Art, Alf Simon
Readings: to be announced
April 29 Discussion
Landscape Architecture/Landscape Urbanism, (Julie Bargmann- Dirt Studio, PWP, James Corner, and others)


May 4 Review
May 6 Review

May 10? Exam Object Four due and notebook due