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When I first heard about "Altermodern", I am having a hard time to understand it. After I listened to Sara, I understand the idea of "Altermodern" a lot better. Sara's works are base on the "Altermodern" which involve with the nature, global and technologies. She suggests that we should concern more about our nature than technologies. All of her works very interesting and meaningful.

final assignment

This is the Walead Beshty’s glass cubes. These clean cut and fragile objects have been shipped by the artist from LA, where he lives, to London, where he was born, in tightly fitting FedEx boxes. Arriving smashed, cracked, and with corners crushed to varying degrees they're displayed on their boxes, their properties as objects arising in large part from the accidents in their shipping. The title of this piece gets longer with each showing, the name being a trace of the journey the works have undertaken - a travel itinerary which produces and describes the pieces. 

This is appear to be Altermodern which has FedEx culture come in to play. These large glass cubes that bear the marks of their travels between the artist and a variety of destinations, are like the scars of environmental damage or the dangers of too much traveling on the human soul. The corners are cracked, the glass is broken and they seem sad, lost and rather beautiful.

Gupta’s spectacular Line of Control (2008), a huge atomic mushroom made of stainless steel 
kitchen utensils, not-so-subtly evoking the nuclear threat on the sub-continent, provides a focal point for this visual abundance. In the other rooms, the atmosphere is slightly more contained, but the feeling of raw energy remains. 


It introduces the show, suggesting the idea that this is a defining starting point, a show presenting new directions, and one that wants to leave old paradigmatic sets at the door. Line of Control is a gigantic installation that reverses the idea of negative atomic destruction into one of positive explosion of abundance.


This work is a real "Altermodern" because it is focus on the movement of the current world which involve with global and technologies. 

Mike Nelson’s installation “The Projection Room (Triple Bluff Canyon),” an immersive environment suggestive of a parallel world. The room is a life-sized recreation of the artist’s studio in the front room of a Victorian house. It looks as though someone has left the place in a hurry, leaving all evidence of their life behind. It’s impossible to not look for clues in the detritus, though the exercise is complicated by the room’s denial of entry to the viewer, shifting the experience on many levels, drawing a strict grid of allowances from the artist creating rules about what may be real and what may be imagined.


This seems to be "Altermodern" which focus about our nature. But in "Altermodern" encompasses the global, networked, intercultural existence many of us now live in and some of us are immersed in, I cannot see it in this work.


Therefore, this is not "Altermodern".

fourth assignment

Designed by Max Erdenberger & Printed by Steve Denekas and Walker Cahall
40″x26″ 1-color screenprint on Neenah Environment Ultra Bright White 80# Cover.

We all must heard about the earthquake in Japan on the past weekend, it is very sad story for them which about 60% of the country was damage. I really like the idea of the design, it is simple but meaningful. This picture is a Japan's flag, which is the white background and red circle in the middle, for the plus sign it is a symbol of all the good things. It means a positive things will happen to them. I really like his idea on this image.

from: http://www.printeresting.org/2011/03/14/help-japan-poster/

Today, Mozart is viewed as an exemplar of Classical idealism whose world of powdered wigs, waistcoats, and courtly manners is light years away from our own. Goya, by contrast, was a Romantic pessimist whose extreme self-expression makes him the first modern artist in the minds of many. Yet these two essential, antithetical figures find common ground in the imagination of contemporary artist William Kentridge.

For anyone with a passing knowledge of the work of Goya, Kentridge’s suite of eight intaglio prints, Little Morals (1991), should have a familiar ring. InNegotiations Begin, one of the most caustic images of the series, Kentridge lifts two figures from Plate 12 of the Spanish artist’s Disparates (Follies, also known as Los Proverbios, ca. 1820) and drops them, virtually wholesale, into his circle of fools riotously dancing in sight of a naked body tied to a stake. One of those dancers, a fellow in a bulky overcoat with a megaphone where his face ought to be (perhaps prefiguring the artist’s designs for Dmitri Shostakovich’s 1930 opera The Nose), reappears in another of the Little Morals prints, Procession of the Delegates. This time, however, his flung-apart arms recall the central victim in Goya’s The Third of May 1808 (1814).

 by: William Kentridge’s Black Box: Mozart, Goya, and the Darkening of the Enlightenment

Published on November 2nd, 2010 by Thomas Micchelli

In this picture, It shows the emotion of sadness. It is a simple picture but when we look, we can see the emotion that standout from the eyes.

assignment #2

The name of this image is "Party NO. 1" by Mike Houston/Martin Mazorra. The print done very well with all of the little detail. In this image, it about the party that the college kids love which involving with drug, alcohol and sex. When I saw this picture, IT make me feel bad for all of them. They should spend their time on something that will benefit them in the future like working or studying.

I know the fact that everyone need to do something fun to relax but there are so many things that they can do besides this type of party. I do not mind the party but it has to be clean party not dirty party like that.

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