fund proposal?

let's try and get funding from student assembly.

check your kcai email, there's one about that.

work up for sophomores?

hey kids, hope all's well in america.

did y'all get work up on the wallz for dem sophomores? if so, someone wanna document that for me so i can see it? and post it here?

we should probably all post what we're up to on this blog, anyway.


also, do we still want to have something semi-curated for the gallery soon? i think it would be a good idea to put a show together in the pdf gallery, document it, and show that to galleries around kc with the intention of getting a show somewhere more legit.


that's all.
lydia.

sophomore hanging

so several of us chatted yesterday and decided that we should hang in the gallery for the new sophy's. so if you are in town/ here on Monday the 23rd ( which you should be, because its the first day of class...) then we are meeting in pd/f at noon. NOON I TELL YOU! NOON!

and we will hang our stuff, new or old, or something in progress. whatever floats your boat.

then after that we were talking about going to lunch or something. expecially if your a senior, we wanted to go out before thesis all together.


chine. out.

Collective-tors

How about the first or second week of August we have a meeting at Cory Hinesley's house.
campfire and discussion about the Zine? Maybe currating some kind of show for the first of the semester?


comments? suggestions?

people can attend via skype as well. :) MUCH LUV TO OUR NEW ZEALANDerz

The 'Zine

So I'm seriously interested in getting this going, and really getting to work on it once school stuff dies down.

I just want to reiterate some of the ideas I had for the publication on the blog for all to see:

- A showcase of local KC artists, but not necessarily limited to such.
- An emphasis on photography, because of the fact that not many publications (especially around here) are heavily involved with the medium in that sense.
- That being said I also really want other mediums represented, and especially think some creative writing would be nice. (maybe even response pieces from other artists based on some of the work going into the magazine.
- I'm not sure how often we can get this out, especially with most of us still having another year of school left. I'm thinking maybe quarterly for now?
- We need to try to get some sort of sponsorship to help pay for all the costs involved with this. Grant writing may be a possibility, talking to local artist coalitions and foundations, and other kc businesses who may be interested in promoting work like this.
- Also the first series of these will most likely not be printed at nearly the quality I would prefer, but it shouldn't deter us from its creation. Even if we have to do newsprint starting out.

Anyways feel free to add to this list or whatever.

I think this could be an amazing group effort though.

Alex: I really like this idea as well. I'm keen to be involved. I also had a thought when Brandon mentioned the responses from artists or whoever to work in the zine that the format that ummm i think its "Black" zine uses is pretty cool. They have the articles written about the person writing the previous article...does that make sense? so we could all kinda feed off each other too, and other artists etc. Dunno. just an idea.

Collecting for the Collective.

So no one has really done much collective wise. Things have been busy and we all understand.

Lydia and I have been chatting extensively about ideas that we could do for shows. In our discussions we have mentioned appropriating our works together so we can show work and kind of let the collective actually "BECOME SOMETHING"

At KCAI people have been bitching about not having any gallery shows in the PD/F space. We thought that we experiment with collecting mass amounts of a certain media and displaying them all together, along with a joint statement. For example i have an obsession with Cell phone pictures and picture-mailing. So we could all individually print cell phone images and the collaboratively curate a show out of them. Another example could be test prints or practice images, this way people in other medias (graphicdesignBencoughcough) could submit pieces as well. (This is a great way that our foreign members can actively participate too.)

We have come up with some other ideas that could be used as well but pending on feedback to this post, this idea can be pursued more in depth.


ALSO! We have discussed that the publication idea zine, fliers ect... should be better thought out over the summer.

eh. thats all.

Yo! I like this idea of collecting a big bunch off stuff (cell phone images etc) and curating them into one big show. I also love the idea of collecting lots of peoples tests and scraps and proof sheets. Sometimes these ( or a lot of them) can be better/cooler/awesomer than a finished polished work. Again just putting in my 2 cents but yea. I am planning to send you guys stuff in the next few weeks by the real live physical mail...so it may be a collection of things for this sort of idea. yea. Alex.

hello hello hello

is anybody in there?

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Mishca / New Zealand

Hey I'm Mishca, living in Dunedin, New Zealand. I work with Alex Lovell_Smith and Emily (who some of you may have met). Emily and I will have a space (workshop/gallery/gig) sorted in the next month. Everyone is welcome to have work involved in this space if you are interested... will keep you all updated when things start falling into place.

Art/photography to me seems not to be something to define but to interpret, a view or idea of an individual or group. This is not necessarily ‘truth’ or ‘real’, it just 'is'. Does this idea fit in context with a working class society? Generally people won't admit there is more than one way to operate and perceive life.

A direction that could be taken is to create situations where one could force an audience to ‘see’ an object or entity, carefully manipulating the subject matter in a way that forces the creation of thought, reactions, even interactions in an audience that would not have otherwise been stimulated in everyday life.

