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(This is a beginning list-- there are more,  I just can't place them all at the moment...)

Context in theory/writing:

Scale and meaning/the past,

Susan Stewart,  On Longing

Scale & Cuteness

Daniel Harris, Cute Quaint Hungry & Romantic

The Madeline-- remembrance

Proust, Swan's Way

Varying memories of the same event 

James Young, The Texture of Memory

Personal experience + objects + narrative + Memory

Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence/ the Objects of Innocence

Form & Meaning

Klaus Kripperndorff, The Semantic Turn

Historical:

Recollection + accuracy

Simonides & the Memory Palace

Artists/designers

Rachel Whiteread: Ghosts, casts of houses then torn down 

Do-Ho Suh;  Koren artist, issues of home, replicating home/parts of apartments 

Gregor Schneider; Home, empty, belongings outside of it – large scale 

Takashi Horisaki; Latex casts of doors, handles, parts of places 

Spencer Finch: Trying to recall the exact shade of Jackie O's pink pillbox hat 

Key words: memory, recollection, perception, longing, the intangible/ethereal 

Peters List

Peter Leix context for thesis

Peter Leix

3rd year Seminar Fall 2013

Thesis Context

Context Books

Comeback the rise and fall of the automotive industry

Once upon a car: The Rise and Fall of the big three

The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide: A Down & Dirty DV Production 

Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film

Directing the Documentary, Fifth Edition – Michael Rabiger

Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth 

A Guide to Documentary Editing

Design After Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities

Context movies

Roger and Me

October Country

Bombay Beach

Medora

The interrupters

Wasteland

Dark Days

Hands on a hard body

Hoe to Die in Oregon

Happy People

Grizzly Man

Context Personal

Escape, abandonment, refuge, heroes, dysfunctional family, loss, fear, trust, pain, sincerity, misunderstandings, oral history, post industrial, automotive industries, activism.

Katies List

Emersion in collection research

Biking and traveling;

Connection to the land, plant identification and information research

Looking at the Overlooked

Cycles of plant life and human waste

Being everywhere and nowhere

Macro/Micro

Collage, Painting and Installation

Exploring an eastern sense of montage vs. western perspective

Disorientation of pictorial viewpoint and multiple pockets of space

Alchemy; a power or process of transforming something common into something special

Self-similarity and Fractal scaling

Stories and poetry (Flarf)

Movement within a still image

Exposing

Dioramas

Processing; the way I learn and perceive information

Dyslexia

Fracture parts of information vs. whole picture

Theories and Philosophies

Sublime, experience within a landscape

Meditation

The slow movement

Books

Parables of sunlight, Rudolf Arnheim

From A to X, John Berger

The Writing Life, Annie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

Looking at the Overlooked, Norman Bryson

Gargantua, Julian Stallabrass

Reinventing Eden, Carolyn Merchhant

On Photography, Susan Sontag

Collage the Making of Modern Art, Brandon Taylor

Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition, Robert Rosenblum

Beautiful, Sublime, Making of paradise lost, Leslie E Moore

The Sublime, Simon Morley

The Earth has a Soul, C. G. Jung

Sticky Sublime, Bill Beckley

Walden, Thoreau

The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram

Persist, Peter Clothier

A Natural History of the Senses, Ackerman

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, David Abram

Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino

The Power of the Center, Rudolf Arnheim

Seeking Awareness In American Nature Writing, Scott Slovic

Writings, Agnes Martin

Secrets from the Center of the World, Joy Harjo

Artists

Installation

Camille Henrot

Jessica Stockholder

Andy Goldsworthy

David Altmejd

Sarah Sze

Collage Artists

Emilie Clark

Sandy Litchfield

Anselm Kiefer

Arturo Herrera

Painters

Itō Jakuchū

Per Kirkeby

Fabian Marcaccio

Katherine Mann

Morris Louis

Caspar David Friedrich

the context of my work (listed in not too much of a particular order)

A Context for Ann

Cultural:

Studies on the social effects of technology:

Sherry Turkle, Alone Together

Sarah Maslin Nir, “You May Now Kiss the Computer Screen,” New Your Times, 3/5/2013

William Gibson: “No Maps for these Territories,” science fiction writer who coined the term ‘cyberspace’, concerned with “making the conditions of the present accessible to people” through fiction.

