College Art Association Session

I will be co-chairing a session with Alice Twemlow, School of Visual Arts at the College Art Association in New York City in February 2011. Our panel, “What’s Art Got to Do With It? Design Writing in the Twenty-First Century,” will include the presentations “Useless: Art History and a Taste for the Useful”—Cameron Tonkinwise and Shana Agids, Parsons The New School for Design; “Expanding Design Criticism”—Carma Gorman, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; “Design Journalism, Anonymity, and the Critical Audience”—Gerry Beegan, Rutgers University; “The Emerging Aesthetic of Ugly: Fabbing, Modding, Hacking, and the Power of DIY Interventions, an Assessment”—Kevin Henry, Columbia College Chicago; “Implosure”-- Kenneth Fitzgerald, Old Dominion University.

Notting Hill Tube Station Posters

Last spring, when an upgrade to London’s Notting Hill Gate Underground station uncovered an abandoned passageway filled with vintage posters from the late 1950s, the dingy, worn posters seemed an apt metaphor for the century-old medium itself.

 

courtesy London Underground

Made in Internet

Joe McKay, my colleague here at Purchase College, gives new meaning to the ubiquitous progress bar.  His contribution to Made In Internet, a showcase of short video forms created by web artists, gives new meaning to Purchase’s large, blank architectural spaces.