Mindset

Make, Read, and Look at Art. Repeat.

Summer

Make Online Portfolio!

• READ
• Watch FILMS
• Go to as many shows as possible (always carry notebook)
• Take summer technical class (photo, woodshop, electronics)
• Figure out what faculty you want to work with (studio art website)
• Introspection: why make art?

Books

3 main categories: MEDIUM STUDIES-PHILOSOPHY-HISTORY

• Seven Days in the Art World (Sarah Thornton)
• Between The Eyes (David Levi Strauss)
• Society of the Spectacle (Guy Debord)
• On Photography (Susan Sontag)
• Illuminations (Walter Benjamin)
• Mythologies (Roland Barthes)
• The Logic of Sensation (Deluze)
• The Future of the Image (Ranciere)
• How we Became Posthuman (KN Hayles)
• Teaching to Transgress (Bell Hooks)
• Peddagogy of the Oppressed ( Paulo Freire)
• The Body in Contemporary Art (Sally O’Reilly)
• Performance Art (Roselee Goldberg)
• Art And Electronic Media (Edward Shanken)
• Introducing Semiotics (Paul Cobley, Litza Jansz)

Movies

Watch to understand

• Ways of seeing (John Berger: youtube)
• 2001 space odyssey
• Vertigo
• Psycho
• Soylent Green
• 8 ½
• Naked Lunch
• Aliens
• Seven Samarai
• Apocalypse now

Resources

Art Journals and Magazines

• Artforum http://artforum.com/
• Frieze http://www.frieze.com/
• Art in America http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/
• Flash Art http://www.flashartonline.com/
• Art Asia Pacific http://www.aapmag.com/
• Bidoun http://bidoun.com/bdn/
• Art Papers http://artpapers.org/
• CAA Art Journal http://www.collegeart.org/artjournal/
• October http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/octo?cookieSet=1
• Grey Room http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/grey
• New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/
• Cabinet http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/

LA/SoCal Based Journals

• Coagula http://www.coagula.net/
• X-TRA http://www.x-traonline.org/

Online Resources

• Major Photographers http://www.zeroland.co.nz/photographers.html
• LA Gallery & Museum Guide http://artscenecal.com/
• Theartnewspaper.com
• e-flux.com
• apexart.org