Theoretical:

Philip Auslander: “The Comedy of the Failure of Comedy,” “Live from Cyberspace”

Sarah Bay-Cheng

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida

Susan Sontag, On Photography

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

Historical:

The rise of Spiritualism in response to advances the technologies of electricity and telecommunications:

Linda Simon, Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray

Artists:

Marina Abramovic and Ulay: Relation Works Series

Laurie Anderson: Home of the Brave

Paul Sermon

Krystof Wodiczko

Tony Oursler

Ed and Nancy Keinholz

Paul Pfeiffer

Nam June Paik

William Kentridge

John Maran

Janine Antoni

Andy Kauffman

Parisa's Thesis Context

context: distance, loss, inaccessibility, identity politics, home, isolation, homesickness, far-ness, alienation, paradox, inside/outside, visibility, displacement, memory, cultural barrier, books : the future of Nostalgia, getting back to place, bending homes, the art of intimacy, at a distance, falling off the map, home and away, Saffron sky, (In)visibility, an intimate distance, Art and visibility in migratory culture, Belonging, Conditions of Visibility, Displacement, Home truths, home-body-memory, Sacred distance, artists: zarina hashmi, Nikki S.Lee, Eleanor Antin, Nina Yankowitz, Do ho Suh, 

context: interaction, participation, performance:books: Art of engagement, Digital performance : a history of new media in theater, dance, performance art, and installation, Performing memory in art and popular culture, artists: Gary Hill, Kryzysztof Wodiczko, ....

context: photography, staged photography, portraiture, domesticity, books:Doing family photography, Domestic landscapes, Minor photography, On photography,  Phototextualities, Still moving : between cinema and photography, Believing is seeing, artists: Jessica Backhause, Julie Blackmon, Sophie Calle, Jennifer Hudson, Shadi Ghadirian, Jeff Wall, Rineke Dijjkstra, Stefano Scheda, Amy Elkins, Luigi Gariglio, Katy Grannan, Andreas Mader,Ji Weiyu and Song Tao, Zhang Peng, Liu Bolin, ....

context: Video art, Audio/video installation, projection:books:Illuminating video : an essential guide to video art, Jim Campbell material light, Video, artists: Bill Viola, Gary Hill, Jim Campbell, Felix Hess, Mary Lucier, Shigeko Kubota, Kryzysztof Wodiczko, Gordon Monahan, Angella Bullock, Brian Eno, Ryoji Ikeda,Yang Fudong, Yue Minjun, 

context: working with text, language, type, communication:Books:Mail art, communication à distance, concept, Non-required reading, Text and language,  artists: Bruce Nauman, Carl Andre, Ghada Amer, Zhang Huan, Xu Bing, ...


I'm also interested in the works of immigrant artists.

John G's context for thesis

John Gutoskey
3rd year Seminar Fall 2013

Thesis Context

Queer Theory and LGBTQ Studies
    Gender Trouble Judith Butler
    The Epistemology of the Closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick
    The Trouble With Normal Michael Warner
     A History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 Michel Foucault
     Dude, You're A Fag  C. J. Pascoe
    Queering Valentines, Prints, Objects, and Space
Liminality and Communitas
    Arnold van Gennep
    Victor Witter Turner
Shamanism/Queer Personae/Threshold People
    Michael Tucker
    Mircea Eliade
    Michael Taussig
    Lewis Hyde The Gift--gift giving
    Sacred Art and Space
    Ritual and Ritual objects
Printmaking, Assemblage, Installation, Performance
    Artists:
    James Bidgood photographer, film artist, Pink Narcissus
    Steven Arnold tableau photographer, performance and film artist
    James Hampton The Throne, outsider installation artist
    Loy Bowlin The Rhinestone Cowboy, outsider installation artist and performer
    Felipe Jesus Consalvos healer, cigar band artist
    Daryl Volcat Canadian contemporary queer artist  print and installation
    David Wojnarowicz painter, photographer, writer, performance artist, died of AIDS
    Andy Warhol silk screens/photo booth
    Robert Rauschenberg silk screens/prints
    Joseph Cornell assemblage artist
    Outsider art and outsider environments