Examples... soon

showing art in foreclosed homes

Luke McKinney has a wonderful idea

what if we teamed up with some real estate agents working on selling foreclosed homes, putting art shows inside these homes that coincide with open houses. we could do this in multiple homes around the city, giving the agency publicity and also ourselves. Luke also thought it would be valuable to get Abe Morell on our side, since he works with rooms and spaces for his giant camera obscuras. that could get the event some serious publicity, as well as the possibility of funding

so let's work on this, guys, because i think it's a swell idea!

we need to have a meeting before Morell talks at the Nelson on Thursday. How about Wednesday after class (2:20) or around 5pm? thoughts?

Abelardo Morell

Just found out this guy (who turns rooms into camera obscuras) is coming to the nelson atkins on february 25th for an artist talk. We should be making sure we go see this talk.

SECOND COLLECTIVE MEETING!

Collective Meeting

February 11, 2010

Discussing “like minded” artists, connections between works.
- Art being “cultural criticism” no postmodernism. Who participates… ? no one even knows that its criticism because they don’t pay attention.
- Creating a new movement that is not postmodernism
- Talked about Lydia’s rambles
YOU CANT ARGUE MOOT POINTS (examples where given…)
- We put too much faith in the ideal of photographs
- We cant define photos anymore than we can define art
Image to reality comparison, if its in a photo it happened, if its in a drawing its fake…
- NOTHING IS REAL, everyone filters differently
- The context influences the reality of something, if its digital its fake ex.
- People say you cant trust a photograph, but you really cant trust the photographer
- You look at photographs to fill the gap of what you cant explain but we cant explain reality?
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Ben doesn’t understand what’s going on… I don’t either…

We decided to discuss issues about photography so we can research deeper
- We shouldn’t praise “great” artists if we don’t agree with them.
- We need to tell everyone our ideas, TELL MINOR WHITE.
- What?

IDEA!?
- Maybe we should start a monthly art magazine?
- Work towards it?
- Ben is totally into it.
- Gallery fix ups?
- Painting having a show in the block space?
- Outside of school SHOW.

SHOWS DO IT

“Doing the littlest thing is better than doing nothing.”

--- The people who are here lets have a show
The end

Lydia, Ben, Austin, Cory, Brandon, Jason

Don’t try and make things match because you can change your self to be what some one else wants. Do your own thing. Being a “technician.” Learning how to light things in a machine like fashion.
The zine doesn’t have to be all photo based, artists in other medias could be involved. And writings can play a large part in assisting our work.

Content for zine?: local artists, photography based? But not really… Austin rant column. PLEASE. Local news, expanding things from facebook,


The publication should come out as the same time as the show, because you will be able to use the mag. as a catalog of images and writing featured by the artists of the show. The first addition maybe writings of WHAT THE COLLECTIVE should be, and if it’s suitable maybe those ideas could be published.

Add in student show dates

GOALS!

1. lets have a show
2. hey about a zine?
3. Lets fund-raise!
4. GET OFFICIAL.



NEXT MEETING DATE Thursday feb. 18th 7pm library

NEXT MEETING! COLLECTIVE SHOW BETA 1.0

- Physical prints of work several
- Write what the collective should be
- Find price options for printing
- Ideas for fund raising
o Cici’s pizza? Pizza Street
o Selling work? Prints?
o Lemonade and Photo-stand at crossroads
o Jason Dj at shows

in the words of Ricky Ricardo, The Time... has come.

We are far overdue for the next collective meeting. It is time to make it happen.

Thursday, February 11, 2010
7PM Jannes Library, by the fireplaces.

bring your ideas, your work, whatever you want to share.
the main topic of discussion shall be searching for purpose amongst our collective (ha! that's our name) works.




From Alex_Question for KCAI crew, skype hook ups? me and mish are keen to get in on it so if you have two laptops we can both be here with video and audio. Yea??




in other news, there's another collective out there... The Wooster Collective. they focus on showcasing what is essentially street art. their website is pretty neat to look at, so check it out.

Lydia rambles

what is it exactly that i disagree with when it comes to other people's philosophies of photography? those already written, those we are assigned, those we are "supposed" to know - Sontag, Barthes, Benjamin, etc - while i find their philosophies important, while i can relate to them, though i agree that they are relevant... i simply do not agree with any in their entirety. rather, they inspire me to disagree, to look more closely at the things they discuss and also the things they ignore. many of my peers find that their disappointments can be explained by the fact that many of these people are writers, not photographers. however, having read the writings of some photographers as well, i still find myself dissatisfied. and i, being both a writer and a photographer, am now forcing myself to organize my thoughts into something meaningful.

key points/areas of discussion i wish to address:

- photography is neither reality nor the photographer's reality. it is something else entirely, it is always a fabrication, and its meaning is incredibly dependent upon the individual viewer's perception.

- the "is photography art?" argument will always be unanswerable because the definition of "art" is not static. some really mean "craft," others "decoration," "talent," "thought," "meaning" - i myself will say that all things can be art, but not all art can be things, not all art is art and without precise definition you are arguing a moot point (then again, is anything able to be precisely defined?)

-photography has entered a new place that we are all refusing to acknowledge. people are caught up in the idea that things are changing for specific reasons - digital, mass media - whereas i see it as basic growth of the medium. as we learn and use photography more, the archaic ideas of the past are not necessarily irrelevant, but cannot be applied to the place photography currently resides...

to be continued.